Information science

New Progress in Scientific Research by Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS)

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Friday, November 18, 2022

SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Professors Qionghai Dai (from Tsinghua University) and Haoqian Wang's (from the Division of Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School) research teams integrated their self-supervised denoising framework with fluorescence microscopes for real-time suppression of photon shot noise.

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  • SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Professors Qionghai Dai (from Tsinghua University) and Haoqian Wang's (from the Division of Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School) research teams integrated their self-supervised denoising framework with fluorescence microscopes for real-time suppression of photon shot noise.
  • Their work provides a new solution to the photon-limited challenge of fluorescence microscopy.
  • The conference covers topics including deep learning, computer vision, large-scale machine learning, learning theory, optimization, sparse theory and many other sub-fields.
  • As a significant graduate training base for Tsinghua University in electronic information, it offers 4 doctoral programs and 6 master's programs.

Backblaze Names Brian Beach Chief Technology Officer

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Monday, November 7, 2022

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading independent storage cloud company, today announced that Dr. Brian Beach has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective November 7, 2022.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading independent storage cloud company, today announced that Dr. Brian Beach has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective November 7, 2022.
  • Brian Beach has an extraordinary ability to lead architectural strategy and define the technologies and systems that Backblaze will use to meet the needs of our business and our customers today and into the future.
  • Beach has been with Backblaze for more than nine years and serves as Distinguished Engineer.
  • When I joined Backblaze in 2013 as a Distinguished Engineer, Backblaze was a company of 21 employees.

Codetta Biosciences and North Carolina Central University Receive $2M Grant from the North Carolina Collaboratory

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Codetta Biosciences , the life sciences company advancing and expanding research and diagnostic capabilities with its fully integrated, multi-omic platform, announced today that the North Carolina Collaboratory has awarded Codetta and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) a $2 million research and development grant, aimed to dramatically impact COVID related research and future clinical care.

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  • Codetta Biosciences , the life sciences company advancing and expanding research and diagnostic capabilities with its fully integrated, multi-omic platform, announced today that the North Carolina Collaboratory has awarded Codetta and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) a $2 million research and development grant, aimed to dramatically impact COVID related research and future clinical care.
  • The Research Triangle Park, North Carolina based start-up is developing an integrated platform of reagents, hardware, and software designed to enable highly multiplexed, quantitative, simultaneous multi-omic analyses.
  • The North Carolina Collaboratory awarded NCCU and Codetta the grant through their Business-Academic Partnership Program, aimed to address the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 in North Carolina.
  • North Carolina Central University (NCCU) prepares students to succeed in the global marketplace.

A Novel Multi-Modal Image Retrieval System by Researchers from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

GWANGJU, South Korea, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the amount of information on the internet increasing by the minute, retrieving data from it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems are capable of retrieving desired images based on the user's input from an extensive database. These systems are used in e-commerce, face recognition, medical applications, and computer vision. There are two ways in which CBIR systems work—text-based and image-based. One of the ways in which CBIR gets a boost is by using deep learning (DL) algorithms. DL algorithms enable the use of multi-modal feature extraction, meaning that both image and text features can be used to retrieve the desired image. Even though scientists have tried to develop multi-modal feature extraction, it remains an open problem.

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  • Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems are capable of retrieving desired images based on the user's input from an extensive database.
  • DL algorithms enable the use of multi-modal feature extraction, meaning that both image and text features can be used to retrieve the desired image.
  • To this end, researchers from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed DenseBert4Ret, an image retrieval system using DL algorithms.
  • Additionally, the user can make changes to the query image and retrieve the amended image from the inventory," concludes Prof. Jeon.

University of Washington Students Unlock New Historical Connections on King Tut's Tomb Using Gale Digital Scholar Lab

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. and SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in nearly 100 years, scholars and the curious public can see one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century in a new light. The Tutankhamun Centenary: 1922–2022 is a website showcasing University of Washington students' groundbreaking digital humanities (DH) research to mark a century since the discovery of King Tutankhamun's (King Tut's) tomb. For the Tut Talks project, masters and undergraduate students used tools like Gale Digital Scholar Lab (The Lab) from Gale, part of Cengage Group, to create a publicly available resource from previously inaccessible collections. It includes selected private papers of Howard Carter, the British archeologist who discovered the tomb, and articles from The Times of London, the primary disseminator of information about the discovery and excavation. Read Gale's blog for more insight on the project.

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  • The Tutankhamun Centenary: 19222022 is a website showcasing University of Washington students' groundbreaking digital humanities (DH) research to mark a century since the discovery of King Tutankhamun's (King Tut's) tomb.
  • For the Tut Talks project, masters and undergraduate students used tools like Gale Digital Scholar Lab (The Lab) from Gale , part of Cengage Group,to create a publicly available resource from previously inaccessible collections.
  • It is a compilation of the work of University of Washington Master's of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Capstone students and students in the NEAR E 485 course.
  • "The Tutankhamun Centenary project shows how digital humanities is breaking barriers in digital scholarship," said Seth Cayley, Vice President, Global Academic, Gale.

