by Yuhao Zhu on Sep 13, 2022 | Tags: Systems, Vision, Wetware
René Descartes, inspired by anatomical observations of nerve fibers, suggested in his monumental work Principles of Philosophy that (in modern terms) visual stimuli of the external world are captured and transmitted as fluids traveling through nerve fibers, leading to...
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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 Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne, Muntaquim Chowdhury on Oct 25, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Emerging Technology, Vision
Over the last decade, flagship processors from Intel and AMD have been eking out only marginal cross-generational single threaded (ST) performance gains. Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count. While throughput...
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by Simha Sethumadhavan and Miguel Arroyo on Jun 11, 2018 | Tags: Safety, Security, Virtualization, Vision
Can principles for engineering robust computer systems used to build robust societies?
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by Srilatha Manne on Feb 23, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Interdisciplinary, Opinion, Vision
Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. He observed that humans are not “rational’ creatures and that our behavior is impacted by how we react to the world. People have a myriad of biases that influence how we think...
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