NeurIPS2020

#NeurIPS2020 invited talks round-up: part three – causal learning and the genomic bottleneck

Lucy Smith 26 Mar 2021

We summarise the plenaries from Marloes Maathuis and Anthony M Zador.

Monitoring the climate crisis with AI, satellites and drones – a workshop at NeurIPS2020

Lucy Smith 09 Mar 2021

As part of the workshop programme at NeurIPS2020, Climate Change AI (CCAI) held an all-day session on "Tackling climate change with machine learning". They also organised a side event on “Monitoring...

#NeurIPS2020 invited talks round-up: part two – the real AI revolution, and the future for the invisible workers in AI

Lucy Smith 22 Jan 2021

In this post we continue our summaries of the NeurIPS invited talks from the 2020 meeting. Here, we cover the talks by Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research) and Saiph Savage (Carnegie Mellon University)....

Preparing for emergency response with partial network information

Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech 15 Dec 2020

By Kristen Perez, Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech and School of Computational Science and Engineering. Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage, loss of life, and network disrup...

#NeurIPS2020 invited talks round-up: part one

Lucy Smith 11 Dec 2020

There were seven interesting and varied invited talks at NeurIPS this year. Here, we summarise the first three, which were given by Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech), Jeff Shamma (King Abdullah University...

Tweet round-up from the first few days of #NeurIPS2020

Lucy Smith 09 Dec 2020

It's been a busy few days at NeurIPS 2020 so far with all manner of talks, workshops, tutorials and socials on offer. This selection of tweets gives a flavour of the various events and discussions tak...

Congratulations to the #NeurIPS2020 award winners

Lucy Smith 08 Dec 2020

The winners of the NeurIPS 2020 awards have been announced. This year, three papers have received Best Paper Awards. There was also one Test of Time Award; this recognises a paper that has had signifi...

What’s happening at #NeurIPS this week?

Lucy Smith 07 Dec 2020

The conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020 kicked off on Sunday 6th December and will run until Saturday 12th December. Here, we give a brief summary of many of the planned...