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A Thirst for Energy: Solving AI’s Power Problem
Last year, scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hardware for AI program, their University of Maryland colleagues, and collaborators from Western Digital built a neural network that aced a wine-tasting test. A better-than-human sommelier wasn’t the project’s goal, though; its goal was to explore new ways of addressing AI’s power consumption […]
May 10, 2023 • 8 min read Technology
Inventor Tiffany Santos: The Patience and Thrill of Discovery
For Dr. Tiffany Santos, the director of non-volatile memory materials research at Western Digital, forging a path for a new memory technology requires a blend of patience and optimism. A holder of four patents, co-author on 41 academic publications, and presenter at more than 30 conferences, Santos and her team engineer novel materials, by computation and […]
March 7, 2023 • 6 min read People