![]() In the 1950s, some twenty years before Xenakis and UPIC, the pioneering British electronic music composer Daphne Oram created the Oramics Machine, a highly sophisticated analogue device enabling her to draw the parameters of sounds and paint her own waveforms. In the early twentieth century, the development of sound-on-film with soundtracks recorded directly onto celluloid led to many artists, including Oskar Fischinger in Germany and Evgeny Sholpo in Russia to experiment with optical sound by drawing patterns onto film, played back via photo-electric cells. Today’s modern audio painting software using graphic tablets and touch screens all descend from UPIC, but the origins of sound painting goes back much further than Xenakis, to the early methods of visualising sound through the chladni plates, phonautograms and harmonographs of the 18th and 19th centuries. UPIC proved to be so popular internationally as a unique music-composing and educational tool for non-musicians, artists, programmers and children alike, that a second machine had to be built at great expense so that Xenakis could continue to work with it. One of the first pieces that Xenakis composed through it is Mycenae Alpha(1978). ![]() A desire to draw sounds in the draftsman-like manner of an architect led Xenakis in 1977 to devise UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu), a system where sounds were created, drawn and arranged on a computer screen using an electromagnetic pencil. Iannis Xenakis‘ dual career as architect and composer is beautifully illustrated by his 1953 masterpiece Metasastis, whose graphic blueprint for the final conventionally notated musical score became the basis for the design of the Philips Pavilion in Brussels, 1958. Here composer Aleks Kolkowski tells us about his experiences with the Ether project ‘Young Xenarchitects’ at Southbank Centre. The new team brings together the most talented group of developers from the Kubeflow community with deep containers and data skillsets - naturally complementing our Unified Analytics and Data Fabric offerings.Ether 2011 sees a focus on one of the 20th century’s most important composers, Iannis Xenakis with performances and interactive workshops. “With this new CoE, HPE is strengthening our commitment and investment in the open-source tools and data science talent necessary for customers to operationalize analytics and AI across their enterprise. ![]() “Enterprises across the globe are launching analytics and AI/ML initiatives, but most lack the in-house IT and data science talent to deliver at scale,” said Mohan Rajagopalan, vice president and general manager, HPE Ezmeral Software. The HPE Ezmeral Software portfolio extends the edge-to-cloud data management and analytics capabilities of the HPE GreenLake platform and provides organizations with the foundation for data analytics, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. “With this investment, we bring together talent and technology to foster innovation and help companies and institutions around the world extract more value from the growing volumes of data across their organizations.” “We are delighted to establish this new HPE Global Center of Excellence in Greece and take advantage of the available software talent and growing technology ecosystem in the country,” said Michalis Kassimiotis, managing director, HPE Greece & Cyprus. HPE recently opened more than 30 new positions for software engineers and developers who have extensive skills and experience in open-source tools, including the MLOps platform, Kubeflow, to bolster this new CoE and has already successfully filled most roles. The country has developed a highly skilled pool of talent ready to meet the global demand for AI solutions. ![]() Greece is a burgeoning global hub of innovation with a growing dynamic ecosystem of technology companies and is encouraging investment in the technology sector. ![]() The team of open source and data engineers and developers will help organizations around the world apply artificial intelligence (AI), data and advanced analytics in a range of industries including financial services, government, medical research, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and autonomous transportation. This new global CoE will be integrated into the HPE Ezmeral Software business and enhances its global support capabilities for enterprise customers. ATHENS, Greece – – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced a significant investment to establish new Global Center of Excellence (CoE) for HPE Ezmeral Software in Athens, Greece. ![]()
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