On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Devansh Arpit <devansharpit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> This is a reminder that we have a talk today by Michael James from Cerebras
> Systems based in Los Altos, California.
> The room will be AA5340 and starts at 13:45.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
> Devansh Arpit
>
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> From: Dzmitry Bahdanau <dimabgv@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:39 AM
> Subject: [Lisa_montreal] [TeaTalk] Michael James, April 21, 13:45, AA5340
> To: Lisa montreal <lisa_montreal@iro.umontreal.ca>, Lisa Labo
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> Hi all,
>
> Our next speaker is Michael James from Cerebras Systems. The talk will take
> place at AA5340, April 21, 13:45. Hope to see many of you there!
>
> Title: Continuous Propagation and Computer Architectures Specialized for
> Deep Learning
>
> Abstract: I will be discussing a novel computing platform designed for
> training deep neural models, and highlight Continuous Propagation, which is
> one of the new learning algorithms that it makes possible. Continuous
> Propagation is a training technique that allows layer-parallelism: training
> for deep models is parallelized along the depth of the network. The
> technique is motivated by the continuous differential formulation of
> learning and has relations to biologically plausible learning. Cerebras
> Systems is building a next generation system, purpose designed for sparse
> linear algebra and large stochastic optimization problems.
>
> Bio: I am a founder and Chief Software Architect at Cerebras Systems, a
> venture-backed stealth mode startup located in Los Altos, California. Prior
> to founding Cerebras Systems, I was lead SW Architect at SeaMicro (acquired
> by AMD for $357 million). I was responsible for the distributed system
> software that among other things, did placement and work allocation for the
> more than 16,000 cores in a SeaMicro solution. Post acquisition, I was an
> AMD Fellow and worked as a hardware and software architect. At AMD, I
> designed a novel distributed high-availability compute architecture base on
> cellular automata. Career highlights include: Platform Architect, Kno Inc,
> where I designed gesture recognition algorithms. Chief Architect, MultiLing
> Corp, where I designed machine translation software using fuzzy logic. I
> have designed operating systems, compilers, real-time feedback control
> systems, signal processing, and recognition systems. I hold patents in
> computer architecture and distributed algorithms. My alma mater is
> University of California at Berkeley where I studied Molecular Neurobiology,
> Mathematics, and Computer Science.
>
> Dima
>
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