• How Tech is Going to Change Our Lives Over the Next Ten Years


    iotBeing only twenty-one years old, I’ve pretty much grown up with technology. While I do remember the brutal days of dial up, when texting didn’t exist and I had to actually remember a phone number, I have been pretty thoroughly connected with technology since I was young. I received my first cell phone for my eleventh birthday a little over ten years ago—a Nokia with a tiny, blue screen, with the most advanced features…

    • Tue, May 5 2015
  • An Interview With A New Microsoft Regional Director: Ken Azuma

    Ken Azuma        Last month, all of us at Infragistics received some great news! Our colleague Ken Azuma was chosen as a Microsoft Regional Director. Being chosen as a Microsoft Regional Director is an incredible accomplishment, and we are all very excited for Ken and his opportunity! It is no common feat to be selected, for according to Microsoft, to be chosen as a regional director one must “exhibit a mastery over a wide variety…

    • Thu, Mar 26 2015
  • Microsoft's Patterns and Practices Prism Change of Ownership

         Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team announced today that they are about to undergo a change. In the past, the team has focused on creating and giving guidance on most major Microsoft platforms. Today however, the team has announced that they have decided to focus primarily on Microsoft’s Azure, which is their cloud platform. Although the team is essentially “narrowing” their focus, they believe that in actuality…

    • Thu, Mar 19 2015
  • Machine Learning as a Double Edged Sword

                It’s an interesting, difficult and controversial concept. On one side there are incredible, wonderful, life changing, life-saving possibilities, yet on the other there are awful, terrifying, life changing, life-ruining possibilities. These are only a handful of the descriptors that could be used to label machine learning. Machine learning is a method in which computers are given algorithms which are then fed…

    • Thu, Mar 12 2015
  • Algorithms: The Third Co-Evolutionary Force

          In this world the only things that create and control themselves come from nature; from the mountains to the trees to animals to human beings. A new concept of a third “co-evolutionary force” is discussed when Kevin Slavin takes a new spin on algorithms in his TEDTalk called How Algorithms Shape Our World. Slavin begins by briefly coining algorithms as “the math that computers use to decide stuff”; however…

    • Thu, Feb 26 2015