AI Application Scaffolding

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we will walk through the components used in the transcription service along with how they are integrated and deployed. This has been updated over the year to incorporate new features and infrastructure as it became available. This session will be a little light on AI, but should give you an idea of what […]

2024 Year in Review

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

We made it through 2024! Well, close enough for this group anyway 🙂 This week we will get together and go through the list of topics and other items that we covered over the year. There are 3 questions that I want to ask for each topic: Did it stick, or was it overcome by other […]

2025 Kickoff

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

AI for Code Development

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

It has certainly been a busy few weeks! The first session for LearningQuest (slides linked below) had about 150 people in attendance and went very well. I had several great questions come up that I will have to research before the next session on Thursday. We don’t know exactly what the weather will do this week […]

DeepSeek-R1 and Other Topics

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we will be back at HudsonAlpha in their classroom. This is a new room for us, which I believe is on the opposite side from the large conference room we have been using. HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge We should have Tyler Clark stop by for a few minutes to discuss some changes to HATCH […]

Virtual Paper Review – Reasoning

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to kick off our monthly Paper Review series! We will be holding these sessions every 4 weeks on Zoom. The first one will be led by Josh Phillips: This month we will be exploring the current evolution in AI reasoning models. We will start with a short review […]

VIRTUAL ONLY – Deep Research Overview

This week we will have Jack Francis provide an overview of Deep Research: We will explore Google’s Gemini Deep Research, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Open-Source Deep Research implementations. Deep Research is an LLM agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. We’ll dive into the […]