A diagram showing the end-to-end DNA data storage process. First, software encodes digital bits, ones and zeros, into an electronic representation of DNA sequences, represented by the letters G, C, A, and T. Then, the sequences are written into physical molecules using DNA synthesis and are preserved. A single chain of synthetic DNA is shown with G, C, A, and T, representing the DNA being preserved. Data stored in DNA molecules is retrieved using random access, and then sequenced to read the synthetic DNA. Software, then, decodes the information back into digital bits.
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| Karin Strauss and Bichlien Nguyen

Editor’s note: The researchers would like to acknowledge co-authors Christopher Takahashi, Gagan Gupta, Jake Smith, Richard Rouse, Paul Berndt, Sergey Yekhanin, David Ward, Siena Ang, Patrick Garvan, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Rob Carlson, Douglas Carmean, and Luis Ceze for their contributions to…

Awards | ACM SIGCOMM

"Data-Center TCP (DCTCP)", by Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.

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Awards | ICDM 2021

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Awards | NeurIPS

This year six papers were chosen as recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award. The committee selected these papers due to their excellent clarity, insight, creativity, and potential for lasting impact. Additional details about the paper selection process are provided below.…

An image generation model training using MVM. Images show a panda progressively being generated to become more realistic, various paintings generated by the model, an anime character generated to become more realistic, and various cat images generated to become more realistic.
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| Mengyu Dai and Junwon Park

Generative image models offer a unique value by creating new images. Such images can be sharp super-resolution versions of existing images or even realistic-looking synthetic photographs. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their variants have demonstrated pioneering success with the framework…