As data scientist hiring continues to boom, many organizations report sustained difficulty finding, attracting and retaining data science talent. Even as initiatives to upskill quantitative professionals grow, machine learning literacy remains low in many organizations. Chief data and analytics officers, or CDAOs, must build development paths that support budding citizen data scientists with the right ...

When Apache Spark became a top-level project in 2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big data scene, it along with the public cloud disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc. cleverly optimized its tech stack for Spark and took advantage of the cloud to deliver a managed service that has become a leading artificial intelligence ...

Almost any business, large or small, that uses technology typically has a strategic supplier that is, in effect, first among equals. It becomes the platform that drives choices for third-party applications, tools or databases. In small businesses, that strategic platform supplier is likely to be Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc., with the choice of Google ...

Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are ...

It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: ...

The numbers surrounding the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVII Sunday in Arizona are staggering. More than $150 million in bets will be placed, the host city will see upwards of $400 million in direct and indirect revenue surrounding the event day, 100 million pounds of chicken wings will be consumed and, of course, the ...

After years of preparation, 2022 highlighted the amazing potential for generative AI as models such as OpenAI LLC’s DALL-E and GPT-3 swept across the world. Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC have been training machine learning models for years, but the introduction of transformer-based large language models or LLMs that could “learn” created a ...

Customer engagement platform OneSignal Inc. said today it has closed on a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures. The funding, whose amount was not revealed, extends its recently announced $50 million Series C round of funding. OneSignal is the creator of a customer engagement platform that enables mobile, web, email, SMS and in-app message push ...

Amid the worst week for tech layoffs in memory to kick off 2023, Nasdaq’s worst year since 2008, and a prolonged “crypto winter” that is wiping out nearly every letter in the blockchain alphabet soup, it has been a bad time to be bullish about long-promised futures. Only the slightly delusional could take comfort in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to adopt remote and hybrid work policies causing employees and employers alike to take a step back and examine the role that work plays in our lives. That role has certainly shifted over the past two and a half years, and expectations about when, where and how we work ...