by Nilesh Jain, Omesh Tickoo, Ravi Iyer on Dec 6, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Machine Learning, Vision
The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g. cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive...
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by Reetuparna Das and Tushar Krishna on Sep 17, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Specialization
While the concept of hardware acceleration has been around for a while, DNN accelerators are perhaps the first to see the light of commercial adoption due to the AI/ML wave. Giant software corporations, veteran hardware companies, and a plethora of start-ups have...
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by Yuan Xie on Jul 12, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Memory, Near Data Computing, Specialization
A previous blog titled “Blurring the lines between memory and compute” by R. Das was a nice summary of the history and the recent trends on addressing the memory wall challenges with process-in-memory (PIM) ideas. This blog would like to further highlight...
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by Cliff Young on May 3, 2018 | Tags: Benchmarks, Machine Learning, Measurements, Specialization
It’s a marvelous time in computer systems. For me, working in Deep Learning feels like living through a scientific revolution. Kuhn described this kind of change in his classic book, where a new paradigm takes hold, causing entire fields to change their standard...
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by Yuan Xie on Apr 26, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Architecture, Emerging Technology, Hardware, Machine Learning, Specialization, Systems
In the workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems (Grand Challenges) co-located with ASPLOS 2018, Dr. Hillery Hunter from IBM and I co-organized a panel discussion on “Augmenting Human Abilities/AI”. During the discussion,...
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