Advancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 25, May 23, 2018 – Dr. Morris gives us some fascinating insights into the world of “ability,” talks about how technology is augmenting not only sensory and motor abilities, but cognitive and social abilities…
On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization
It is well known that momentum gradient methods (e.g., Polyak’s heavy ball, Nesterov’s acceleration) yield significant improvements over vanilla gradient descent in deterministic optimization (i.e., where we have access to exact gradient of the function…
Learning Models of Language, Action and Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration
Robots can act as a force multiplier for people, whether a robot assisting an astronaut with a repair on the International Space station, a UAV taking flight over our cities, or an autonomous vehicle driving…
ISCA 2018 Lightning Talk: Project Brainwave
Lightning talk for the ISCA 2018 paper “A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI”.
DCI – Distributed Causal Inference
Overview and Vision The Distributed Causal Inference (DCI) project explores ways to improve distributed systems technology and data query & storage functionality to enable and support answering causal inference questions from very-large-scale longitudinal and observational…