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Esri Melds GIS with AI, Graph, and Analytics
Esri has long been the industry leader in geographic information systems (GIS), which are used by urban planners, building engineers, and landscape designers around the world. At its UC 2022 conference this week, the com Read more…
Amazon re:MARS Highlights Intelligence from Shops to Space
Amazon hosted its inaugural re:MARS event back in 2019, with “MARS” here standing for machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. For the past two years, the event has been on hold due to the pandemic—but th Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: March 2022 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Harvard’s New Data Storage Is to Dye For, Avoids DNA Storage Pitfalls
The explosion in data collection has led to challenges in storing enormous amounts of data. This is particularly true for archival data, with many popular methods of data storage—such as optical disks—having relative Read more…
A Million Dollars Up for Grabs in TigerGraph Challenge
Are you sitting on a boatload of linked data, or have an innovative idea for a graph database? If so, then you might be interested in the $1 million in prize money that TigerGraph is putting up for grabs as part of its G Read more…
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Analyzing the AI Landscape: Stanford’s 2023 AI Index Offers a Comprehensive View
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics rel Read more…
Accenture Report Highlights Tech Trends Merging the Digital and Physical
Accenture’s latest Technology Vision 2023 report contains insights into how key technologies are converging to merge the digital and physical worlds. Though the digital world has grown by leaps and bounds, it has yet t Read more…
Bill Gates Says the Age of AI Has Begun, Bringing Opportunity and Responsibility
The latter half of March has been a whirlwind moment for artificial intelligence. OpenAI released GPT-4 last week, and this week, Nvidia announced a new cloud services platform for generative AI while Google initiated th 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…
Public Cloud Horse Race Heating Up: Gartner
Gartner predicts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to $591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth from 2022. The public cloud horse race has several cloud services companies jockeying for pos Read more…
This Just In
REDLANDS, Calif., June 2, 2023 — Students across the nation learn about environmental and social concerns every day not just in the classroom, but from the communities in which they live. Read more…
GLASGOW, Scotland and DARESBURY, England, June 2, 2023 — ReproCell has announced the launch of a new commercial service, Pharmacology-AI. The launch follows the completion of one of the first EXCELERATE projects, by the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI), via a partnership between the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre and IBM. Read more…
CHATSWORTH, Calif., May 10, 2023 — DDN, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced Helmholtz Munich has selected DDN to accelerate its AI-driven discoveries. Read more…
May 9, 2023 — In a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté from the HBP partner Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) demonstrate a significant step towards artificial intelligence that can be used in local devices like smartphones and in VR-like applications, while protecting privacy. Read more…
April 27, 2023 — Coordinated by the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the National Research Data Infrastructure for and with Computer Science (NFDIxCS) project aims to develop sustainable services and infrastructure for storing, retrieving, and managing complex computer science data objects, as well as promoting the implementation of FAIR data principles. Read more…