Not many people can say they’ve had a chance to attend a dinner party where the menu was created by a cognitive computer system, but my colleagues and I made it happen! The Dinner Party After hours spent in the kitchen, it was finally time to enjoy the fruits of our labor with an IBM […]
Read morePart one: The cognitive cooking campaign was designed to showcase Chef Watson’s culinary prowess, and resulted in the cookbook “Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson,” populated with recipes from the “mind” of a computer. Given the fact that I love any excuse to have a potluck, I decided to put my crack team of IBM investigators on the case by hosting a Watson Dinner Party. In part one of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Cooking with IBM Watson you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the trials and tribulations of cooking alongside IBM’s Chef Watson.
Read moreAfter tabulating results from our IT Skills and Salary Survey last year, we published our first “ITIL Bump” graphic showing that respondents saw an increase in salary when adding an ITIL certification to their existing certification. Below is an update to those figures based on results from our 2017 IT Skills and Salary Survey.
Read moreAs the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed workers continue their downward trends in 2015, the trend creates additional question about high demand and highly skilled workers, such as IT workers. If the overall employment rate is 94.5 percent what is the rate for those with highly desirable skills?
Read moreEach day, a new device or program is introduced into our world, compelling us to integrate more technology into our lives. Even the most mundane tasks, like washing the clothes, now involves computerized devices. Yet have you ever wondered how this pervasive amount of technology may be affecting the way that we learn? Could our learning style be evolving alongside technology? It has been suggested that, unlike the baby boomers of the post-World War II era, digital natives – or individuals reared in a technologically diverse environment dominated by unprecedented modes of communication and consistent exposure to vast amounts of information – may be physiologically primed (or wired) to process information differently than their non-native counterparts.
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