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Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
Awards | British Computer Society
Ahmed Awadallah awarded the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award
Ahmed Awadallah received the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award presented by the British Computer Society (BCS). This award is given to researchers within 10 years of their PhD who have contributed significantly to information retrieval and/or natural language processing.
In the news | Adafruit
Expressive Pixels for Adafruit Matrix Portal
In this guide, you will connect the Expressive Pixels Windows app with an Adafruit Matrix Portal RGB LED matrix panel to: display dazzling animations on the RGB LED matrix, save images directly to the Matrix Portal using its built-in flash…
NeurIPS 2020: Moving toward real-world reinforcement learning via batch RL, strategic exploration, and representation learning
As human beings, we encounter unfamiliar situations all the time—learning to drive, living on our own for the first time, starting a new job. And while we can anticipate what to expect based on what others have told us or…
Awards | ACM SIGHPC and IEEE TCHPC
Karin Strauss awarded SC2020 Test of Time Award at SC2020
Karin Strauss and many co-authors received the SuperComputing 2020 Test of Time Award for their paper An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. This BlueGene/L project was the top computer on the Top500 supercomputer list for a few years and was…
Awards | ACM
DeLine, Hinckley and Ringel-Morris receive Lasting Impact Award at Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2020
The Lasting Impact Award at Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2020 goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on ISS as a field. The 2020 Lasting Impact Award was awarded to Rob…
Awards | ACM SIGOPS
Anuj Kalia receives Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention Award
Anuj Kalia received “Honorable Mention” for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for his Doctoral research thesis, Efficient Remote Procedure Calls for Datacenters. The award recognizes research in software systems and encourages the creativity that Dennis Ritchie embodied, providing…
Awards | The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems
Andrew Baumann SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award 2020
Andrew Baumann was awarded the 2020 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for his paper published with his colleagues, The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems, published in the SOSP ’09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium…
Awards | USENIX OSDI 2020
Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI 2020
Our paper titled “Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy” won the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) conference.