A new press release reports, “NEC X, the innovation accelerator for NEC’s emerging technologies, today announced from the Spark + AI Summit that it is opening the Vector Engine Data Acceleration Center (VEDAC) at its Silicon Valley facility. This new VEDAC is one of the company’s many offerings to innovators, makers and change agents. The […]
The Pentagon Relies on Silicon Valley for Artificial Intelligence Edge
by Angela Guess John Markoff recently reported in the New York Times, “In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology — artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter made his fourth trip to the tech industry’s heartland since being named […]
Artificial Intelligence and the Next Big Thing
by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy recently wrote in the New York Times, “As the oracles of Silicon Valley debate whether the latest tech boom is sliding toward bust, there is already talk about what will drive the industry’s next growth spurt. The way we use computing is changing, toward a boom (and, if history is […]