Azure4Research helps Polish university accelerate biomedical analysis 59 times
The Laboratory of Biomedical Database Systems at the Silesian University of Technology provides various algorithmic solutions for protein analysis. Protein analysis is key for medical diagnostics and requires efficient computational resources since there are terabytes…
Fundamentals of User Studies
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
Automatic Speech Recognition – An Overview
An overview of how Automatic Speech Recognition systems work and some of the challenges.
Spoken Dialogue Systems – Personal Assistants and Non-Task Oriented Systems
Part 2 of Alan W Black’s Spoken Dialogue Systems talk based on lectures he gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
Spoken Dialog Systems – Task Oriented Systems
Tutorial on what actual dialog systems are like and the problems we have with them, based on lectures Alan gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
Life without CONS
Can higher-order functional programs solve more problems than first-order programs? Answer: NO, since both program classes are Turing complete. The reason is that higher-order values can be simulated by first-order values: use function “closures” built…