Fresh off the Salesforce.com's acquisition of the company he founded (MuleSoft), Ross Mason is now applying his entrepreneurial thinking to the burgeoning areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Mason has a theory -- one that makes perfect sense -- about how organizations that lack the right nervous systems (aka: API-led application networks) will not be able to fully leverage these new technologies. The result he says will be something like a "brain in a jar." Mason also discusses some of his favorite areas of AI and the responsibilities that go with bringing AI technology to the market.

The US Digital Service has launched version 2 of the BlueButton API. The BlueButton API covers the Medicare claims domain within the FHIR healthcare data portability standard and now that BlueButton 2.0 is out, many organizations that orbit the Medicare ecosystem will be rolling out their support for it in an effort to improve patient and caregiver access to what is commonly referred to as the longitudinal patient record: a record that covers the broad history of a particular patient's healthcare and that is interoperable across all systems that are relevant to the patient's care. In this interview, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews USDS product manager Kelly Service about the significance of the launch.

While at Salesforce's annual conference (Dreamforce), ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviewed Salesforce Einstein VP of Product Management Marco Casalaina to understand what exactly the company means by "democratizing access to machine learning." As it turns out, Salesforce might very well have a substantial lead on all other enterprise players when it comes to demystifying the benefits and deployment of machine learning.

Today (Oct 10, 2017), Salesforce announced the newest addition to its portfolio of IoT (internet of things) solutions; IoT Explorer. In this interview, Salesforce evp & gm Woodson Martin and the director of IoT product management George Saines brief ProgrammableWeb editor in chief David Berlind on the announcement and give him a demo. This audio is taken from a video that has been posted to ProgrammableWeb's YouTube channel. That video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rgDAslNDs

From the October 2018 edition of the Government API meetup in Washington, DC, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews TRX Systems' CEO and President Carol Politi about what it takes to successfully do indoor tracking of first responders in situations like this week's mass shooting from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. TRX's tagline is "Locate. Map. Track. Indoors" and it offers a largely API-driven solution reminiscent of the live view that viewers of the television series 24 might get of Jack Bauer as he traverses the insides of a building in pursuit of suspects.