Ritika TrikhaFinTech Ushers Banks into the 21st CenturyIt’s 2015 and most banking technology is awful. How many times have you waited in line at the bank for a simple transaction only to wait…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaThe Inevitable Return of COBOLIt’s only a matter of time until the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) will regain its spotlight as one of the most in-demand…Sep 20, 20151Sep 20, 20151
Ritika TrikhaHow Programmers Freed HollywoodIn Disney’s 1982 film Tron, software engineer Kevin Flynn is teleported inside a computer by the evil supercomputer Master Control Program…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaBig Data & the Risky Eclipse of StatisticiansIf statisticians have historically been leaders of data, why was there a need for a brand new breed of data scientists? While the world is…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaInnovation Has Always Crushed PovertyFor the first 10,000 years of human history, the world was very still, confined by hand-crafted tools, acres of farmland and not much else…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaThe Unhealthy Obsession with Tree QuestionsWhy do engineers love to ask fundamental linked list and tree questions in interviews when you rarely code these problems in real-world…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaHow Amazon Web Services Surged Out of NowhereFew people–if any–saw it coming. Even engineers who helped build the omnipresent Cloud that is Amazon Web Services (AWS) are surprised by…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaThe Dark Side of Recruiting Pre-InternetBefore boolean search strings could magically populate screens with names, you could only flip through stacks of Yellow Pages. Before the…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaThe Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon ValleyThere was a time when Stanford University was considered a second-rate engineering school. It was the early 1940s, and the Department of…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015
Ritika TrikhaLegendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern ProgrammingJavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of…Sep 20, 2015Sep 20, 2015