Adam Barr
January 29, 2019
The term “software engineering” was first used in the title of a 1968 conference organized by NATO, at which academics and industry professionals met and agreed that software needed more engineering focus. A follow-up conference a year later, attempting to solve the problem, instead highlighted the gap between industry and academia. This split has widened […]
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January 28, 2019
Michael Bernstein
Can computation amplify our ability to achieve complex collective goals? Today's techniques in areas such as crowdsourcing often fall short of this vision, in large…
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January 14, 2019
Eric Horvitz, David Autor, James Manyika, Jason Furman, Siddharth Suri, Stefan Dercon
Please join us for this special Microsoft event brought to you by Microsoft Research, CELA, and the Microsoft Aether Committee. Advances in methods and applications…
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November 19, 2018
Jiaming (Tony) Song
In the first part of the talk, I will introduce Multi-agent Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning, a new framework for multi-agent imitation learning for general Markov…
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November 15, 2018
Bryan Wilder
Social and behavioral interventions are a critical tool for governments and communities to tackle deep-rooted societal challenges such as homelessness, disease, and poverty. However, real-world…
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November 13, 2018
Shumo Chu
From booking air tickets to analyzing astronomy datasets, database queries are pervasive in people’s work and life. However, reasoning database queries automatically is not easy.…
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October 31, 2018
Ching-An Cheng
Efficient policy optimization is fundamental to solving real-world reinforcement learning problems, where agent-environment interactions can be costly. In this talk, I will discuss my recent…
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October 26, 2018
Yiran Chen
Fast growth of the computation cost associated with training and testing of deep neural networks (DNNs) inspired various acceleration techniques. Reducing topological complexity and simplifying…
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October 15, 2018
Fredrik Johansson
Large data sources such as electronic medical records or insurance claims present opportunities to study causal effects of interventions that are difficult to evaluate through…
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October 9, 2018
Adithya Devraj
Stochastic approximation algorithms are used to approximate solutions to fixed point equations that involve expectations of functions with respect to possibly unknown distributions. Among many…
