Source: U.S. Army
DARPA Upgrades Battlefield Simulations
The demands of training soldiers and pilots, a domain that is gradually incorporating AI-enabled technologies, has heightened the U.S. military’s need for far greater computing power. Hence, the Pentagon’s ...Full Article
White House Launches AI Initiative
A Trump administration AI initiative would prioritize federal R&D investments in machine intelligence as a way boosting U.S. economic and national security. The “American AI Initiative” launched via executive ...Full Article
NSF Explores Risks, Rewards of Automation
Addressing the growing unease over the prospect of AI taking jobs from humans, the National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for how machines and workers can collaborate in ways ...Full Article
U.S. Moves to Get AI House in Order
An AI advisory body established by the U.S. Congress will examine how the technology can be applied on the battlefield. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence was established ...Full Article
Oracle Lawsuit Clouds DoD’s IT Strategy
Just in time for the holidays, cloud rivals are fighting like cats and dogs over one of the biggest ever federal IT contracts. The battle lines for the Joint ...Full Article
Oracle Takes Gloves Off in JEDI Lawsuit
Large government contract awards invariably draw protests from losing bidders hoping to gum up the works and perhaps gain a piece of the action on appeal. The Defense Department’s ...Full Article
Study: AI’s Not Just in the Future of Work – it’s Big Now
Pundits trumpet AI as the future for U.S. employment, but new research indicates AI's prevalence on the job is already here. How do we know? Because workers told us. ...Full Article
Video and Rich Media: Overcoming Performance and Scale Hurdles
Video and rich media content is growing exponentially. Video now constitutes 50 percent of all data, and a rich media explosion is driving performance and capacity gains across countless ...Full Article
At SC18: Humanitarianism Amid Boom Times for HPC
At SC18 in Dallas, the feeling on the ground is forward-looking and buoyant. Like boom times that cycle through the Texas oil patch, the HPC industry is enjoying a ...Full Article
U.S. Chip Initiative Aims For ‘Moore’s (Law) Inflection’
It is telling that the keynote speaker at a major U.S. computer engineering conference represents the Department of Defense, which is pouring billions of R&D dollars into new chip ...Full Article
