Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

Intel AI-Based Video Analysis Gives Athletes Critical Training Help in New Pilot Project

March 10th, 2021 (0)

Coaches and trainers already work hard to help athletes increase their performance in competition, but a new AI-based tool from Intel Corp. is generating critical new data for coaches and trainers that could boost athletic abilities even more. Announced ...

C3 AI Launching a Technology Licensing Office After Getting Broad AI Software Patent

March 3rd, 2021 (0)

Enterprise AI software platform vendor C3 AI will begin licensing its model-driven architecture and other technologies later this year after receiving a broad, new “omnibus” U.S. patent for its flagship product, the C3 AI Suite. The patent, No.10,817,530, was ...

Deloitte’s Upcoming Center for AI Computing Aims to Help Customers Grow AI Use

March 2nd, 2021 (0)

With AI use continuing to grow in adoption throughout enterprise IT, Deloitte is creating a new Deloitte Center for AI Computing to advise its customers, explain the technology and help them use it in their ongoing business and growth ...

How AutoML is Democratizing Data Science — And What That Means For Data Scientists

February 26th, 2021 (0)

“Data scientist” has been one of the most in-demand job titles of the past decade. But in another 10 years, that role will look very different, thanks to technologies such as automated machine learning, or AutoML. New technologies are ...

IBM Reportedly Looking to Sell its Unprofitable Watson Health Business

February 25th, 2021 (0)

IBM’s Watson Health business brings in $1 billion a year in revenue, but because the unit still isn’t profitable, Big Blue is reportedly looking to sell it to focus its operations and sights on the lucrative cloud computing market. ...

Xilinx Brings ‘Unique’ Composability and Flexibility to its New Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC

February 24th, 2021 (0)

FPGA vendor Xilinx has debuted its latest SmartNIC model, the Alveo SN1000, with integrated “composability” features that allow enterprise users to add their own custom networking functions to supplement its built-in networking. By providing deep flexibility and customization, the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars: Here’s How It Is Using AI

February 19th, 2021 (0)

After its ambitious Feb. 18 landing on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is already getting critical help from the multiple onboard AI systems that are designed to guide its two-year exploratory mission on the red planet. Perseverance successfully completed ...

NASA’s Latest Mars Rover, Perseverance, Will Get Help from AI on the Red Planet

February 17th, 2021 (0)

As NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, prepares to land on the Martian surface Feb. 18 (Thursday) after a seven-month flight to the red planet, the use of AI will quickly become an important part of the rover’s mission once ...

ENIAC at 75: Celebrating the World’s First Supercomputer

February 15th, 2021 (0)

With little fanfare, today’s computer revolution was arguably born and announced through a small, innocuous, two-column story at the bottom of the front page of The New York Times on Feb. 15, 1946. In that story and others, the ...

Microsoft, HPE Bringing AI, Edge, Cloud to Earth Orbit in Preparation for Mars Missions

February 12th, 2021 (0)

The International Space Station will soon get a delivery of powerful AI, edge and cloud computing tools from HPE and Microsoft Azure to expand technology experiments aimed at preparing NASA for launching future crewed exploratory missions to Mars. The ...