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The time will come when we will recall good old days when the very first LLMs like ChatGPT were available. Their value consist in the fact that they were trained on real human generated data. As human generated data becomes more and more scarce and expensive, researchers and companies start to use synthetic texts generated by bots to train new mnodels. This trend will take them even far from the real world reducing variance in data, replicating errors, posing to hallucination even more.
Tech community has to find new, more robust and beneficial applications for AI, as LLM that is widely accepted AI application starting to exhaust itself.

The world well known engineer who could speak in eight languages, who held 300 patents. His name was borrowed to name electric car and energy storage company created by Elon Musk, Google co-founder Larry Page cited him as an inspiration.

Today is birthday of legend of science and technology Nikola Tesla.

Good opportunities for young scholars in Engineering and Science. Consider following fully funded PhD positions in UK and Norway. After that you are welcome to join troops of peace and development at the School of IT and Engineering, ADA University.

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15 Fully Funded PhD Programs at University of Bergen, Norway Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for PhD positions / PhD Programs? University of Bergen, Norway inviting online application for fully funded PhD positions.

Xeyirli olsun!
Everyone will have an opportunity to ride a public EV before doing own thoughtful choice )

BYD to sell electric buses to Azerbaijan and plans to set up a factory - electrive.com Azerbaijan transport operator BakuBus wants to buy 160 electric buses and 100 chargers from BYD. The buses should hit the road in Baku by the end of October, just before it hosts the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Moreover, BYD is looking to sell further buses to Azerbaijan and…

This is good, but just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it should be used.

Google Drive Now Bootable USB drives are incredibly useful, both storing files for transport between different computers and for creating bootable drives that let us use or install other operating systems on our computers. …

Free courses in ML, DL, LLM. But free doesn't mean fully free. Learning requires clear purpose, motivation, time and efforts. Good luck!

Best Free AI Training Courses You Can Take in July 2024 Figure out the ethical tangles behind big data or build IBM Watson chatbots with these free AI courses available this July.

Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors Meet Deepak Mathur, Saifur Rahman, and Aylin Yener

There is no technology or concept that is panacea for everyone. Trends are good to know them, but reality sometime is different. Every large and medium business or organization should have the team of technical people with deep understanding of technological landscape and ability to map individual needs to the seemingly broad arsenal of technical/engineering solutions. Cloud services like IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. are great concepts those drive innovation and help thousands of businesses of different sizes and industries, but they are not silver bullet. The choice to go with cloud or in-premise platforms depend on many aspects including availability of in-house expertise to build and maintain platforms, timeline of expected ROI, overall business model, type of computation involved to maintain the business (data-intensive, compute-intensive, OLAP, OLTP, etc.), sensitivity of the data, scale of the system, way of service delivery, self-sufficiency of the system (dependence on integration with legacy or other systems) and others.
Anyway, there is a way of repatriation back to in-premise, but it may include additional cost and other risks. Surely, Cloud will exist and thrive, but businesses are now more and more cautious about related implications and understand that "Cloud First" is not a panacea.

Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing? Outsourcing computing to the cloud is a huge business, but some firms have said it's not for them.

Reception for newly admitted Graduate Students at the ADA University to honor their success. We at the School of IT and Engineering (SITE) are welcoming fifths cohort of Computer Science and Data Analytics and third cohort of Electrical and Power Engineering programs offered by ADA University and The George Washington University.
Wishing a great success to all students in their journey in learning in-depth in Science and Engineering!

Join us at the IEEE Women in Engineering event.

Great scholarship opportunity for capable students in Engineering, Tech and Science.

Switzerland CERN's Technical Scholarship 2024 in IT, Mathematics & Robotics - DAAD Scholarship 2024 by Germany Government Imagine working at the forefront of scientific discovery and technological innovation at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This isn’t just any internship; it’s an unparalleled opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research and development in Geneva, Switzerland. Here’...

Good news for MS Windows users, their exclusive experience with BSOD will be replicated to Linux.
At the end, everyone has a right to enjoy own Blue Screen of Death regardless which system s/he prefers...))

