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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).MIPS-Based Platform Targets AI App Developers
April 17th, 2019 Comments Off on MIPS-Based Platform Targets AI App Developers
High-end computing platforms are emerging to support AI applications like inferencing and training so-called edge applications ranging from IoT networks to autonomous vehicles. The latest entry comes from Wave Computing, which released a MIPS-based 64-bit AI platform this week. ...
Intel Buys FPGA Vision Specialist
April 16th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Buys FPGA Vision Specialist
Chip maker Intel has extended its reach into the FPGA arena with the acquisition of Omnitek, a U.K.-based developer of intellectual property cores used to combine FPGAs with AI and vision applications. Omnitek, Basingstoke, U.K., specializes in soft IP ...
EU Promotes ‘Human-Centric’ AI
April 15th, 2019 Comments Off on EU Promotes ‘Human-Centric’ AI
European regulators continue to take the lead on a range of critical technology policy issues spanning data privacy and, now, “trustworthy” AI. On the heels of its sweeping General Data Protection Regulation, considered by at least one observer as “the ...
AWS, Microsoft are Final JEDI Competitors
April 11th, 2019 Comments Off on AWS, Microsoft are Final JEDI Competitors
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will compete for a massive Defense Department cloud contract after a Pentagon probe dismissed protesters’ conflict-of-interest allegations. The decision first reported by Bloomberg effectively eliminates protesters IBM and Oracle from competing for the $10 billion ...
Intel, Lenovo Partner with Google on Anthos Cloud
April 10th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel, Lenovo Partner with Google on Anthos Cloud
Google is filling out its roster of hardware partners for its new cloud services platform called Anthos as its pushes home-grown technologies like its Kubernetes cluster orchestrator across hybrid and cloud-native deployments. Anthos, formerly Google’s cloud services platform, combines ...
Nvidia Doubles Down on Medical AI
April 8th, 2019 Comments Off on Nvidia Doubles Down on Medical AI
Nvidia is collaborating with medical groups to push GPU-powered AI tools into clinical settings, including radiology and drug discovery. The GPU leader said Monday (April 8) it will collaborate with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to provide clinicians ...
Intel Builds AI Use Cases for Optane Persistent Memory
April 5th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Builds AI Use Cases for Optane Persistent Memory
Intel offered a list of use cases for its Optane DC persistent memory technology during a company event this week, including Twitter’s effort to scale its Hadoop clusters using Optane and SAP HANA’s database improvements focused on applications like ...
Ethical Dispute Ends Google’s AI Ethics Panel
April 5th, 2019 Comments Off on Ethical Dispute Ends Google’s AI Ethics Panel
An ethical debate over membership on Google’s AI ethics advisory board has shut down the controversial panel before it ever convened. Google also lost a top AI researcher to rival Apple. Announced last week, Google confirmed to the web ...
Google Cloud Unveils Roadmap for Intel Optane
April 3rd, 2019 Comments Off on Google Cloud Unveils Roadmap for Intel Optane
Intel’s drive to solidify its stranglehold on the datacenter via its Optane DC persistent memory architecture was on full display this week during the chip maker’s “data-centric” event. Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, touted the ...
CIA Said to Prep Multi-Cloud Initiative
April 2nd, 2019 Comments Off on CIA Said to Prep Multi-Cloud Initiative
A new spy cloud has emerged from the shadows. The CIA is reportedly leading a multibillion procurement effort on behalf of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies dubbed IC Commercial Cloud Enterprise, according to the website FCW. Unlike the contentious and ...