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Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data
Public data is the lifeblood of open research and scientific inquiry. But the possibility of losing public datasets--including academic, government, and scientific data generated as part of research--is now spurring seve Read more…
What Leonardo DaVinci Teaches Us About Data Management
Spending time in Florence, Italy, you see brilliant Renaissance art everywhere. A favorite of my family was Leonardo DaVinci, as he was not only a brilliant painter and sculptor, but also an innovative scientist and e Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
LOTUS Promises Fast Semantic Processing on LLMs
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley recently announced the version 1.0 release of LOTUS, an open source query engine designed to make LLM-powered data processing fast, easy, and declarative. The project’ Read more…
Meet Hannes Mühleisen, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
The emergence of DuckDB has been one of the most surprising developments in database world over the past couple of years. The “unapologetically single node” vectorized column store, which was developed by Hannes Müh Read more…
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Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Sci Read more…
Solix Hosting Data and AI Conference at UCSD
We’re just a day away from SolixEmpower 2024, a conference that will bring hundreds of Solix cusotmers, leading academic researchers, and business leaders together to discuss the latest developments in cloud data manag Read more…
ADSA to Keep Humans in the Loop at Annual Meeting
Some of the predictions around AI are pretty gloomy these days, particularly when it comes to unleashing biased AI models upon the world to make poor decisions that hurt people, not to mention replacing human workers on Read more…
NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should Be
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms i Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
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Mar 31, 2025 |
KAWASAKI, Japan and SYDNEY, March 31, 2025 — Faster and highly accurate AI models will be available and accessible to students through a strategic partnership between global digital transformation leader, Fujitsu, and Macquarie University. Read more…
Mar 28, 2025 |
PITTSBURGH, March 28, 2025 — As the birthplace of artificial intelligence (AI) and a global leader in frontier AI research, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has selected Google Public Sector as its partner for large-scale computing. Read more…
Mar 28, 2025 |
SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2025 — Tabor Communications, the publisher of leading technology websites HPCwire, AIwire, and BigDATAwire, today announced a partnership with the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) to produce and promote TPC’s first large-scale all-hands meeting, TPC25, which will take place July 28-31 in San Jose, California. Read more…
Mar 18, 2025 |
RICHLAND, Wash., March 18, 2025 — The technology behind web search engines is useful for more than tracking down your long-lost buddy or discovering a delicious new recipe. Technology based on search engine algorithms might also help keep the lights on, the water running and the trains moving during an emergency. Read more…
Mar 10, 2025 |
REDLANDS, Calif., March 10, 2025 — At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri—the global leader in location intelligence—announced a collaboration with Google Maps Platform. Enabling users to create highly detailed and visually immersive 3D maps and scenes, this collaboration integrates Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS suite. Read more…
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