Todd R. Weiss

Honey I Shrunk the Model: Why Big Machine Learning Models Must Go Small

December 14th, 2020 Comments Off

Bigger is not always better for machine learning. Yet, deep learning models and the datasets on which they’re trained keep expanding, as researchers race to outdo one another while chasing state-of-the-art benchmarks. However groundbreaking they are, the consequences of ...

Azure Digital Twins Now Available to Empower Enterprises with Virtual Product Modeling

December 11th, 2020 Comments Off

Since its start as a beta project two years ago, Azure Digital Twins was designed as a tool to help enterprises digitally build virtual physical environments for product modeling and related critical business projects. Now Azure Digital Twins has ...

Amazon and BP Expanding Their Year-Old Deal for Renewable Energy and AWS Cloud Services

December 10th, 2020 Comments Off

For the last year, Amazon Web Services and BP have been working together as partners, with AWS providing BP with services to migrate more than 400 applications to the cloud and BP working to help Amazon use more renewable ...

AWS Delivering Deeper Machine Learning Tools and Services to Customers

December 9th, 2020 Comments Off

AWS re:Invent 2020 – Simplifying the use of machine learning and deep learning processes for enterprise, manufacturing and industrial customers is the goal of a series of new ML tools and services unveiled this week by Amazon Web Services ...

AWS Aims 5 AI Tools to Modernize Manufacturing and Industrial Plants

December 7th, 2020 Comments Off

Amazon Web Services is moving to expand industrial AI use with five new industry-focused AI tools that can watch over manufacturing plants 24/7 to detect problems on assembly lines and other systems, while also predicting needed maintenance tasks. The ...

Nvidia’s MONAI Medical Imaging AI Framework Now in Production

December 3rd, 2020 Comments Off

To build enterprise AI capabilities deeper into the medical imaging healthcare market, Nvidia has revealed that its Medical Open Network for AI (MONAI) open source framework is now ready for production use. MONAI arrives seven months after it was ...

At AWS re:Invent 2020, AWS Unveils Habana Gaudi AI Chips for Amazon EC2 Instances

December 1st, 2020 Comments Off

AWS re:Invent 2020—Amazon Web Services has a broad swath of new and bolstered services coming for customers in 2021, from the implementation of powerful Habana Gaudi AI accelerators in Amazon EC2 instances for machine learning workloads to custom-designed AWS ...

Make Way for Gen S: Generation Scale-Out

November 27th, 2020 Comments Off

Gen X, Y, and Z get all the attention but what we need to talk about in IT is Gen S: Generation Scale-Out. Times have changed. The enterprise technology stack of 10 years ago, when VMs and block-based Storage ...

AI Chip Startup SimpleMachines Wants You To Love Mozart

November 25th, 2020 Comments Off

With some 80 AI chip vendors and startups in the marketplace, every company says they have a better idea when it comes to building AI chips for a wide range of industries and uses. For SimpleMachines, a three-year-old fab-less ...

Quantum’s New All-Terrain File System Brings Data Insights to Applications

November 24th, 2020 Comments Off

Data storage vendor Quantum’s new All-Terrain File System (ATFS) platform will launch in December, giving enterprises the ability to integrate real-time data classification and insights with critical business applications on network-attached storage systems. The all-new, file-based ATFS platform, which ...

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