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Nvidia Reports Strong Revenue, Earnings Growth

February 14th, 2020 Comments Off on Nvidia Reports Strong Revenue, Earnings Growth
Nvidia is back. Way back. After four straight down quarters, the GPU juggernaut announced blockbuster earnings for the period ended January 26, beating analysts’ expectations for both revenue and profits, and showing particular strength in the data center server ...

FintechAI on Wall Street: Robo-Analysts Beat Human Stock Pickers

February 13th, 2020 Comments Off on FintechAI on Wall Street: Robo-Analysts Beat Human Stock Pickers
Think of it, you kick back while a stock market AI makes you richer than Wall Street stock pickers. Besides the lottery, we defy you to come up with a better financial fantasy. Actually, it’s not so wild a ...

AI Computing: A Unified Hardware Standard for Mixed Accelerator Platforms

February 10th, 2020 Comments Off on AI Computing: A Unified Hardware Standard for Mixed Accelerator Platforms
Today, one need only turn on a TV to be inundated with commercials touting the benefits and potential of AI. Applications that could hardly be envisioned a short time ago are now becoming commonplace, and the outlook is that ...

AI at the Oscars: De-Aging and Other ‘Digital Human’ Special Effects

February 10th, 2020 Comments Off on AI at the Oscars: De-Aging and Other ‘Digital Human’ Special Effects
At last night’s Academy Awards, two nominated movies in the visual effects category leaned heavily on AI – one to reverse the aging process of the famous stars in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” the other to create the digital ...

Detecting Coronavirus: Toronto Start-up’s AI Beat CDC by a Week

February 6th, 2020 Comments Off on Detecting Coronavirus: Toronto Start-up’s AI Beat CDC by a Week
As governments, companies, markets and travelers struggle to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, a Toronto start-up used AI to get a jump on the world in issuing warnings about the disease, which has infected 28,000, nearly 4,000 of whom ...

NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020

February 3rd, 2020 Comments Off on NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020
High performance storage is changing as data (particularly unstructured data) volumes grow, data management becomes increasingly complex, diverse file types proliferate and AI/machine learning is more broadly adopted. According to Molly Presley, storage specialist Qumulo Corp.’s global product marketing ...

Four Principles for Building a Culture of Automation

January 31st, 2020 Comments Off on Four Principles for Building a Culture of Automation
It’s estimated that 75 percent of an IT professional’s time is spent “keeping the lights on” with the remaining 25 percent focused on innovation that moves their businesses forward. Everyone should want to flip those percentages. After all, both ...

Rometty Out, Krishna and Red Hat’s Whitehurst In at IBM

January 30th, 2020 Comments Off on Rometty Out, Krishna and Red Hat’s Whitehurst In at IBM
IBM announced this afternoon that Ginni Rometty, president and CEO of the company since January 2012, has been replaced as CEO by Arvind Krishna, IBM SVP for cloud and cognitive software, effective April 6. James Whitehurst, CEO of Red ...

AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price

January 29th, 2020 Comments Off on AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price
Wall Street’s ardor for Advanced Micro Devices cooled somewhat today as the company’s shares, the stock market's top performer the last two years, fell nearly 6 percent to $47.51 after AMD reported a somewhat downbeat forecast with its latest ...

Is AI a Sprint or a Marathon? Development ‘Sprints’ Get Companies to the Starting Line Fast

January 27th, 2020 Comments Off on Is AI a Sprint or a Marathon? Development ‘Sprints’ Get Companies to the Starting Line Fast
AI is a complex process that typically takes years to do right, requiring a huge investment in time, resources and money. At costs that can average upwards of $500K to design, develop and implement a robust, long-term AI solution, ...
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