Rina Caballar

1 week ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Rina Caballar

Vikram Koka stumbled upon Apache Airflow in late 2019. He was working in the Internet of Things industry and searching for a solution to orchestrate sensor data using software. Airflow seemed to be a perfect fit, but Koka noticed the open-source project’s stagnant state. Thus began a journey to breathe a second life into this dying software. Airflow was the brainchild of Airbnb.

1 week ago | share.google | Rina Caballar

Vikram Koka stumbled upon Apache Airflow in late 2019. He was working in the Internet of Things industry and searching for a solution to orchestrate sensor data using software. Airflow seemed to be a perfect fit, but Koka noticed the open-source project’s stagnant state. Thus began a journey to breathe a second life into this dying software. Airflow was the brainchild of Airbnb.

Mar 17, 2025 | spectrum.ieee.org | Rina Caballar

Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers, which also fuel power-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the U.S. alone, data centers consumed around 4 percent of the country’s total electricity in 2023, and that number is projected to rise up to 12 percent by 2028. Some researchers are thinking big, formulating innovative schemes to make data centers more sustainable.

Nov 23, 2024 | spectrum.ieee.org | Rina Caballar

What exactly are AI agents, and how does agentic AI work? This explainer provides a rundown on this hot topic within artificial intelligence. AI agents can make people more efficient and productive by taking charge of mundane tasks, and acting autonomously to get them done. But risks remain regarding privacy, security, and factual accuracy.

Nov 18, 2024 | spectrum.ieee.org | Rina Caballar

"The point of the open-source licenses we have is this permissionless sharing—that’s the blessing and the curse of open source. Everybody gets to use it, but it puts us precisely in this position of not being able to support that directly through the market.”