How Can AI Help with My Business?

How Can AI Help with My Business?

 (excerpt from RD Perspectives video with Jen Stirrup interviewing Dan Hermes) We’re hearing a lot about AI. Will it bring about a new kind of business? First it will help us to do our existing business better. Here’s how: We’re parsing the business...
What’s a Chatbot and What does it have to do with AI?

What’s a Chatbot and What does it have to do with AI?

A chatbot is a language interface to an AI. Chatbots give us a text box in which to type our questions in natural language and the AI will attempt to understand our meaning and respond to it intelligently and productively. The key word here is “attempt”....
Will the AIs Take Over like in Terminator?

Will the AIs Take Over like in Terminator?

Will the AIs take over in a Terminator-like scenario? We shouldn’t rule it out, experts tell us, so caution as we go is the best course. It’s apparently not likely that a machine will become self-aware and plot an AI coup. It’s far more likely that...
Upcoming book

Upcoming book

Title: Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML Subtitle: Mobile Cross-Platform C# and XAML Fundamentals Publication in Fall of 2018 Building Xamarin.Forms Apps Using XAML is a hands-on Xamarin.Forms primer for building native Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps...
Dan Hermes appointed Microsoft Regional Director (RD)

Dan Hermes appointed Microsoft Regional Director (RD)

Dan Hermes appointed Microsoft Regional Director (RD) Microsoft has bestowed upon me one of their highest honors for a non-Microsoft employee. They have offered me the role of Microsoft Regional Director (RD). I’m humbled and honored and very much look forward to...