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AI-Assisted Annotation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 260

October 28th, 2021 |
AI-Assisted Annotation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 260

Helen Wang from Magic Data joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s work in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and natural language processing (NLP). Helen discusses the scalable capabilities Magic Data offers customers worldwide and goes into [See the full post…]

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Improving Community Health Through Collaboration and Data

October 22nd, 2021 |
Improving Community Health Through Collaboration and Data

In Nashville, TN, there is a collaborative movement underway to improve the health of the city that involves the largest employers, health care systems, non-profits and community leaders. Key to this movement called NashvilleHealth, are the use of data, the [See the full post…]

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The Future of Cloud Native Communications – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 259

October 19th, 2021 |
The Future of Cloud Native Communications – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 259

Sanjay Prasad from Metaswitch (a Microsoft company) joins host Jake Smith to talk about why Metaswitch collaborates with Intel to improve network function virtualization, media transcoding, throughput and more. Sanjay talks about some of the performance gains his team has [See the full post…]

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Path to Cloud: Exploring Cloud Security

October 19th, 2021 |
Path to Cloud: Exploring Cloud Security

IT Best Practices: In this second video of the Path to Cloud series Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director, Intel Americas, is joined by Shachaf Levi, Intel IT Cloud Security Architect and Sridhar Mahankali, Intel IT Principal Engineer, Network Security where [See the full post…]

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TietoEVRY Scalable Edge Reference Platform – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 258

September 30th, 2021 |
TietoEVRY Scalable Edge Reference Platform – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 258

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Marcin Nicpon from TietoEVRY joins host Jake Smith to talk about the latest developments in edge computing, the cloudification of services in a variety of the industries (telco, automotive, smart cities [See the full post…]

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The Future of Robotic Process Automation – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 257

September 23rd, 2021 |
The Future of Robotic Process Automation – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 257

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with [See the full post…]

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Pandemic Update with Award Winning Science Writer Apoorva Mandavilli

September 20th, 2021 |
Pandemic Update with Award Winning Science Writer Apoorva Mandavilli

The day the WHO declared a global pandemic. The roll-out of the first vaccines. The rise of the Delta variant. The announcement of vaccine mandates. For all these moments and everything in between, Apoorva Mandavilli has been tirelessly reporting on [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: Push-button Productization of AI Models

September 17th, 2021 |
IT@Intel: Push-button Productization of AI Models

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has a large AI group that works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2020). Our efforts unlock [See the full post…]

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Challenges and Opportunities in Open RAN – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 256

September 9th, 2021 |
Challenges and Opportunities in Open RAN – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 256

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Neil Coleman from Amdocs joins host Jake Smith to talk about why it’s critical for communication service providers to move to Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Neil addresses some of [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: Green Computing at Scale

September 8th, 2021 |
IT@Intel: Green Computing at Scale

IT Best Practices: Intel’s innovative disaggregated server architecture and data center facilities design and operation reduce e-waste and increase energy efficiency—helping to protect the environment and produce significant cost savings. Do what’s right for the business and what’s right for [See the full post…]

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Creating a Constituency for Efficiency in Health Care

September 2nd, 2021 |
Creating a Constituency for Efficiency in Health Care

While most of us would agree that the U.S. health care system isn’t efficient, the path forward to decreasing costs while maintaining quality often seems overwhelming. So where do we begin? And how can we create a “constituency for efficiency” [See the full post…]

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Eliminating Downtime and Data Loss – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 255

September 2nd, 2021 |
Eliminating Downtime and Data Loss – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 255

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: ZeroDown Software’s Alan Gin and Keith Fukuhara join host Jake Smith to talk about the evolution of recovery time over the last twenty years. The three discuss how several advancements culminated [See the full post…]

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The Rise of Volumetric of Data – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 254

The Rise of Volumetric of Data – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 254

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data [See the full post…]

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The Future of VR and Sports – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 253

The Future of VR and Sports – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 253

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: BT Sport’s Jamie Hindhaugh and Tiledmedia’s Rob Koenen join host Jake Smith to talk about delivering 8K virtual reality (VR) with 360° views to sports fans on mobile devices. Jamie and [See the full post…]

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Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 252

Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 252

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Taboola’s Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel [See the full post…]

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Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 251

Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 251

Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role [See the full post…]

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A Big Step Forward: Moving Ginkgo to oneAPI

A Big Step Forward: Moving Ginkgo to oneAPI

Ginkgo is a production-ready, sparse linear algebra library used for HPC on GPU architectures. It’s now using oneAPI cross-architecture programming to support its foundational design with a high level of performance portability, and focus on software sustainability. ExpertsHartwig Anzt at [See the full post…]

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Experimenting with AI Optimizations – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 250

Experimenting with AI Optimizations – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 250

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: SigOpt cofounder and CEO Scott Clark joins host Jake Smith to discuss his company’s recent acquisition by Intel, how this acquisition accelerates their ability to meet their mission to empower AI [See the full post…]

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SciVis Unveils a Billion Cells, Covid-19 & Invisible Monsters

SciVis Unveils a Billion Cells, Covid-19 & Invisible Monsters

Scientific visualization (SciVis) is providing new insights in health care and many other research areas in ways that we couldn’t imagine a decade ago. It’s an evolving field where extracting visualizations from very large data sets can improve analysis, diagnosis [See the full post…]

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Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on the COVID-19 Response from a White House Insider

Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on the COVID-19 Response from a White House Insider

The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. has downgraded the coronavirus pandemic from an existential threat to a manageable challenge, according to Andy Slavitt, former Senior Advisor for COVID Response in the Biden Administration. But despite the great strides [See the full post…]

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How Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 249

How Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 249

David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and trial acceleration. David goes into [See the full post…]

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Preserving Business Continuity During a Pandemic – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 248

Preserving Business Continuity During a Pandemic – Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 248

SHI’s Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: Fuel Cells – An Alternative Energy Source for Intel’s Data Centers

IT@Intel: Fuel Cells – An Alternative Energy Source for Intel’s Data Centers

IT Best Practices: In several proofs of concept, fuel cell technology has proved to be a reliable, stable, efficient and sustainable source of electricity for Intel’s data centers. Intel IT joined forces with Intel’s Corporate Services and Global Supply Chain [See the full post…]

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Business Group on Health: Can Incentives Help Us Reach our Vaccine Goals?

Business Group on Health: Can Incentives Help Us Reach our Vaccine Goals?

Entities across the U.S. are pulling out all the stops to urge people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, from entries into multi-million-dollar lotteries, to free college tuition, to giveaways galore. On this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, [See the full post…]

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ZIB’s oneAPI Story: Discovering Portability across Multi-vendor Hardware

ZIB’s oneAPI Story: Discovering Portability across Multi-vendor Hardware

Heterogeneous programming is challenging for developers because it’s been difficult to code or forces compromises in performance. oneAPI is working to break that mold. Many HPC research centers, enterprises and developers are now adopting oneAPI. Hear from experts at Zuse [See the full post…]

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