SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Clearspeed, a leader in AI voice analytics, announced that the company has joined the Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards program, a new initiative led by property and casualty (P&C) cloud platform provider Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), to help insurers learn about the newest insurtechs and how to best work with them. Through its exceptionally high level of fraud detection accuracy ( 97%), Clearspeed helps carriers decide quickly and confidently whether claims should go straight through or be flagged for further follow up. "We are honored to be showcased as an Insurtech Vanguard by Guidewire," says Clearspeed CEO, Alex Martin. "Clearspeed's easy integration with a carrier's existing tools and processes could enable Guidewire's 450 insurance customers to optimize their claims service while significantly improving their combined ratios." Insurtech Vanguards is a community of select startups and technology providers that are bringing novel solutions to the P&C industry.

This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the event organizers, and the conference chair, is Simon McIntosh-Smith, who is a professor of high performance computing at Bristol University in Great Britain and also the head of its Microelectronics Group. Among other things, McIntosh-Smith was a microprocessor architect at STMicroeletronics, where he designed SIMD units for the dual-core, superscalar Chameleon and SH5 set-top box ASICs back in the late 1990s. McIntosh-Smith moved to Pixelfusion in 1999, which created the first general purpose GPU – arguably eight or nine years before Nvidia did it with its Tesla GPUs, where he was an architect on the 1,536-core chip and software manager for two years. In 2002, McIntosh-Smith was one of the co-founders of ClearSpeed, which created floating point math accelerators used in HPC systems before GPU accelerators came along, and was first director of architecture and applications and then vice president of applications.