Why Is IoT Hot Now?

In 2001, my startup in Cambridge and several others started the IoT movement via RFID and devices on the net. My first white paper on this topic was called “IoD, Internet of Devices.” At the same time, colleagues at MIT AutoID Center, were propagating IoT. Now almost 18 years later, I am delighted to see…

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2018: INVERSION And Going From AI Hype To Reality

2018 will be an exciting year for artificial intelligence. Not because every company will have sorted their AI strategy out and not because AI deployments will have sky rocketed. Not because we will have solved the lack of skillset shortages or have figured out exactly what to apply AI to. We are still at the…

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Me and AI!

Me & AI: Turing exposed us to AI almost 69 years ago, the notion that a machine can think and process like a human. Clearly decades have gone by and we have not realized the full potential of AI and we are still a long ways away from Generalized AI. AI has gone through a…

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Let’s Talk AI: The True Buzz About AI

And deep learning, machine learning, cognitive and more… Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics on Tech St. right now – and why wouldn’t it be given the exciting advances being made? But in our conversations about AI, we’re getting ahead of ourselves and mixing up progress toward the goal with having reached…

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