Recent Posts by Javed Mohammed

      This Post is by Nick Ristuccia (Game Designer) BNSF Railway hosted its 22nd annual Technology Awareness Day in February. This was a virtual event for hundreds of students in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area, as well as students within communities across BNSF’s network. Oracle was thrilled to support students at this great event. The goal of this event was to create awareness and inspiration for opportunities in technology. As BNSF explains: “We believe that technology will...

International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 is on Monday March 8th. During the week preceding IWD and on that day, we have taken the opportunity to highlight women Advocates (Oracle ACEs, Oracle Groundbreakers, Java Champions) and other community members. They understand and "walk the walk" of participating and engaging their communities using technology to create a better world.  To highlight our own "best of the best" in the developer community, we want to celebrate women’s...

It's February, and it's Black History Month. As a Community Manager creating content for developers I am always exploring how technology and people overlap. It is the human factor that makes tech. interesting.  In that light I was researching video game history, and I came across Gerald Anderson "Jerry" Lawson who I had not heard of. He worked at Fairchild Semiconductor, the "mother" of all Semiconductor companies. Jerry was a creative, tinkerer and he went on to design the...

Predicting the future isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. In the absence of having a magical crystal ball, it requires amongst other things, experience, vision, creativity, good judgement, recognizing patterns beyond the obvious and a track record. When I think of making predictions, or forecasting the future, I am thinking of people who can determine inflection points. This is not an easy task, and there are some people like serial entrepreneurs who do it better than others. It...

Oracle’s COVID-19 therapeutic learning system is not just another APEX application  but it is also an Oracle cloud story, and it’s a human-technology story.  This application is used by patients to enter their health status as well as clinicians and physicians to track the efficacy of treatments for coronavirus. We go behind the scenes and hear the back story, from some of the developers, their roles and how it all got started and the road ahead. Previous Podcasts have covered...

Wow, what a year. I am reminded of the Charles Dickens quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” For me the year started off with some long-distance travel to real events Oracle Open World Middle East, Dubai 2020 with Tania...

The Oracle Groundbreakers Latin America Tour LATAM 2020 which was held from August 17 to  August 28, 2020 is over. However if you missed it or would like to revisit any of the sessions we have great news for you.  As this years tour is virtual and not limited by geography you can see both the English, Spanish/Portuguese sessions at the following links. Oracle Groundbreakers LATAM 2020 Spanish - Sessions Oracle Groundbreakers LATAM 2020 English - Sessions  Just to recap the tour...

Author: Zoran Sevarac If you are a typical software developer, all the machine learning buzz might seem confusing to you, especially when it comes to heavy math and statistics stuff that you haven’t been using for years or maybe never really understood. This article aims to explain machine learning so you can have a better idea how you can use it and benefit from it. To achieve this, we’re going to reuse your existing Java knowledge and extend it with new machine learning...