In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft launches Project Brainwave, its deep learning acceleration platform
Microsoft believes FPGAs give it more flexibility than designing custom chips and that the performance it achieves on standard Intel Stratix FPGAs is at least comparable to that of custom chips.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs bring power to artificial intelligence in Microsoft Azure
Project Brainwave unlocks the future of AI by unleashing programmable hardware using Intel FPGAs to deliver real-time AI.
In the news | reddit r/tezos
Tezos Switches Cryptographic Libraries from TWEETNACL to HACL!
We just saw a result from INRIA (Institution which developed Ocaml and partners with Tezos ) audit. The Tezos Devs changed the library from TWEETNACL to HACL which is developed by INRIA itself.
Machine learning and the incredible flying robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor
Episode 22, May 2, 2018 - Dr. Kapoor talks about how cutting-edge machine learning techniques are empowering a new generation of autonomous vehicles, and tells us all about AirSim, an innovative platform that’s helping bridge the simulator-to-reality gap, paving the…
Learning from Source Code
Over the last five years, deep learning-based methods have revolutionised a wide range of applications, for example those requiring understanding of pictures, speech and natural language. For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Towards More Intelligent Search: Deep Learning for Query Semantics
Deep learning is helping to make Bing’s search results more intelligent. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of how we’re applying some of these techniques.
Boundary-seeking GANs: A new method for adversarial generation of discrete data
| Devon Hjelm and Athul Jacob
Generative models are an important subset of machine learning goals and tasks that require realistic and statistically accurate generation of target data. Among all available generative models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged recently as a leading and state-of-the-art method,…
Awards | Network Science Society
Duncan Watts honored as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society
Duncan Watts is among seven people elected as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society. The organization serves and represents a research community that coalesced around Watts’ pioneering research that mathematically explains why everyone is within “six degrees of separation” from the…
Neural-Guided Deductive Search: A best of both worlds approach to program synthesis
| Alex Polozov
Program synthesis — automatically generating a program that satisfies a given specification — is a major challenge in AI. In addition to changing the way we design software, it has the potential to revolutionize task automation. End users without programming…