Information science

WiMi Developed an Innovative Technology: Attentional Autoencoder Network for Efficient Recommendation System

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/––WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WIMI) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that it developed an innovative technology, attentional autoencoder network for efficient recommendation system, which takes recommendation systems to a higher level of accuracy, efficiency and user experience.

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  • BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/––WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WIMI) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that it developed an innovative technology, attentional autoencoder network for efficient recommendation system, which takes recommendation systems to a higher level of accuracy, efficiency and user experience.
  • WiMi's attentional autoencoder network is a technical framework for efficient recommendation systems that combine autoencoders and attention mechanisms to improve the accuracy and efficiency of recommendations.
  • Recommendation computation and evaluation: after training, the attention autoencoder network can perform recommendation computation based on user and item features.
  • WiMi also plans to combine the attentional autoencoder network with other advanced recommendation technologies to further enhance recommendation effectiveness.

Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Passes at 82

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Sunday, August 20, 2023
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It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock.

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  • It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock.
  • Dr. Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox.
  • Adobe Chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen sent the following email to all Adobe employees:
    It is with profound sadness that I share that our beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away at the age of 82.
  • Dr. Warnock is survived by his wife Marva Warnock and his three children.

Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN start collaboration to develop distributed training of Large Language Models

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Monday, May 22, 2023
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Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN are undertaking an initiative to this end that will focus on research and development toward distributed training of LLMs.

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  • Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN are undertaking an initiative to this end that will focus on research and development toward distributed training of LLMs.
  • The technology used in this initiative will allow the organizations to efficiently perform large-scale language model training on the large-scale parallel computing environment of the supercomputer Fugaku.
  • Leveraging the insights gained from deep learning from Japanese natural language processing developed at Tohoku University, we will construct large-scale models.
  • Distributed Training of Large Language Models on Fugaku (Project Number: hp230254)
    Neural networks with hundreds of millions to billions of parameters that have been pre-learned using large amounts of data.

Fudan and Gotion established the Joint Research Centre for Advanced Battery Technology

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Thursday, August 17, 2023
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HONG KONG, Aug 17, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - On August 9, the School-Enterprise Joint Research Centre for Advanced Battery Technology of Fudan University-Gotion High-Tech (the "Joint Research Centre") was officially established and licensed in Jiangwan Campus of Fudan University.

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  • HONG KONG, Aug 17, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - On August 9, the School-Enterprise Joint Research Centre for Advanced Battery Technology of Fudan University-Gotion High-Tech (the "Joint Research Centre") was officially established and licensed in Jiangwan Campus of Fudan University.
  • Dr. Zhang Ya, the president of the Tsukuba Research Institute of Gotion High-tech, made a report on the construction of the Joint Research Centre on site.
  • Professor Li Wenwu of Institute of Optoelectronics, Fudan University is one of the responsible persons of the Joint Research Centre.
  • As the consultant director of the Joint Research Centre, Chu Junhao, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the dean of Institute of Optoelectronics, Fudan University, proposed three requests to the Joint Research Centre.

Generative Red Team Challenge Opens Next Friday at DEF CON 31

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Friday, August 4, 2023
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With the largest first-ever public Generative Red Team (GRT) Challenge ( www.airedteam.org ) just one week away, SeedAI, AI Village, and Humane Intelligence are making final preparations to host the event at AI Village at DEF CON 31.

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  • With the largest first-ever public Generative Red Team (GRT) Challenge ( www.airedteam.org ) just one week away, SeedAI, AI Village, and Humane Intelligence are making final preparations to host the event at AI Village at DEF CON 31.
  • The GRT Challenge brings an ethical perspective to traditional red teaming by addressing societal impact - including categories to gather vulnerabilities in information integrity, multilingual harms, societal bias, and more.
  • The GRT Challenge takes place in the AI Village at DEF CON 31 at Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas, Nev.
    GRT Challenge participants will test large language models (LLM) through challenges designed by the hosts and their community partners.
  • Researchers interested in learning more about the GRT Challenge Call for Research Proposals can visit www.airedteam.org/news/call-for-research-proposals-generative-red-team-c... .

