Brad McCredie, IBM Fellow, Vice President of IBM Power Systems Development, and President of the OpenPOWER Foundation came to visit C3SR and reviewed the cognitive systems research agenda with C3SR faculty and students. Shown in the picture are C3SR students, Xiaofan Zhang and Chuanhao Zhuge (on the left), demoing the FPGA accelerated LRCN (Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks) for visual recognition and description, to Dr. McCredie (front) and Ben Kreuz (back).
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Brad McCredie Visits C3SR (May 2, 2017)
C3SR Student Receives the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (MF3)
The C3SR student, Mr. Carl Pearson,
receives the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (MF3)
for the school year of 2016 - 2017.
Congratulations, Carl!
C3SR Student Selected as CSE Fellow
The C3SR student, Mr. Mert Hidayetoglu, was selected as the CSE Fellow for the school year of 2017 - 2018.
Congratulations, Mert!
Wen-Mei Hwu Speaks at Health Data Analytics Summit (May 1, 2017)
Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, co-director of C3SR, was invited to speak about cognitive systems and applications and their impact to design of future heath care systems, at the first Illinois Health Data Analytics Summit . In the same Summit, Dr. Soroush Abbaspour, Program Director, Chief of Staff, IBM Watson Health, also shared an exciting vision about the future health care systems.C3SR Team on Top of Story Cloze Test Leader-Board
The C3SR team on top of the Story Cloze Test competition’s leader-board, cogcomp.
Ms. Gayle Brim Meets with C3SR Faculty and Students (April 24, 2017)
Ms. Gayle Brim, IBM Campus Executive for UofI and also a former UofI alumni, visited C3SR and had an engaging meeting with C3SR faculty and students.Varshney Talks to Fox News About Eliminating Explicit, Non-Consensual Images on Facebook (April 21, 2017)
C3SR faculty, Professor Lav R Varshney spoke to Fox News about how artificial intelligence could help eliminate the problem of revenge porn on Facebook.
2017 C3SR Retreat (April 15, 2017)
C3SR faculty, students, and IBM collaborators participated in a one-day retreat on April 15, 2017 for the purpose of reviewing progress and refining next steps. Co-directors Wen-mei Hwu and Jinjun Xiong presented the state of the center. This was then followed by demonstrations and discussions on three projects: DISCVR (Document Introspection System for CognitiVe Research), mapping curated datasets of required learning concepts/goals to science projects (part of CELA), inference workload for Video Content Analysis with FPGA acceleration.
C3SR Student Receives the Professor Kung Chie Yeh Endowed Fellowship
The C3SR student, Mr. Mert Hidayetoglu, receives the Professor Kung Chie Yeh Endowed Fellowship for the school year of 2016 - 2017.
Congratulations, Mert!
Dr. Arvind Krishna Gives Keynote at the 12th CSL Student Conference (February 15, 2017)
C3SR`s executive sponsor, Dr. Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, IBM Research (also a former UofI alumni and ECE Distinguished Alumni Awardee), gave a keynote speech at the 12th CSL Student Conference, titled Accelerating Technology Disruption Identifying and creating drivers for a long and successful career.