Computer scientists

VinBrain wins ACM SIGAI Industry Award 2021 for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

HANOI, Vietnam, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2021 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence is granted to DrAidTM - the AI-powered Assistant product for Radiologists developed by VinBrain (a subsidiary of Vingroup in Vietnam).

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  • HANOI, Vietnam, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2021 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence is granted to DrAidTM - the AI-powered Assistant product for Radiologists developed by VinBrain (a subsidiary of Vingroup in Vietnam).
  • The award will be presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021 from August 19-26, 2021 in Canada.
  • The ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the world's top awards in the field of AI which is given annually to individuals or teams who have transferred original advanced academic research into AI applications.
  • About ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI): Started in 2019 and is one of the world's top awards in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Prabhat Mishra Promoted to Vice President of Finance at YES

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Monday, June 28, 2021

FREMONT, Calif., June 28, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --YES ( Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. ), a leading manufacturer of process equipment for semiconductor advanced packaging, life sciences, and "More-than-Moore" applications, today announced that Prabhat Mishra will be the company's new Vice President of Finance.

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  • FREMONT, Calif., June 28, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --YES ( Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. ), a leading manufacturer of process equipment for semiconductor advanced packaging, life sciences, and "More-than-Moore" applications, today announced that Prabhat Mishra will be the company's new Vice President of Finance.
  • "Prabhat joined the company in August of 2019 as our Head of Finance," said Ramakanth Alapati, CEO of YES.
  • Prior to joining YES, Mr. Mishra was Senior Director of Finance at Macom and Applied Micro, managing the Financial Planning and Analysis function of the company.
  • YES (Yield Engineering Systems, Inc.) is a preferred provider of high-tech, cost-effective equipment for transforming surfaces, materials and interfaces.

Recursion Announces Multi-Year Collaboration with Mila for Tech-Enabled Drug Discovery

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

"Recursion is executing at the forefront of multiple technical fields including biology, chemistry, automation, engineering and data science," said Recursion Co-Founder and CEO Chris Gibson.

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  • "Recursion is executing at the forefront of multiple technical fields including biology, chemistry, automation, engineering and data science," said Recursion Co-Founder and CEO Chris Gibson.
  • This collaboration with Mila accelerates our research in machine learning alongside one of the leading institutes in the world."
  • Mila's AI ecosystem will allow Recursion access to a network of talented experts, who will work with Recursion toward its goal of radically improving the lives of patients and industrializing drug discovery.
  • By leveraging machine learning for drug discovery, the combined efforts of Mila and Recursion have the potential to scale up and ramp up the search for drug candidate molecules," said Yoshua Bengio.

KDD 2021 Data Science Conference Will Convene Aug. 14 - 18, 2021

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The premier interdisciplinarydata scienceconference, KDD 2021 will bring together researchers and practitioners fromdata science, machine learning,big dataandartificial intelligence to fuel the innovation of tomorrow.

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  • The premier interdisciplinarydata scienceconference, KDD 2021 will bring together researchers and practitioners fromdata science, machine learning,big dataandartificial intelligence to fuel the innovation of tomorrow.
  • Nominations for the annual ACM SIGKDD awards, which will be announced at the conference, are being accepted now through May 1.
  • "\nEach year, outstanding data science practitioners are honored during the conference with SIGKDD Innovation, Service and Rising Star Awards.
  • The winner will be announced June 15.\nFor more information about KDD 2021, visit https://www.kdd.org/kdd2021/ .\nACM is the premier global professional organization for researchers and professionals dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of knowledge discovery and data mining.SIG is ACM\'s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.The annual KDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Miningis thepremierinterdisciplinary conference for data mining, data science and analytics.\nFor more information on KDD 2021, please visit: https://www.kdd.org/kdd2021/\n'

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Host AI Pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, and Others, at GTC21

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that its CEO and founder Jensen Huang will host renowned AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun at the companys upcoming technology conference, GTC21 , running April 12-16.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that its CEO and founder Jensen Huang will host renowned AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun at the companys upcoming technology conference, GTC21 , running April 12-16.
  • GTC brings together a massive ecosystem of developers, researchers and corporate leaders who are using AI and accelerated computing to change the world, said Huang.
  • Additionally, AI Day for VCs will showcase venture capital firms partnered with NVIDIA Inception to accelerate the AI startup landscape.
  • NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

NetObjex Is one of 11 Startups Chosen out of 198 Total Applicants to Participate in Algorand Europe Accelerator

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NetObjex is one of 11 startups chosen out of 198 total applicants and the only in the IoT industry vertical to participate in theAlgorand Europe Accelerator program as a launchpad for NetObjex's Data Marketplace product.

