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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

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The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. But it will also play a big role in growing the company’s capabilities in applying artificial intelligence to biomedical applications, said Miller. (Moderna Photo) Cambridge, Mass.-based

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies. So it’s little wonder that there’s stiff competition for the 2021 GeekWire Health Innovation of the Year.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Somal previously worked as an executive vice president at cloud computing infrastructure company Hashicorp, where she led the engineering, security, and IT organizations.

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

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Wilkes-3 and the Cumulus system run in an open stack, cloud-native interface which increases flexibility to allow different stakeholders to have customized experiences within that environment. A team from the UK, Sweden, India, and the Netherlands developed the approach, known as transformational machine learning (TML).

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GeekWire Podcast: What Seattle’s billion-dollar startups say about the region’s tech industry

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Joining us as a guest commentator this week: Heather Redman , co-founder and managing partner of Flying Fish Partners , a Seattle-based venture capital firm that focuses its investments on machine learning and artificial intelligence. The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing.

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GeekWire Summit Preview: A glimpse of the future of tech, health, education, jobs and more

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Thursday, October 22: Education and Sana Biotechnology. Regence Health Tech Stage: Fireside chat with Steve Harr, CEO of Sana Biotechnology. New technologies, including the cloud and artificial intelligence, promise to drastically transform healthcare. Nina Kjellson, general partner at Canaan Partners.

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