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Microsoft Integrates Copilot with Azure Quantum Elements for Advancing Scientific Research
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft demonstrated the advantages of combining AI and Azure Quantum Elements, a suite of services and tools for quantum chemistry and materials science. With the integration of Copilot, the new solution allows researchers to explore more materials, speed up chemistry simulations, and experiment with existing quantum hardware.
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Pfizer Uses Serverless Architecture on AWS to Scale Processing of Digital Biomarkers
Pfizer upgraded the serverless architecture for processing digital biomarker data at scale to make it more flexible and configurable. They created a framework that uses a file processing pipeline built with AWS Step Functions and other serverless services, as well as a custom Python package for data ingestion and processing.
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In Memory of John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway, pioneering Mathematician and creator of the Game of Life, was sadly lost to covid-19 in April. Hackday recently wrote about his influence on generations of programmers. The Communications of the ACM, the Scientific American and Siobhan Roberts, his biographer, have all written about his long list of celebrated accomplishments and contributions.
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TensorFlow Learns Cucumber Selection and Classification
Cucumber farmer with embedded systems engineering background teaches TensorFlow neural network to mimic his cucumber-farming family’s classification and selection skills for automation.
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Cloudera Announces Partnership with the Broad Institute
Cloudera announced their partnership with MIT & Harvard's Broad Institute and detailed some of their experience with the Genome Analytics Toolkit pipeline.
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Precision Medicine Modeling Demonstration with Spark on EMR, ADAM, and the 1000 Genomes Project
AWS engineers Christopher Crosbie and Ujjwal Ratan detail using Spark on EMR for precision medicine data analysis on the ADAM platform with data from the 1000 genomes project.
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The Broad Institute Migrates Genome Sequencing Pipeline to Google Cloud Platform
Genomic data sequencing and subsequent analysis faces large data volume challenges that several organizations are solving with cloud services. The Broad Institute detailed their experience with petabyte scale sequencing pipelines last month through the Google Research Blog and is detailed here by InfoQ.
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Yahoo Open-Sources DataSketches for Faster Operations Over Streams
Yahoo has open-sourced DataSketches, a library written in Java for stochastic streaming algorithms. DataSketches is able to perform traditionally expensive operations, like counting distinct occurrences of a variable within a stream, using a fraction of time and memory and with a predictable error margin.