Thinking outside-of-the-black-box of machine learning on the long quest to perfecting automatic speech recognition
Speech recognition is something we humans do remarkably well, which includes our ability to understand speech even in noisy multi-talker environments. While our natural sophistication at this is something we take for granted, speech recognition researchers continue to pursue refinements…
Malmo, Minecraft and machine learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann
Episode 39, August 29, 2018 - Dr. Hofmann talks about her vision of a future where machines learn to collaborate with people and empower them to help solve complex, real-world problems. She also shares the story of how her early…
Optimizing imperative functions in relational databases with Froid
| Karthik Ramachandra
For decades, databases have supported declarative SQL as well as imperative functions and procedures as ways for users to express data processing tasks. While the evaluation of declarative SQL has received a lot of attention resulting in highly sophisticated techniques,…
Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
Episode 38, August 22, 2018 You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are because nothing bad happens to you? Well,…
Awards | ACM SIGKDD
KDD 2018 Dissertation Award
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Credibility Analysis in Evolving Online Communities Subhabrata Mukherjee and Gerhard Weikum at Max Planck Institute, Germany Abstract: One of the major hurdles preventing the full exploitation of information from online communities is the widespread concern regarding the quality and credibility…