Katherine Noyes
Senior U.S. Correspondent
Katherine Noyes has been an ardent geek ever since she first conquered Pyramid of Doom on an ancient TRS-80. Today she covers enterprise software in all its forms, with an emphasis on cloud computing, big data, analytics and artificial intelligence.
It's (not) elementary: How Watson works
What goes into making a computer understand the world through senses, learning and experience, as IBM says Watson does? First and foremost, tons and tons of data.
Milestones along the way in Watson's colorful history
How did IBM's Watson get to where it is today? Here are some key events that happened along the way.
Here's to our health, with help from Watson
IBM may have originally built Watson to win at Jeopardy, but it saw potential applications in healthcare early on.
OpenStack Newton serves up a heaping helping of scalability
The next release of OpenStack made its debut on Thursday with a raft of new features for better scalability and resiliency.
Why being a data scientist 'feels like being a magician'
What is it like to be a data scientist? Here's what three people currently on the front lines had to say.
Happy 25th once again to Linux, 'the little OS that definitely could'
Aug. 25 may be Linux's official birthday, but Oct. 5 is in many ways the day it began to make a real mark on the world.
Need work-life balance? These IT jobs can be a good place to look
Achieving balance between work and home life is an ongoing challenge for professionals across industries, but it turns out the IT world is doing pretty well in helping to make it happen.
White House to data scientists: We need you
It's been nearly two years since President Obama created the U.S. chief data scientist role, and the man currently in the job had an urgent message Thursday for attendees at Strata+Hadoop World: We need you.
Meet Apache Spot, a new open source project for cybersecurity
Hard on the heels of the discovery of the largest known data breach in history, Cloudera and Intel on Wednesday announced that they've donated a new open source project to the Apache Software Foundation with a focus on using big data...
IBM promises a one-stop analytics shop with AI-powered big data platform
Big data is in many ways still a wild frontier, requiring wily smarts and road-tested persistence on the part of those hoping to find insight in all the petabytes. On Tuesday, IBM announced a new platform it hopes will make things...
