EMNLP 2020 Moved Entirely Online; Postponed One Week
EMNLP 2020 will be held entirely online from November 16 to 18 due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19.
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USA CDC Recruiting Its First Chief Data Officer
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for a Chief Data Officer.
Fei-Fei Li Proposes AI-Assisted Elder Care Solution at Stanford-Hosted Virtual Conference on COVID‑19 and AI
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford computer science professor and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI), shared her thoughts on possible AI technologies that could help care for the seniors during the coronavirus pandemic
Synced Machine Intelligence Awards Recognize Innovation: 50 Industry Leaders and 60 Solutions
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is on “the power of industry,” and the selection process keyed in on AI products, application cases and industry landings, with choices based on verifiable industry performance.
New Fujitsu & Inria Tech Automatically Builds Anomaly-Detecting AI Models
Fujitsu has collaborated with Inria to develop a new technology that can automatically create AI models that detect anomalies by extracting the necessary information from time-series data.
Women in AI | Chelsea Finn: ‘I Certainly Feel Like a Minority’
As part of the Women in AI special project, Synced spoke with Chelsea Finn, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Physical Distancing Boosts AI-Powered Online Education in China
Many artificial intelligent education institutions are offering free online courses and accounts to students.
China’s Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Navigate the Coronavirus Outbreak
In autonomous food and medicine delivery and beyond, the increasingly mature AI industry is actively engaged in countering the COVID-19 outbreak.
White House & Partners Launch COVID-19 AI Open Research Dataset Challenge on Kaggle
The White House on Monday joined a number of research groups to announce the release of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group.
Beijing Self-Driving Vehicle Road Tests Topped One Million Km in 2019
A recent report suggests China has picked up speed, with Beijing emerging as a new self-driving vehicle hot spot.
Exploring Gender Imbalance in AI: Numbers, Trends, and Discussions
Women currently make up 24.4% of the computer science workforce and receive median salaries that are only 66% of the salaries of their male counterparts.
ICLR 2020 Cancelled Over Coronavirus; Virtual Conference Arranged
Organizers announced today that the COVID-19 outbreak and associated travel restrictions have forced the cancellation of the “physical conference” ofContinue Reading
100M Masks/Day: Automated Production Lines Work Overtime to Stop COVID-19 Spread
Pushed by the coronavirus outbreak, in early March 2020 China’s face mask production hit 110 percent capacity, with daily output exceeding 100 million masks according to state agency statistics.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Returns to Academia, Takes New Position With Tsinghua University
Shum will speak at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he will formally assume a Dual-Professorship position with the prestigious school’s Institute for Advanced Study.
CVPR 2020 Proceeding as Planned; Record 1470 Papers Accepted
The paper acceptance rate fell to approximately 22 percent from 25 percent in 2019 and 29.6 percent in 2018.
Intel AI GM Naveen Rao Leaves After Habana Chosen Over Nervana
Naveen G. Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Platforms Group at Intel, is stepping down.
YOLO Creator Joseph Redmon Stopped CV Research Due to Ethical Concerns
Joseph Redmon, creator of the popular object detection algorithm YOLO, tweeted last week that he had ceased his computer vision research to avoid enabling potential misuse of the tech.
NeurIPS 2020 Changes Review Process; Hinton & Google Brain Unsupervised Model Boosts ImageNet Accuracy 7%; DeepMind Releases New JAX Libraries
Synced Global AI Weekly February 23rd
AAAI 2020 Best Papers; Turing Award Winners See a Turning Point for Deep Learning; MIT Reveals Voting App Vulnerabilities
Synced Global AI Weekly February 16th
Research Roundup: Science & Technology Versus the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Synced Global AI Weekly February 9th
Battling the Coronavirus: Alibaba and Baidu AI Accelerate Vaccine and Drug R&D
The crucial step now is to develop matching vaccines and drugs to uproot its existence, and China’s big tech companies have stepped up to help.
IBM and China’s Digital Bank WeBank Jointly Held Workshop on Federated Learning
IBM and China’s leading digital bank WeBank jointly organized “Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics (FL-IBM’20)” at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Nature Bid to Boost Paper Review Transparency Applauded by ML Researchers
Leading scientific publication Nature announced it is launching a trial starting this week that will give authors of newly published papers the option of appending contents of the discussions they’ve had with and reports they’ve received from their reviewers.
Baidu Open-Sources RNA Prediction Algorithm for 2019 Novel Coronavirus
The tool can significantly accelerate the prediction time of a virus’s RNA secondary structure, affording frontline researchers an opportunity to better understand the virus and develop targeting vaccines in a time of crisis.
AI Tackles the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Anemia and More; OpenAI Switches to PyTorch
Synced Global AI Weekly February 2nd
Next Generation ArXiv and the Economics of Open Access Publishing
Making science accessible for all is a wonderful and enriching proposal. Unfortunately the execution is not that easy — and nobody knows this better than the team that pioneered arXiv, the world’s largest free scientific paper repository.
Meet the Living Robot; PigeonBot With Real Feathers; DeepMind Introduces AlphaFold; PyTorch 1.4 Released
Synced Global AI Weekly January 19th
CES 2020 Roundup: Tech Giants, Future Mobility, Smart Home and More
Synced Global AI Weekly January 12th
Robot Arms Selling Huawei Phones in New Unmanned Store
In a scene that looks like it came from a science fiction movie, a pair of robot arms twist and turn overhead as they serve shoppers in Huawei’s new SOTA staffless Wuhan Optics Valley retail outlet.
The Decade of Deep Learning; AI Experts’ Hopes for 2020; AI Beats Doctors at Cancer Diagnosis?
Synced Global AI Weekly January 5th
China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI
The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.
Happy AI New Year! Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020
To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay) and other organizations.
AI Struts Down the Japanese Fashion Runway
Although Japan’s declining and aging population has done little to stimulate the domestic fashion industry, AI is getting very positive reviews from the country’s still massive JP¥9 trillion (US$83 billion) apparel market.
Huawei’s TinyBERT Is 7X Smaller and 9X Faster Than BERT
Researchers from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab have introduced TinyBERT, a smaller and faster version of Google’s popular large-scale pre-trained language processing model BERT.
‘AI in Action’ | Toronto Hosts AI Squared Forum 2019
On September 22 about 300 artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning enthusiasts gathered at the University of Toronto Bahen Centre for Information Technology for the AI Squared Forum 2019.
ARM and Qualcomm Will Continue to Supply Huawei Despite US Ban
Chinese news outlet Caixin is reporting that UK-based chip designer ARM confirmed on Wednesday it will continue to license its chip design architecture to Chinese tech giant Huawei and the company’s chip unit HiSilicon Technologies despite a US trade ban.
Alibaba’s New AI Chip Can Process Nearly 80K Images Per Second
At the Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Apsara Conference 2019, Pingtouge unveiled its first AI dedicated processor for cloud-based large-scale AI inferencing. The Hanguang 800 is the first semiconductor product in Alibaba’s 20-year history.
Huawei Flexes AI Muscle With New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation
Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday introduced the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone: Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Pro (5G).
Top 10 Chinese Cities for AI Development: Beijing Ranks No. 1
China’s goal of becoming the world’s leading AI innovation center by 2030 is based on an ambitious blueprint that encourages individual cities to develop and strengthen AI ecosystems.