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Miller Why 2020 Should Be a Particularly Competitive Year for CPUs AMD was newly competitive in desktops and servers in 2019, but it’s the new Mobile Ryzen chips for notebooks that could really change the market. 2/11/2020 By Michael J. Miller The Last Gadget Standing at CES 2020 When a new high-tech product can win a competition based audience appreciation and applause alone, you know you’ve probably got a winner. 1/16/2020 By Michael J. Miller Traveling with a Second Monitor The Lenovo ThinkVision M14 is a 1.3 pound portable display that offers a good way of extending your laptop’s screen while traveling. 12/20/2019 By Michael J. Miller Living with a Dell XPS 13 With a Six-Core Comet Lake Processor The ultraportable XPS notebook gains a six-core, twelve-thread option. But do you need the extra power? 12/18/2019 By Michael J. Miller How To Prepare Workers For the Jobs of the Future If AI and Automation are going to change the future of work, how do we make sure people have the skills that the new jobs will require? 12/12/2019 By Michael J. Miller The Myth and Reality of How AI is Changing Work In industry after industry, the best processes are those that use both computers and people. 12/11/2019 By Michael J. Miller What Do AI and Automation Changes Mean for Your Job? At a recent MIT conference on AI and the Future of Work, speakers cited education, retraining efforts, and policy changes as crucial for ensuring there are good jobs for lots of people. 12/09/2019 By Michael J. Miller The Top Supercomputers Remain the Same; New Technology Shows A Road to Exascale At the big Supercomputing 19 (SC19) show, Intel, Nvidia, and Cerebras discussed new architectures for faster machines 11/22/2019 By Michael J. Miller Microsoft Research: Machine Teaching, Optical Computing, Machine-Human Interaction, and More At the Innovation Keynote at Microsoft Ignite, researchers showed a variety of projects. Most are still at the research stage, but I’m particularly intrigued by advanced in optical computing and biocomputing. 11/13/2019 By Michael J. Miller Microsoft Gives Productivity a New Focus With AI Features Can improved mobile versions of Outlook and Office, new AI features in PowerPoint and Excel, improved collaboration tools, and the new Project Cortex make you more productive? We’ll see. 11/12/2019 By Michael J. Miller HoloLens 2: A More Natural Method of Mixed Reality, For Enterprise The new version of Microsoft’s HoloLens expands the field of view while making it much easier to use. 11/07/2019 By Michael J. Miller Microsoft Highlights Azure Management, Office Improvements, and More at Ignite Redmond showed off a lot of new tools, from storage to quantum computing, but the Project Cortex goal of turning company data to knowledge stands out. 11/06/2019 By Michael J. Miller Malcolm Gladwell on Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Adoption It can take twenty years or more for a technology to move from invention to wide adoption. Author Malcolm Gladwell has some ideas on why that’s true, and if we can change it. 11/05/2019 By Michael J. Miller Colin Powell on Leadership and Information Systems The former Secretary of State gave an inspiring talk that covered not only leadership but also information systems. 11/04/2019 By Michael J. Miller Google Cloud’s Thomas Kurian Says Customer Success Is Key At Gartner Symposium, the Google Cloud CEO said the firm wasn’t trying to win on cost, but rather on the solutions it could bring to customers. 10/30/2019 By Michael J. Miller Gartner: The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence AI promises the intimacy of a small town at a big-city level, but challenges in deploying it at scale have limited its adoption. 10/29/2019 By Michael J. Miller Gartner to CIOs: Prepare for Uncertainty CIOs need to get their organizations fit, anticipate political and technological change, and build a "flexible digital factory." 10/25/2019 By Michael J. Miller Gartner: "Digital Dithering," Globalization, and Economic Concerns Top CEO Concerns CIOs must help CEOs address their top concerns, Gartner says, As part of this, we need to realize that many digital efforts have yet to show a return on investment. 10/25/2019 By Michael J. Miller Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2020 and Beyond In picking the top predictions for next year, Gartner emphasized the human condition, discussing such things as augmenting humans and the behavioral consequences of AI. 10/25/2019 By Michael J. 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