Self organizing networks, IoT, Machine Learning, and Trains
Introduction
This article started with a simple thought experiment: If all cars were driverless, will we need traffic lights?
And in this case I’m speaking of specifically driverless cars — as opposed to self-driving cars which still require a human at the wheel. Perhaps a semantic difference, but for the rest of this article they will be referred to as driverless cars.
It is clear from the man-years of effort and billions of dollars of R&D being invested by every major technology and automobile manufacturer that the goal is ultimately to remove humans from the driving equation. …
Why does the U.S. Government Refuse to Protect its Citizens?
I just sat through yet another Department of Homeland Security (DHS) presentation describing all the “resources” they have to offer businesses to protect themselves from cyber threats. Unfortunately, this DHS representative was more on the physical security side (as opposed to cyber) so I missed my chance to ask the man directly…
Why does the U.S. government not have a U.S. firewall for its citizens and businesses? Why does the U.S. government do absolutely nothing to protect the digital assets of its country? Weird isn’t it? Almost inexplicable.
Thus, this article is about something that has perplexed me ever since I started building business applications accessed over the Internet nearly 20 years ago. …
A failed technology is shamelessly being regurgitated as something new.
Three letter acronyms (TLAs) are part and parcel of the computer software industry and dozens come and go on a yearly basis. A recent one in particular is Robotic Process Automation, or RPA. If you do a quick search on robotic process automation, you will see ads from everyone from legacy BPM (business process management) and document capture vendors, to regurgitated QA testing tools called screen scrapers.
Worse yet, arguably reliable sources such as Wikipedia or for-pay “analysts” provide no clarification. Wikipedia’s definition is singularly focused on screen scrapers and misstates the place of APIs, while also describing the effects of RPA which are far beyond what screen scrapers could ever provide. …
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