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October 23, 2012 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm – UF Hilton Something a little lighter going into the holidays: In this fascinating slide-illustrated presentation, Dr. Andrew Nichols discusses his research into the causative effects of geomagnetic activity in… Organized by AITP North-Central Florida Chapter | Type: presentation, and, dinner
November 13, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm – UF Hilton Join us at our November 13 dinner meeting where Microsoft's Blain Barton will discuss the business rationale for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Free to members, $5 for non-members (food not incl… Organized by AITP-NCFL | Type: dinner, and, presentation
April 22, 2014 from 5:30pm to 7:45pm – UF Hilton Local business leader Joe Cirulli of Gainesville Health and Fitness will present "Building Your Brand Through Culture". Full details are available at www.aitp-ncfl.org/pdf/201404.pdf We hope to see… Organized by AITP North Central Florida Chapter | Type: monthly, presentation, and, dinner
May 20, 2014 from 5:30pm to 7:45pm – UF Hilton We are pleased to welcome Matt Allison of Kelly Services as he speaks on the art of retaining employees. This topic has been requested by a number of people in our community and we are expecting an… Organized by AITP of North Central Florida | Type: dinner, and, presentation
October 28, 2014 from 5:15pm to 7:45pm – UF Hilton We're honored and delighted to have Tony Barr, creator of the SAS programming language and founder of Barr Systems here in Gainesville, making an intriguing presentation on his latest project, "A Mod… Organized by North-Central Florida chapter of AITP | Type: dinner, and, presentation
December 9, 2014 from 5:45pm to 8:30pm – UF Hilton The December 9 meeting of your North Central Florida chapter of AITP will be held a bit early, to minimize schedule conflicts with the holidays. As usual our holiday topic is a little less technical… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: dinner, and, presentation
January 27, 2015 from 5:30pm to 8pm – UF Hilton The January 27 meeting of your North Central Florida chapter of AITP will feature Andrew Robb of UF's Virtual Experience Research Group presenting the Virtual Human:The University of Florida’s Virtua… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: dinner, and, presentation
April 28, 2015 from 5:30pm to 8pm – UF Hilton The Association of Information Technology Professionals is a national organization dedicated to ethics and professionalism in the field of IT. Your local North-Central Florida chapter of AITP has be… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: education, and, technology, presentation
June 26, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – ITProTV Your local chapter of CompTIA AITP is proud to host Duncan Kabinu of Gainesville Dev Academy presenting "Blockchain 101: Blockchain Demystified". The meeting will take place Tuesday evening, June 26… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: presentation, and, networking
April 23, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – ITProTV At our April 23 presentation, we are delighted to host attorneys Richard C. Markow and Tom McThenia, Jr. of Gray | Robinson Attorneys At Law presenting “A 2019 Cybersecurity Legal Update”. For full… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: presentation, and, networking
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The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape. some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.
By Bruno Couriol
The Allen Institute for AI has unveiled Olmo 3, an open-source language model family that empowers developers with full access to the model lifecycle, from training datasets to checkpoints. Featuring reasoning-focused variants and robust tools for post-training modifications, Olmo 3 promotes transparency, experimentation, and community collaboration, driving innovations in AI.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Nexla recently introduced Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to dramatically lower the barrier for building data pipelines for AI applications.
By Craig Risi
Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discussions on the importance of multi-vendor strategies in tech. Cloudflare's CEO vowed to enhance system resilience, emphasizing that outages can impact even the largest providers.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Grafana Labs has published major updates across two of its core observability products: Grafana 12.3, and Grafana Tempo 2.9. The two releases have distinct improvements in monitoring, logs, and tracing for Grafana users.
By Matt Saunders
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