AI Evens the Playing Field in Sports
Around the globe, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game in youth, collegiate, and professional sports. Whether for performance analysis and recruiting, injury prevention, or fan engagement, AI is making its mark in sports and extending capabilities formerly available only to the most elite players and teams. Researchers keeping score see AI accelerating across the […]
October 8, 2024 • 7 min read Data
Tech Tidbits 3: Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month honors the vibrant stories, cultures, and contributions from individuals of Hispanic ancestry. Accompanied with our editorial illustration this year from Rachel Garcera, artist at Western Digital, we celebrate the achievements of three exceptional Latin American scientists who have made a groundbreaking impact in their respective fields of botany, biophysics, and atmospheric chemistry. […]
October 2, 2024 • 3 min read People
Building the Blueprint for an AI-Optimized Data Center
Amber Huffman is a principal engineer at Google Cloud, leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem. She is on the board of multiple open source and industry organizations and has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption.
September 26, 2024 • 11 min read AI
Generative AI and the Next Era of Software Engineering
Ravi Shankar Goli is a lead principal software engineer at Microsoft, developing a new generative AI product. He recently completed a second master’s degree focused on AI and is helping to nurture the next generation of innovators through volunteering.
September 24, 2024 • 9 min read AI
On Building AI Storage Systems
Niall MacLeod is the director of applications engineering for Western Digital storage platforms. He specializes in disaggregated storage using NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) architectures for machine learning and AI workloads.
September 18, 2024 • 9 min read AI
NVIDIA’s Chief Platform Architect on Scaling AI
Robert Ober is the chief platform architect of NVIDIA's data center products. He works with global hyperscale data centers to architect AI clusters, including some of the largest deployed, and influence NVIDIA’s hardware and software platform roadmaps.
September 16, 2024 • 11 min read AI
Details in the Data with Fashion Photographer Robert Ector
Robert Ector is a fashion photographer for celebrity clients including Mary J. Blige, Steve Harvey, Serena Williams, Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, and others. He travels to exotic locations to capture the glitz and glam of these famous and fashionable globetrotters, taking photos that would be difficult to replicate. “When I work with entertainers, I always […]
August 27, 2024 • 9 min read People
Into the FathomVerse: Community science, data, and the sea
Despite extensive research dives and piles of visual data, ocean scientists estimate that more than 90% of marine life remains unclassified. Beneath the frothy waves, there’s a cosmopolis of undersea denizens, unknown and unaware of the world above. However, the ongoing climate crisis highlights just how entangled these two worlds are. As we seek to […]
August 20, 2024 • 8 min read Data
Joyce Chen: The Intricate Details of Substrate Design
Details are crucial for Joyce Chen. They have to be. Chen, a senior manager of package design engineering at Western Digital, leads a team of engineers responsible for the intricacies of semiconductor packaging design. Attention to detail is just one of her traits ideally suited for the job. Packaging design involves a series of steps […]
August 13, 2024 • 6 min read People