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Representation: Great for Your People and Products

For many years I didn’t know whether my identity as a gay woman would be an obstacle to my career ambitions — especially in the male-dominated technology, finance and consulting sectors. But I’ve learned that in t Read more…

The History of Data Science: From Cave Paintings to Big Data

It is in the nature of human beings to want to make sense of the world around them. This has led to humans trying to organize things and think in a data-centric way from as early as prehistoric times. Data science is Read more…

The Race to Ensure Post Quantum Data Security

Fault-tolerant quantum computers won’t exist for years – a decade is the most common estimate. When they do arrive, thanks to Shor’s now-famous algorithm, they will be able to crack the most widely-used encryptio Read more…

A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University.  He also fi Read more…

Esri Puts Federal Climate Change Action on the Map

What is the Federal Government doing about climate change? Quite a bit, it turns out, but nothing tells a story quite like a map, which is why the Feds are using geospatial information systems from Esri to track the chan Read more…

News In Brief

MIT Researchers Use Machine Learning to Speed Up Data Retrieval Hashing

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by MIT has found a new way to speed up data retrieval in large databases using machine learning. The researchers used machine learning to build better hash functions. Hash Read more…

Research Platform Iris.ai Awarded $15M by European Innovation Council

Iris.ai, the provider of a generative AI engine for scientific text understanding, announced it has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to receive grants and funding in a highly competitive selection p Read more…

Stanford Researchers Develop HELM Benchmark for Language Models

Foundation models like GPT-3, BLOOM, and BERT have garnered much attention as of late, for good reason. These versatile models, often trained with a vast amount of unstructured data, have immense capabilities that can be Read more…

Neuron Research Opens Doors for Neuromorphic Computing

Neuromorphic computing — which uses computational “neurons” to mimic the behavior of the human brain — could offer much greater efficiency in certain kinds of machine learning and robotics tasks. Understanding th Read more…

Upskilling Platform CoRise Launches with $8.5M Seed

A new online upskilling platform called CoRise has just been launched from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding. The CoRise platform contains live online courses and an online community for businesses and individ Read more…

This Just In

ASRock Rack Unveils MECAI-GH200 with NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip at MWC 2024

Feb 26, 2024 |

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Feb. 26, 2024 – ASRock Rack Inc. today announced its presence at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) from February 26 to 29, 2024. The key focus is the cooperation with NVIDIA. Read more…

Hammerspace Unveils New Hyperscale NAS Architecture for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

Feb 22, 2024 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 22, 2024 — Hammerspace today unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. Read more…

GTC 2024: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to Unveil the Latest in Accelerated Computing, Generative AI and Robotics

Feb 22, 2024 |

Feb. 22, 2024 — NVIDIA has announced it will host its flagship GTC 2024 conference at the San Jose Convention Center from March 18-21. More than 300,000 people are expected to register to attend in person or virtually. Read more…

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics

Feb 21, 2024 |

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 21, 2024 — Exasol today announced Espresso AI at TDWI Transform 2024 with the launch of three new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities designed to help enterprises approach data analytics in a faster, more cost-efficient, and flexible manner. Read more…

Bioptimus Emerges with $35M Seed Funding, Leveraging AI Foundation Models for Biological Breakthroughs

Feb 21, 2024 |

PARIS, Feb. 21, 2024 — French startup Bioptimus has emerged from stealth following a seed funding round of $35 million. Under the leadership of Professor Jean-Philippe Vert, PhD, Bioptimus unites a world-class team of scientists from Owkin and Google DeepMind alumni to transform ​biology with cutting-edge AI foundation model technologies that capture the various scales of biology. Read more…

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