Orchestrate all the Things

Fact or fiction? That's not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and bias typically come into play. In the nascent domain of scientific fact checking, things are complicated.

If you think fact-checking is hard, which it is, then what would you say about verifying scientific claims, on COVID-19 no less? Hint: it's also hard -- different in some ways, similar in some others.

Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific Claims is the title of a research paper published on pre-print server Arxiv by a team of researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), with data and code available on GitHub. 

In this backstage chat, David Wadden, lead author of the paper and a visiting researcher at AI2 and George Anadiotis connected to discuss the rationale, details, and directions for this work.

Article published on ZDNet in May 2020

Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight.

Few people, Nvidia's competitors included, would dispute the fact that Nvidia is calling the shots in the AI chip game today. The announcement of the new Ampere AI chip in Nvidia's main event, GTC, stole the spotlight.

Let's put the new architecture into perspective by comparing against the competition in terms of performance, economics, and software.

Article published on ZDNet in May 2020

From user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa.

GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users.

In this backstage chat, GoodData CEO and Founder Roman Stanek and George Anadiotis discuss the ins and outs of the deal, the data landscape, the way data are used to shape directions for organizations big and small, and what's next for GoodData.

Article published on ZDNet, May 2020

Grafana Labs, makers of popular open-source observability platform Grafana, announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0.

This comes only a few months after Grafana Labs scored $24 million in Series A funding to double down on open-source strategy and build what it dubs the world's first open and composable observability platform.

In this backstage chat, CEO and Founder Raj Dutt and George Anadiotis connected to discuss Grafana 7.0, and the road forward.

Article published on ZDNet, May 2020.

Knowledge graphs are among the most important technologies for the 2020s.

Here is how they are evolving, with vendors and standard bodies listening, and platforms becoming fluent in many query languages.

Article published on ZDNet, January 2020.