In an age wherein technological advancement is a dominant force, featuring profound impacts which shape both industry and society at large, one sector has taken a more measured approach to its adoption: agriculture. While other segments of the economy have embraced the newest technologies with increasing rapidity, growers tend to exhibit a somewhat more cautious…
Is AI Coming for Your Grow? Elon Musk has been grabbing headlines lately, and while this is not unusual for the serial tech entrepreneur, his dire warnings about a technology which lies at the heart of most of his companies’ endeavours are. Artificial intelligence, as described by Musk, is among the greatest threats to humanity…
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that enables machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world around them. The technology has rapidly evolved in recent years, with deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) making significant progress in improving the accuracy and reliability of computer vision systems. These systems…
Since the Neolithic Period, which marked the dawn of agriculture some 12,000 years ago, man has been at war. The adversary, adaptable, advantaged by overwhelming numerical superiority and an evolutionary head-start reckoned in millions of years, has won many battles — yet ultimately, we have prevailed. Some of the earliest scribblings of recorded history document…
The past couple of years have been tough on almost everyone. With the dramatic downturn in the economy, the housing market, the stock market bubble bursting, and the resulting widespread job losses, many people like you are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Often the first thing affected when finances get tight is the…
“If you haven’t done anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide”. This is the commonplace refrain of those who stand opposed to the concept of privacy, if not total anonymity in the wired world of today. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard these words spoken or read them in a forum…
Web 3.0? With all the buzz surrounding so called ‘Web 2.0’ features including net based applications, social networking, tagging, blogs, automated syndication of content and the like, it’s often hard to see beyond the hype and determine what the impact of these technologies will be on the web as it matures. While marketing types tout…
Last month we initiated a discussion on the implications and definitions of a business based “Disaster”. This time around, we will delve a little deeper into the topic and go over some of the methodology associated with the Disaster Recovery Planning process. Let’s get started One of the often neglected procedures in Disaster Recovery Planning…
The Changing Face of Information Technology As promised, this month we will explore the ever changing role women are playing in Information Technology. I was curious to find out why the female ranks are thin in IT; when for years women have known that the technology sector is where the greatest chance of career advancement…
Some folks over in Redmond are getting rather nervous these days. You see, there’s this upstart company who’s been getting a little too big for its britches lately and may well interfere with Microsoft’s plans for continued global domination. Google, once merely a simple, clean search engine, has morphed into a global giant with apparent…