At the 2019 MIT Space2 workshop, TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox spoke with Director of TRISH Dorit Donoviel about how TRISH works with MIT, California Institute of Technology and NASA to fund research to safeguard the health and wellness of astronauts in deep space. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. More about […]
Archives for February 2019
Major Data Science and Big Data Predictions To Watch In 2019
Big data and data science are trending in the globe of advanced technologies. We seek more and more data for good reasons as it is a key ingredient in digital innovation. Be that as it may, turning that massive amount of data collection into significant understanding remains a hard proposition. Associations that discover answers for […]
MIT Space2 workshop: Rethinking design of personal environments in space travel
At the 2019 MIT Space2 workshop, TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox spoke with Envirom Institute’s Ted Smith about how the MIT workshop focused on optimizing behavioral health and cognitive performance in confined environments found in space travel. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Teena Maddox: Tell me a little about the workshop […]
The real-life applications of IoT and why battery life is critical
Smart homes are already becoming the norm. Perhaps the most well-known form of IoT (Internet of Things), technology can automate routine tasks like ordering shopping via an Amazon Dash button to offering greater security through home cams and smart doorbells. But IoT uses far exceed consumer devices, says Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson, founder and CEO of Qoitech. Diversity in devices […]
PyTorch on Azure: Deep learning in the oil and gas industry
This blog post was co-authored by Jürgen Weichenberger, Chief Data Scientist, Accenture and Mathew Salvaris, Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft Drilling for oil and gas is one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Workers are exposed to the risk of events ranging from small equipment malfunctions to entire off shore rigs catching on fire. Fortunately, […]
Azure Stack IaaS – part one
This blog post was co-authored by Daniel Savage, Principal Program Manager, Azure Stack and Tiberiu Radu, Senior Program Manager, Azure Stack. Azure Stack at its core is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform When we discuss Azure Stack with our customers, they see the value in Azure Stack providing cloud-native capabilities to their datacenters. They see the […]
Azure IoT Edge runtime available for Ubuntu virtual machines
Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy Azure and third-party services—edge modules—to run directly on IoT devices, whether they are cloud-connected or offline. These edge modules are container-based and offer functionality ranging from connectivity to analytics to storage—allowing you to deploy modules entirely from the Azure portal without writing […]
Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is an outstanding service for continuous ingestion and storage of high velocity telemetry data from cloud services and IoT devices. Leveraging its first-rate performance for querying billions of records, the telemetry data can be further analyzed for various insights such as monitoring service health, production processes, and usage trends. Depending on […]
Actuating mobility in the enterprise with new Azure Maps services and SDKs
The mobility space is at the forefront of the most complex challenges faced by cities and urban areas today. The movement of people and things is as much a driver of opportunity as it is an agent of chaos, aggravating existing challenges of traffic, pollution, and unbalanced livelihoods. Today, Azure Maps is continuing to expand […]
Azure IoT Hub Java SDK officially supports Android Things platform
Connectivity is often the first challenge in the Internet of Things (IoT) world, that’s why more than three years ago we released Azure IoT SDKs. Azure IoT SDKs enable developers to build IoT applications that interact with IoT Hub and the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. The SDKs cover most popular languages in IoT development, […]