HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Episode 87, August 28, 2019- As computing moves to the cloud, there is an increasing need for privacy in AI. In an ideal world, users would have the ability to compute on encrypted data without sacrificing performance. Enter Dr. Olli…
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HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Dr. Olli Saarikivi, along with a stellar group of cross-disciplinary colleagues, are bridging the gap with CHET, a compiler and runtime for homomorphic evaluation of tensor programs, that keeps data private while making the complexities of homomorphic encryption schemes opaque…
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Next-Gen Cloud Computing
UC Santa Barbara selected as charter member of Microsoft’s Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance. At an ever-increasing rate, people around the world are turning to the cloud — a globally distributed computer network connected by the internet — to…
First TextWorld Problems, the competition: Using text-based games to advance capabilities of AI agents
| Adam Trischler, Marc-Alexandre Côté, and Pedro Lima
Public competitions often help to advance the state of the art in challenging research problems. They frame a question, provide relevant data, and define evaluation metrics so that researchers across the world can work toward a shared goal—and ultimately learn…
Machine reading comprehension with Dr. T.J. Hazen
The ability to read and understand unstructured text, and then answer questions about it, is a common skill among literate humans. But for machines? Not so much. At least not yet! And not if Dr. T.J. Hazen, Senior Principal Research…
Who’s to blame? Debugging Internet performance for Azure users with BlameIt
| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
Microsoft Azure cloud hosts a wide variety of services, and Azure has hundreds of network edge locations worldwide across the globe’s six continents to host those services. The Azure locations host many interactive (latency-sensitive) services that cater to consumer and…
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Live video analytics and research as Test Cricket with Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
In an era of unprecedented advances in AI and machine learning, current gen systems and networks are being challenged by an unprecedented level of complexity and cost. Fortunately, Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, a researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at…