Harvard - Allston Campus

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The Zuckerbergs just gave $500M to Harvard for the study of artificial intelligence,. The research will be done at a new Institute, to be named the Kempner Institute.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...ute-to-study-natural-artificial-intelligence/

There will also be a very impressive computational back end — hardware to be able to do sophisticated models in a way that is not common in academia.
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The institute itself is going to be all dry lab, purely computational, but we will happily take data from animal studies. We will also have a collaborative grant program to seed directed studies and fund groups that we think will generate data crucial to understanding intelligence.

GAZETTE: You mention large-scale computing. Will that hardware require new systems being installed? Or are you going to use the existing infrastructure?

SABATINI: We’re going to buy a lot of GPUs [graphics processing units, that, like CPUs, power many computers] and also make use of cloud computing services.
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Strikes me that the new Science & Engineering building on Western Ave., will need an addition to house this "computational backend".
 
I wonder if any of the Enterprise campus will be dedicated to this expansion for now.
 
Up close on a cloudy day, the SEC looks like a progressive PNG that got stuck loading when the modem disconnected.
 
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