Tony Kontzer
Tony has been covering business technology for more than 20 years, producing content for the likes of Information Week, Investors Business Daily, Baseline Magazine and TechTarget, and has been a contributing blogger for NVIDIA since 2010. A 1988 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Tony works from his home in Grass Valley, Calif., and spends his non-work hours chasing his two little boys around a 2.5-acre property, answering constant texts from his college-aged son, and desperately trying to get his wife to answer her cell phone. His infrequent Twitter posts can be found at https://twitter.com/tkontzer.
Red Zone Alert: Netherlands-Based Rolloos Taps AI to Make Oil Rigs Safer for Workers
Bram Masselink doesn’t mind rocking the boat. While in college, the Dutch entrepreneur founded a company that provided training courses that helped 15,000 students a year with their final exams… Read Article
Virtual Peril: Booz Allen Hamilton Builds Immersive VR for Hazardous Job Training
How do you train someone to deactivate a landmine, work with pathogens in a lab or triage disaster victims with head injuries? Very, very carefully. Typically, training for hazardous, high-risk… Read Article
DC Startup Casts an AI Net to Stop Phishing and Malware
When the price went way up on a key service a small Washington, D.C., firm was using to protect its customers’ internet connectivity, the company balked. After not finding a… Read Article
How Verizon Is Revolutionizing Access to High Performance Computing Services from the Cloud
When Verizon set out to build its 5G network five years ago, the company knew it would gain a deeper understanding of what this next-generation technology would mean for the… Read Article
Go with the Flow: How Summit Supercomputer Is Transforming Design of Propulsion Systems
The turbulence created when diesel motors, internal combustion engines or gas turbines fire results in all manner of instabilities. Being able to model and predict those dynamic flows requires a… Read Article
It’s Elemental: Summit Supercomputer Probes Role of Supernovas in Laying Foundation for Life
Supernovas — the spectacular explosions that occur in dying stars — may hold the answers to many questions about the origins of life. The cataclysmic events are responsible for spreading… Read Article
Earthshaking Development: Summit Supercomputer Boosts Our Understanding of Earthquakes
Earthquakes remain one of Earth’s most unpredictable phenomena. Geologists, however, believe that if they had a better understanding of the planet’s interior, we’d be able to more accurately assess earthquake… Read Article
Cracking the Code on Opioid Addiction with Summit Supercomputer
About 10 percent of people who are prescribed opioids experience full-blown addiction, yet there’s no way to know who is most susceptible. Genomics can likely explain this riddle — by… Read Article
Going Against the Grain: How Lucidyne Is Revolutionizing Lumber Grading with Deep Learning
Talk about a knotty problem. Lucidyne Technologies has been using AI since the late 1980s to detect defects in lumber products. But no matter how much technology it’s employed, finding… Read Article