Darryl K. Taft

How IBM Watson Taps Into Today’s World of Cognitive Computing IBM Watson, the first open cognitive computing platform, represents a new era in which systems understand the world through senses, learning and experience. Early Development The original system underlying Watson, Deep QA, was built on one API, Question & Answer, covering five technologies. The original […]

DreamFactory Software announced that its open-source REST API backend can now be paired with the Intel IoT Gateway to help developers build Internet of things (IoT) applications. With DreamFactory’s backend, developers do not have to build their own APIs to store, process and access IoT data collected by a variety of device types, platforms and […]

IBM and AT&T have teamed up to address mobile cloud security. AT&T announced that in conjunction with IBM, the duo can deliver a scalable mobile cloud solution to help protect corporate data and apps. IBM and AT&T’s new approach enables a workforce to be productive without compromising security and the mobile user experience. The AT&T […]

Almost three-quarters of mobile apps ship with between one and ten bugs, according to a recently released survey of more than 500 software developers actively developing for mobile devices. A recent Evans Data survey showed that one-third of these developers said that between three and five bugs are found on average after the apps ship, […]

Taking advantage of learnings from its experience with its Watson cognitive computing system, IBM today launched a consulting organization known as IBM Cognitive Business Solutions. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced the new initiative today at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla. IBM Cognitive Business Solutions taps into IBM’s success with Watson and analytics and draws […]

Microsoft has applied several agility lessons to embracing DevOps across its Cloud + Enterprise (C+E) business. The C + E engineering group, which encompasses products and services such as SQL, Power BI, Azure, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Windows Server, and System Center, has taken the lead in DevOps practices at Microsoft. “For many years, […]

IBM announced plans to acquire Cleversafe, a provider of object-based storage software and appliances. Big Blue today signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Chicago-based company, which IBM will integrate into its IBM Cloud business unit to provide customers with data flexibility, simplified management and consistency with on-premise, cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment options. The […]

STEM Education at Work: Five Innovative Apps Created by High-Schoolers The Lenovo Scholar Network brings a robust mobile app development curriculum to students at underserved high schools. Here are some of the apps they created. Sukario Kids Students at the Phillip O. Berry Academy of Informational Technology in Charlotte, N.C., created Sukario Kids as a […]

IBM announced it has signed a $1 billion 10-year partnership with Nordic IT services company EVRY in which IBM will serve as EVRY’s primary cloud infrastructure services provider. As part of the agreement, IBM will enhance EVRY’s infrastructure services, the companies said. This includes providing services running on IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud infrastructure based in the […]

IBM Research announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes, replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies. IBM scientists demonstrated a new way to shrink transistor contacts without reducing performance of carbon nanotube devices, opening a pathway to dramatically faster, smaller and more powerful computer chips beyond the capabilities of traditional semiconductors. […]