Updated: Apr 3
Big data in Japan Edition
What's Hot 🍵
Leader's Spotlight 🌸 OpenAI
Buzzword - data encryption 🗝
Anime's Big Data 🐹
Uncharted Path - Japan 🛳
Monday, June 24, 2024
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Oracle to Invest More Than $8 Billion in Cloud Computing and AI in Japan
“We are dedicated to meeting our customers and partners where they are in their cloud journey,” said Toshimitsu Misawa, member of the board, corporate executive officer and president, Oracle Corporation Japan. “By growing our cloud footprint and providing a team to support sovereign operations in Japan, we are giving our customers and partners the opportunity to innovate with AI and other cloud services while supporting their regulatory and sovereignty requirements.” (Source:oracle.com)
Fujitsu and Oracle Collaborate to Deliver Sovereign Cloud and AI Capabilities in Japan
Kazushi Koga, SEVP, Fujitsu Ltd., said, “Fujitsu has been working with partners who have strengths in their respective fields to solve customers’ challenges as part of its Fujitsu Uvance Hybrid IT offerings. Our collaboration with Oracle positions us to deliver a sovereign cloud offering that enables hyperscale functionality and digital sovereignty capabilities while ensuring operational governance by Fujitsu.” (Source: oracle.com)
Microsoft to invest US$2.9 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Japan while boosting the nation’s skills, research and cybersecurity
Miki Tsusaka, President, Microsoft Japan
“We are honored to contribute to Japan and its future with our largest investment to date, technology and knowledge. In collaboration with our partners, Microsoft Japan is fully committed to supporting the people and organizations of Japan to solve social problems and achieve more.” (Source: news.microsoft.com)
Leader's Spotlight 🌸
Tadao Nagasaki, OpenAI
[April 16, 2024] "We want to build a track record through repeated dialogue with companies in Japan,” said Tadao Nagasaki, the newly named Japan president for OpenAI, during a news conference Monday. The Tokyo office — OpenAI’s third overseas outpost following offices in London and Dublin — will grow to about 10 to 20 workers this year, he said. (Source: japantimes.co.jp)
Beyond the Buzzwords 🗝
Encryption is a way of scrambling data so that only authorized parties can understand the information. In technical terms, it is the process of converting human-readable plaintext to incomprehensible text, also known as ciphertext. In simpler terms, encryption takes readable data and alters it so that it appears random. (Source: Cloudfare.com)
data encryption
Interested in more? Take a look at The Mathematical Theory of Cartography - Case 20878 (declassified), Author: C.E. Shannon, September 1, 1945
(Source: iacr.org)
Big Data Anime 🐹
[MyAnimeList] Started externally providing big data of 18 million overseas users who like Japanese anime and manga
One of the world's largest Japanese anime and manga communities and databases, with 18 million registered members, users from 240 countries and regions around the world, and over 1.2 billion viewing/reading big data. Launched in 2004, it has become an important source of information for overseas fans, especially Generation Z in North America. (Source: prtimes.jp)
Uncharted Path 🛳
Using social media cherry blossom images and AI to track climate patterns
"Through this new approach we are able to accurately map large scale patterns across broad distances and also gain detailed perspectives on subtle flowering patterns."
The researchers collected images from Flickr that were uploaded by users tagged as "cherry blossoms." Computer vision and AI algorithms were applied to the images to filter out those that were irrelevant. (Source: physics.org)
June 2023, Monash University
