Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
Crowdsourcing at Massive Scale Takes on COVID-19
March 17th, 2020
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy seen in a console – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world spin up to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the crowdsourced distributed ...
For Mayflower’s 400th Anniversary, AI Ship Will Go to Sea – without a Crew
March 5th, 2020
By now, most people are familiar with self-driving cars – if you’ve ridden in a newer Tesla model, you were in a rudimentary version of one already. Truly autonomous, unmanned vehicles are still in the future, with major tests ...
AI in the Fight to Detect and Cure Coronavirus
February 28th, 2020
The COVID-19 coronavirus is rapidly spreading around the globe, threatening communities, alarming financial markets and, in many cases, forcing national epidemic response teams to quickly update and implement years-old plans. As those researchers race to apply today’s technology to ...
Microsoft Launches $40M AI for Health Initiative
February 5th, 2020
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. Microsoft now aims to accelerate that process with its announcement ...
MIT Says Its Forecasting Model Outperforms Wall Street Benchmark
January 22nd, 2020
Accurately predicting a business's performance is a prized skill among investors, competitors and other market analysts. Now, MIT is highlighting a new model that challenges the typical blend of punditry, quarterly balance sheet numbers and data-crunching by bringing in ...
AI… for Pizza?!
January 17th, 2020
If you order a pizza from Domino’s, you might be getting it with a free side of AI. The pizza giant is determined to make big data and AI cornerstones of a company that has typically focused more on ...
AI Career Notes: October 2019 Edition
October 14th, 2019
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the AI career news for early October: Gregory Bryant Intel has announced ...
AI Career Notes: September 2019 Edition
September 10th, 2019
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the AI career news for early September: David Bader David Bader, director ...
Google’s ‘Stadia’ Is a Massive Data Windfall. Who Will Benefit?
July 31st, 2019
For the first time, Google is positioning itself as a competitor to the likes of PlayStation and Xbox with its new offering, Stadia, a cloud-based gaming service – with both free and paid tiers – that allows gamers to ...
AI’s Carbon Footprint May Be Bigger Than You Think
July 11th, 2019
Data centers and supercomputers running AI workloads consume a lot of power, and power use causes carbon emissions. That’s generally known, but it’s not widely appreciated just how energy- and carbon-intensive AI can be. Recently, a team of researchers ...
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