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Claude Shannon's 1948 paper credits Bell Labs statistician John Tukey with suggesting "bit," and a 1958 Tukey article holds the earliest known use of "software" for computer programs, a find made by Yale librarian Fred Shapiro.
Mark your calendars! I'm excited to be a speaker at BITCON again! The free virtual conference by Blacks In Technology Foundation is next week.
My session: "The Easiest Way to Run LLMs Locally: Meet Docker Model Runner," will focus on how to empower developers and tech enthusiasts with the tools to run LLMs and AI workloads where they want.
In the session we will go over: -The critical benefits of local LLM deployment (cost savings, privacy, speed) -How Docker Model Runner simplifies the entire setup process -A demo to get you up and running on your own machine -Best practices and a Q&A to answer your questions
Join me at this free, virtual conference to explore how Docker, Inc is making LLMs and AI more accessible.
🔗 Here is a full blog about BITCon 2025 and my session here:
