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Since March 23, 2020, Dr. Patrick Hines, physician, scientist and entrepreneur has spent most of his time between the Detroit Children’s Hospital and a nearby hotel room, where he stays to minimize COVID-19 risk to his family.  He occasionally drops by to participate in movie night from a backyard chair while his wife and kids stay inside on the sofa.  But Patrick is undaunted by this, saying that helping people is in his DNA.  From very humble beginnings in North Carolina, Patrick watched his parents, both teachers, mentor poor rural kids at school and at home; it inspired in him the desire to give back. Patrick’s dad, a classically-trained baritone, accomplished singer, and choir director at the local college, was also his musical role model. Patrick made his way through college on a music scholarship, playing French horn and trumpet. But all the while, he was drawn to science. Having majored in chemistry at Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia, Patrick set off to get his PhD but soon realized that research wasn’t enough of a people profession to satisfy his desire to serve. So off he went to medical school at UNC Chapel Hill, where he had the good fortune to meet his clinical mentor and learn about the vastly undeserved clinical needs of people with sickle cell disease. Patrick, now a PhD and MD, ultimately trained to become a pediatric intensive care physician.  He worked first at Children’s Hospital of Philadephia (CHoP) and later at Detroit Children’s Hospital, but he also founded Functional Fluidics, a company that focuses on red blood cell health generally and sickle cell anemia diagnostics specifically.  The idea for the company came from his recognition that therapeutics to treat the condition kept failing clinical trials because there was no surrogate endpoint and that he could bring a solution to this problem and to patients who had so few treatment options. Patrick is now in the process of transitioning out of his regular ICU role to dedicate himself full-time to his young, growing company.  Patrick speaks on the podcast about his difficulty raising money as a black founder and how these experiences were even more challenging than some of the prejudice he has faced as a black physician.  Given our current discourse on race in America, it is an eye-opening first person account of how someone with significant intellect, experience, and education can come up against the limitations of others’  small thinking. But despite those that have told him his efforts were less than, Patrick has made it pretty clear that he is not giving up – he sees his work as a lifeline to people and intends to live out the helping gene passed on from his parents.  Says Patrick, “It is my responsibility to be sure people with sickle cell matter and to get them the medical resources they need.” Patrick has also returned to music, singing publicly with his dad for the very first time last year.  As an avid jazz enthusiast (see below for his favorite song) he is excited to be back around music.  And he is especially glad to be leaving his pandemic-driven hotel stay and returning to his family for the everyday hugs, skirmishes and all of the things that were once annoying and are now a joy to experience.  Welcome home Patrick and thanks for being on the show! We are grateful to Manatt Health for sponsoring today’s episode of Tech Tonics.  Manatt Health integrates strategic business consulting, public policy acumen, legal excellence and deep analytics capabilities to better serve the complex needs of clients across America’s healthcare system. Together with it’s parent company, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, the firm’s multidisciplinary team is dedicated to helping clients across all industries grow and prosper.

In this Intel on AI podcast episode: Sparse modeling methods can improve the interpretability of predictive AI models and is widely used in academia today. Yet despite advances in the field, issues remain when sparse modeling meets real-life applications. Adrian Sossna, the Chief Marketing Officer at HACARUS, joins the Intel on AI podcast to talk about how the SPECTRO visual software inspection module can make sparse modeling more available. He highlights how SPECTRO enables factory automation by vastly reducing the amount of reclassification needed by human inspectors. Adrian talks about how this enables AI models to be trained faster with less data while achieving accurate results specifically targeted for production of precision parts, metals, plastics and other materials. SPECTRO contains explainability features that allow detection of defects within manufacturing and provides businesses to make improvements in their processes because they have visibility into the detection made by the software. Adrian also talks about how working with the Intel AI Builders program has allowed HACARUS to run SPECTRO on Intel Optimized Python and achieve impressive performance improvements and has been very powerful for HACARUS to deliver a better experience to their customers. To learn more, visit: hacarus.com Visit Intel AI Builders at: builders.intel.com/ai

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Ronnie Vasishta, Vice President and General Manager for the Networking and Configurable Logic Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss the critical role of programmable solutions in the delivery of network infrastructure for 5G. Vasishta joined Intel with the acquisition of eASIC in 2018 and is responsible both for running eASIC within Intel and for the wireline and wireless networking business for Intel’s programmable solutions. In this interview, Vasishta and host Allyson Klein dive deep on technologies that are part of what Vasishta calls the “custom logic continuum.” Vasishta talks about “structured ASICs,” an intermediary between FPGAs and true ASICs with lower unit-cost and power consumption than FPGAs but faster time-to-market and lower engineering cost than true ASICs. Additionally, Vasishta highlights next-generation Intel eASIC code-named Diamond Mesa. Drawing upon generations of customer learning from both Intel and eASIC, Diamond Mesa is already seeing early adoption in 5G RAN applications by some of the same customers who helped contribute to the product’s definition. Finally, Vasishta looks ahead to the future of programmable solutions and how Intel will continue to deliver to continuously evolving and changing market requirements. For more information on Diamond Mesa and other Intel programmable devices, please visit: intel.com/easic intel.com/fpga Notices & Disclaimers: Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Intel CIO Archie Deskus talks with host Allyson Klein about how Intel was able to successfully pivot its workforce while maintaining business operations. Because Intel created a Pandemic Leadership Team (PLT) following the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003, there was some preparation for half of all employees work remotely, but the speed and severity of this pandemic forced the company to innovate rapidly. The two discuss why Intel needed to make numerous changes across manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing, human resources and finance while supporting 100,000 remote workers worldwide and go into further details about how Intel IT was able to double VPN capacity over a single weekend. Read more about how Intel transitioned to support 100,000 remote workers in Archie’s blog on the IT Peer Network: itpeernetwork.intel.com/how-intel-it-…mote-workers Find more about Intel’s best practices for IT organizations at: intel.com/it Follow Archie on Twitter at: twitter.com/archiedeskus Notices & Disclaimers: Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Vikas Bhatia, Head of Product for Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing, talks with host Allyson Klein about the role of Azure and Intel SGX in protecting applications and data during use in the public cloud. Azure Confidential Computing is a broad Microsoft initiative to protect applications and data while in use in the public cloud and is enabled by Intel SGX. Vikas describes exciting recent developments in confidential computing, including the Confidential Computing Consortium, the general availability announcement of Intel SGX-based VMs, and various use cases that customers are targeting with confidential computing. To learn more about Azure Confidential Computing with Intel SGX-based VMs, visit: aka.ms/azurecc Follow @azure on Twitter. Notices & Disclaimers: Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary.

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: 5G Gaming could be one of next-generation mobile networks’ first killer apps. 5G and extremely low latency guarantees have enabled an explosion of gaming in the cloud, not to mention augmented and virtual reality. This new development will revolutionize how and where gamers experience their gaming worlds. Critical to its success will be a trust model that guarantees performance to the player, as well as between gaming companies and their partners. Richard Piasentin, Chief Strategy & CMO at Accedian joins Intel Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss the most important features that 5G brings to the revolution in cloud gaming and Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS). In this interview, Piasentin explores how GaaS utilizes mobile edge computing and network slicing. Uncover Accedian’s role in the development of GaaS – a look to the future which evokes thought-provoking questions about this emergent market, Accedian’s partnership with MobiledgeX, and the business value to mobile operators, gamers and the gaming companies. Read more about this topic via Piasentin’s recent post on the Accedian blog: https://accedian.com/service-providers/gaming-as-a-service-set-to-emerge-as-a-5g-killer-app/ Learn more about Intel’s work in network transformation, 5G and edge computing at: http://networkbuilders.intel.com

