Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
C3.ai’s COVID-19 Awardees Are an Inflection Point for Pandemic Research
June 24th, 2020
“The probability of something good not coming out of this is zero,” said Tom Siebel, CEO of enterprise AI software provider C3.ai, which has announced the winners of its awards for COVID-19 research through the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute ...
AWS Graviton2 Arm-Based EC2 Instances Now Available
June 12th, 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of sixth-generation Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. The new instances are available starting today in a variety of sizes across four regions alongside ...
COVID-19 Roundup: Neural Nets Track Readmissions; ML Predicts Spread; Analyzing Brands’ Foot Traffic – & More
May 26th, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big data is fighting ...
AMD’s Q1 Sets Records and Meets Expectations, but COVID-19 Looms
April 29th, 2020
AMD has reported its Q1 2020 revenue, slightly outperforming analyst expectations and dodging the first financial blows of COVID-19 to deliver $1.79 billion – a whopping 40 percent year-over-year growth in revenue, and a record for first-quarter earnings. The ...
COVID-19 Update: Apple Frees Mobility Data, MIT Predictive ML, IBM Data Challenge, Rolls-Royce & More
April 22nd, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, AI and big data have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here's a collection of news on how AI and related technology is ...
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Groceries, Smartphones, Competitions & More
April 14th, 2020
Artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are devoting computing resources to this global crisis. This column collects the biggest news ...
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 ...
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