Week at a Glance (2nd Dec – 8th Dec 2017): Top News from Data Science

This week, NIPS 2017, hardware improvements especially GPUs becoming more AI friendly, and Bitcoin with the allied cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem take center stage.

NIPS 2017 Highlights – Part 1

3 great ways to leverage Structures for Machine Learning problems by Lise Getoor at NIPS 2017

20 lessons on bias in machine learning systems by Kate Crawford at NIPS 2017

Top Research papers showcased at NIPS 2017 – Part 2

Top Research papers showcased at NIPS 2017 – Part 1

Watch out for more in this area in the coming weeks.

News Highlights

• Titan V is the “most powerful PC GPU ever created,” Nvidia says
• OpenAI announces Block sparse GPU kernels for accelerating neural networks
• Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft announce the general availability of ONNX v0.1
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor to have state-of-art camera, AI, and VR features
• PyTorch 0.3.0 releases, ending stochastic functions
• DeepVariant: Using Artificial Intelligence for Human Genome Sequencing
• AWS IoT Analytics: The easiest way to run analytics on IoT data, Amazon says
• Introducing Amazon Neptune: A graph database service for your applications
• Aurora Serverless: No servers, no instances to set up! You pay for only what you use
• Amazon unveils Sagemaker: An end-to-end machine learning service

In other News

8th Dec.’ 17 – News Headlines

• Coinbase becomes No. 1 iPhone app in US, crashes on demand
• Overledger: Quant Network creates cross-blockchain data interoperability technology
• Syte.ai unveils new API “Visual Search for All” for online fashion retailers
• Honda teams up with China’s SenseTime on AI tech for self-driving cars

7th Dec.’ 17 – News Headlines

• NVIDIA’s CUTLASS to help develop new algorithms in CUDA C++ using high-performance GEMM constructs as building blocks
• Google rolls out new machine learning features into its spreadsheet software to save time, get ‘intuitive’ answers
• Status, the first-ever Mobile Ethereum OS, joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

6th Dec.’ 17 – News Headlines

• Microsoft Azure is first global cloud provider to deploy AMD EPYC processors
• Power System AC922: IBM takes deep learning to next level with first Power9-based systems
• Study on AI’s win in heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker wins Best Paper award at NIPS 2017
• Google announces Apple’s Core ML support in TensorFlow Lite
• Google announces Cloud Video Intelligence and Cloud Natural Language Content Classification are now generally available

5th Dec.’ 17 –News  Headlines

• Nvidia GPU Cloud to now support everyday desktops
• IBM claims 10x faster machine learning with its new DuHL algorithm
• New product from Falcon Computing lets software programmers design FPGA accelerators without any knowledge of FPGA
• Google AutoML’s “child” NASNet delivers advanced machine vision results

4th Dec.’ 17 – News Headlines

• Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning AMI for Microsoft Windows
• Mapbox acquires augmented reality activity tracking app Fitness AR
• Home.me turns your 2D floor plan drawings into 3D renderings