Interview: Gathering & analyzing data with drones & IBM Bluemix

Here’s an interview that I recently did with IBM DeveloperWorks TV at the recent World of Watson conference. In it I discuss a project I’ve been working on that analyzes drone imagery to perform automatic damage detection using the Watson Visual Recognition, and generates 3D models from the drone images using photogrammetry processes. The best […]

Drones, Bots, Cognitive Apps, Image Recognition, Motion Analysis, and Photogrammetry (or, what I’ve been up to lately)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here on the blog…  In fact, I just did the math, and it’s been over 7 months. Lots of things have happened since, I’ve moved to a new team within IBM, built new developer tools, worked directly with clients on their solutions, worked on a few high profile keynotes, built apps for […]

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 8.0 Beta Now Available!

Back at the end of February, IBM announced an upcoming beta version of MobileFirst Platform Foundation version 8.0. Well, guess what? … As of last week, it is now available! What is IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation? For those stumbling upon this and wondering “What is IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation?”: IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation is an […]

New Swift Offerings from IBM

In my last post I mentioned some new announcements related to the Swift programming language at IBM.  Upon further thought, I guess it’s probably not a bad idea to re-post more detail here too… If you didn’t see/hear it last week, IBM unveiled several projects to advance the Swift language for developers, which we think will have […]

Mobile Apps, Cognitive Computing, & Wearables

Last week I was in good ‘ole Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect – IBM’s largest conference of the year. With over 20,000 attendees, it was a fantastic event that covered everything from technical details for developers to forward-looking strategy and trends for C-level executives. IBM also made some big announcements for developers – OpenWhisk serverless […]

Introducing the new Watson iOS SDK (beta)

I’ve written here in the past on both the impact of cognitive computing, and how you can integrate IBM Watson services into your mobile apps to add cognitive language processing capabilities and more.  I’m happy to share that IBM has just recently released a new beta SDK that makes integrating more Watson services into your iOS applications […]

Mobile Apps with Language & Translation Services using IBM Watson & IBM MobileFirst

UPDATE 12/22/15:  IBM Recently released a new iOS SDK for Watson that makes integration with Watson services even easier. You can read more about it here. I recently gave a presentation at IBM Insight on Cognitive Computing in mobile apps.  I showed two apps: one that uses Watson natural language processing to perform search queries, and […]

Wearables & IBM MobileFirst – Video & Sample Code

Last week I attended IBM Insight in Las Vegas. It was a great event, with tons of great information for attendees. I had a few sessions on mobile applications. In particular, my dev@Insight session on Wearables powered by IBM MobileFirst was recorded. You can check it out here: https://youtu.be/d4AEwCOmvug https://youtu.be/d4AEwCOmvug Sorry it’s not in HD, but […]

Thoughts on Cognitive Computing

You may have heard a lot of buzz coming out of IBM lately about Cognitive Computing, and you might have also wondered “what the heck are they talking about?”  You may have heard of services for data and predictive analytics, services for natural language text processing, services for sentiment analysis, services understand speech and translate languages, […]

IBM Watson Speech Services Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

UPDATE 12/22/15:  IBM Recently released a new iOS SDK for Watson that makes integration with Watson services even easier. You can read more about it here. IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud speech services just got a whole lot easier for mobile developers.  I myself just learned about these two, and can’t wait to integrate them into my […]