röös design + consulting

09/01/2026

You can think of agents as apps for an AI-powered world.

Imagine an office worker clicking on a phishing link at 2:13 a.m. As the IT team sleeps, an AI agent detects unusual login behavior and disables the compromised account. Then, it checks to see if malware spread to any other devices or accounts, opens a ticket, sends an alert to the security team and drafts an incident summary.

This is the beauty of AI agents. They can help workers in all kinds of roles do a range of things, like track project deadlines, monitor shared inboxes, create nightly reports and more. What sets them apart from AI chat apps is that while chat apps excel at answering questions, agents can also take action.

Learn how to build an AI agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, from identifying a problem to testing, refining and sharing your agent.

08/24/2026

Build the Web. Learn the Skills. Create Something Real. 🌐💻

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching CIS 131 – Web Page Development at Oakton College this Fall!

If you’ve ever wondered how websites are actually built—or wanted to create your own—this class is a great place to start. You’ll learn the technologies and design principles behind today’s websites while building practical, hands-on skills you can use right away.

We’ll cover:

• HTML5 – the foundation of every webpage
• CSS3 – styling, layouts, graphics, and responsive design
• Mobile Web Design – creating sites that work across devices
• Tables, columns & web forms
• Multimedia – adding images, video, audio, and more
• JavaScript – adding interactivity and functionality
• Arrays, loops & conditional statements

The course is fully online and asynchronous, so you can work on the material anytime—a great option if you need flexibility around work, family, or other commitments.

📅 Fall 2026 — Starts September 14
🎓 CIS 131 – Web Page Development
🏫 Oakton College
💻 Online Asynchronous (anytime)

Whether you’re interested in technology, graphic design, digital media, business, or simply want to understand how the web works, you’ll come away from this course with skills you can actually use—and a website you can be proud of.

Ready to build your own corner of the web? Join me this fall!

👉 Learn more at www.oakton.edu/~rcapacci

— Ross H. Capaccio

Oakton College

08/23/2026

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching CIS 119: Prompt Engineering at Oakton College this Fall! 🚀

Generative AI is rapidly changing how we work, learn, communicate, and solve problems—and knowing how to get useful, reliable results from AI is becoming an essential skill.

In this course, students will go beyond simply “asking ChatGPT a question.” We’ll explore how AI works, how to design effective prompts, prompt patterns and techniques, generative AI tools from Google, Microsoft and IBM, domain-specific applications, and the ethical issues surrounding AI.

Whether you’re a student, professional, educator, or simply curious about where AI is headed, this course will give you practical skills you can use immediately.

📚 CIS 119 – Prompt Engineering
💻 Online • Asynchronous • Anytime
📅 Starts October 12, 2026
🔗 www.oakton.edu/~rcapacci

If you’ve been experimenting with AI—or wondering how to use it more effectively—this is a great opportunity to take your skills to the next level.

The future of AI isn’t just about using the tools. It’s about knowing how to communicate with them. 🤖💡

Click the link above to visit my Oakton faculty webpage, where you’ll find a detailed description of the course, the complete course schedule, and additional information.

Oakton College

07/29/2026

“This is the largest scale infrastructure build-out in the history of humanity,”

Our technology correspondent Adam Satariano explains how the future of artificial intelligence may be determined by the number of A.I. chips around the world.

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06/19/2026

The career landscape surrounding prompt engineering is rapidly evolving as artificial intelligence becomes integrated into more industries and workflows. Prompt engineering sits at the intersection of technology, communication, and problem-solving, requiring individuals to design effective instructions that guide AI systems to produce accurate, useful, and reliable outputs. As organizations increasingly adopt generative AI tools, the ability to craft high-quality prompts has become a valuable skill across fields such as software development, marketing, research, education, and data analysis. More…

06/17/2026

I like the concept of turning your computer into the data center, i.e. running the model locally on your own computer and never sending your data to a data center for processing.

How to: Open-weight means you can download and run a trained AI model’s learned parameters, but you do not get full access to how it was trained.

06/16/2026

Small language models have quietly become the workhorses of production AI. You don't always need a 200B-parameter giant to summarize a document, write code, or power an agent. The sub-10B class has closed the gap dramatically in 2026, and several models now outperform last year's 30B+ flagships on key benchmarks.

Discover the 7 best open-weight AI models under 10B parameters in 2026. Compare Granite, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, Phi, and Llama across benchmarks, performance, hardware requirements, and real-world use cases.

06/01/2026

California’s public university system spent $16.9 million on A.I. The result has been chaos.