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 ...Full Article
Microsoft Launches $40M AI for Health Initiative
Even as AI has become pervasive across many tech-heavy industries, the medical industry has moved with a characteristically slow pace, and functional AI implementation in healthcare remains relatively rare. ...Full Article
AI is Boosting Server Sales
Emerging AI workloads are propelling the booming Chinese server market, particularly those hosting programmable co-processors capable of supporting graphics chips used for parallel processing of machine learning tasks. The ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
DAWNBench Gives Way to MLPerf for Training, Inference
As the MLPerf benchmark emerges as an industry standard for measuring the performance of machine learning models, its creators said they will phase out the foundational DAWNBench metric. Stanford ...Full Article
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. ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
AI Chip Market is Booming
AI processors are reinvigorating the global semiconductor industry, prompting at least one market tracker to predict a three-fold increase in AI chip applications over the next five years. In ...Full Article
Startup Applies Deep Learning to Secure Unstructured Data
The millions of documents in the form of product roadmaps, contracts and other components of corporate strategies also represent unstructured—and it turns out—vulnerable data stored in-house or in the ...Full Article
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Inferencing, Data Management
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accommodate up ...Full Article
