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| Sep 3, 2024 | Тестирование ML систем | Приходят как-то на синк разработчик, тестировщик и time.sleep(1), а он им и говорит: ребята, мы что, в анекдоте?
→ Ну почти: они в подводке к статье про то, как тестировать мл системы, что бы не потерять $100k.1. Зачем тестировать ML-систем... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Инженерные практики разработки LLM-приложений | Разработка LLM-приложений включает в себя гораздо больше, чем просто промпт-дизайн или промпт-инжиниринг. В этой статье мы рассмотрим набор инженерных практик, которые помогли нам быстро и надёжно создать прототип LLM-приложения в рамках од... |
| May 21, 2024 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 392: Platform Moderation Or Individual Control? | As decentralized social media experiments continue, we’re getting more and more opportunities to really understand the impact of decentralized systems and how they are received by users. Amy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Исследователи приблизились к новому пределу скорости решения задачи коммивояжера | Целочисленное линейное программирование может помочь найти ответ на множество реальных проблем. Теперь исследователи нашли гораздо более быстрый способ это сделать.
Задача коммивояжера — одна из старейших известных вычислительных задач. Она... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Подводные дата-центры и хранение информации в QR-кодах: новшества индустрии ЦОД | По данным TAdviser, в России зафиксирован небывалый «бум» строительства ЦОДов. Схожая картина наблюдается и в остальных странах: по итогам 2022 года общий объем данных в мире составил 97 зеттабайт, в 2023 году — 110-120 зеттабайт, а к 2025 ... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Обучение с подкреплением: 10 вариантов применения | В системе обучения с подкреплением (Reinforcement Learning) агенты обучаются с помощью механизма вознаграждений и наказаний (или регресса). Агент получает вознаграждение за правильные действия и наказание за неправильные. При этом агент ста... |
| Oct 27, 2023 | A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI | In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a customer asked Alexa to play a song and it queued up the wron... |
| Sep 29, 2023 | MilliMobile — беспилотный робот, который работает от света и радиоволн | Первая рабочая модель MilliMobile размером 1х1 см весит менее 1,1 гр. Робот может нести полезную нагрузку, в 3 раза превышающую его собственный вес, при перевозке 1 гр. полезной нагрузки скорость падает лишь на 25%.
Миниатюрные роботы, нашп... |
| Sep 28, 2023 | MilliMobile: This Tiny, Self-Driving Robot Runs Only by Surrounding Light, Radio Waves | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 28 September 2023, 06:09 am
A team of researchers at the University of Washington has unveiled MilliMobile, a tiny self-driving robot that relies solely on ambient light or radio waves for power.
This robot is equ... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Tech Moves: Avalara execs step down; Nike tech leader departs; UW professors named Sloan Fellows | (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy)
— Sanjay Parthasarathy, a longtime Seattle tech executive who was most recently chief product officer at Avalara, has stepped down from the tax software giant.
Parthasarathy joined Avalara in 2019 after the ... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Tech Moves: T-Mobile tech leader to retire; Curi Bio and CrowdCow appoint CEOs; and more | Elizabeth Liu. (Crowd Cow Photo)
— Joe Heitzeberg is stepping down as CEO of CrowdCow, the Seattle-based meat and seafood marketplace he co-founded in 2015. Elizabeth Liu, the company’s vice president of marketing, will take on the role.
Li... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Dataloop secures cash infusion to expand its data annotation tool set | Data annotation, or the process of adding labels to images, text, audio and other forms of sample data, is typically a key step in developing AI systems. The vast majority of systems learn to make predictions by associating labels with spec... |
| May 23, 2022 | Microsoft claims its new tools make language models safer to use | Timed to align with Build 2022, Microsoft today open sourced tools and datasets designed to audit AI-powered content moderation systems and automatically write tests highlighting potential bugs in AI models. The company claims that the proj... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | This Seattle startup just raised $2.2M for an app that detects ear infections | Wavely Diagnostics CEO Arna Ionescu Stoll. (Wavely Photo)
The news: Wavely Diagnostics, a Seattle-based startup developing a smartphone app to detect ear infections, has raised $2.2 million to launch and market its product. The app is tied ... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Assistive tech startup led by former NASA engineer uses an AI ‘parrot’ to help people with disabilities | Parrots CEO David Hojah (left) with Parrot advisor Steve Saling and the company’s product, “Polly.” (Parrots Photo)
David Hojah is a former NASA engineer, but his real passion is healthcare.
