AI Compute Symposium Charts Path from Emerging to Pervasive AI

Together with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and Electron Device Society, IBM Research organized the 2nd AI Compute Symposium at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center THINKLab in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., on Oct 17. More than 200 distinguished academics, renowned thinkers, students, and innovators from across industry and academia assembled for the one-day symposium, which showcased leadership and advancement in research addressing AI compute from pervasive to general AI. The free event featured three keynotes, three invited talks, a student poster session, and a panel discussion. The keynoters were Dr. Luis Lastras, a researcher with IBM; Professor Wen-mei Hwu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); and Harvard University/Samsung Fellow Donhee Ham. Lastras provided an exciting overview of research projects from IBM related to natural language processing and its evolution.