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  • IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NetObjex is one of 11 startups chosen out of 198 total applicants and the only in the IoT industry vertical to participate in theAlgorand Europe Accelerator program as a launchpad for NetObjex's Data Marketplace product.
  • The Algorand Europe Accelerator is a collective initiative between theAlgorandFoundation and blockchain funds, Eterna Capital and Borderless Capital, supporting blockchain startups and entrepreneurs with an emphasis on Europe to build decentralized applications on Algorand blockchain.
  • "Algorand is led by Professor Silvio Micali of MIT, is emerging as a blockchain leader with over 500 companies who have already integrated Algorandinto their stack.
  • The Algorand ecosystem includes global exchanges, asset issuers (including stablecoins USDT and USDC), and supporting infrastructure including custodians, wallet providers, and identity providers.

Computer History Museum Honors Tech Legends for Lifetime of Contributions and Impact on Humanity

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The program will amplify the Museum's mission to decode technologyits computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

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  • The program will amplify the Museum's mission to decode technologyits computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
  • CHM proudly presents its 2021 Fellow Award honorees:
    Raymond Ozzie: For a lifetime of work in collaborative software and software entrepreneurship.
  • Andries van Dam: For a lifetime of contributions to computer graphics, hypertext, and education.
  • In the four decades since its founding, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has grown to become the leading museum exploring the computing past, digital present, and future impact of technology on humanity.

RAW Labs Raises $5.5M to Help Enterprises Unlock the Value of Their Data

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

The funding will enable RAW Labs to accelerate the acquisition of large enterprise clients and continue investing in the expansion of the capabilities of its core NoDB data platform.

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  • The funding will enable RAW Labs to accelerate the acquisition of large enterprise clients and continue investing in the expansion of the capabilities of its core NoDB data platform.
  • Professor Anastasia Ailamaki, co-founder of RAW Labs, will continue as Chief Scientific Officer with the mission to strengthen the companys research into groundbreaking data management technologies.
  • RAW Labs NoDB is a platform for data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to seamlessly access, query, clean, and enhance heterogeneous data sources in near real time and transform them into high-value data products for consumption by analytical tools, ML-models, and enterprise applications.
  • Just connect your data sources and start asking questions that will help you unlock new insights on how to reduce costs or increase sales.

Proprio Adds Computational Vision Luminaries to Technical Advisory Board

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Dr. Ramamoorthi and Dr. Wetzstein join Proprio's growing team of technical experts that includes Dr. Takeo Kanade, the U.A.

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  • Dr. Ramamoorthi and Dr. Wetzstein join Proprio's growing team of technical experts that includes Dr. Takeo Kanade, the U.A.
  • "The additions of Dr. Ramamoorthi and Dr. Wetzstein to our already impressive board of technical advisors is invaluable as we continue to develop and integrate these amazing technologies into our surgical navigation platform."
  • "I am thrilled to be joining the Technical Advisory Board of Proprio and contributing to the revolution of light field technology in surgical applications," said Professor Ramamoorthi.
  • Proprio is developing a new type of surgical imaging and navigation system which provides a dramatic enhancement of the surgeon's vision.

Sony AI's Dr. Peter Stone Named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

TOKYO, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Dr. Peter Stone, Executive Director, Sony AI America Inc., has been named a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the premier professional organization in the field of computer science.

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  • TOKYO, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Dr. Peter Stone, Executive Director, Sony AI America Inc., has been named a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the premier professional organization in the field of computer science.
  • Dr. Stone is being honored by ACM for his "contributions to automated planning, learning, and multiagent systems with applications in robotics and e-commerce."
  • The ACM Fellow award recognizes the top one percent of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.
  • ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.