Red Hat Research Quarterly
A marriage of true minds: Making university-industry collaborations succeed
An interview with Tomáš Vojnar, head of the Department of Computer Systems and Communications in the Faculty of Information Technology at Masaryk University
AI DIY: How research is making custom language models work with more of us
An interview with Akash Srivastava, InstructLab’s chief architect talks custom language models and democratizing AI
Volume 6, Issue 3/4 • ISSN 2691-5278
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Research isn’t necessarily about getting the right answers, but asking the right questions. After five years as the editor of RHRQ, I’d like to think I’ve gained some perspective on the questions we want this publication to address. To me, the big-picture questions we’re trying answer four times a year, across multiple disciplines and continents, […]
Tomáš Vojnar has been a researcher, professor, vice-dean, and department chair—what about a marriage counselor? In conversation with Red Hat Research engineer Martin Ukrop, Tomáš —now head of the Department of Computer Systems and Communications in the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University—joked that a good relationship between academic and industrial partners can be like […]
“How many lives am I impacting?” That’s the question that set Akash Srivastava, Founding Manager of the Red Hat AI Innovation Team, on a path to developing the end-to-end open source LLM customization project known as InstructLab. A principal investigator (PI) at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab since 2019, Akash has a long professional history […]
A new AI framework for edge systems overcomes the communication and energy obstacles that limit their use in real-time applications by integrating local and cloud decision-making while maintaining strong performance. Artificial intelligence (AI) models with vast and generalized knowledge are increasingly being integrated into everyday devices, from smartphones that provide personalized assistance to mobile robots […]
Simone Ferlin-Reiter
The networks that connect everything from cell phones to datacenters require frequent—and error-prone—human intervention for configuration. Recent research evaluates the effectiveness of applying various machine-learning models to the task. Since 2023, Red Hat Research’s collaborative project Securing Enterprises via Machine-Learning-based Automation (SEMLA), in partnership with the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) in […]
Jiří Pavela
Tomáš Fiedor
Jiří Hladký
Tomáš Vojnar
How do you turn a research project into an industry tool? Learn how the creators of Perun built a better performance analysis toolkit then brought it from academia to real-world implementation. Everyone has a horror story about poor performance in a continuously evolving product. Managing the performance of reasonably complex software is simply a difficult […]
Have a project moving on to a higher plane? Make a plan to prevent getting stuck in limbo. As technology innovators, we get excited about ushering in new ideas and implementing new technologies. Sometimes, however, we might overlook the less flashy labor needed to retire old ideas and replace existing software. Those ideas and software […]