Research and Advances Archives - Page 13 of 359

Aug 1 2021

Technical Perspective: The Quest for Optimal Multi-Item Auctions

"Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning," by Paul Dütting et al., contributes a very interesting and forward-looking new take on the optimal multi-item mechanism computational challenge, initiating the use of deep learning for mechanism design.

Constantinos Daskalakis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 1 2021

Deep Learning for AI

How can neural networks learn the rich internal representations required for difficult tasks such as recognizing objects or understanding language?

Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 1 2021

The Harm in Conflating Aging With Accessibility

Including older adults as full stakeholders in digital society.

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2021

Flexible Work and Personal Digital Infrastructures

PDIs are emerging as alternative sociotechnical infrastructures to enhance flexible work arrangments.

Computing Applications

man wearing cap juggles laptop computers, illustration

Jul 1 2021

Spatial Concepts in the Conversation With a Computer

Conversing about places with a computer poses a range of challenges to current AI.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 1 2021

A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic

We review the impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on Internet traffic in order to analyze its performance.

Computing Profession

Zoom meeting on laptop computer screen and social icons, illustration

Jul 1 2021

Technical Perspective: Tracking Pandemic-Driven Internet Traffic

"A Year in Lockdown," by Anja Feldmann, et al., offers a detailed look at how Internet traffic changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jennifer Rexford

Computing Profession

Jul 1 2021

Technical Perspective: An Elegant Model for Deriving Equations

"Deriving Equations from Sensor Data Using Dimensional Function Synthesis," by Vasileios Tsoutsouras, et al., addresses the key problem of discovering relationships that hold between physical quantities from data using dimensional analysis to drastically narrow down the space of hypotheses.

Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 1 2021

Deriving Equations from Sensor Data Using Dimensional Function Synthesis

We present a new method, which we call dimensional function synthesis, for deriving functions that model the relationship between multiple signals in a physical system.

Vasileios Tsoutsouras, Sam Willis, and Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Architecture and Hardware

Jun 1 2021

Simba: Scaling Deep-Learning Inference with Chiplet-Based Architecture

This work investigates and quantifies the costs and benefits of using multi-chip-modules with fine-grained chiplets for deep learning inference, an application domain with large compute and on-chip storage requirements.

Architecture and Hardware

Simba multichip module prototype, illustration

Jun 1 2021

CoCoPIE: Enabling Real-Time AI on Off-the-Shelf Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design

A new framework allows intelligence on mainstream end devices without special hardware.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Internet-of-Things icons on white grid, illustration

Jun 1 2021

Dynamics of Gender Bias in Computing

A new dataset significantly revises both scholarly assessment and popular understanding about gender bias in computing.

Thomas J. Misa

Computing Profession

historic female technology figures on steps, illustration

Jun 1 2021

On the Requirements Engineer Role

The requirements engineer role is defined differently within most organizations.

Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares, and Tony Gorschek

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2021

Securing Internet Applications from Routing Attacks

Application-layer and network-layer defenses are critical for fortifying routing attacks.

Computing Profession

Jun 1 2021

In-Sensor Classification With Boosted Race Trees

We demonstrate the potential of a novel form of encoding, race logic, in which information is represented as the delay in the arrival of a signal.

Architecture and Hardware

circuit board, comms signals, and numeric values, illustration

Jun 1 2021

Technical Perspective: Race Logic Presents a Novel Form of Encoding

"In-Sensor Classification With Boosted Race Trees," by Georgios Tzimpragos, et al., proposes a surprising, novel, and creative approach to post-Moore's Law computing by rethinking the digital/analog boundary.

Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Architecture and Hardware

Jun 1 2021

Shaping the Foundations of Programming Languages

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman discuss their early work, the 'Dragon Book,' and the future of 'live' computer science education.

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho conversing in Nokia Bell Labs hallway

Jun 1 2021

Technical Perspective: A Chiplet Prototype System for Deep Learning Inference

"Simba," by Yakun Sophia Shao, et al., presents a scalable deep learning accelerator architecture that tackles issues ranging from chip integration technology to workload partitioning and non-uniform latency effects on deep neural network performance.

Natalie Enright Jerger

Architecture and Hardware

May 1 2021

Technical Perspective: Robust Statistics Tackle New Problems

"Robustness Meets Algorithms," by Ilias Diakonikolas, et al., represents the beginning of a long and productive line of work on robust statistics in high dimensions.

Jacob S. Steinhardt

Systems and Networking

May 1 2021

HCDA: From Computational Thinking to a Generalized Thinking Paradigm

As a new era in computing emerges, so too must our fundamental thinking patterns.

Yuhang Liu, Xian-He Sun, Yang Wang, and Yungang Bao

Architecture and Hardware

figure with text of four foundational thinking patterns

May 1 2021

Implementing Insider Defenses

How to avoid insider cyber-attacks by creating a corporate culture that infuses trust.

Eric Grosse, Fred B. Schneider, and Lynette L. Millett

Security and Privacy

worker portraits on a shield, illustration

May 1 2021

What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing

The evolution that serverless computing represents, the economic forces that shape it, why it could fail, and how it might fulfill its potential.

Architecture and Hardware

May 1 2021

Automata Modulo Theories

Symbolic automata better balances how automata are implemented in practice.

Loris D'Antoni and Margus Veanes

Systems and Networking

May 1 2021

Robustness Meets Algorithms

We give the first efficient algorithm for estimating the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian that is able to tolerate a constant fraction of corruptions that is independent of the dimension.

Systems and Networking

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