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Ray Summit, the Industry Event for Scalable AI, Unveils New Innovations in Ray and the Anyscale Platform; Features Speakers from Uber, IBM, OpenAI, Shopify, Dow and Numerous Global Organizations

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Riot Games, Machine learning, Instacart, CA, CEO, Ion Stoica, Intel, FIFA, Meta, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Intel Capital, SAN, Workload, Foundation Capital, Learning, Organization, ML, Lyft, Deep learning, GLOBE, Spotify, NEA, Uber, AI, Video game, Medical device, Video game console, Python

Robert Nishihara, Anyscale CEO and co-founder and Ion Stoica, Anyscale Executive Chairman and co-founder, showcased new innovations that ease building and scaling AI applications.

Key Points: 
  • Robert Nishihara, Anyscale CEO and co-founder and Ion Stoica, Anyscale Executive Chairman and co-founder, showcased new innovations that ease building and scaling AI applications.
  • Example speakers and their usage of Ray include:
    Uber: Ray as the unified compute platform for ML and deep learning applications.
  • In addition, Ray Summit highlights new capabilities in Ray 2.0 and unveils the latest Anyscale platform in a live demonstration.
  • Anyscale is a scalable, managed Ray compute platform that provides the easiest way to develop, deploy and manage Ray applications.

Quantori Announces Support for AWS for Health Initiative from Amazon Web Services

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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Technology, Research, Consulting, Professional Services, Software, Health, General Health, Data Management, Science, HPC, Amazon, Amazon S3, Industry, DWH, Qatar Computing Research Institute, EC2, Amazon Relational Database Service, Doctor of Philosophy, Solution, High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment, Therapy, Data science, SLURM, Machine learning, LinkedIn, Amazon SageMaker, Research, R, Social media, Amazon Web Services, Drug development, Central processing unit, Dask, AWS, Drug discovery, Growth, Pharmaceutical industry, Medical imaging

Quantori , a leading global provider of end-to-end software engineering, data science, and digital transformation services for the life sciences and healthcare, today announced support for the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services to accelerate, simplify, and achieve data-driven decisions that innovate drug development and improve patient care.

Key Points: 
  • Quantori , a leading global provider of end-to-end software engineering, data science, and digital transformation services for the life sciences and healthcare, today announced support for the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services to accelerate, simplify, and achieve data-driven decisions that innovate drug development and improve patient care.
  • AWS for Health is an initiative featuring services and solutions from AWS and AWS partners, built specifically for healthcare, biopharma, and genomics customers.
  • For customers looking to accelerate deployments with solution-specific support, AWS for Health also identifies dedicated AWS healthcare industry specialists, AWS professional services teams, and leading AWS partners in each solution area.
  • One such project involved developing a durable and scalable multi-tiered data warehouse (DWH) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

KDD 2021 Honors Recipients of the SIGKDD Best Paper Awards

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Dai, Knowledge, Data science, Harold, Northwestern University, Seoul National University, Policy, Special, National university, Microsoft Research, University of California, Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Infection, Interest group, National University of Singapore, Conference, University of Virginia, Beijing Institute of Technology, Engineering, Association, Data mining, Microsoft, Association for Computing Machinery, University of Vienna, SIGKDD, Method, Beijing, Autologistic actor attribute models, University, Qatar, SAN, DRL, Stanford University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DiDi, Science, COVID-19, Algorithm, KDD, Paper, Machine learning, The Muse (student paper), Data collection, ACM, Discovery, Pharmaceutical industry, Management

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced the recipients of the SIGKDD Best Paper Awards, recognizing papers presented at the annual SIGKDD conference that advance the fundamental understanding of the field of knowledge discovery in data and data mining.

Key Points: 
  • SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced the recipients of the SIGKDD Best Paper Awards, recognizing papers presented at the annual SIGKDD conference that advance the fundamental understanding of the field of knowledge discovery in data and data mining.
  • Winners were selected from more than 2,200 papers initially submitted for consideration to be presented at KDD 2021, which took place Aug. 14-18.
  • Of the 394 papers chosen for the conference, three awards were granted: Best Paper in the Research Track, Best Paper in the Applied Data Science Track, and Best Student Paper.
  • The technical program committees for the Research Track and the Applied Data Science Track identified and nominated a highly selective group of papers for the Best Paper Awards.

Qatar Foundation's Innovation Academy Announces Three Winning Teams

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Geography of Asia, Western Asia, Countries, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Qatar Foundation, Qatar, World Innovation Summit for Health, Doha, Innovation, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Education City

DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The third edition of the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA), a collaboration between Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI) and the European Innovation Academy (EIA), concluded with an intensive day of pitching by 30 teams from across the MENA region, followed by a graduation ceremony at QSTP on January 20.

Key Points: 
  • DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The third edition of the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA), a collaboration between Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI) and the European Innovation Academy (EIA), concluded with an intensive day of pitching by 30 teams from across the MENA region, followed by a graduation ceremony at QSTP on January 20.
  • The Doctorle team will get a chance to showcase their innovation at the upcoming edition of the World Innovation Summit for Health.
  • For more information about the Arab Innovation Academy and a complete list of winners, please visit: aia.inacademy.eu
    Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI), is a Free Zone, accelerator, and incubator for tech-product development in Qatar.
  • QF is also creating a multidisciplinary innovation hub in Qatar, where homegrown researchers are working to address local and global challenges.

Qatar Foundation's Innovation Academy Announces Three Winning Teams

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Geography of Asia, Western Asia, Countries, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Qatar Foundation, Qatar, World Innovation Summit for Health, Doha, Innovation, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Education City

DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The third edition of the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA), a collaboration between Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI) and the European Innovation Academy (EIA), concluded with an intensive day of pitching by 30 teams from across the MENA region, followed by a graduation ceremony at QSTP on January 20.

Key Points: 
  • DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The third edition of the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA), a collaboration between Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI) and the European Innovation Academy (EIA), concluded with an intensive day of pitching by 30 teams from across the MENA region, followed by a graduation ceremony at QSTP on January 20.
  • The Doctorle team will get a chance to showcase their innovation at the upcoming edition of the World Innovation Summit for Health.
  • For more information about the Arab Innovation Academy and a complete list of winners, please visit: aia.inacademy.eu
    Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI), is a Free Zone, accelerator, and incubator for tech-product development in Qatar.
  • QF is also creating a multidisciplinary innovation hub in Qatar, where homegrown researchers are working to address local and global challenges.

Qatar Science & Technology Park Kicks off Second Edition of Arab Innovation Academy

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Wednesday, January 2, 2019
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In the news release, "Qatar Science & Technology Park Kicks off Second Edition of Arab Innovation Academy" issued on 2 Jan 2019 15:41 GMT, by Qatar Science & Technology Park over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the boiler plate - Qatar Foundation Unlocking Human Potential - was originally issued inadvertently.

Key Points: 
  • In the news release, "Qatar Science & Technology Park Kicks off Second Edition of Arab Innovation Academy" issued on 2 Jan 2019 15:41 GMT, by Qatar Science & Technology Park over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the boiler plate - Qatar Foundation Unlocking Human Potential - was originally issued inadvertently.
  • Complete, corrected release follows:
    Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI), and the European Innovation Academy (EIA), launched the second edition of their Arab Innovation Academy (AIA) today.
  • For more information on the Arab Innovation Academy, please visit: aia.inacademy.eu
    Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI), is a Free Zone, accelerator, and incubator for tech-product development in Qatar.
  • QF is also creating a multidisciplinary innovation hub in Qatar, where homegrown researchers are working to address local and global challenges.