A recent survey of about 450 global executives and board members reveals that top executives are both excited and concerned about the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on business operations.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/23/2019
The 2019 Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop aims to develop standards around an advanced data encryption scheme that can revolutionize secure data storage.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/21/2019
The universe of voice-enabled devices could be expanding, thanks to recent advances in ultra-low power microcontrollers that use deep learning to recognize common wake words.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/16/2019
Chip-maker Intel and leading computer manufacturer Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration to leverage the convergence of high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/12/2019
The Microsoft Research has taken a step toward "democratizing AI" with a project aimed at developing a new open-source framework that will leverage blockchain technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2019
VMware seeks to bolster next-generation carrier networks and applications with the acquisition of Uhana, a startup providing highly-scalable, low-latency, real-time stream processing and AI services to improve network performance.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2019
Since 1993, the Top 500 list has ranked supercomputers based on their performance in the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. Now Nvidia proposes that the organization expand its testing suite to include an AI-savvy benchmark called HPL-AI.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/26/2019
A report by Zion Market Research projects that spending around machine learning is growing sharply, from about $1.58 billion in 2017 to $20.83 billion in 2024.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/23/2019
Microsoft in July announced that it was investing $1 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) research lab as part of a partnership to accelerate development of advanced AI solutions and services.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/22/2019
Intel announced the release of Pohioki Beach, an 8 million neuron neuromorphic system that the company says can deliver huge gains in performance and energy efficiency over traditional, CPU-based deep learning systems.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/19/2019
Microsoft released ML.NET 1.2, adding new features and functionality to its open source machine learning framework that can be used for use cases ranging from sentiment analysis to sales forecasting.
Leveraging computer vision and natural language processing, start-up Mesmer has emerged from stealth with AI bots to relieve human developers from the time-consuming task of customer experience testing of mobile apps.
Google Cloud Platform recently announced the beta release of Google Deep Learning Containers, a family of preconfigured Docker containers outfitted with deep learning frameworks and tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/10/2019