“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.” WayWholeBigsIndividualCompanyCuttingInternetCostOffersComputerCloudsAccessDataGiantsApplicationNew WaysInfrastructureComputingHardwareCloud Computing Author:Jamais Cascio
“There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.” WorldSometimesRunningCompanyResearchConsistentGapsApplicationAcademicIncentivesAcademic Research Author:Dave Ulrich
“As far as Paris goes, we don't know for sure yet how these guys communicate among themselves and how they communicated back to the ISIS leadership in Iraq and Syria, but I'm fairly confident we're going to learn they used these encrypted communication applications that have commercial encryption and are extremely difficult for companies to break - and which the companies have made the decision not to produce a key for.” KnowsMadeUsedGuyDifficultDecisionCompanyBreakProduceCommunicationKeysIraqCommunicateParisApplicationSyriaIsisEncryption Author:Michael Morell
“Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.” StillsIdeasNamesBrainCompanyInternetProjectsLateConvincedArtificial IntelligenceApplicationArtificialKillersAmbitiousFar AwayRobotsConnectingHiringRoboticsOperators Author:Colin Angle