AI
SC19: IBM Bets on New HPC-AI Game Plan
IBM is known for making big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out. ...Full Article
Demand for AI Training Data Spurs a Cottage Industry
Growing concerns about AI replacing workers is being offset by a cottage industry of startups providing entry-level employment in developing countries to tag, label and otherwise prepare data used ...Full Article
SC19: AI and Machine Learning Sessions Pepper Conference Agenda
AI and HPC are increasingly intertwined – machine learning workloads demand ever increasing compute power – so it’s no surprise the annual supercomputing industry shindig, SC19 at the Colorado ...Full Article
Merger Complete, Dell Rolls Automated IT
Dell Technologies this week rolled out its data-driven vision of the automated IT infrastructure for the next decade, signaling in the process that it has completed the integration of ...Full Article
Machine Learning Fuels a Booming HPC Market
Enterprise infrastructure investments for training machine learning models have grown more than 50 percent annually over the past two years, and are expected to shortly surpass $10 billion, according ...Full Article
Microsoft, Nokia Partner on Factory Floor
The framework for the next industrial phase dubbed Industry 4.0 is taking shape as cloud and networking vendors join forces to accelerate automation on the factory floor. The latest ...Full Article
Conversational AI at Constant Contact Call Centers: ‘Not a Science Experiment’
If misery in modern life happens to be your field of interest, go visit a call center. In the cubicles, row on row, we observe underpaid, tedium-addled customer service ...Full Article
‘AIoT’ Seen Ushering in Industry 4.0
The combination of AI and analytics with Internet of Things initiatives is forging an emerging enterprise category dubbed AIoT operations. According to a global survey, most IoT initiatives are ...Full Article
OMG! International Group Wants to Drive Standards for AI ‘Foundational Capabilities’
On opening day of this week’s AI World Conference today in Boston, the Object Management Group (OMG), an international technology standards organization, said it has begun work on a baseline ...Full Article
IBM Watson Targets AI’s Data Snags
IBM continues to ramp up its Watson AI offerings as adoption of automation technology remains limited, in part due to what company executives say is a lack of data ...Full Article
