Collaborations of This Week
Huawei Guns for Nvidia With Potential Microsoft AI Chip Deal in China
Microsoft and Huawei Technologies are discussing the possibility of the U.S. company using Huawei’s newly developed artificial intelligence chips for data centers in China, people familiar with the matter said.
Baidu Cloud Collaborates with Intel AI to Advance Financial Services, Shipping and Video Processing
At the Baidu 2018 ABC Summit in Shanghai, Baidu and Intel outlined new artificial intelligence collaborations showcasing applications ranging from financial services and shipping to video content detection.
IBM collaborated with the NYPD on an AI system that can search for people by race
Three months after Amazon provided facial recognition technology to local law enforcement, a new report shows that IBM collaborated with the NYPD to develop a system that allowed officials to search for people by skin color, hair color, gender, age, and various facial features.
Technology
Making It Easier to Discover Datasets
"To enable easy access to this data, we launched Dataset Search, so that scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else can find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity."
Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews
We utilized data of 142 individuals undergoing depression screening, and modeled the interactions with audio and text features in a Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model to detect depression.
NERSC, Intel, Cray Harness the Power of Deep Learning to Better Understand the Universe
A Big Data Center collaboration between computational scientists at Berkeley Lab's NERSC and engineers at Intel and Cray has yielded another first in the quest to apply deep learning to data-intensive science: CosmoFlow, the first large-scale science application to use the TensorFlow framework on a CPU-based high performance computing platform with synchronous training.
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NIPS Tickets Sell Out in Less Than 12 Minutes
Registration opened at 8:00 a.m. PDT today for December’s NIPS 2018 (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) in Montreal. The early birds were the fortunate ones this year — as tickets for the main conference were all snapped up less than a dozen minutes later.
Global AI Events
| 8–14 Sep | ECCV | Munich, Germany. |
| 10–11 Sep | Robots and Deep Learning | Singapore |
| 11–12 Sep | Big Data Innovation Summit | Boston, USA |
| 13–16 Sep | LOD 2018 | Volterra, Italy |
| 11–13 Sep | AI & Machine Learning Summit. | Sydney, Australia |
| 11–14 Sep | O’Reilly Strata Data Conference New York | New York, USA |
| 17–18 Sep | ICHRI | Rome, Italy |
