This fall, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is taking steps to leverage its expertise in interdisciplinary research to serve the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in innovative ways.
At an event from 3 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St., WID will launch a suite of hubs designed to bring together researchers from across campus and provide access to specialized tools and resources. Faculty, staff and students will be able to explore the programs and services offered by the Data Science, Multi-Omics, and Illuminating Discovery hubs during an open house featuring dozens of interactive booths.
Each hub is made up of scientists and staff able to connect researchers inside and outside of WID with access to expertise or services to advance their investigations.
Artificial intelligence has permeated the technology universe with the promise of disrupting every industry, from health care and retail to transportation.
But a new report from the World Economic Forum suggests that the market developing around AI has certain problems that look a lot like the rest of the corporate world.
The WEF report released on Monday found that the AI workforce in the U.S. has a dramatic gender gap, with less than one-fourth of roles in the industry being filled by women.
WHAT WOULD induce a software developer to quit a good job in Silicon Valley and trade California’s sunshine for Toronto’s wintry skies? For Vikram Rangnekar, born in India and educated in America, the triggers were the restrictions placed on immigrant tech workers holding an H-1B visa (starting companies or taking long holidays is discouraged) and what looked like a 20-year wait to get the green card he needed in order to settle down. Rising anti-immigrant sentiment under President Donald Trump’s administration did not help. Two years later he thinks he made the right choice. “I didn’t want to spend the best years of my life on a restrictive visa.”
MIT has identified a preferred location for the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing headquarters: the current site of Building 44. The new building, which will require permitting and approvals from the City of Cambridge, will sit in a centralized location that promises to unite the many MIT departments, centers, and labs that integrate computing into their work.
Amazon.com Inc. continues to struggle in the $840 billion grocery market, more than a year after it spooked the industry with the $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods.
The number of Amazon Prime members who shop for groceries at least once a month declined in 2018 compared with 2017, according to the results of an annual consumer survey released Wednesday by UBS analysts. The drop was surprising given the company’s Whole Foods investment and expansion of two hour delivery service Prime Now, the analysts wrote in a note to investors.
Suzanne McIntosh, CDS affiliated faculty and Clinical Associate Professor of Computer Science, Samuel Smith, Kedar Gangopadhyay, and Simranjyot Singh Gill, of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, were motivated by the Ferguson, Missouri riots in 2014 to study the influence of city and county revenue generated from fines and forfeitures (primarily from traffic violations) on the incidence of violent crimes.
Pew Research Center; Onyi Lam, Brian Broderick, Stefan Wojcik and Adam Hughes
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Men are overrepresented in online image search results across a majority of jobs examined; women appear lower than men in such search results for many jobs
IBM, which has been working on artificial intelligence since the 1950s, is not only keenly aware of these shortcomings, it is investing heavily to improve the basic technology. As Dario Gil, Chief Operating Officer of IBM Research recently wrote in a blog post, the company published over 100 papers in just the past year. Here are the highlights of the technology being developed now.
Google has long partnered with academia to advance research, collaborating with universities all over the world on joint research projects which result in novel developments in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Today we announce the latest of these academic partnerships in the form of a new lab, across the street from Princeton University’s historic Nassau Hall, opening early next year. By fostering closer collaborations with faculty and students at Princeton, the lab aims to broaden research in multiple facets of machine learning, focusing its initial research efforts on optimization methods for large-scale machine learning, control theory and reinforcement learning. Below we give a brief overview of the research progress thus far.
“This experiment was designed to determine whether there are molecular signatures of aging across the entire range of the human life span,” says co-senior author Saket Navlakha, an assistant professor in Salk’s Integrative Biology Laboratory. “We want to develop algorithms that can predict healthy aging and nonhealthy aging, and try to find the differences.”
