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How Stanford’s COVID Analytics Helped It Navigate the Pandemic

Around this time last year, everyone and their brother was launching a dashboard for COVID analytics. Most of these were quite similar to one another: basic COVID data pulled from a handful of primary sources and parsed Read more…

Google’s New Switch Transformer Model Achieves 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Efficiency Gains

Last year, OpenAI wowed the world with its eerily human language generator, GPT-3. The autoregressive model stood at a then-staggering 175 billion parameters, ten times higher than its predecessors. Now, Google is upping Read more…

Terradepth Prepares to Fish for Subsea Big Data with Robots, Machine Learning

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), more than 80% of the ocean “remains unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored” – despite constituting more than 70% of the planet’s surface. Now Read more…

Johns Hopkins Launches COVID-19 Mortality Calculator, Aims to Inform Vaccine Prioritization

The first COVID-19 vaccine doses are going out in the United States, predominantly to frontline healthcare workers. Unfortunately, the vaccines are currently extremely limited, meaning that state governments are having t Read more…

Five Ways Big Data Can Help HPC Operators Run More Efficiently in the Cloud

When most of us hear the term big data, we tend to think of things like social media platforms, seismic data, or weather modeling. An essential use of big data, however, is to analyze data from complex systems to make th Read more…

News In Brief

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…

AI Powers Sea Level Rise Visualizations

In its Sixth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stressed that it is “unequivocal” that human influence has warmed the atmosphere and that, among other severe impacts, it is “vir Read more…

Only You Can Prevent… Fire Tornadoes?

Another devastating wildfire season has shaken the western United States, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. In recent years, terrifying weather combinations have become more prominent in these wildfires, suc Read more…

In Pittsburgh, Two-Step Machine Learning Process Sorts Rare Stamps

Setting aside the relatively recent rise of electronic signatures, personalized stamps have been a popular form of identification for formal documents in East Asia. These identifiers – easily forged, but culturally ubi Read more…

Big Data Tool Enables Real-Time Disaster Recovery Monitoring

The Southeast is bracing for a heavier-than-normal hurricane season while California continues to face down its second largest wildfire in recorded history – and with climate change continuing to worsen, that’s just Read more…

This Just In

FICO Honors Amazon Team for Research on Large-Scale Delivery Network Optimization

Feb 3, 2025 |

BOZEMAN, Mont., Feb. 3, 2025 — Global analytics software leader FICO today announced that a research team from Amazon was honored with a distinction in the 2024 FICO Xpress Best Paper Award competition, acknowledging their outstanding research. Read more…

Clarivate Launches DRG Fusion to Streamline Commercial Analytics for Life Sciences

Jan 14, 2025 |

LONDON, Jan. 14, 2025 — Clarivate today announced the launch of DRG Fusion, an innovative platform to support commercial analytics in life sciences. Powered by integrated real-world data and built by clinical and data science experts, Fusion provides biopharma and medtech organizations with the tools to understand and act in varied disease and competitive landscapes — eliminating the complexities of raw data management. Read more…

NVIDIA Partners with Industry Leaders to Advance Genomics, Drug Discovery and Healthcare

Jan 13, 2025 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2025 — NVIDIA today announced new partnerships to transform the $10 trillion healthcare and life sciences industry by accelerating drug discovery, enhancing genomic research and pioneering advanced healthcare services with agentic and generative AI. Read more…

ORNL’s New Data Transfer Tool Aims to Simplify HPC Storage Migration

Dec 9, 2024 |

Dec. 9, 2024 — A new data transfer tool created at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility could be available to facilities nationwide after making its debut at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Read more…

Iris.ai Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Unlock Deep Knowledge in R&D Data

Nov 12, 2024 |

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 12, 2024 – Following a successful €7.64 million Series A funding round, Iris.ai, a global leader in AI-driven scientific research, has unveiled new advancements that mark the culmination of nine years of innovation. Read more…

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