Can We Trust Autonomous Weapons?
Nations consider using defense systems that can make their own lethal decisions.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Containers Push Toward the Mayfly Server
The container revolution represents a large-scale shift in thinking about multitasking systems.
Genetic engineering promises to revolutionize everything from agriculture and biofuels to medicine and food safety.
Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City last week.
Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain
Neural networks and cognitive computing software emulate the way humans think.
Apache Spark: A Unified Engine For Big Data Processing
This open source computing framework unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads to unlock new applications.
Diannao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators For Machine Learning
We introduce a series of hardware accelerators (i.e., the DianNao family) designed for Machine Learning (especially neural networks), with a special emphasis on the impact of memory on accelerator design, performance, and energy.
Technical Perspective: If I Could Only Design One Circuit . . .
"DianNao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning" shows a deep understanding of both neural net implementations and the issues in computer architecture that arise when building an accelerator for them.
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.
Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
Recipients of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award met with 200 young researchers from over 50 nations.
Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
Scientists are learning more about what makes robots and chatbots engaging.
Graphical processing units have emerged as a major powerhouse in the computing world, unleashing huge advancements in deep learning and AI.
Learning Executable Semantic Parsers For Natural Language Understanding
Semantic parsing is a rich fusion of the logical and the statistical worlds.
Imaging the Propagation of Light Through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution
We present a novel imaging technique, which we call femtophotography, to capture and visualize the propagation of light through table-top scenes with an effective exposure time of 1.85 ps per frame.
Technical Perspective: The Dawn of Computational Light Transport
What would the world look like if we had a chance to observe it with a trillion frame-per-second video camera? "Imaging the Propagation of Light through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution" by Velten et al. represents an audacious attempt to answer this for the very first time.
Hand Jive: A Robot Hand Learns to Spin
A five-fingered robotic hand teaches itself how to manage a complex task.
Smart Cities: Concepts, Architectures, Research Opportunities
The aim is to improve cities' management of natural and municipal resources and in turn the quality of life of their citizens.
The power of deep neural networks has sparked renewed interest in reinforcement learning, with applications to games, robotics, and beyond.
Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Scaling with Compressive Algorithms
Algorithmic advances take advantage of the structure of massive biological data landscape.
Technical Perspective: Combining Logic and Probability
In "Probabilistic Theorem Proving," Gogate and Domingos suggest how PTP could be turned in a fast approximate algorithm by sampling from the set of children of a branch point.
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