Growing up, he saw his family members taking care... |
| Dec 4, 2021 | FDA gives clearance to sonar-based app that monitors breathing | Sound Life Sciences app to detect breathing. (Sound Life Sciences Photo)
Sound Life Sciences has clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its app that monitors breathing, the University of Washington spinout announced ... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | HTTP/3: улучшения производительности. Часть 2 | Фото Jack Hunter, Unsplash.com
После почти пятилетней разработки протокол HTTP/3 наконец приближается к окончательному выпуску. Здесь мы узнаем, как в HTTP/3 улучшилась производительность, включая контроль перегрузок, блокировки HoL и устан... |
| May 12, 2021 | ‘World’s lowest power wireless chip’: UW spinout Jeeva unveils new sensor data streaming tech | Jeeva’s Parsair wireless chip. (Jeeva Photo)
The news: Jeeva, the Seattle startup founded by University of Washington researchers, has developed what it’s calling the world’s lowest power wireless chip for streaming real-time sensor data, t... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | OctoML raises $28M grow machine learning software used by Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD | The OctoML team. (OctoML Photo)
New funding: Seattle-based startup OctoML raised a $28 million Series B round. The University of Washington spinout aims to help companies deploy machine learning models on various hardware configurations. Oc... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Tech Moves: Microsoft distinguished engineer joins Eclipse Ventures; Outreach adds evangelist | Kushagra Vaid. (Kushagra Vaid Photo)
— Former Microsoft VP and Azure Distinguished Engineer Kushagra Vaid is now a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Eclipse Ventures. He is also currently a strategic advisor for Seattle area cy... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | President Biden Is Man, Woman And 40 Years Old - Why We Need Algorithmic Transparency | Did you know that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a boy and that Joe Biden is both a "man" and a "woman"? Those are the insights you will get if you feed Angela and Joe's images into Microsoft's MS Azure... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | AI still struggles to recognize hateful memes, but it’s slowly improving | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook in May launched the Hateful Memes Challe... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | AI still struggles to recognize hateful memes, but it’s slowly improving | Facebook in May launched the Hateful Memes Challenge, a $100,000 competition aimed at spurring researchers to develop systems that can identify memes intended to hurt people. The first phase of the one-year contest recently crossed the half... |
| Aug 20, 2020 | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s new fund makes first investment, backing Panda AI | Aaron Goldfeder and Yue Ning, co-founders of Panda AI. (Panda AI Photos)
Panda AI announced an investment from the new fund out of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).
GeekWire first reported about the stealthy Seatt... |
| Apr 3, 2020 | Seattle machine learning startup OctoML raises $15M from Amplify and Madrona | The OctoML team. (OctoML Photo)
OctoML is charging ahead with its machine learning deployment software and on Friday announced a $15 million investment round to help support growth.
The Seattle startup spun out of the University of Washingt... |
| Feb 29, 2020 | Experts Plan to Build an AI Dungeon Master for D&D and to Progress in other Tabletop Roleplaying Games | Christine Roger, Tech Times 29 February 2020, 01:02 am
Dungeons and Dragons are known to have such extensive storytelling. Being Dungeon Master means you'll be narrating the whole game but also need to be more spontaneous when it comes... |
| Oct 23, 2019 | Univ. of Washington computer science experts raise $3.9M for machine learning startup OctoML | The OctoML team, from left to right: Jason Knight; Luis Ceze; Josh Fromm; Jared Roesch; Tianqi Chen; and Thierry Moreau. Not pictured: An Wang. (OctoML Photo)
A group of all-star computer scientists is behind OctoML, a new University of Was... |
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| Aug 16, 2019 | AI trained to detect hate speech online found to be biased against black people | Originally Published by:
Amazon's facial recognition can now detect 'fear' TikTok attracting lots of adult dating scams Revolutionary 'robo suit' developed to boost walking and running
Hate speech on platforms like ... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Technique to beam HD video with 99 percent less power could sharpen the eyes of smart homes | Everyone seems to be insisting on installing cameras all over their homes these days, which seems incongruous with the ongoing privacy crisis — but that’s a post for another time. Today, we’re talking about enabling those cameras to send hi... |
| Jan 8, 2018 | Facebook, Google, and Huawei Fund New AR, VR “Reality Lab” at UW | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The University of Washington will host a new computer science laboratory focused on virtual and augmented reality technologies, having attracted $6 million for the effort from... |
| Sep 29, 2017 | An Ex-Google Engineer Is Founding a Religion to Worship AI. He’s Decades Too Late. | The headlines on this one could almost write themselves. Anthony Levandowski, the disgraced former Google engineer whose copying of trade secrets led Waymo (Alphabet’s self-driving car company) to file a lawsuit against Uber for $1.86 billi... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | AI Without the Costly GPU Chips? Seattle Startup Xnor.ai Sees a Way | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Picture a world in which cameras, sensors, watches, and other devices, equipped with commodity computer chips, recognize and understand what’s happening around them.
