Volume 5, Issue 2 • ISSN 2691-5278
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Hugh Brock
One of the funny things about research is you never know what you’re going to get. In fact, the uncertainty of research is not just unavoidable—it’s desirable. Scientific breakthroughs like penicillin and even X-rays were the result of attentive scientists noticing something interesting while pursuing something else, then applying the same rigor to the new […]
The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has launched its annual Request for Proposals (RFP). Proposal submissions are due October 2, 2023, and awards will be announced by December 12, 2023. Awarded projects will have a start date of January 1, 2024. The funding program enables collaborative research between Red Hat engineers and Boston University […]
After more than three years of strictly virtual meetings, DevConf.CZ has finally returned to in-person events. The Brno-based hybrid gathering is an annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers, and other contributors to open source technologies. Presentations highlighted progress made via industry-university collaboration in areas critical to […]
Red Hat Research collaborates with universities and government agencies to produce peer-reviewed publications that bring open source contributions along with them. These research artifacts illustrate the value that open industry-academia collaborations hold not just for participants, but for technological advancement across the field of computer engineering. This is a sampling of recent papers and conference […]
Don’t tell engineering professor Miroslav Bureš that software testing can’t be exciting. As the System Testing IntelLigent Lab (STILL) lead at Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Bureš’s work bridges the gap between abstract mathematics and mission-critical healthcare and defense systems. His research focuses on system testing and test automation methods to give people new […]
Richard Jones
RHRQ first looked at the Unikernel Linux (UKL) project—a joint effort involving professors, PhD students, and engineers at the Boston University-based Red Hat Collaboratory—almost two years ago (RHRQ 3:3, November 2021). This previous article covered the background of unikernels in detail, but in brief: an application links directly to a specialized kernel, a lightly modified […]
We may not have all the answers, but we’re homing in on the essential questions about the future of AI and machine learning. If you’ve somehow managed to escape the last nine months of breathless headlines and wild speculation about ChatGPT and what it means for humanity, you are lucky indeed. It’s not as though […]
Research- and leadership-focused support is getting results in the push to grow and diversify the engineering talent pool. The technology industry has largely embraced the theory that diversity drives innovation, but in practice the talent pipeline continues to be leaky. Even when high school preparation is equal, students of color are more likely than white […]
Each quarter, RHRQ highlights new and ongoing research collaborations from around the world in one or more of our key areas of interest: AI and machine learning, hybrid cloud/research infrastructure, edge computing, and trust. This quarter we highlight collaborative projects with university partners at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Contact academic@redhat.com for more […]