Rose Technology Raises $5.5M Seed Round

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 — Rose Technology, founded by data scientist and former global macro investor Alexander Campbell, raises $5.5m to change the way data-driven companies collect, analyze, and generate revenue from data. Portage Ventures leads the round, with participation from BoxGroup and Sound Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary. […]

DOE: $26M Awarded to Labs, Universities to Advance Chemical Materials Sciences with Data Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million in research funding to harness research tools for clean energy solutions. The 10 projects announced today will help scientists to unleash the power of data science —including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)—on experiments, theory, and computation-based methods to tackle the basic science challenges that will […]

Ken Kennedy AI & Data Science Conference, Oct. 25-27: Call for Participation, Program Announced

The 2021 Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference is scheduled for October 25-27. Visit ai-datascience.rice.edu for more details. The conference will kick off with Carlos Westhelle, CTO of NASA; Rama Akkiraju, a Fellow at IBM: and Brian Van Essen with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The second day of the conference we will be highlighting “AI […]

Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities

June 22, 2021, New York – Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize Machine Learning (ML)features, announced today a $20M Series A investment round led by Insight Partners, with continued support from Unusual Ventures. This brings Rasgo’s total funding to over$25M since its founding. Rasgo was […]

ALCF Data Science Program Awards 4 Projects

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently awarded computing time and resources to three new projects and one renewed project for 2021-2022, through its ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). Launched in 2016, the ADSP enables big data and artificial intelligence (AI) research that requires DOE’s leadership-class computing resources. The forward-looking allocation program is designed to explore […]

Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI Technology Convergence

Though AI has been widely demystified, its full materialization in real field implementation entails diversified challenges. The article by Dr Cédric Bourrasset (Atos) gives perspective on the hiccups and recommendations on the way to realize “Scientific Machine Learning and HPC-AI technology convergence”

New Cornell Virtual HPC, Data Science, Machine Learning Workshops at XSEDE

ITHACA, NY – Cornell University announced today that four new Cornell Virtual Workshop training topics are available at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) User Portal: Getting Started on Frontera Introduction to Advanced Cluster Architectures Using the Jetstream APIs Python for Data Science: Part 2 – Data Modeling and Machine Learning Cornell Virtual Workshop topics are freely available at all times to the entire scientific community – […]

EvidentIQ: Data Science Group Created from XClinical, Carenity and Fortress Medical

Today it was announced that Andreas Weber has been appointed CEO of EvidentIQ, the newly formed life science group from the merger of clinical software vendors XClinical and Fortress Medical with social platform Carenity. The company said Weber brings more than 20 years of industry experience after management positions at ERT, Bioclinica and Oracle Health Sciences. The EvidentIQ offering brings […]

Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities

Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business analysts, data engineers and business managers – some of whom may use different tools and languages. Enhancements include expanded native support for R and Python, with the ability to call more Vantage-native analytic […]

KDD 2020 Data Mining Conference Goes Virtual Aug. 23-27

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD 2020, virtually, August 23-27. The KDD conference series, started in 1989, is the world’s oldest and largest data mining conference, and is the venue where concepts such as big data, data science, […]