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Linux Foundation Training & Certification & Cloud Native Computing Foundation Partner With Corise To Prepare 50,000 Professionals For The Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam

Free Enrollment is Now Open. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2023 – The Linux Foundation Training & Certification and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced a partnership with CoRise to support its newest learning path designed to significantly increase the number of qualified and certified DevOps professionals worldwide by 50,000 over the next two years. The curriculum consists of three instructor-led courses, the first of which is free, that prepare professionals to sit for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. The courses are: The demand for Kubernetes proficient DevOps professionals has increased significantly in recent years due to the explosive growth…
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IBM And David Clark Cause Aim To Reduce Food Waste; Name AI-Powered Gardening App Winner Of 5th Annual Call For Code

Today, Call for Code founding partner IBM (NYSE: IBM), creator, David Clark Cause, charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate, the Linux Foundation announced the winner of the fifth annual Call for Code Global Challenge, which invited innovators across the globe to help accelerate sustainability and combat climate change with open source-powered technology. The top prize this year went to GardenMate for creating an app that uses IBM Watson® to connect gardeners with excess produce to people in need. IBM’s commitment to Call for Code is an extension of the company’s mission to better equip enterprises with the skills to develop impactful sustainability solutions. By providing access to leading…
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Bringing Massive AI Models To Any Cloud

IBM Research and PyTorch have come together to enable foundation models with billions of parameters to easily run on standard cloud networking infrastructure, such as Ethernet networking. IBM Research and PyTorch have come together to enable foundation models with billions of parameters to easily run on standard cloud networking infrastructure, such as Ethernet networking. The field of AI is in the middle of a revolution. In recent years, AI models have made images, songs, or even websites out of simple text prompts. These types of models with billions of parameters, called foundation models, can with little fine-tuning be repurposed from one…
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FINOS, The Fintech Open Source Foundation And Financial Sector Project Of The Linux Foundation, Announces Name Change And 2022 Dates For Open Source In Finance Forum

FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation and financial sector project of The Linux Foundation, and The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the name change of its event dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards from Open Source Strategy Forum to the Open Source in Finance Forum. The event started in 2017 under the auspices of FINOS prior to it joining the Linux Foundation in 2020, and has since grown to become the flagship event for the fast growing open source movement in financial services and its unique challenges.…
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New Quantum Intermediate Representation Alliance Serves As Common Interface For Quantum Computing Development

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the new QIR Alliance, a joint effort to establish an intermediate representation with the goal to facilitate interoperability within the quantum ecosystem and provide a representation suitable for current and future heterogenous quantum processors. Founding members include Honeywell, Microsoft, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Quantum Circuits Inc. and Rigetti Computing. QIR, or Quantum Intermediate Representation, is based on the popular open source LLVM compiler toolchain. QIR specifies a set of rules for representing quantum programs within the LLVM IR. Examples of QIR applications include using the standard LLVM infrastructure…
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New AI & Data Foundation Combines Industry’s Fastest-Growing Open Source Developments In Artificial Intelligence And Open Data

LF AI Foundation (LF AI), the organization building an ecosystem to enable and sustain open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL), and ODPi, a nonprofit organization accelerating the open ecosystem of big data solutions, announced they will come together under the new LF AI & Data Foundation. The LF AI & Data The Linux Foundation’s AI Foundation & ODPi merge to support growing portfolio of technologies and drive open source collaboration across AI and data Foundation will build and support an open community and a growing ecosystem of open source AI, data and analytics projects,…
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Linux Foundation Training Announces A Free Online Course- Ethics In AI And Big Data

Artificial Intelligence (AI) today is a reality, and Big Data is its fuel. There is no AI without Big Data. And there is no Big Data without people, generating it every single minute of every single day. As the existence of humans and machines are starting to merge, it is imperative to consider how to create ethical business frameworks for responsible AI development.  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the availability of a new, free course – Ethics in AI and Big Data. This course is offered through edX, the trusted platform for learning.…
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