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Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Reeve Ramharry. From its start as a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The University of West Indies (UWI) today has grown to approximately 45,000 students and five campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda and its Open Campus, and 10 global centres in collaboration with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Figure 1: A map of The University of West Indies campus locations. The University of the West Indies, Open ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: RStudio Blog. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. This is a guest post from Dr. Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei, Director of Strategic Intelligence and Insights Unit, and his team at Monash University, Australia Similar to any other large and complex organisation, at Monash University we employ a wide range of data to inform decision making and monitor different aspects of our operations; ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Jan Day. Higher education leaders agree the coronavirus pandemic forced many institutions to adapt and innovate as never before. Which strategies worked? Which tactics didn’t? What role did cloud technology play? The Amazon Web Services (AWS) education team recently convened a small group of university leaders for a roundtable discussion. The group’s goals were to learn about adaptations institutions have made to support learning, teaching, health and administrative processes, campus culture, and physical infrastructure. Here are the top five takeaways: 1. Physical health and mental wellbeing are top priority: Support systems that scale are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Alexis Goodrich. "What kind of cool opportunities are there in the research and education space and how can we leverage that technology?" These were the types of questions that educators at Northeastern University asked themselves when looking for solutions to provide unique, immersive experiences for their students. Education and experiential learning have seen incredible value in the development of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality technology and content, according to Statista.1 Traditional, more passive learning methods are failing to meet the needs of modern education, and institutions like Northeastern University are rapidly exploring ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Howard University announced an initiative to upskill its students and build pathways to technical careers with cloud computing courses and training resources for educators. Through this collaboration, students will have access to curriculum aligned to in-demand cloud careers, and developed in coordination with AWS experts to prepare students for the workforce, including hands-on experiences to help ensure alignment with the needs of employers seeking skilled cloud talent. Howard University will integrate cloud computing concepts into new and existing higher education curriculum, giving students access ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Maria Teleńczuk. This is a guest post by Maria Teleńczuk, research engineer at the Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science (CDS), and Alexandre Gramfort, senior research scientist at INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. They explain how they adapted their open source data challenge platform RAMP to train the models submitted by the participants using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot instances, and how they leveraged AWS to support three student challenges. RAMP: How it all began It took years of research and data collection to confirm that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Dr. Omar Lateef. Guest post from Rush University Medical Center and CareJourney Rush University Medical Center embraced cloud transformation for internal operations and organizational needs as well as in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rush analytics team worked with the city of Chicago department of public health to create a working reference implementation of a cloud-based public health analytics hub. This hub aggregates, combines, and analyzes multi-hospital data related to patient admissions, discharges and transfers, electronic lab reporting, hospital capacity, and clinical care documents of COVID-19 patients receiving care in and across Chicago ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Ears still ringing from the Banking Royal Commission thumping, CBA-owned Bankwest has for the past few years been dealing with the demands of the new open banking regime and its mandate that all customers have more freedom in who they deal with and what products they can choose.For Australia’s banks, especially the ‘Big 4’, it’s been a slog.The process of dragging several decades’ worth of legacy and proprietary core systems into the third decade of the 21st century started many years ago, but open banking has created a greater sense of urgency as well as compliance risk, on top of broader ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Date: 12.04.2021 Tags:   postgresql    community    enterprisedb    edb    london    friends    rpm    redhat    fedora    centos    Category:   Interviews    Interviewed by: Andreas Scherbaum PostgreSQL is the World’s most advanced Open Source Relational Database. The interview series “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” presents the people who make the project what it is today. Read all interviews here. Please tell us about yourself, and where you are from. I’m a community person. Ex-Turkey, now Londoner. Started using Linux in 1996, and PostgreSQL in 1998. Love to travel, listen to music, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Dave Levy. Nonprofits play a vital role in improving quality of life for individuals worldwide. At no time has this been more evident than over the last year. COVID-19 has created extraordinary demand for nonprofit services and these organizations are stepping up to make a meaningful impact in their communities, even as the pandemic takes a massive toll on their own operations. One subset of the sector doing crucial work behind the scenes is nonprofit research organizations. These institutions are using science and technology to better understand the virus, speed diagnostics, develop new, innovative ... Read More