Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
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 ...
AI Career Notes: July 2019 Edition
July 9th, 2019
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each month. Here's the AI career news for early July: Tom ...
FPGAs’ Reputation for Security May Belie Vulnerability in Cloud
June 7th, 2019
Thanks to their flexibility, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are often a first choice during system development – however, a new report by scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany has called their security into question. FPGAs’ ...
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
June 5th, 2019
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested ...
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