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Open Washing in a “Cloud Washed” World
Hidden in an era of “cloud washing”, products, new companies, and marketing campaigns must contain the word “cloud”, is something I’ll call “open washing.” Hey, what about Open Source? Open source isn’t a project or alliance, it’s a philosophy and development model that will outlast any open washed movements. However, what happened to naming your projects something more innovative? -
AI Smackdown – Siri vs Eliza
John McCarthy, creator of LISPA family of programming languages designed to facilitate artificial intelligence. The name is short for "LISt Processing". The language was created in 1958., and father of modern artificial intelligenceAn attempt to make computers work/talk/act like people. Traditional definitions included a simple test that if a person dealing with a computer, for example via a keyboard and monitor, could not tell that there was a computer on the other end, then it was artificial intelligence. Modern definitions are more strict. (AIAn attempt to make computers work/talk/act like people. Traditional definitions included a simple test that if a person dealing with a computer, for example via a keyboard and monitor, could not tell that there was a computer on the other end, then it was artificial intelligence. Modern definitions are more strict.) died today. One of the most common AIAn attempt to make computers work/talk/act like people. Traditional definitions included a simple test that if a person dealing with a computer, for example via a keyboard and monitor, could not tell that there was a computer on the other end, then it was artificial intelligence. Modern definitions are more strict. applications programmers have played with over the years is Eliza. While Eliza wasn’t written by McCarthy, she was certainly a product of his inspiration on the industry. Ever since the new iPhone came out with Siri, the digital assistant, I’ve been thinking about comparing her to Eliza. -
Time to lighten up: Don’t get stuck in the IT past!
Over the last several months we have covered a number of technical and operational issues relating to private, public and hybrid clouds. But every now and then we all need to lighten up and enjoy the more humorous aspects surrounding the cloud hype cycle.
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