Author: enews

AI is fascinating but is not an end in itself. Developers are looking for ways to sensibly incorporate the technology. Modern learning algorithms, such as deep neural networks, are able to autonomously solve highly complex tasks – with nearly human precision. Up to this point, however, these intelligent algorithms are black boxes. No one knows why they make the decisions they do and why they at times fail. With Transparent AI , the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI in Hall 6 is presenting a general tool that allows users…

Digital technologies have impacted or rather have shaken up the majority of the industries today. Digital businesses have shown potential to save costs, redefine value chains and they even allow us to work and collaborate in new ways. One of the main benefits of a true digital business is that it leverages technologies that will allow it to produce value at almost no cost and equally distribute that value at not cost either. These are good pre-requisites for rapid growth. But what is a digital business and what are the…

This is a question that I sought out to find an answer for in early 2012 when I became full time CTO at Cloudera. I did a bunch of online research and talked to a number of enterprise software CTOs whom I look up to (listed at end). I summarize my findings by answering four core questions: What is the CTO Mission? How to measure the CTO? How should the CTO split his/her time internally vs externally? What are the specific responsibilities of the CTO towards the main constituents inside…

You’ve probably seen that some URLs start with “http://”, while other start with “https://”. Https is usually part of your banks or your favorite web shops URL, right? What does that “s” after http mean and why some websites have it while others don’t? In this case “s” stands for Secure and it means that communication with that website is secured, i.e. safe. What stands behind https is technology called Secure Socket Layer, better known by its acronym SSL. Who need SSL and why? SSL is used for safe transfer…

Drones from Globe UAV GmbH use the high-speed 4G LTE wireless Internet. Control data and live video feeds are transmitted in real time. The wireless LTE standard supports data transmissions of up to 100 MBit/s. In highly populated areas this high speed network has hardly any gaps. In the countryside on the other hand, high speed surfing is not standard at all. For Globe UAV GmbH’s drones this means that they are mostly deployed in cities since the control data and live video feed that they can transmit bi-directionally in…