Everyone 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,

A Conversation with Victoria Mackecknie, VP of Enterprise Technology at IDA Ireland

Jun 13th, 2022 25m 26s

Ireland 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 l

WaterWorks Podcast 10: A conversation with Allan Liska, intelligence analyst for Recorded Future, better known as the Ransomware Sommelier

Jan 18th, 2022 49m 8s

Ransomware 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

WaterWorks Podcast 9: Java is Everywhere! An Update with JCP Chair Heather VanCura

Jan 3rd, 2022 47m 24s

The 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 implem

WatersWorks Podcast 8: Geertjan Wielenga and the Evolution of Foojay, "A Place for Friends of OpenJDK"

Sep 28th, 2021 33m 59s

Foojay.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

WaterWorks Podcast 7: The Rush to Remote Work and the New Normal with Tom Fenton

Sep 7th, 2021 28m 58s

The 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

WaterWorks Podcast 6: The Evolution and Resilience of GlassFish with Payara Founder Steve Millidge

Jul 30th, 2021 26m 42s

The 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

WaterWorks Podcast 5: Remote Learning and Other Tech Trends Spurred by the Lockdown

Jun 25th, 2021 29m 7s

This 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

WatersWorks Podcast 4: Programming Luminary Shawn Wildermuth on His New Movie "Hello World"

Apr 14th, 2021 33m 18s

Shawn 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 th

WatersWorks Podcast 3: "Ethical AI" with Carnegie Melon's Anupam Datta

Mar 15th, 2021 17m 46s

Recent 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.

WatersWorks Podcast 2: Interview with Java Guru Bruno Souza

Jan 4th, 2021 29m 16s

John K. Waters interviews Java luminary and Brazil-based open source advocate Bruno Souza.

WatersWorks Podcast 1: Q&A with NLP Researcher Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh

Aug 31st, 2020 33m 16s

In 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 learn

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