Pointwealth Capital Management Continues Strategic Expansion with the Appointment of Edward Suero

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Monday, July 17, 2023
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ENCINO, Calif., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pointwealth Capital Management, a boutique wealth management team focused on creating customized investment portfolios for each client's unique situation, today announced the appointment of Edward Suero as a financial advisor. Mr. Suero will work closely with Pointwealth President Sandra Cho to expand its client base and address the demand for the firm's services among emerging high-net-worth and high earning not yet rich (HENRY) clients.

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  • ENCINO, Calif., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pointwealth Capital Management, a boutique wealth management team focused on creating customized investment portfolios for each client's unique situation, today announced the appointment of Edward Suero as a financial advisor.
  • Mr. Suero has been in the banking and financial services field since 2004.
  • "I'm thrilled to join Sandra and the entire Pointwealth team as we write a new chapter," said Mr. Suero.
  • In addition to general investment management, he also specializes in cash management, alternative income generating investments, and tax efficient strategies.

PAWR Platforms Earn OTIC Status for O-RAN ALLIANCE Testing and Certification

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Friday, July 14, 2023
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The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces that multiple PAWR testbeds have gained O-RAN ALLIANCE approval as Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTICs).

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  • The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces that multiple PAWR testbeds have gained O-RAN ALLIANCE approval as Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTICs).
  • As OTICs, the PAWR platforms will support wide adoption of O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications, and the testing and verification of O-RAN systems and subsystems.
  • POWDER at the University of Utah – POWDER supports end-to-end Open RAN testing in lab and field scenarios and has developed a Testing Orchestration and Testing Automation (TOTA) framework to provide streamlined, on-demand testing capabilities.
  • O-RAN ALLIANCE defined OTIC services provided by POWDER will include interoperability and end-to-end testing, badging and certification.

NTT Research Scientist Creates Model for Discontinuous Learning

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Dr. Reddy shows that the outcome of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which operate gradually, can appear discontinuous for certain kinds of tasks.

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  • Dr. Reddy shows that the outcome of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which operate gradually, can appear discontinuous for certain kinds of tasks.
  • “We show that the nonlinear dynamics of RL-based learning, together with continuous exploration, lead to discontinuous learning curves in tree-like structured environments,” Dr. Reddy said.
  • Along with these research initiatives, Dr. Reddy also serves as the NTT Research PHI Lab lead on a five-year joint research project with scientists at Harvard University to study animal neuro-responses, in the hope of informing future artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
  • The NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley has also entered into a joint research agreement with the PHI Lab.

Connecting Durham to Software Engineering Training at Momentum through the NCCU Digital Equity Leadership Program

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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DURHAM, N.C., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has partnered with Momentum, a Durham-based tech to offer a job training program in software engineering as a part of NCCU's Digital Equity Leadership Program.

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  • DURHAM, N.C., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has partnered with Momentum, a Durham-based tech to offer a job training program in software engineering as a part of NCCU's Digital Equity Leadership Program.
  • Participants in the program can gain coding skills for software engineering and software quality assurance and information systems development.
  • This program is funded by the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program.
  • In pursuit of this mission, NCCU has chosen Momentum as its strategic partner to deliver a comprehensive software engineering program to local residents.

Willamette University Announces New School of Computing and Information Sciences

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Monday, May 22, 2023
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SALEM, Ore., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Willamette University announced today the creation of a new School of Computing and Information Sciences to support the expansion of its rapidly growing computing and data science programs. 

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  • SALEM, Ore., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Willamette University announced today the creation of a new School of Computing and Information Sciences to support the expansion of its rapidly growing computing and data science programs.
  • The School of Computing and Information Sciences becomes the university's fifth school, joining the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Law, the Atkinson Graduate School of Management and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland.
  • The formal creation of the new school will help enhance Willamette's current offerings in computing and information science and create pathways for even more of the interdisciplinary opportunities that Willamette is known for.
  • "Computing and information science are among the most in-demand degree programs and courses at Willamette," said President Stephen E. Thorsett.