The WatersWorks Podcast
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Silicon Valley-based journalist and author John K. Waters talks with local luminaries and worldwide technology mavens about an array of tech trends in this twice-monthly podcast. Topics range from artificial intelligence to DevOps, quantum computing to the Internet of Things, robotics to the Cloud--and just about everything in between. Waters is the editor in chief of the Converge360 news and information sites Application Development Trends, Pure AI, and Futuretech360. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/johnkwaters.
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Episodes
The Next Evolution of the Web with Ian Thornton-Trump and Phillip Ingram
August 15, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBEveryone knows the World Wide Web is evolving, and its next major iteration is quickly coming into focus. Sort of. There's a surprising amount of confusion in this space. The terms "Web 3.0" and "Web3," for example, are often used synonymously, though they're not the same thing. Web3 is often conflated with "the metaverse," even though they, too, are distinct concepts. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) built on open-source blockchains are considered the essence of the next-gen We...
A Conversation with Victoria Mackecknie, VP of Enterprise Technology at IDA Ireland
June 13, 2022 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBIreland is well-known as a welcome destination for high-tech companies, including some of the biggest names in the U.S. technology sector. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Dell, to name a few, have taken advantage of the country's generous tax laws and high-quality technical talent. Victoria Mackecknie, VP of Enterprise Technology at IDA Ireland, was in the Bay Area for the annual RSA Security Conference recently. John caught up with her to talk about Ireland's appeal to the tech sector, and ...
WaterWorks Podcast 10: A conversation with Allan Liska, intelligence analyst for Recorded Future, better known as the Ransomware Sommelier
January 18, 2022 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBRansomware attacks dominated the headlines in 2021. As of September of last year, according to one report, there was a 148 percent surge in ransomware attacks as compared with the same period the previous year. And another industry watcher says 714 million attempted ransomware attacks will have been recorded once the stats roll in for the year. To get a complete picture of how we got here, and what to expect going forward, John reached out to Allan Liska, Intelligence Analyst for Recorded Fu...
A conversation with Allan Liska, intelligence analyst for Recorded Future, better known as the Ransomware Sommelier
January 18, 2022 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBRansomware attacks dominated the headlines in 2021. As of September of last year, according to one report, there was a 148 percent surge in ransomware attacks as compared with the same period the previous year. And another industry watcher says 714 million attempted ransomware attacks will have been recorded once the stats roll in for the year. To get a complete picture of how we got here, and what to expect going forward, John reached out to Allan Liska, Intelligence Analyst for Recorded Fu...
WaterWorks Podcast 9: Java is Everywhere! An Update with JCP Chair Heather VanCura
January 03, 2022 20:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBThe disclosure of the Log4j vulnerability in late 2021 and the subsequent exploitation attempts reminded us that, as one observer put it, "Java is everywhere." If ever we needed a reminder that Java continues to be one of the most widely implemented languages and platforms, this was surely it. The news gave John an excuse to reach out to Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process, better known as the JCP, and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee, for an update on this ubi...
Java is Everywhere! An Update with JCP Chair Heather VanCura
January 03, 2022 20:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBThe disclosure of the Log4j vulnerability in late 2021 and the subsequent exploitation attempts reminded us that, as one observer put it, "Java is everywhere." If ever we needed a reminder that Java continues to be one of the most widely implemented languages and platforms, this was surely it. The news gave John an excuse to reach out to Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process, better known as the JCP, and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee, for an update on this ubi...
WatersWorks Podcast 8: Geertjan Wielenga and the Evolution of Foojay, "A Place for Friends of OpenJDK"
September 28, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBFoojay.io is a community website for developers who use, target, and run their applications on Java and OpenJDK. It's been up and running since April of last year, and it's been evolving into a rich, well-designed, and essential resource. John spoke with Geertjan Wielenga, senior director of open-source projects at Java development tools and runtimes provider Azul, about Foojay. Wielenga is the author of "Developer, Advocate!: Conversations on turning a passion for talking about tech into a ...
WaterWorks Podcast 7: The Rush to Remote Work and the New Normal with Tom Fenton
September 07, 2021 03:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBThe rush to remote work driven by the COVID-19 pandemic may well have been the fastest and most widespread workforce "migration" in history, catching many companies unprepared and scrambling to adapt. Although tech companies have long utilized distributed teams to develop their systems and solutions, the scale and velocity of the change was a shock even to them. And just as we began to drift back to a kind of normalcy, the delta variant dashed many back-to-the-office plans. Apple, for exampl...
