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A Hybrid AI Approach to Optimizing Oil Field Planning

What’s the best way to arrange wells in an oil or gas field? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer can be very complex. Now a Cal Tech/JPL spinoff is developing a new approach that blends traditional HPC simu Read more…

Bridging the Gaps in Edge Computing

Aside from the lure of the public clouds, which got bigger and stronger in 2020 amid the COVID-19 scourge, the world of data and analytics became a lot more distributed last year. While it seems clear that most AI models Read more…

Can Digital Twins Help Modernize Electric Grids?

Recent failures of electric grids in Texas and California have highlighted the difficulties that energy companies and regulators face in ensuring the delivery of reliable and affordable power while simultaneously switchi Read more…

Digital Twins and AI Keep Industry Flexible During COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit last year, the economic lockdowns impacted entire industries in negative ways. For large industrial processes, such as oil refining or glass manufacturing, the use of digital twins based on AI technolog Read more…

5G Chipmaker EdgeQ Gets Backing from Former Qualcomm CEO

EdgeQ, a Silicon Valley startup that’s building a customizable RISC-V system-on-a-chip (SoC) that includes a 5G modem, got a big boost today when it announced that former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has signed on as an ad Read more…

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MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Tackles Power Grid Failures with AI

Next time your power stays on during a severe weather event, you may have a machine learning model to thank. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are using artificial intelligence to solve power grid failures. The Read more…

World Economic Forum Highlights AI’s Role in the Energy Transition

The COP26 climate conference, which ends on Friday, has been ongoing for the past two weeks, drawing climate change back into the spotlight as nations, organizations, and corporations struggle to make meaningful progress Read more…

Monte Carlo Launches ‘Insights’ for Operational Analytics

Monte Carlo launched in 2019 with the aim of improving data reliability. In the intervening two years, the company has raised more than $101 million in funding to advance this goal – and now, that investment is bearing Read more…

UK to Leverage Cloud-Predicting AI to Anticipate Solar Energy Supply

Solar and wind plants provide clean, affordable electricity on large scales, but they have one major bugbear: intermittency. Essentially, intermittency refers to the fact that wind and solar energy are both, to some degr Read more…

Argonne National Laboratory Applies Machine Learning for Solar Power Advances

Advancing solar power means developing and identifying ever-more efficient materials for trapping solar energy – and that kind of materials science means applying powerful computing and robust data analysis. Now, resea Read more…

This Just In

Oracle Advances Data Management with AI-Embedded Autonomous Database Enhancements

Feb 14, 2024 |

Feb. 14, 2024 — In this recent blog post, Oracle‘s Vice President of Product Management, George Lumpkin, delves into the company’s latest enhancements to the Oracle Autonomous Database. Read more…

Esri Releases New Landsat Satellite Data App to View and Analyze Land Changes

Feb 13, 2024 |

REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 13, 2024 — Esri has announced the launch of Landsat Explorer, a groundbreaking online app that makes it easier than ever for organizations to access and analyze multispectral imagery from Landsat satellite missions. Read more…

Dresner Advisory Services Announces 2023 Technology Innovation Awards

Feb 13, 2024 |

NASHUA, N.H., Feb. 13, 2024 — Dresner Advisory Services today announced the winners of its 2023 Technology Innovation Awards, presented annually to top ranked vendors in its Wisdom of Crowds thematic market studies. Read more…

UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Launches Falcon Foundation to Champion Open-Sourcing of GenAI Models

Feb 13, 2024 |

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 13, 2024 — The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced the launch of the Falcon Foundation. Read more…

OMG Receives Submissions to Standard Business Report Model RFPs

Feb 7, 2024 |

BOSTON, Feb. 7, 2024 — Object Management Group (OMG) announced it received multiple submissions for its Request for Proposals to develop a Standard Business Report Model (SBRM) specification. Read more…

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