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Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant
The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #4: Frontier Apps and Bizops
Welcome to the fourth entry in this series on AI. The first one introduced the series, the second discussed artificial general intelligence, and the third reported HPC users’ expectations and concerns about the HPC-AI Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #3: HPC and AI—When Worlds Converge/Collide
Welcome to the third entry in this series on AI. The first one was an introduction and series overview and the next discussed the aspirational goal of artificial general intelligence, AGI. Now it’s time to zero in on a Read more…
Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data
Public data is the lifeblood of open research and scientific inquiry. But the possibility of losing public datasets--including academic, government, and scientific data generated as part of research--is now spurring seve Read more…
What Leonardo DaVinci Teaches Us About Data Management
Spending time in Florence, Italy, you see brilliant Renaissance art everywhere. A favorite of my family was Leonardo DaVinci, as he was not only a brilliant painter and sculptor, but also an innovative scientist and e Read more…
News In Brief
Neo4j Promises ‘No More ETL’ with Aura Graph Analytics
Neo4j this week launched Aura Graph Analytics, a new offering designed to lower the barrier to using powerful graph algorithms. Neo4j says Aura Graph Analytics is a serverless service that brings 65 graph algorithms to b Read more…
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…
This Just In
May 5, 2025 |
SEATTLE, Wash., May 5, 2025 — Today, more than 250 CEOs, including the leaders of American Airlines, Airbnb, Etsy, Indeed, Khan Academy, Microsoft, and Sweetgreen, have called upon state education leaders and policymakers to make computer science (CS) and AI education available for every student. Read more…
Apr 29, 2025 |
LEMONT, Ill., April 29, 2025 — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in the workplace. At science organizations like national laboratories, its use has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery in critical areas. Read more…
Apr 21, 2025 |
April 21, 2025 — Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming language and doesn’t cause a computer to crash. Read more…
Apr 17, 2025 |
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 17, 2025 — Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced a strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Computer Science, one of the world’s foremost institutions for computer science and artificial intelligence research. Read more…
Apr 17, 2025 |
April 17, 2025 — Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a faster method for optimizing topological data analysis, a mathematical technique that helps researchers study the shape of data and uncover complex structures in high-dimensional datasets. Read more…
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