WaterWorks Podcast 6: The Evolution and Resilience of GlassFish with Payara Founder Steve Millidge
July 30, 2021 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBThe Java language and platform has been around for 25+ years, surviving almost annual predictions of its death. A veritable avatar of this resilience is the GlassFish application server--and one of the original forks of GlassFish is the Payara Server. Steve Millidge, founder of UK-based Payara, talks with John about the longevity of Java, recent changes in the enterprise Java space, his company winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and the origins of that mean-fish logo.
Remote Learning and Other Tech Trends Spurred by the Lockdown: A Conversation with Prof. Ahmed Banafa
June 25, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis week's podcast is a conversation with Prof. Ahmed Banafa, teacher, author, and all-around tech maven. Banafa currently serves on the faculty in the School of Engineering at San Jose State University, and he has taught at both Stanford and UC Berkeley. In 2018, LinkedIn identified him as an influencer and "technology fortune teller," and two years earlier named him No. 1 Tech Voice to Follow. John K. Waters reached out to Banafa to talk about the effectiveness of the remote learning te...
WaterWorks Podcast 5: Remote Learning and Other Tech Trends Spurred by the Lockdown
June 25, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis week's podcast is a conversation with Prof. Ahmed Banafa, teacher, author, and all-around tech maven. Banafa currently serves on the faculty in the School of Engineering at San Jose State University, and he has taught at both Stanford and UC Berkeley. In 2018, LinkedIn identified him as an influencer and "technology fortune teller," and two years earlier named him No. 1 Tech Voice to Follow. John K. Waters reached out to Banafa to talk about the effectiveness of the remote learning te...
WatersWorks Podcast 4: Programming Luminary Shawn Wildermuth on His New Movie "Hello World"
April 14, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBShawn Wildermuth is a long-time software developer, an author, a teacher, a blogger, a board member of the .NET Foundation, and most recently, a filmmaker. His film, "Hello World," is a paean to the art and craft of software development told through the personal stories of the people who write the code, ranging from in-the-trenches developers to academics, managers, and entrepreneurs. The film weaves in some surprising history, some eye-opening statistics on race and gender in the world of s...
WatersWorks Podcast 4: Programming Luminary Shawn Wildermuth on His New Movie "Hello World"
April 14, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBShawn Wildermuth is a long-time software developer, an author, a teacher, a blogger, a board member of the .NET Foundation, and most recently, a filmmaker. His film, "Hello World," is a paean to the art and craft of software development told through the personal stories of the people who write the code, ranging from in-the-trenches developers to academics, managers, and entrepreneurs. The film weaves in some surprising history, some eye-opening statistics on race and gender in the world of s...
WatersWorks Podcast Episode 3: "Ethical AI" with Carnegie Melon's Anupam Datta
March 15, 2021 01:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBRecent employee unrest at Google was stirred, in part, by their concerns about the company's research into, and implementation of, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Google has been making significant advances in AI, and it's not alone. AI is now a focus of a range of enterprises, and it’s becoming an essential part of a growing number of products and services. Google's employees threw a spotlight on what has been called "ethical AI.” John K. Waters sorts out the evolving definition ...
WatersWorks Podcast 3: "Ethical AI" with Carnegie Melon's Anupam Datta
March 15, 2021 01:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBRecent employee unrest at Google was stirred, in part, by their concerns about the company's research into, and implementation of, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Google has been making significant advances in AI, and it's not alone. AI is now a focus of a range of enterprises, and it’s becoming an essential part of a growing number of products and services. Google's employees threw a spotlight on what has been called "ethical AI.” John K. Waters sorts out the evolving definition ...
WatersWorks Podcast 2: Interview with Java Guru Bruno Souza
January 04, 2021 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBJohn K. Waters interviews Java luminary and Brazil-based open source advocate Bruno Souza.
WatersWorks Podcast 1: Q&A with NLP Researcher Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
August 31, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIn this first-ever episode of the WatersWorks podcast, John K. Waters talks with Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, project scientist in the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, about his work on machine learning classifiers that sorted the hopeful from the hateful in hundreds of thousands of comments on social media. Links to the research papers mentioned in the podcast can be found at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~akhudabu/ Read John's written coverage of t...
WatersWorks Podcast 1: Q&A with NLP Researcher Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
August 31, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIn this first-ever episode of the WatersWorks podcast, John K. Waters talks with Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, project scientist in the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, about his work on machine learning classifiers that sorted the hopeful from the hateful in hundreds of thousands of comments on social media. Links to the research papers mentioned in the podcast can be found at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~akhudabu/ Read John's written coverage of t...