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Machine Learning Showing Up As Silicon IP

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There are further complications with ML IP. SoC verification means that debug must be thought through. "You have to be sure that if something goes wrong at the customer site, you are able to trace that error into your IP," said Saha. "Your physical design will become more complex, and you might get an issue with design closure." This issue persists even after a chip has been deployed into a system. "Let's say you see a problem in the field," he added.


The single most important 2020 IoT trend

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There is one IoT trend that I foresee in 2020 that just might trump all of the other 2020 IoT trends combined. The 2020 trend that I am referring to is not new, however it is coming of age – and it is coming quickly. Artificial intelligence is catching on like wildfire in all types and sizes of organizations today. And if artificial intelligence is the speeding bullet train coming at us, then IoT is the third rail providing the electricity that is powering it. All one has to do is look at the flurry of activity that has begun to swarm around artificial intelligence.


Data Science through the looking glass and what we found there

Psallidas, Fotis, Zhu, Yiwen, Karlas, Bojan, Interlandi, Matteo, Floratou, Avrilia, Karanasos, Konstantinos, Wu, Wentao, Zhang, Ce, Krishnan, Subru, Curino, Carlo, Weimer, Markus

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has led to an explosive growth both in terms of new systems and algorithms built in industry and academia, and new applications built by an ever-growing community of data science (DS) practitioners. This quickly shifting panorama of technologies and applications is challenging for builders and practitioners alike to follow. In this paper, we set out to capture this panorama through a wide-angle lens, by performing the largest analysis of DS projects to date, focusing on questions that can help determine investments on either side. Specifically, we download and analyze: (a) over 6M Python notebooks publicly available on GITHUB, (b) over 2M enterprise DS pipelines developed within COMPANYX, and (c) the source code and metadata of over 900 releases from 12 important DS libraries. The analysis we perform ranges from coarse-grained statistical characterizations to analysis of library imports, pipelines, and comparative studies across datasets and time. We report a large number of measurements for our readers to interpret, and dare to draw a few (actionable, yet subjective) conclusions on (a) what systems builders should focus on to better serve practitioners, and (b) what technologies should practitioners bet on given current trends. We plan to automate this analysis and release associated tools and results periodically.


digital-diagnosis-ai-in-healthcare

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She consults an app on her phone, which asks an increasingly sophisticated series of diagnostic questions. The app also takes in data from Janet's fitness trackers that monitor heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar. The app decides that Janet's symptoms look serious, and it arranges a video chat with a human doctor to discuss options so that potentially bad news can be presented in a more "human" way. The doctor has access to Janet's data remotely, along with access to a more sophisticated diagnostic, Artificial Intelligence. During that consultation, Janet is booked into a clinic for medical imaging scans to aid in further diagnosis.


Letters to the Editor

Cohen, Paul R., Hoffman, Robert R., Kirrane, Diane

AI Magazine

First, the the other does. No theorist is going Thank you for the opportunity to split between the neats and scruffies to spend his or her time attempting respond to the letters by Jim Hendler, is old and institutionalized, as to bring precision to a mess of hacks, James Herbsleb and Mike Wellman Hendler points out. Few researchers kludges and "knowledge," and no regarding my survey of the Eighth are trained in both camps. Second, system builder is apt to find the National Conference on Artificial the pathologies that researchers in attempt informative. MAD does not Intelligence (AI Magazine, Volume 12, AAAI-90 themselves attributed to mean business as usual with occasional No. 1).


An Approach to Verifying Completeness and Consistency in a Rule-Based Expert System

Suwa, Motoi, Scott, A. Carlisle, Shortliffe, Edward H.

AI Magazine

We describe a program for verifying that a set of rules in an expert system comprehensively spans the knowledge of a specialized domain. The program has been devised and tested within the context of the ONCOCIN System, a rule-based consultant for clinical oncology. The stylized format of ONCOIN's rule has allowed the automatic detection of a number of common errors as the knowledge base has been developed. This capability suggests a general mechanism for correcting many problems with knowledge base completeness and consistency before they can cause performance errors.


EMYCIN: A Knowledge Engineer’s Tool for Constructing Rule-Based Expert Systems

Melle, van

Classics

This chapter from the Mycin book is a brief overview of van Melle's Ph.D. dissertation (Stanford, Computer Science), and is a shortened and edited version of a paper appearing in Pergamon-lnfotech state of the art report on machine intelligence, pp. 249-263. Maidenhead, Berkshire, U.K.: Infotech Ltd., 1981. Mycin Book (1984)