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The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
UCSD’s New SCIDS School: All About the Apps
Some research universities excel in exploring intellectual possibilities and postulating abstract theories. Those terms aren’t likely to be associated with the University of California, San Diego’s new School of Comp Read more…
After Misses in 2016 and 2020, Have We Fixed Political Polling in 2024?
Less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, Americans are closely following the polls to see whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump becomes the 48th president of the United States. But can we trust the polls? Read more…
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data lea Read more…
Denodo Brings Data Management to Academia, the Cloud
Data management is hard, and it’s not getting easier, thanks to the continued tsunami of big data (a data-nami, as it were). One company that’s aiming to help with the continued digital onslaught is data virtualizati Read more…
News In Brief
Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey
Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…
Master’s of Data Science Programs Go Online
Data science skills are in high demand, as organizations continue to ask more from their data. That’s leading universities to get creative in how they structure their post-graduate data science programs. One way the Read more…
Graduates Land Top Financial Tech Jobs Through a Unique Program at the University of Delaware
The rise of ChatGPT and other GenAI platforms has caused a major disruption in the education sector. While GenAI technology offers incredible promise for research and development, there are some concerns about the use of Read more…
Biden’s Executive Order on AI and Data Privacy Gets Mostly Favorable Reactions
As expected, President Joe Biden today issued an executive order on the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and the protection of sensitive data. Technology leaders reacted in a mostly favorable manner to the order, Read more…
DSPy Puts ‘Programming Over Prompting’ in AI Model Development
If you’re tired of writing endless prompts for large language models, you might be interested in DSPy, a new framework from Stanford University that aims to enable programmers to work with foundational models by using Read more…
This Just In
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…
Mar 7, 2025 |
March 7, 2025 — The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory took part in the “1,000 Scientists AI Jam Session,” a first-of-its-kind virtual event that brought together leading scientists from nine national laboratories to test generative artificial intelligence models for their functionality in scientific research. Read more…
Mar 6, 2025 |
March 6, 2025 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a Research and Innovation call to enhance collaboration with key stakeholders at world level on large-scale Generative AI models, in particular with the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC). Read more…
Mar 5, 2025 |
NEW YORK, March 5, 2025 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Read more…
Feb 25, 2025 |
NEW YORK and REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2025 — Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI companies, and Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation, enhancing customer value, and accelerating growth across key markets. Read more…
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