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Since it is open sourced, Google TensorFlow is becoming a more and more popular choice for AI enthusiast and researchers. With its recent announcement of DeepMind using TensorFlow for all its future research activities Google is reiterating its confidence on TensorFlow. Other google AI research projects using TensorFlow includes DeepDream, Google's visual AI that could transform photos into psychedelic art Magenta - Google's quest to find "Can machines make music and art? If so, how? If not, why not?". To be officially launched on June 1st  References: Google's Magenta project

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I am an open source proponent and contributor. As a hobbist I build lot of cool tools and apps which I keep posting onto my GitHub handle. However, to be frank with you so far I never posted any license agreement along with my code. May be I am bit lazy to spare time and research on the open source license models and identifying one which is suitable for me. Recently while searching in Open Source Licensing models and implications I came across Steven Burnap   answer on stack exchange thread " Open source code with no license… can I fork it? ". Further exploration of GitHub opensource license page   I found... What happens if I don't choose a license? You're under no obligation to choose a license. It's your right not to include one with your code or project, but please be aware of the implications. Generally speaking, the absence of a license means that the default copyright laws apply. This means that you retain all rights to your source code and th...

CSC Distinguished Engineers 2016 announced today. Congrats to these outstanding achievers Frédéric Auberson (Switzerland) is an information systems architect in GBS where he deftly integrates innovative ideas from across the transportation and railway fields into expert architecture, systems and actions to provide the best technical solutions and implementation for our clients. He has received the 2010 CSC Chairman's Award for Excellence for his work on the Swiss Federal Railway Traffic Management System and was a 2014 CSC Award for Sales Excellence winner for Network Rail's Asset Management Programme, ORBIS. Bio on csc.com | LinkedIn | Twitter Martin Bartlett (France) is an information systems architect in our Insurance group and chief architect for CSC's AIA insurance administration product. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect–Associate and domain expert in REST APIs. Outside of CSC, he’s known for the original RSS Live Links Chrome Extension , th...

1. The Device Mesh A variety of other trends have led to an increased number of sensors embedded in many technologies and devices that we use personally and professionally. They become smarter as they gather more data on our daily patterns. Gartner predicts that these sensors, which tend to work in silos today will increasingly work in concert, leading to even greater insights about our daily patterns. 2. Ambient User Experience Gartner refers to these devices and sensors’ ability to gather more contextual data as described above as AMbient UX. The challenge will be with application design, anticipating this level of device synchronicity and collaboration, for lack of better framing. Gartner posits that the devices and sensors will become so smart that they will be able to organize our lives without our even noticing that they are doing so 3. 3D-printing Materials Though not a new trend, 3D-printing has caught its stride now that companies like Tesla are using it to build engine parts...

While googling for devops case studies, i found this very interesting blog post by Doug Seven on how Knight Capital Group (an American Global Finance) failed code deployment on one of the eight production instances lead to the bankruptcy of KCG in August 2012 . At the first read I felt it may be a hypothetical case or something that is shown too aggravated. But with minimal digging I could correlate some of the facts even thought I am not totally sure about the the whole story. Anyways here the point is not about the story but about Dev & Ops nightmare. Ignorance is not a bliss Blog may be talking about 2012, but even today we just have a below 40% adoption of devops which seriously means lots of organization out there still doing manual heavy lifting of syncing of code between the dev/qa/prod environment. With manual intervention there is always a possibility of mistakes. If not today… tomorrow. Now the question to be asked is When or Why? Yes, with so much at stake org...

I have been coding for more than 25 years and used more than 18 different programming languages (and the framework each is good and strong at) spanning every programming style from simple scripting, procedural to objected oriented to dynamic, functional (more attractive to Software Engineering community these days). Let me confess, every time I switched to new language or style I always felt “Oh, hope I also had that”. Trust me no language is complete; no style is perfect. So only way to feast your programming appetite is try something different which gives the flexibility. I honestly think, MicroServices style of application is the one that gives the needed flexibility. It is not said and done. We need a more pragmatic answer to the question “Why it is fun?” In my experience, the biggest challenge in designing & building software systems is that of the identification of all the bit and pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. As we know, it is never easy to identify the position of any ...