The world’s best Dota 2 player Dendi was defeated by an artificial intelligence (AI) in a 1v1 game during Valve’s yearly Dota 2 tournament on August 11, 2017. The bot was developed by OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company that aims to promote and develop friendly AI to benefit humanity as a whole.
Microsoft revealed a new deep learning acceleration platform at the Hot Chips conference held in California.
The company has designed this new system for "real-time AI" meaning that it can process all data very fast and ultra-low latency. For more details, please read https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-unveils-project-brainwave/.
The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committees and 3 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society.
The ICME 2018 organizing committee invites proposals for tutorials. ICME 2018 (http://www.icme2018.org/) will be held in San Diego, USA on July 23-27, 2018.
Perreault, Logan Jared. (Montana State University) “On the Usability of Continuous Time Bayesian Networks: Improving Scalability and Expressiveness” (2017), Advisor: Sheppard, John W., https://www.cs.montana.edu/sheppard/