“The study provides a foundation for quantitatively addressing unresolved questions in human aging, such as the rate of aging during times of stress,” says Professor Martin Hetzer, co-senior author, as well as Salk’s vice president and chief science officer.
arachutes are routinely used to prevent death or major traumatic injury among individuals jumping from aircraft. However, evidence supporting the efficacy of parachutes is weak and guideline recommendations for their use are principally based on biological plausibility and expert opinion.12 Despite this widely held yet unsubstantiated belief of efficacy, many studies of parachutes have suggested injuries related to their use in both military and recreational settings,34 and parachutist injuries are formally recognized in the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 (international classification of diseases, 10th revision).5 This could raise concerns for supporters of evidence-based medicine, because numerous medical interventions believed to be useful have ultimately failed to show efficacy when subjected to properly executed randomized clinical trials.67
Previous attempts to evaluate parachute use in a randomized setting have not been undertaken owing to both ethical and practical concerns. Lack of equipoise could inhibit recruitment of participants in such a trial. However, whether pre-existing beliefs about the efficacy of parachutes would, in fact, impair the enrolment of participants in a clinical trial has not been formally evaluated. To address these important gaps in evidence, we conducted the first randomized clinical trial of the efficacy of parachutes in reducing death and major injury when jumping from an aircraft. [full text]
“In this day and age, robots are presented as the embodiment of precision, speed and efficiency. And they are: working relentlessly, day and night on factory floors around the world, churning out goods faster than ever. Interestingly they are also a sort of untouchable object, shadowed by a haze of technical complexity, capital and infrastructure costs and general logistical headache. Industrial robots in effect are out of reach for most people out of the industry and academic fields. As a consequence their practical use is mostly limited to capitalistic logics expecting return on investment, or academic logics expecting research publications. The Center for Counter-Productive Robotics is an island where these concerns are thrown out of the window, and robots are deliberately approached with failure, laziness and clumsiness in mind.”
PLOS One; Jay R. Corrigan, Saleem Alhabash, Matthew Rousu, Sean B. Cash
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Facebook, the online social network, has more than 2 billion global users. Because those users do not pay for the service, its benefits are hard to measure. We report the results of a series of three non-hypothetical auction experiments where winners are paid to deactivate their Facebook accounts for up to one year. Though the populations sampled and the auction design differ across the experiments, we consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year. While the measurable impact Facebook and other free online services have on the economy may be small, our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large. [full text]
Apple is ramping up its ambitious AI strategy, announcing today that John Giannandrea — the former Google AI Chief that Apple poached this April — has joined the company’s executive team as Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
Giannandrea will oversee AI and ML development across the company, including the Core ML and Siri technologies. He is expected to play a key role in the company’s future decision-making and lead Apple to be a more AI-centric company.
San Luis Obispo, CA August 26-30, 2019. “We are happy to announce we have accepted 11 workshops for FDG 2019. These workshops represent some of the most exciting scholarly work happening in games today. Workshops have different formats and submission requirements. We expect most workshops to have submission deadlines in early April, 2019.”
There’s only so many times you can watch Elf or Love Actually over the Holidays before it drives you mad. Staying ahead of the trends for 2019 is on everyone’s minds, so we reached out to a few AI experts who have shared their predictions for the coming year which you can read here. If you’re keen to keep reading over the Christmas season we’ve also spoken to our AI and Deep Learning community who have recommended books, journals, podcasts and videos that they’re currently enjoying.
Most machine learning tasks — from natural language processing to image classification to translation and many others — rely on derivative-free optimization to tune parameters and/or hyperparameters in their models. To make this faster and easier, we have created and are now open-sourcing a Python3 library called Nevergrad. Nevergrad offers an extensive collection of algorithms that do not require gradient computation and presents them in a standard ask-and-tell Python framework. It also includes testing and evaluation tools.
I am Yarden, an iOS engineer for Material Design—Google’s open-source system for designing and building excellent user interfaces. I help build and maintain our iOS components, but I’m also the engineering lead for Material’s shape system.
The Julia package Kuber.jl makes Kubernetes clusters accessible and easy to use from Julia code. In this article, we shall launch a Kubernetes cluster on Azure and use it from Julia. Kuber.jl can also be used with Kubernetes clusters created by other mechanisms.