How Did People Write Machine Learning Code in the Past?
Summarizes popular programming languages and libraries that have been used for machine learning throughout the past two decades.
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Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.
When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid
Observations on the use of machine learning and facial inferences to classify people using inexplicable data.
A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks
Tensor processing units improve performance per watt of neural networks in Google datacenters by roughly 50x.
Peer Assessment of CS Doctoral Programs Shows Strong Correlation with Faculty Citations
Strong correlation indicates notable research productivity of individual faculty members in turn boosts the standing of their programs.
Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals
This paper demonstrates a new technology that can infer a person's emotions from RF signals reflected off his body.
Technical Perspective: Is Your WiFi a Sensor?
"Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals" shows that not only can the heartrate be counted with accuracy comparable to ECG devices, but the variabilities of the heart signals—in each pulse—can be recognized as well.
Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?
Considering the potential danger to individuals of rapid coevolution.
An Academic’s Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.
Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
Can Beyond-CMOS Devices Illuminate Dark Silicon?
The "new Dark Silicon" model benchmarks transistor technologies at the architectural level for multi-core processors.
An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems
Deterministic database systems show great promise, but their deployment may require changes in the way developers interact with the database.
Maturing bug bounty programs spot data abuse, secure the Internet of Things.
Bespoke Additive Manufacturing
Three-dimensional printing tailors item to order, even body parts.
Adopting a Culture of Transparency
Software is used increasingly to determine the existence of scientific fraud in published studies.
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Cache is king. And if your cache is cut, you are going to feel it.
Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems
What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
Queueing theoretic models can guide design trade-offs in systems targeting tail latency, not just average performance.
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