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).
ML Proponents Confront Reproducibility Claims
March 13th, 2019
Machine learning researchers are pushing back on the recent assertion that the AI framework is a key contributor to a reproducibility crisis in scientific research. Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for computing, environment and life sciences at Argonne National ...
DARPA Tackles Enterprise Cyber Security
March 12th, 2019
The sheer breath of distributed enterprise networks increasingly running in the cloud are outpacing the ability of the latest commercial security tools needed to identify and counter cyber threats. That reality has prompted the Pentagon’s top research agency to ...
Optalysys Switches on Commercial Optical Co-Processor
March 7th, 2019
Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is the first commercial optical processor aimed at emerging AI applications. Yorkshire-based Optalysys on Thursday ...
Google Offers Fixed-Price Cloud Storage
March 5th, 2019
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. Among his first moves was announcing plans to invest $13 ...
House Resolves to Guide AI Ethics
March 4th, 2019
A resolution introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to begin developing guidelines for “ethical development” of AI. The co-sponsors of House Resolution 531 unveiled last week noted that software industry groups as well as Facebook and IBM have ...
Malware Goes ‘Polymorphic’
March 1st, 2019
Malware is evolving, appearing in many forms as malicious code infiltrates computing platforms under many guises. Security experts refer to this chameleon-like malware as “polymorphic code,” and one researcher using a cloud-based, machine-learning platform to identify security threats found ...
Cloud Giants Launch Kubernetes Hub
February 28th, 2019
The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the formation of a “operators’ hub” that serves as a public registry for finding Kubernetes-native services. OperatorHub.io was launched this week by Red Hat in collaboration with public cloud leaders Amazon Web Services ...
Google Shifts Kubernetes Focus to Datacenters
February 26th, 2019
Google has released a beta version of its cloud platform the incorporates Kubernetes to help build and manage services in hybrid deployments with a particular emphasis on in-house services. The Cloud Services Platform is built on top of its ...
Hybrid Clouds Remain Unsecured as New Threats Emerge
February 26th, 2019
The added layer of operational complexity associated with hybrid cloud deployments is only making it harder for security teams to ward off attacks—assuming cloud users have created those teams that would ideally be working with developers and IT managers, ...
Intel FPGA Accelerator Targets 5G Rollouts
February 25th, 2019
Intel unveiled an FPGA-based programmable acceleration card aimed at 5G wireless service providers handling growing volumes of virtualized workloads. The N3000 acceleration card was rolled out during the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The ...
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