I was just in a Gartner Research Board meeting talking about the situation in Ukraine, which brought on conversations about interest rate hikes, cyber attacks and other unpredictable events. …

The consumer Internet began life in 1969 with four nodes, three in California and one in Utah. We know how the Internet changed how we shop, watch movies and travel. Our moonshot mission, which Dr. Anthony Chang has called a pediatric Internet made history in 2021 as we ended the…

As we enter the second year of the pandemic and companies start to talk about the new world of work there is a lot of discussion about company culture. How does culture get created and nurtured in a world where there is no “water cooler”? What is culture? How is…

About a year ago, as we went into the first lock down, a group of us, who have years of experience in enterprise infrastructure software organized to achieve a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). That goal, our moon shot mission, is to enable a new generation of applications to access…

I start out my Stanford cloud computing class the same way every year. I tell the students the mark of a great student is not measured by what they know, but by the questions they ask. So learn to ask good questions. Recently I was invited to speak to a…

AI in medicine, particular in pediatric medicine holds much promise in taking scarce human expertise and making it available throughout rural America and to the rest of the world. Rwanda has one pediatric cardiologist in the country. In 2015, when neural network technology succeeded in building computer algorithms which were…

COVID has gotten many of us to rethink how we get food, healthcare, education, and even how we work. Most of us thought the Internet would transform many things, COVID has accelerated the change in many areas. But in the world of education, many would say online education has been…

Professor Diego Klabjan invited me to deliver the inaugural seminar at his Center for Deep Learning at Northwestern University. You can listen to the entire talk. What follows is based on the seminar, which was broken into three TED-sized talks. Part One focuses on a new class on enterprise applications…

Professor Diego Klabjan invited me to deliver the inaugural seminar at his Center for Deep Learning at Northwestern University. You can listen to the entire talk. What follows is based on the seminar, which was broken into three TED-sized talks. Part One focuses on the five characteristics of a new…