Sectors » Biosciences
Features
Apr 5, 2019 |
Think you know Watson? Think again, as IBM has made extensive changes to the lineup of AI and cognitive products and services that bears the name of its founder. Sumit Gupta, the VP of IBM’s AI, machine learning, and HPC efforts, walks Datanami through the Watson re-positioning. Read more…
Mar 11, 2019 |
Apache Spark is one of the most popular open source projects in the world, and has lowered the barrier of entry for processing and analyzing data at scale. We asked some of the leaders in the big data space to give us their take on why Spark has achieved sustained success when so many other frameworks have fizzled. Read more…
Feb 13, 2019 |
As we look forward into 2019, a select group of leaders in Big Data have stepped ahead of the rest. In this fourth annual People to Watch feature, we’re offering our readers a look at some of the best and brightest minds in Big Data whose hard work, dedication, and contributions reach far beyond analytics, and are shaping the direction that technology is taking us as a people. Read more…
Dec 6, 2018 |
Data and technology enthusiasts from around the world descended upon the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) for the third annual Data West conference, which is taking place this week on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Read more…
Oct 3, 2018 |
Cloudera and Hortonworks, the two leading companies backing Hadoop distributions and fierce head-to-head rivals, today made the unlikely announcement that they plan to merge, creating a single company under the Cloudera banner that will focus on “edge to AI” Read more…
News In Brief
Apr 22, 2019 |
Amid reports of declining sales and growing skepticism about the utility of machine learning for complex medical research, IBM will reportedly end sales of its Watson AI software used by pharmaceutical firms for new drug discovery. Read more…
Apr 15, 2019 |
A startup launched by HPC veterans is combining supercomputers and graph analytics to forge a new suite of tools for applications ranging from cyber security to scientific research.
Along with the launch of its xGT graph analytics tool, Seattle-based Trovares announced the close of a Series A funding round. Read more…
Apr 12, 2019 |
European regulators continue to take the lead on a range of critical technology policy issues spanning data privacy and, now, “trustworthy” AI.
On the heels of its sweeping General Data Protection Regulation, considered by at least one observer as “the most significant change in privacy law in decades,” the European Union this week unveiled ethics guidelines for “building trust in human-centric AI.”
First and foremost, the EU framework emphasizes human oversight of AI development: Read more…
Apr 9, 2019 |
In the latest attempt at understanding the mechanism(s) by which machines learn, and AI researcher and a neuroscientist probed for similarities in the computational properties between deep neural networks and human brain. Read more…
Apr 4, 2019 |
Intel offered a list of use cases for its Optane DC persistent memory technology during a company event this week, including Twitter’s effort to scale its Hadoop clusters using Optane and SAP HANA’s database improvements focused on applications like machine learning and predictive analytics. Read more…
This Just In
Apr 17, 2019 |
BOSTON, April 17, 2019 — Spectra Logic and Arcitecta will be premiering the joint BlackPearl Converged Storage System and Mediaflux Genomic Data Management Solution in Booth #626 on April 16-18, and presenting “Metadata – The DNA of Your Life Sciences Data,” in the Solutions Theatre, on Thursday, April 18, from 1:25 to 1:45 p.m. Read more…
Feb 5, 2019 |
PALO ALTO, Feb. 5, 2019 — SyncThink, a world leader in neurotechnology and brain health analytics and creators of the award-winning EYE-SYNC brain health assessment tool, announces today its newest partnership with the NBA’s Washington Wizards. Read more…
Jan 17, 2019 |
AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 17, 2019 – In what the authors believe is the first documented comparison of several real-time infectious disease forecasting models by different teams across many seasons, five research groups report this week that a majority of models consistently showed higher accuracy than historical baseline models. Read more…
Jan 8, 2019 |
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 8, 2019 — SyncThink, a neuro-technology company with foundational intellectual property in eye-tracking analytics, is collaborating with Magic Leap, a world leader in augmented reality and spatial computing technology, to make their proprietary brain health assessments and therapy applications available on the Magic Leap One platform. Read more…
Nov 13, 2018 |
SEATTLE, Nov. 13, 2018 — Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences selected the Igneous Unstructured Data Management-as-a-Service solution to protect and manage its massive genomic datasets, which are critical to Altius’ mission to pursue discovery at the leading edge of biomedicine. Read more…
Visit additional Tabor Communications publications
Contributors
Featured Events
-
Predictive Analytics World for Industry 4.0
May 6 - May 7 -
UC EXPO 2019
May 15 - May 16 -
Strata Data Conference New York 2019
September 23 - September 26New York United States