Author Archives: George Leopold

George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

Investors Pour More Cash Into Dataiku AI Platform

August 24th, 2020 (0)

Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform vendor, again made the case this week its collaborative approach to data science is gaining enterprise adherents, announcing a $100 million funding round. The Series D funding round announced Monday (Aug. 24) was led ...

Microsoft Rebrands Editor as Codespaces

August 24th, 2020 (0)

The low-code development movement is getting another boost with the recent introduction on the Microsoft-owned GitHub repository of a new code editor dubbed Codespaces billed as running entirely on a web browser. Codespaces is built on the same code ...

NASA Leverages HPC to Model an All-Electric Airplane

August 21st, 2020 (0)

NASA is expanding its HPC-driven aeronautical research with an all-electric experimental aircraft dubbed the X-57 “Maxwell,” using its Pleiades HPC cluster to model and simulate critical aerodynamic flight characteristics. So far, the X-57 exists only as a visualization rendered ...

Arm’s Segars Unwraps ‘5th Gen’ Computing Vision

August 20th, 2020 (0)

The simultaneous maturation of three technologies—AI, the Internet of Things and 5G wireless—are ushering in a data-driven 5th wave of computing underpinned by current cloud infrastructure, according to the chief executive of chip intellectual property vendor Arm. Speaking at ...

DARPA Chip Effort Pivots to Securing US Supply Chain

August 20th, 2020 (0)

A three-year-old Defense Department electronics initiative is bearing fruit in the form of public-private partnerships in areas ranging from post-Moore’s Law chip architectures to the growing national security requirement of securing the microelectronics supply chain. The Defense Advanced Research ...

Open 5G Push Seen Attracting Hyperscalers

August 19th, 2020 (0)

The technology lines are being drawn in the race to deploy 5G wireless networks that would underpin emerging enterprise applications ranging from the Internet of Things a host of software-defined services. The opening of interfaces on those costly networks ...

NIST Tackles Explainable AI Gap

August 18th, 2020 (0)

Among the best ways to create stable technologies are standards and specifications that provide a template for building trust while often seeding new technological ecosystems. That’s especially true for AI, where lack of trust and inability to explain decisions ...

COVID’s ‘Next Normal’ Fueling Cloud Migration

August 18th, 2020 (0)

The pandemic’s impact on how and where enterprise IT infrastructure is deployed remains an open question, with datacenter backers arguing security doubts will keep corporate data on-premises while cloud advocates insist COVID-19 is forcing the migration of more workloads ...

New Tool Emerges to Speed COVID Test Results

August 17th, 2020 (0)

Efforts to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 testing results got a boost this week with the unveiling of a series of workstations advertised as capable of preparing and running thousands of COVID-19 tests per day. PerkinElmer Inc., (NYSE:PKI) the diagnostics and informatics ...

Photonics Processor Aimed at AI Inference