Darryl K. Taft

Just two weeks after hosting its World of Watson conference in Las Vegas, IBM kicked off its Watson Developer Conference in San Francisco to further advance its Watson cognitive computing platform among developers. At the developer conference, IBM launched the experimental release of its Project Intu, a new system-agnostic platform designed to enable embodied cognition. […]

Microsoft continues to advance its “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” strategy to attract developers to the company’s rich suite of developers tools. The company that was founded on the premise of connecting with developers knows the value of maintaining that relationship, and part of that today is providing support for open-source software and allowing […]

New research from API management firm Apigee and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology digital fellow shows a direct impact to the bottom line of companies that implement API programs. The study finds that companies adopting APIs, or application programming interfaces, experienced an average annual revenue increase of 13.5 percent. Apigee recently released research from Marshall […]

At the close of IBM’s recent World of Watson conference in Las Vegas, eWEEK interviewed Grady Booch, Big Blue’s chief scientist of Watson/M about the future of IBM’s Watson cognitive computing platform and where IBM is taking the technology to benefit enterprise customers, consumers and developers alike. Among other areas, IBM is applying Watson to […]

North American developers view cyber-warfare from nation-states as the number one threat to computer security, according to a recent Evans Data survey. The Evans Data Global Development Survey showed that while North American developers view cyber-intrusions from nation-states as the primary threat to computer security, developers in other geographical regions have different perceptions. The survey […]

Microsoft’s new team collaboration tool, Microsoft Teams, is aimed squarely at the Slack collaboration platform, which is a favorite of developers. With that in mind, Microsoft announced integration between Microsoft Teams, a chat-based workspace in Office 365, and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Services. “Microsoft Teams is a new chat-based workspace in Office365 that makes collaborating […]

Adobe has thrown its hat into the commercial artificial intelligence (AI) ring with the announcement of Adobe Sensei, the company’s new framework and set of intelligent services for designing and delivering digital experiences. Sensei uses AI concepts of machine learning, natural language processing and deep learning capabilities and taps into Adobe’s deep trove of content, […]

IBM continued its acquisition spree, this time of a partner the company helped to establish. IBM’s Interactive Experience (IBM iX) unit acquired the Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) division of Fluid, a provider of digital customer experiences. The Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) is a dialogue-based product-recommendation platform developed by Fluid that uses IBM’s Watson cognitive computing […]

How to Keep Ransomware From Wreaking Havoc in Your Organization Ransomware has become a real challenge for companies; if they don’t remain vigilant, they will be sure to fall victim to hackers. Here are some tips to keep your data safe. Pay Attention It’s really that simple. It doesn’t take a technical mastermind to carry […]

When a small startup decided to launch its technological foundation on top of Microsoft’s .NET platform, it needed a .NET expert to provide a master view. Being lean and distributed, the company chose .NET guru Carl Franklin to serve remotely as CTO to oversee things. However, at the DEVintersection conference in Las Vegas last week, […]