IBM’s SystemML machine learning system becomes Apache Incubator project — from zdnet.com by Larry Dignan
There’s a race between tech giants to open source machine learning systems and become a dominant platform. Apache SystemML has clear enterprise spin.

Excerpt:

IBM on Monday said its machine learning system, dubbed SystemML, has been accepted as an open source project by the Apache Incubator.
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What’s notable about IBM’s SystemML milestone is that open sourcing machine learning systems is becoming a trend. To wit:

  • Google recently open sourced its TensorFlow machine learning tool under an Apache 2.0 license.
  • Facebook has also contributed its machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to the Torch open source project.

 

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Addendum on 11/25/15:

  • New IBM Cloud Service Enables Developers to Rapidly Translate Apps into Nine Languages — from finance.yahoo.com
    IBM Globalization Pipeline, Available on IBM’s Cloud Platform, Quickly Opens Apps Up to Fastest Growing Global Markets
    Excerpt:
    ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new cloud-based service that enables developers to automatically translate cloud and mobile apps into the world’s most-spoken languages.