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Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of the Medical Sieve Radiology Grand Challenge, IBM Research, visited C3SR. The center faculty and students presented several projects that are relevant to the IBM Medical Sieve Radiology Challenge: text-image association, multi-modality video object recognition, concept acquisition, and cognitive workload acceleration. The C3SR team also held a productive discussion with Tanveer about the system-level challenges facing the IBM Medical Sieve Radiology Challenge team.

As part of his visit to the UIUC campus, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, and his staff met with the C3SR faculty and students on February 1, 2017. Jensen offered his vision for NVIDIA as a leading core technology company in the age of artificial intelligence. C3SR co-directors Wen-mei Hwu and Jinjun Xiong along with C3SR faculty and students presented the C3SR vision and research activities to the NVIDIA visitors.

Advancing the Scientific Frontiers of Cognitive Systems Cognitive systems learn from vast amounts of complex, ambiguous information and help us do amazing things, such as treat disease, manage finances, and transform commerce. Underneath these systems, the core fields of science & technology -from artificial intelligence to brain science to computer architecture to cognitive science- are advancing rapidly and achieving breakthroughs not envisioned even a few years ago. IBM Research and its network of scientific partners are pursuing some of the hardest technical problems while creating practical solutions that make a difference to the world.

On September 18-20, 2016, C3SR faculties and students attended IBMs Cognitive Computing Colloquium held at IBMs Thomas J. Watson Research Headquarter, Yorktown Heights, New York. During this event, IBM announced the formation of IBMs Cognitive Horizons Network, where C3SR is an integral part of. IBMs Cognitive Horizons Network is advancing the science behind cognitive computing by working with the best minds.During the colloquium, many C3SR students presented their research work and had many productive interactions with IBM researchers and other Cognitive Horizons Network centers faculties and students.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) is working with IBM to develop optimized systems the stack of applications, accelerators, software, hardware and networking needed to support larger and more complex cognitive workloads. The goal of the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) is optimized distributed architectures that can improve and scale the performance of cognitive systems tenfold (and beyond for some advanced cognitive workloads). I am very excited about the opportunity to combine the world-class heterogeneous computing architecture, parallel algorithm, natural language processing, and image recognition expertise at Illinois with the cutting edge cognitive application and computing systems technologies at IBM to embark on this exciting project that can potentially revolutionize computing and dramatically enrich our lives, says Wen-Mei Hwu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois.

IBM and UIUC announced the plans for a multi-year collaboration to create the IBM-ILLINOIS Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) which will be housed within the College of Engineering on the Urbana campus. Opening in the summer of 2016, the C3SR will integrate and advance scientific frontiers in both machine learning and heterogeneous computing systems optimized for new cognitive computing workloads. The C3SR will be co-ledby Professor Wen-Mei Hwu, a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois, and Dr.