by Christina Delimitrou on Jun 24, 2019 | Tags: Cloud computing, Machine Learning, Systems
The past few years have seen an unprecedented increase in the number of systems targeting machine learning (ML) applications and deep learning in particular (Jeff Dean has compiled a telling graph on the exponentially increasing number of ML papers). From hardware...
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by David Patterson on Jun 11, 2019 | Tags: Benchmarks, Dhrystone, EEMBC, Embench, Linpack, MLPerf, SPEC
I. Why a New Embedded Benchmark The world will soon be deluged by tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but we still don’t have a high quality, widely reported benchmark to fairly evaluate the embedded computers that power...
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by T. N. Vijaykumar on Jun 6, 2019 | Tags: Conference, Opinion
We would find it unacceptable for grading in a college-level course to be done by multiple TAs without any rubric or common guidelines. Why is it acceptable for our career-affecting review process?
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by Spyros Blanas on Jun 3, 2019 | Tags: Databases, Machine Learning
Data management research has recently been paying more attention on how to run machine learning algorithms efficiently on massive datasets. This blog post focuses on three recent research papers that identify time-consuming data processing operations in machine...
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