High Performance Computing: The Power Behind AI Transformation
It wasn’t too long ago that AI was a futuristic concept, seen only in movies. Today, cognitive computing applications, such as machine learning and deep learning, are transforming industries ...Full Article
Vermont Launches Blockchain Project
Early efforts to use blockchain technology for financial transactions are gathering momentum with the launch of a pilot project between a blockchain startup and a Vermont city to use ...Full Article
Rolling Out the Advanced Scale Computing Crystal Ball for 2018
We all know where we are and where we’re headed. We’re early into the AI Era, and it has an end-game aura about it. Not in an apocalyptic, “end-of-days” ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
DAX Data Wrangling: Deutsche Börse Lifts Data Scientists’ ‘80% Problem’
At the German Stock Exchange – aka Deutsche Börse, home of the DAX – data scientists are getting unburdened from “janitorial” tasks that can consume up to 80 percent ...Full Article
Servers On Steroids Speed Stock Swaps
Executing stock trades often comes down to being first in the queue of traders. Hence, developers of high-frequency trading platforms that connect trading servers to networks focus on reducing ...Full Article
Blockchain Advances With First Real Estate Deal
The blockchain ecosystem continues to evolve as competing industry alliances seek to push the transaction database technology deeper into enterprises, including the first international real estate transaction. Blockchain serves ...Full Article
Equifax Ignored Apache Struts Patch For Months
In the aftermath of the second massive security breach at Equifax Inc. in four years, the Apache Foundation confirmed this week the data breach stemmed from the consumer credit ...Full Article
Unlearning Racism and Sexism in Learning Machines
What if a learning machine learns the wrong lessons? In a world where software and machine intelligence increasingly are placed in decision making roles – such as, say, helping ...Full Article
