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NOAA Awards Nearly $700,000 to Entrepreneurial Machine Learning Projects
In the computing sphere, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be most well-known for its massive weather and climate models, which predominantly run on correspondingly massive s Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: August 2020 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. Chec Read more…
Altair Shows Off Converged Analytics Lineup
If you’re in the market for analytics or machine learning software, you may want to keep your eyes on Altair Engineering. Best known for its product simulation and computer aided engineering software, Altair has quietl Read more…
Is Zero Closer to Eight or to One?
Is zero closer to eight or to one? Is this a three or a five? This was the type of question we were pondering a few weeks ago when we examined the results of an image classification application. Yes, indeed, a zero is Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: June 2020 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. Chec Read more…
News In Brief
Machine Learning Illuminates Extreme Flooding in the Midwest
Floods just ravaged western Europe, fires are devastating the West Coast, and forecasters are projecting a busier-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season: extreme weather is on the rise, and it’s not going away any time Read more…
Berkeley Lab Makes Strides in Autonomous Discovery to Tackle the Data Deluge
Data production is outpacing the human capacity to process said data. Whether a giant radio telescope, a new particle accelerator or lidar data from autonomous cars, the sheer scale of the data generated is increasingly Read more…
Neural Network Identifies Dangerous Mosquitoes
Not all mosquitoes are created equal – but telling where the most dangerous, disease-spreading mosquitoes are proliferating is often a difficult task. This difficult task is also necessary for the containment of viruse Read more…
AI Reveals the Secrets of the Narwhals
The narwhal, a whimsical unicorn of the Arctic seas that is often mistaken for a myth, is difficult to study. The (relatively) minute whales live far from human population centers and hunt for food deep (up to a thousand Read more…
Qumulo Debuts QaaS, a File Lake on the Azure Cloud
Organizations that want to store large amounts of file data in the cloud and access them via NFS and SMB protocol may be interested in QaaS, a hosted version of its data lake for files--a file lake--running in the Micros Read more…
This Just In
April 17, 2025 — Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a faster method for optimizing topological data analysis, a mathematical technique that helps researchers study the shape of data and uncover complex structures in high-dimensional datasets. Read more…
PISCATAWAY, N.J., April 14, 2025 — The emergence of AI has profoundly transformed numerous industries. Driven by deep learning technology and Big Data, AI requires significant processing power for training its models. Read more…
April 11, 2025 — Data privacy comes with a cost. There are security techniques that protect sensitive user data, like customer addresses, from attackers who may attempt to extract them from AI models — but they often make those models less accurate. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2025 — CodeSignal and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance are teaming up to equip over 20,000 students across the Americas and Asia-Pacific and Japan with in-demand job skills in emerging technology. Read more…
TOKYO, April 11, 2025 — NTT Corporation has announced a new, large-scale integration (LSI) for the real-time AI inference processing of ultra-high-definition video up to 4K-resolution and 30 frames per second (fps). Read more…