Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

Developer 30 under 30 list expands to Evoke conference, hackathon in third year

An effort to bring recognition to Canada's talented young developers expanded beyond just one list of luminaries this year; adding on a developer conference...

Intel’s new Xeon processors are made to deliver AI at the edge

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. announced the general availability of its second generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors on Tuesday, a workhorse of the...

Foreign talent more interested in Canadian IT jobs, Indeed reports

Canadian tech jobs posted on hiring platform Indeed.ca are receiving more interest from abroad, according to an economist employed by the website. Foreign clicks on...

BlueCat turns to open source collaboration to help customers automate infrastructure

Toronto-based BlueCat Networks is the latest example of a vendor that's made its business on proprietary software code, yet is dabbling more with open...

Canadian ‘godfathers of AI’ win 2018 Turing Award

Two of Canada's artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers have won the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) A.M. Turing Award along with another peer and...

BlackBerry and Telus partner with Ottawa-based accelerator for new IoT-focused program

Ottawa-based software as a service (SaaS) accelerator program L-Spark Corp. is launching a new Secure IoT Accelerator program, working with Telus Corp, BlackBerry Ltd....

University of Toronto to build new AI innovation centre with $100 million ‘largest donation ever’

Rendering of Schwartz Resiman Innovation Centre by Weiss/Manfredi via University of Toronto. Rendering of Schwartz Resiman Innovation Centre by Weiss/Manfredi via University of Toronto. Rendering of...

Ronald McDonald House Charities Toronto helps families feel at home with Flybits-powered mobile app

It's not every day that Toronto-based app maker Flybits finds itself in the kitchen of one of its clients making tacos. But then not...

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