NeurIPS 2019 Opens; Outstanding Paper Awards and 2021 Conference Announced
In a blog post, the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference’s outstanding paper awards and other awards.
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What to Expect at NeurIPS 2019; Google Founders Leave Alphabet; ML Maestro Michael I. Jordan Wins John von Neumann Medal
Synced Global AI Weekly December 8th
Vancouver SkyTrain Shutdown? Bad Timing for NeurIPS Attendees
The City of Vancouver is expecting a traffic spike next week with finals approaching and thousands of attendees pouring into the Convention Center from December 8 to 14 for top-tier AI conference NeurIPS 2019.
Google Brain’s Nicholas Frosst on Adversarial Examples and Emotional Responses
Although convolutional neural networks have reached Superman level on image classification tasks, adversarial examples remain the kryptonite that can mysteriously defeat even SOTA models.
DeepMind Research Lead Doina Precup On Reinforcement Learning
Precup discussed the latest developments in the field: “Reinforcement learning allows autonomous agents to learn how to act in a stochastic, unknown environment, with which they can interact.”
Intel AI Summit 2019 | Chip Giant Accelerates AI at the Edge
The new Intel products strengthen the company’s growing portfolio of AI solutions, which is expected to generate more than US$3.5 billion in revenue in 2019.
AAAI 2020 Reports Record-High Paper Submissions
AAAI-20 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics and related areas and reported a record-high number of over 8,800 submissions — a thousand more than last year.
ICCV 2019 and CoRL 2019 Announce Best Papers; DeepMind AlphaStar Reaches ‘Grandmaster Level’
Synced Global AI Weekly November 3rd
Yoshua Bengio on Human vs Machine Intelligence
“We’ve made huge progress, much more than even my friends and I expected a few years ago. But (the progress) is mostly about perception, things like computer vision and speech recognition and synthesis of some things in natural processing. We’re still far from human capabilities.”
Few-Shot and Federated Learning Among Trending Topics Discussed at Top Chinese AI Conference Shibei·GMIS 2019
The Shibei·GMIS 2019 Global Machine Intelligence Summit, a top-tier Chinese artificial intelligence conference, took place July 19 – 20 at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Parkview.
RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019
The two-day RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019 gathered more than 60 speakers from top AI labs such as MIT CSAIL, Uber AI Labs, Adobe Research and other experts from the AI healthcare industry who provided high-level deep learning technical discussions and industry application insights.
Paper Submissions Break NeurIPS 2019 Paper Submission System
The Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) that leading machine learning conference NeurIPS 2019 uses to process academic paper submissions failed in the countdown to yesterdays’s 1 p.m. PT submission deadline.
ACL 2019 Reports Record-High Paper Submissions; Begins Notifying Accepted Authors
The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is world-leading conference in the field of natural language processing, Yesterday, conference organizers sent out author notifications on accepted papers for the 57th ACL gathering, which will take place in Florence, Italy from July 28 to August 2.
‘Abandon US’ Petition Protests AI Conference Visa Denials
A French-based research scientist has collected almost 300 signatures on an online petition calling for organizers of major computer science conferences such as SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc. to exclude the US as a host.
Researchers Question KDD 2019 Paper Review Process
The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) released its paper acceptance results this week, and many researchers whose papers were rejected have taken to social media to question the review process.
ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit
The recent ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit in London, UK, featured 46 top scientists and professors from world-leading institutions, who presented their research progress and provided a glimpse into emerging trends in the field of artificial intelligence and fin tech.
GTC 2019 | Highlights & Disappointments at NVIDIA’s Annual Conference
NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) attracted some 9,000 developers, buyers and innovators to San Jose, California this week. CEO and Co-Founder Jensen Huang’s two-and-a-half hour keynote speech fused GPU-based innovations in domains ranging from graphic design to autonomous driving.
NeurIPS 2019 Dates and Details Announced
The organizers of NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) today announced the dates and other information regarding NeurIPS 2019.
On Compilers: First TVM and Deep Learning Conference
Last December some 9,000 attendees packed a single venue in Montreal for a week-long academic conference. NeurIPS was completely sold out, the latest indication of just how hot AI is nowadays. As AI and machine learning continue to ignite discussion across a wide variety of disciplines, novel approaches to the tech are also garnering interest.
AAAI-19 Announces Best Papers
The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) is now underway in Hawaii, USA. The program chairs are Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China).
NeurIPS 2018 Through the Eyes of First-Timers
First-timers to NeurIPS — the world’s most prestigious machine learning conference — can explore and enjoy a tech environment full of energy, innovations, and mind-blowing discussions among people studying and working in AI.
Vancouver Named NeurIPS 2019 & 2020 Host as Visa Issues Continue to Plague the AI Conference
The 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is in full swing in Montréal. According to a booklet distributed to attendees, both NeurIPS 2019 and 2020 will take place in Vancouver, making Canada the host country three years in a row. NIPS/NeurIPS has already been held in Montreal and Vancouver a combined 13 times since the world’s leading AI conference left its Denver base in 2001.
Poll Results Released: NIPS Keeps Its Name
In April the NIPS organizing committee announced that it was considering a name change and began collecting opinions and suggestions from the AI research community. Yesterday, the final results of the poll were disclosed along with the announcement that there would be no name change.
CVPR Paper Controversy; ML Community Reviews Peer Review
Peer review is an essential process that subjects new research to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field. Today’s top Machine Learning (ML) conferences are heavily reliant on peer review as it allows them to gauge submitted academic papers’ quality and suitability.
GraphConnect 2018: Linking AI and Graph DB
Leading Graph Database company Neo4j organized GraphConnect 2018 on September 20 in New York City to introduce their latest products and developments — foremost among them the new Neo4j 3.5 Graph Platform.
ECCV 2018 Announces Best Papers
The 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) kicked off in Munich, Germany on Saturday. In a keynote speech this morning the ECCV organizing committee announced the conference’s paper submission stats and best paper selections.
How to Control Those Extra Robotic Limbs You’ve Always Wanted
Recently, at an IEEE Conference, MIT researchers proposed a new control method which provides easier and more stable feedback that does not necessarily require existing limbs to control the artificial limbs.
One Night at CVPR 2017 : Exploring IJCV and the Asia Research Force
Hosted annually in the United States, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference received 2,620 submissions, accepted 783 papers, attracted 127 sponsors with $859,000 in sponsorship and close to 5,000 attendees.
RE·WORK: Deep Learning in Retail Summit (London, UK)
RE•WORK is one of the top global Machine Intelligence industry conference/summit organizers. The aim of Rework: Combining entrepreneurship, technology & science to re-work the future.
Cool IJCNN Stuff from Alaska
From May 14 to 18, the 30th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017) was held in Anchorage, AK, USA. Continuing the long tradition, the conference is organized by the International Neural Network Society (INNS), in cooperation with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS).
Fei-fei Li in Google Cloud NEXT ’17: Annoucing Google Could Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning Updates
Between March 8-10, Synced was invited as media guest to attend the Google Cloud NEXT ’17 conference in San Francisco.