Linux gets its own Windows-style Blue Screen of Death Linux now has a barebones BSOD that'll eventually provide precise details whenever a "kernel panic" occurs.

A very productive meeting with the key stakeholder of ADA University's International partnerships in engineering AzerEnerji held at the "Shimal" Power Station. These partnerships include Politectico di Turino in the framework of Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and George Washington University in the framework of Master of Science in Electrical and Power Engineering. Professors of George Washington University including Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments Prof. Tarik El-Ghazawi were present at the meeting. More to come...

With exciting team consisting of Professors and Leadership of George Washington University, ADA University and representatives of Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan during annual Steering Committee meeting in Washington DC. A very fruitful partnership with two graduate dual degree programs (Computer Science & Data Analytics and Electrical & Power Engineering) running and the third coming (Computer Engineering & High Performance Computing). Encouraging discussions and plans about expansion of collaboration in Research, Doctoral programs and Faculty development.

Finally we met with Prof. Saifur Rahman, IEEE President 2023, Professor at Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute.
Very productive discussions about number of topics including collaboration in the framework of COP29 to be held in Baku. Prof. Rahman leads Climate Change Program at IEEE.
Number of valuable ideas and advises about strengthening of IEEE presence and technical activities in Azerbaijan. Surely, one of key IEEE-related activities will be the visit by Prof. Rahman's to the ADA University to meet local IEEE Members, Professors and Students and address with a technical speech.

Dear Colleagues and Friends! Due to many requests we continue to receive the paper submission deadline for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2024) to be held on 25-27 September 2024 in Turin, Italy was extended till 15 June 2024.
Please don't miss this opportunity and join us.

Elon Musk's Neuralink announce Data Compression Challenge open to public.
The main idea of the invention is to provide efficient interface between brain and machine/computer. Implant in the brain is expected to transfer wirelessly huge amounts of data to computer and, possibly, back. It's clear that the system has many restrictions like: limited energy reserve and limited computational power. Even if theoretically compression at the 200/1 rate would be feasible (what is not), the limitations of energy resources and computation would not allow to implement that sophisticated and computationally intensive transformation in acceptable cost.

Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem | CBC News Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink is pitched as a brain implant that will let people control computers and other devices using their thoughts. Turning brain signals into computer inputs means transmitting a lot of data very quickly. Now, the company is seeking a new algorithm that can transmit that da...

The list of these recent events tells about pivotal role of the IEEE in Advancing Technology for the Good of Humanity.

Silicon Valley IEEE Milestone Extravaganza May 17-20, 2024 featured 6 IEEE engineering milestones and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Internet at various locations in Silicon Valley.

Leaving campus at late night, I noticed some lively activities at the park. I was thinking there are should be a group of crazy :) people doing some staff at night. I was right. They were Engineers :) - students of SITE who were testing their satellite-prototype, collecting telemetry data from the prototype while it falls down from the top of tree. They were so generous that entrusted me to hold that precious device )). You should be crazy about what you do to spend all your night at the campus, while you could have delicious dinner with family members and friends. But we know "Hard work pays off".
After winning local CanSat Competition organized by Azercosmos, these dedicated young people from ADA University School of IT and Engineering in coming days will be presenting the country at the International CanSat 2024 Competition supported by NASA and American Astronautical Society to be held in Monterey, Virginia. Let's wish them a great success - they truly deserve it!!!

Being able to focus on what you do best is very important for success. Business models of Uber, AirBnB, Netflix, and others, is based on providing the unified virtual platforms, but not going into dealing with physical objects and physical interaction.
NVIDIA is World's leader in chip market without producing a single chip. While NVIDIA is 3rd among World's companies by market value, the TSMC (World's largest chip producer) which produce its chips is just 10th.
NVIDIA is 3rd valuable company in the World after Microsoft and Apple. It's only company in the history which managed to grow from $1 trillion to $2 trillion in less than nine months. For sure, this will not continue long. There are many rivals who want to get own piece of the pie. Also, current customers who compete for buying more NVIDIA's chips like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and OpenAI are not happy with the extremely high price that they pay for GPUs, considering to design and produce own chips.

