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IBM Unveils a New High-Powered Analytics System for Fast Access to Data Science

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• New IBM Integrated Analytics System features IBM Data Science Experience, Apache Spark embedded to give users high-performance data science across public, private or hybrid clouds

ARMONK, N.Y. – 26 Sep 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the Integrated Analytics System, a new unified data system designed to give users fast, easy access to advanced data science capabilities and the ability to work with their data across private, public or hybrid cloud environments. (more…)

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From AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16 predictions for ’16

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Last month, Microsoft released “Future Visions,” an anthology of short stories written by some of today’s top science fiction writers based in part on the writers’ access to Microsoft researchers and their labs.  The eBook is available for free from Amazon and other sites. (more…)

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Diamond Eye Provides Real-time, Streaming Data Science to the Business World

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A new analytics framework might soon help businesses monitor massive amounts of data in a user-friendly way.

Developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Diamond Eye is a platform for one-stop data analytics. Before creating Diamond Eye, GTRI researchers had built a series of analytics tools for individual customers, such as an application-specific tool for monitoring Twitter and open source data for first responders. But because they were developed for specific applications, these tools were not designed to be used beyond the original goals and customers. (more…)

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UCLA study yields more accurate data on thousands of years of climate change

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Research also helps unravel the mystery of retreating glaciers in the Pacific Ocean’s western tropics

Using a cutting-edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.

The findings, published online Feb. 27 in the journal Nature Geoscience, will help inform scientists about the processes influencing global warming in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. (more…)

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