Predictive analytics can reveal lurking network problems before they impact reliability or performance. Once considered a futuristic technology, predictive analytics is poised to become a mainstream ...

“If we can avoid issues before they happen, it's an enormous game," Cisco's JP Vasseur said. “One of the mechanisms that we believe is used by the brain to learn is a prediction,” JP Vasseur, Cisco ...

The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn’t work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could. In 2007, some of the leading ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. Not long ago, IT ...