The recent explosion of bots on communication platforms has rekindled the hopes of conversational AI. However, building intelligent and customizable bots is not just bottlenecked by NLP and speech recognition. Our biggest limitation is the inability to modularize the goals of human bot interconnection. Suman Roy explains why we need a layered architecture for bots to learn about us from data.

Any hiring manager in a technology company knows that the hardest problem to solve is hiring. There never seem to be enough experienced developers available at any given point in time. But many of those same hiring managers will say, "We don't hire junior developers." Tech team-builder Wade Minter makes the case for why your company should hire and train junior developers.

Angel Diaz provides a retrospective on IBMs deep history and its contributions to the evolution of open source technology in order to catch a glimpse of a future that is rooted in open source technologies. Angel tells the story of open source projects that exemplify the new hardcore concepts we'll all need to accelerate innovation and success.

The University of Buea over the past two years has sextupled it's Google Summer of Code(GSoC) participants from 2 in 2013 to 12 in 2015 due to the hard work of the Google Developer Group Buea. The Open source culture is new in Africa and University students in Cameroon are taking the lead in Open source development through GSoC, with the Art of community imbibed in students on campus.