IBM’s Watson In February of 2011, IBM set a series of Jeopardy matches between the show’s highest ranked contestants against its $100 million computer named Watson. With the ability of natural speech recognition and specialized algorithms that could parse through 200 million pages of data in under three seconds, Watson was able to defeat the […]
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Virtualization For Businesses
One of best ways to streamline business infrastructure is to use a process called virtualization. Virtualization basically reduces the need for physical hardware as it uses software environments to create and share hardware resources. On one physical desktop computer you can run multiple operating systems, each sharing the hardware of the desktop computer to give […]
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The Cloud, The Computer and the Human Brain
Comparing the human brain with the computer is like comparing a car to a bicycle. The human brain has developed in great detail over the evolutionary patterns of time, whereas the computer is a creation of our brain in infancy. What we can do to revolutionize our IT industry is to think and innovate along […]
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Security for Your Business – Part 1
Security is essential for any business running IT systems. These days there are more threats than ever before, and to keep guard is one of the requirements for any IT-business infrastructure. This series on data security measures for your business entails topics such as basic terminology of attackers, different attacking methods, statistics of IT security, […]
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What VOIP Can Mean to Your Business
Let’s start off with the question, what is VOIP? VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol. This basically means that your phone system is running over technologies that are used for regular Internet and network use. Voice is transferred as data, over switches and routers, and is given special priority so that during data transfer […]
It wasn’t too long ago when Kasparov signalled his defeat in front of Deep Blue, IBM’s master chess machine. With 200 million calculations per second, the human mind had been out-calculated by its A.I.. Was this the start of the demise of the need for human calculation? Would A.I. take over our need to think […]
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