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WE ARE HIRING!
Please, apply and join to the team of School of IT and Engineering (SITE), ADA University. We are seeking dynamic and creative candidates who are passionated about teaching and research in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Follow to the references below for more details about disciplines and requirements.
https://ada.edu.az/en/job-details/220-asisstant-associate-professor-computer-engineering
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UNBELIEVABLE - By 2040 50% of World's total electric power will be utilized for computing.
The only way to deal with the issue is to develop technology/approach of tremendously increasing computation power and reducing power consumption by chips. Superconductivity looks like a solution. According to research results, the computing system based on 3D superconducting chips of size 10K times smaller than most powerful supercomputer today (in Top500) can produce 20 times more computing power at the same time consuming 100 times less energy. It could almost fit into shoebox.

How to Put a Data Center in a Shoebox Imec’s plan to use superconductors to shrink computers

Today we were celebrating 20th Anniversary of ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) in Azerbaijan.
The primary award for the Anniversary done by students of the School of IT and Engineering, ADA University (Ulvi Aslanli, Ibrahim Tagizade, and Aykhan Agaev) who demonstrated good performance at the World ICPC Final in Egypt, April 2024. Special credit to coaches Mykhailo Medvediev, Fuad Hajiyev and others for long-long and meticulous work.
Thanks to the partner and supporter of the event Innovation and Digital Development Agency (IDDA).

At the Huawei Networking Summit we tried to find answer to the question: "How Technology Impacts and Transforms Education?"
While we all agree that Education, especially High Education can can't stay aside of tech advancements, but it can't be just reactive passively responding to changes. Instead, HEIs must be proactive leading transformation through growing capable minds, fostering Digital Culture, nurturing Science and Research-centric Innovation, consulting Governments in policy making and transferring Technology to Industries.

Rewarding meeting at the School of IT and Engineering (SITE) with delegation from National University of Science and Technology (NUST) of Pakistan led by Dr. Rizwan Riaz, Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation & Commercialization. There are many areas of common interest and understanding that will serve as prerequisites for mutually beneficial collaboration.

The technological and scientific advancements are happening when the competition platform is equally available for all contestants. When one of largest contributors opt out, it's not fair competition anymore. This is not good for the Global Science/Research and for Computing/Supercomputing advancements particularly. What numbers say: as a result, the average age of the systems in TOP500 doubled in past 6 years from 15 months to 30.

Top500: China Opts Out of Global Supercomputer Race Bad news for the Top500: The technology Cold War between the U.S. and China leaves China uninterested in participating.

Nothing can stop our Professors and Students )). Despite the tornado and thunderstorms in North Carolina, students of 2nd cohort of MS in Electrical and Power Engineering visited Duke Energy and Honeywell led by Prof. Korman and Prof. Dehghanian

On May 09, 2024 students of joint dual degree graduate program Master of Electrical and Power Engineering (MSEPE) offered by ADA University and George Washington University had trip to Honeywell and Duke Energy in Charlotte, NC. Tour was organized by Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of Engineering School, George Washington University.
Professor and Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies Can Korman and Prof. Payman Dehghanian whose research interests cover Power Systems Engineering accompanied students for industrial visits.

Today we had a very productive meeting with Prof. Saifur Rahman - President of IEEE and Prof. Tariq Durrani - Past Vice President IEEE Educational Activities regarding IEEE activities around COP29 to held in Baku. I'm looking forward to working together and welcoming Prof. Rahman at the ADA University with our local IEEE Members and Students.

When the same company controls too many things Operating System, Development Tools, Cloud Infrastructure, etc. it's hard to resist temptation to dictate you what to eat and when ))

Microsoft hit with Spanish startups' complaint about cloud practices Microsoft was hit with a Spanish startup group's complaint about its cloud practices to the Spanish antitrust regulator on Tuesday, the latest grievance over its fast-growing cloud computing services and which followed a trade group's EU complaint. The U.S. tech giant ranks second in the cloud compu...

Students of the School of IT and Engineering (SITE) won the 1st and 3rd places of prestigious Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev Award with projects "Sign Language Enhancement Program" and "AI4Regions".
Congratulations to students!!!