STRADVISION Welcomes Jack Sim as new Chief Technology Officer

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Monday, October 17, 2022

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STRADVISION , an AI-based vision perception technology company, has announced the appointment of Jack Sim as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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  • SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STRADVISION , an AI-based vision perception technology company, has announced the appointment of Jack Sim as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
  • During his tenure at Google, Sim led a team responsible for developing a technology that provides fine-grained object recognition capability for a large-scale image database.
  • During his time at Waymo, Sim was responsible for a machine learning (ML) model for the company's autonomous truck product line.
  • "I look forward to being part of that vision and helping STRADVISION continue its pursuit of the highest and safest levels of perception technology."

Fujitsu, Keio Research Institute at SFC lay foundation for a Trustable Internet

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Fujitsu and the Keio Research Institute at SFC initially presented the "Trustable Internet" concept at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) annual meeting and the W3C TPAC 2022 meeting (September 12-16, 2022) and defined the concept based on the opinions of various experts.

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  • Fujitsu and the Keio Research Institute at SFC initially presented the "Trustable Internet" concept at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) annual meeting and the W3C TPAC 2022 meeting (September 12-16, 2022) and defined the concept based on the opinions of various experts.
  • To address these issues, Fujitsu and the Keio Research Institute at SFC published their white paper outlining the concept of a "Trustable Internet" as a result of the research at their joint research base, the Trusted Internet Architecture Laboratory, which was established in April 2022.
  • - Director: Professor Osamu Nakamura (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University)
    - Associate Director: Project Professor Shigeya Suzuki (Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University)
    - Researchers from the Keio Research Institute at SFC and Fujitsu (approx.
  • By 2021, the institute had more than 40 laboratories (transdisciplinary research groups with advanced research missions) and more than 30 SFC research consortiums (joint research deployed by the Keio Research Institute at SFC in conjunction with a number of external organizations), and together with approximately 500 senior and guest researchers from various industries, government, and academia, aims to develop unique research to create a vital society.

Nfina Technologies Hires New Vice President of Sales

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nfina Technologieshas expanded its sales management team by bringing Bryan Avdyli on board as Vice President of Sales.

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  • MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nfina Technologieshas expanded its sales management team by bringing Bryan Avdyli on board as Vice President of Sales.
  • Bryan has over 20 years of experience across vertical markets such as hybrid/ multi-cloud, enterprise software, servers, storage, and IoT markets.
  • Bryan has worked with Fortune 500 and midsize enterprises focusing on early-stage emerging technology companies, growing revenue and channels, and gaining numerous reference customers.
  • Nfina is a US-based manufacturer of servers and data storage systems, including hyperconverged, converged, SAN, NAS, edge devices, and hybrid cloud solutions.

DeVry University Launches Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Scholarship to Close the Cybersecurity Talent Gap

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

With the launch of its Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Future Cyber Defenders Scholarship , DeVry is reinforcing its commitment to providing educational opportunities for in-demand skills critical to meet the evolving, real-time workforce needs of businesses.

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  • With the launch of its Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Future Cyber Defenders Scholarship , DeVry is reinforcing its commitment to providing educational opportunities for in-demand skills critical to meet the evolving, real-time workforce needs of businesses.
  • With the implementation of our Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Future Cyber Defenders Scholarship, we aim to address this growing need and make upskilling and reskilling more accessible for cyber professionals and their employers.
  • The Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Future Cyber Defenders Scholarship are crucial programs for DeVry to reach current and aspiring cybersecurity professionals and provide them with the necessary resources to advance the industry, added Shantanu Bose, Ph.D., provost and chief academic officer at DeVry University.
  • To learn more about the Future Cyber Defenders Scholars Program and Future Cyber Defenders Scholarship, please click here .

IonQ Secures Contract to Provide Quantum Solutions to United States Air Force Research Lab

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Friday, September 30, 2022

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), an industry leader in quantum computing, today announced that it has secured a $13.4 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) with access to its trapped ion systems for quantum computing hardware research and for the development of quantum algorithms and applications.

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  • IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), an industry leader in quantum computing, today announced that it has secured a $13.4 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) with access to its trapped ion systems for quantum computing hardware research and for the development of quantum algorithms and applications.
  • Quantum computing, systems and applications have the potential to help the U.S. Air Force protect both public and private infrastructure in the United States.
  • The AFRL-IonQ agreement, which marks IonQs latest commercialization milestone, represents a significant public-private partnership to invest in quantum computing.
  • The partnership will accelerate critical quantum science and technology projects, benefiting the Air Force as we seek to maintain our competitive advantage and advance our national security interests."