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- AWS Secures Multi-Year Deal with Australian Government
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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).JFrog Bolsters ‘Assembly Line’ with DevOps Deal
February 21st, 2019 Comments Off on JFrog Bolsters ‘Assembly Line’ with DevOps Deal
As enterprise demand grows for cloud-native and container-based developer tools, established players are beginning to snap up startups spawned by the transition to micro-services and application containers. The latest example comes from DevOps vendor JFrog, which this week announced ...
Cloud Revenues Approached $70B in 2018
February 20th, 2019 Comments Off on Cloud Revenues Approached $70B in 2018
If there was any doubt about the shift to cloud computing, look no further than end-of-the-year revenue totals compiled by Synergy Research Group. The market watcher calculates that cloud providers racked up nearly $70 billion in infrastructure revenues during ...
Machine Learning Fuels Scientific Skepticism
February 19th, 2019 Comments Off on Machine Learning Fuels Scientific Skepticism
Scientists are raising red flags about the accuracy and reproducibility of conclusions drawn by machine learning frameworks. Among the remedies are developing new ML systems that can question their own predictions, show their work and reproduce results. Concerns about ...
What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?
February 14th, 2019 Comments Off on What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?
The utility of IBM’s latest man-versus-machine gambit is debatable. At the very least its Project Debater got us thinking about the potential uses of artificial intelligence as a way of helping humans sift through all the noise, to make sense ...
DARPA Upgrades Battlefield Simulations
February 13th, 2019 Comments Off on DARPA Upgrades Battlefield Simulations
The demands of training soldiers and pilots, a domain that is gradually incorporating AI-enabled technologies, has heightened the U.S. military’s need for far greater computing power. Hence, the Pentagon’s top research office is turning to HPC technologies to power ...
White House Launches AI Initiative
February 11th, 2019 Comments Off on White House Launches AI Initiative
A Trump administration AI initiative would prioritize federal R&D investments in machine intelligence as a way boosting U.S. economic and national security. The “American AI Initiative” launched via executive order on Monday (Feb. 11) seeks to align early AI ...
NSF Explores Risks, Rewards of Automation
February 11th, 2019 Comments Off on NSF Explores Risks, Rewards of Automation
Addressing the growing unease over the prospect of AI taking jobs from humans, the National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for how machines and workers can collaborate in ways that allow technology to augment the human workforce and ultimately ...
Banking Sector Embraces Multi-Cloud
February 7th, 2019 Comments Off on Banking Sector Embraces Multi-Cloud
The financial services sector tends to be a bellwether for early adoption of disruptive technologies. For example, financial services giant Goldman Sachs played a key role in forging an application container specification in 2015 as the transformative framework was just ...
Survey: Developers Want API Standards
February 6th, 2019 Comments Off on Survey: Developers Want API Standards
APIs, application programming interfaces, have emerged as the mortar that binds the bricks of enterprise IT. Hence, calls for greater API standardization grow louder as companies step up development of agile microservices. The latest evidence comes from a survey ...
Kubernetes Goes Native for Developers
February 5th, 2019 Comments Off on Kubernetes Goes Native for Developers
Among the leading “cloud-native” technologies is the Kubernetes container scheduler. Red Hat said this week it has gone a step further down the cloud-native path with the release of a “Kubernetes-native” development environment designed to make collaboration easier for ...