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Sven Freudenfeld, Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Application Business Unit at Lanner joins Intel Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss new white boxes for uCPE and the continued roll out and growth of SD-WAN. Defining the Edge is not always obvious. Creating the right edge architecture for compute, networking and storage are the foundation to a successful 5G launch. In this interview, Sven considers next steps in the network development to sustain the network and computing demand with low latency requirements and disaggregated systems. Lanner is an Intel Select Solutions partner, with the following products: Lanner uCPE NCA-4020 which was made commercially available in 2018; Lanner NCA-6210, now a Certified Intel Select Solution for Visual Cloud Delivery Network (CDN) to Accelerate Next-Gen CDN Deployments, launched in September 2019). Sven describes how Multi-Access Edge Computing, a key focus for Lanner, combines storage and networking which demands improved scalability and multi-access for edge devices. Lanner recently launched MEC solution developed in collaboration with Noviflow, Fortinet, as well as Intel’s Barefoot Networks. Optimized for simple, scalable, and secure services at the network edge, the Lanner HybridTCA Series is the white-box MEC hardware platform that aggregates up to (12) 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with two high-speed P4-programmable Barefoot Tofino switching ASICs, and massive storage with support for precision time protocol (PTP), as an all-in-one modular appliance. For more information about Lanner visit: http://www.lannerinc.com/ To find out more about their white box solutions visit: http://www.whiteboxsolution.com/ Learn more about Intel’s work in network transformation, 5G and edge computing at: http://networkbuilders.intel.com

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Paul Stevens Marketing Director, Advantech Cloud-IoT Group joins Intel Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss several demos which were prepared for MWC 2020. Tune into discover how Advantech intends to democratize the industry through ecosystem innovation. Paul and his team are responsible for white box solutions for uCPE and the network at the edge. They are focused on partners around the world to bring more virtualized solutions to market. In this interview, Paul describes Advantech’s new SD-WAN Starter Kits (with Enea and flexiWAN) and the multi-vendor solution featuring a Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) demo with netElastic which is running in the World Wide Technology (WWT) Advanced Technology Center, running on Red Hat. The vBNG demo, which was to play at Intel’s booth, utilizes 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors as well as Intel Select Solutions for NFVI Forwarding Platform and demonstrates how a multi-vendor ecosystem provides integrated, validated, benchmarked solutions which are already available as a commercial solution. Paul highlights how Advantech and the Intel Network Builders ecosystem continue to embrace the role of open source in democratizing the use of new technology. To learn more about Intel Select Solutions for uCPE with Advantech White Boxes visit: https://builders.intel.com/docs/networkbuilders/intel-select-solutions-for-ucpe-with-advantech-white-boxes-v3.pdf Learn more about Intel’s work in network transformation, 5G and edge computing at: http://networkbuilders.intel.com

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Today, CoSPs want an open architecture, flexible deployment model and scaling which will provide better coverage, improved user experience and private networks for connected devices and users. ASOCS has been an early advocate and pioneer of opening and virtualizing the RAN and an active […]

In this Intel on AI podcast episode: In industrial and manufacturing settings plant safety issues like oil spills, chemical spills, and PPE (personal protective equipment) violations can happen often. These issues put lives at risk, the environment in danger, and bring down productivity and profitability of the organization. Yet, addressing these issues automatically with AI is a challenging potential. The effort to capture, create and analyze a data set for image and video annotation is immense. Sajin Payandath, the Lead Data Scientist at Flutura, joins the Intel on AI podcast to illustrate how Flutura’s CerebraVision solution addresses these issues of safety and security specific to oil & gas, manufacturing, and heavy engineering sectors. He describes how CerebraVision is a central safety monitoring system that uses AI analysis of CCTV video feed to detect safety violations occurring within an industrial plant environment. This allows organizations to detect and respond to safety issues in real-time. The solution can also potentially be used to improve the productivity by combining visual intelligence with sensor data to analyze and improve industrial processes. Sajin talks about how Flutura has been working to adapt their solution to help organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic to detect and alert social distancing violations within the workplace. He also Highlights how Flutura has worked with Intel to optimize Flutura’s training and inference workloads to ensure they run efficiently and with increased accuracy and performance on Intel architecture. To learn more, visit: flutura.comflutura.com Visit Intel AI Builders at: builders.intel.com/ai