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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Is Java Still Popular with Software Developers?

Datavail

Java became open source in 2006, and Oracle took over stewardship when it acquired Sun in 2010. The wide range of open-source frameworks makes Java a popular tool for developing games like Minecraft and Mission Impossible II among many others. In a rapidly evolving technology world, that’s quite an accomplishment.

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AI and machine learning will require retraining your entire organization

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our recent surveys AI Adoption in the Enterprise and Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise , we found growing interest in AI technologies among companies across a variety of industries and geographic locations. A 2019 WIPO Study shows an over six-fold increase in AI patent publications from 2006 to 2017.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

Altexsoft

Maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, Apache Spark is an open-source, unified engine designed for large-scale data analytics. Moreover, this accessibility opens up a broader talent pool for companies, providing a considerable edge over platforms primarily relying on a single language, such as the Java-centric Hadoop.