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AntChain Launches New Privacy-Preserving Computing Platform, Providing Data Privacy Protection Solution for AI Machine Learning

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Monday, June 5, 2023

AntChain announced a new collaboration with Intel to launch AntChain Massive Data Privacy-Preserving Computing Platform (MAPPIC), a new privacy-preserving computing (PPC) platform that brings a data privacy protection solution for large-scale AI machine learning.

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  • AntChain announced a new collaboration with Intel to launch AntChain Massive Data Privacy-Preserving Computing Platform (MAPPIC), a new privacy-preserving computing (PPC) platform that brings a data privacy protection solution for large-scale AI machine learning.
  • As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, MAPPIC is based on the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology and provides petabyte-scale AI training data protection capability.
  • Looking ahead, AntChain plans to deploy more trusted hardware, such as Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) for virtual machine isolation and heterogeneous hardware accelerators with MAPPIC.
  • In April 2023, Ant Group also partnered with Tsinghua University's Institute of Advanced Studies to launch the Joint Research Center for Privacy-Preserving Computation and Blockchain.

National Student Clearinghouse Names Dr. Lawrence W. Anderson as Chief Technology and Operating Officer

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The Clearinghouse--entering its 30th year of service to education--is the nation’s most comprehensive data source for education data. More recently the Clearinghouse has been working on expansion into industry credentials and helping to build out the national data infrastructure required to support the learning, pathway and outcome related needs of all learners, educational institutions, and credential issuers. Resources like the Clearinghouse have never been more important as the nation strives for inclusion of all people to the ongoing revolutionary opening of apertures of opportunity.  

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  • HERNDON, VA, Jan. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Student Clearinghouse announced today that Dr. Lawrence W. Anderson will join the organization as Chief Technology and Operating Officer, effective January 30, 2023.
  • In this new role, reporting directly to the Clearinghouse President and CEO Rick Torres, Larry will be leading the technical, data and operating transformation of the Clearinghouse.
  • Resources like the Clearinghouse have never been more important as the nation strives for inclusion of all people to the ongoing revolutionary opening of apertures of opportunity.
  • He also served as the Acting Chief Information Officer for Strategy and Policy responsible for IT strategy, investment management, budget, data management, and vendor management.