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Meet Hannes Mühleisen, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
The emergence of DuckDB has been one of the most surprising developments in database world over the past couple of years. The “unapologetically single node” vectorized column store, which was developed by Hannes Müh Read more…
The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
UCSD’s New SCIDS School: All About the Apps
Some research universities excel in exploring intellectual possibilities and postulating abstract theories. Those terms aren’t likely to be associated with the University of California, San Diego’s new School of Comp Read more…
After Misses in 2016 and 2020, Have We Fixed Political Polling in 2024?
Less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, Americans are closely following the polls to see whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump becomes the 48th president of the United States. But can we trust the polls? Read more…
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data lea Read more…
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Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Sci Read more…
Solix Hosting Data and AI Conference at UCSD
We’re just a day away from SolixEmpower 2024, a conference that will bring hundreds of Solix cusotmers, leading academic researchers, and business leaders together to discuss the latest developments in cloud data manag Read more…
ADSA to Keep Humans in the Loop at Annual Meeting
Some of the predictions around AI are pretty gloomy these days, particularly when it comes to unleashing biased AI models upon the world to make poor decisions that hurt people, not to mention replacing human workers on Read more…
NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should Be
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms i Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
This Just In
Dec 19, 2024 |
REDLANDS, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 — The United States Census Bureau has just released the latest annual update to its American Community Survey (ACS) data, the premier government source for detailed national population information. Read more…
Dec 17, 2024 |
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2024 — Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona, today announced the general availability of Raster Inference for WherobotsAI. Read more…
Dec 17, 2024 |
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 17, 2024 — The YYC Data Society is pleased to announce YYC DataCon 2025, set to take place from February 27 to March 1 at Calgary’s BMO Centre. Read more…
Dec 10, 2024 |
Dec. 10, 2024 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently hosted the 5th annual Department of Energy (DOE) Data Days event, bringing together data scientists, researchers and policymakers for three days of discussion on the latest advancements in data management, AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Read more…
Dec 10, 2024 |
Dec. 10, 2024 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, along with the University of Utah, has been recognized in the Ninth Annual BigDATAwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for leadership in the National Data Platform (NDP). Read more…
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