The basic... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | Xnor.ai spins out from Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator, raises $2.6M to put AI in every device | The Xnor.ai team scanned by the company’s deep learning technology. The startup is led by Mohmmad Rastegari, CTO (middle) and Ali Farhadi, CEO and co-founder (second from right). Photo via Xnor.ai.
Bringing artificial intelligence technolog... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Jeeva Wireless, founded by UW researchers, raises $1.2M to develop ‘breakthrough’ passive Wi-Fi system | UW researchers have generated Passive Wi-Fi transmissions that use 10,000 times less power than current methods. (Credit: UW via YouTube)
A group of University of Washington engineers has raised capital to develop and commercialize a power-... |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Как подготовиться к AI Hackathon | Yulia Kovaleva 9 декабря 2016, 15:29 Как подготовиться к AI Hackathon
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| Nov 30, 2016 | MusicNet aims to give machine learning algorithms a taste for Beethoven | We’ve got machine learning systems captioning images, synthesizing speech and translating between languages, but it seems we’ve been neglecting their cultural development. Would you believe the future rulers of this planet are largely ignor... |
| Aug 5, 2016 | Report: Seattle Machine Learning Star Turi Acquired by Apple | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of Seattle’s foremost machine learning startup companies, Turi—formerly known as GraphLab and then Dato—appears to have been acquired by Apple, according to press reports.... |
| Jul 21, 2016 | This amazing search engine automatically face-swaps you into your image results | Ever wonder what you would look like with long, wavy hair? I think you’d look great. But how can you try on a few looks without spending a fortune at the salon, or hours in photoshop? I’m glad you asked. All you need is a selfie and Dreambi... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Facial recognition systems stumble when confronted with million-face database | We’re all a bit worried about the terrifying surveillance state that becomes possible when you cross omnipresent cameras with reliable facial recognition — but a new study suggests that some of the best algorithms are far from infallible wh... |
| May 12, 2016 | Revealed: The winners of the 2016 GeekWire Awards | Arivale accepts the award for Startup of the Year at the GeekWire Awards on Thursday at the EMP Museum.
The Pacific Northwest tech community was buzzing in Seattle at the EMP Museum on Thursday evening, as more than 1,000 of you joined us f... |
| May 4, 2016 | SpiroCall measures lung health over any phone — no app necessary | Sometimes you see an application of technology that’s so innovative and helpful you can’t believe it exists in this age of narcissistic and short-sighted startups. SpiroCall, a service that lets anyone in the world call a toll-free number a... |
| Apr 12, 2016 | From servers to DNA - is this the future of data storage? | By Catherine Knowles
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| Oct 16, 2015 | Microsoft, University Of Washington's HyperCam Could Give X-Ray Vision To Your Phone's Camera | Anu Passary, Tech Times 16 October 2015, 09:10 am
If you worry about the possibility of prepackaged produce already going bad when you go grocery shopping, then a new invention from researchers at the University of Washington could be the a... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Seattle nonprofit Enlearn tackles thorny task: Personalize school with technology | Student using Enlearn tablet in pilot (photo: Enlearn)
One of the knottiest problems in applying technology to education is the holy grail of “personalization:” How to adjust and adapt instructional materials automatically, so that every ch... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Seattle Roundup: Live Long and Prosper Edition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our hearts are heavy today with news of the death of Leonard Nimoy at age 83, who was Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and so much more. He exemplified his most famous character’s most f... |
| Feb 20, 2015 | Snapchat Wants You to Keep Your Clothes On | Snapchat has grown far beyond its initial designation as “that sexting app with the disappearing messages”, and the app is being used for things far beyond your basic boob shot and dick pic. Brands are getting in the mix and there’s even be... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | Seattle Roundup: UW Startups, CSE Expansion; New Funding Flows | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Northwest technology companies have racked up more than $67 million in fresh funding over the last two weeks, including investment rounds for Limeade, Acumatica, Urban Airship... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Scientists develop app to diagnose jaundice in newborns | “A parent or health care professional would download the app, place the card on her baby’s belly, then take a picture with the card in view. The card calibrates and accounts for different lighting conditions and skin tones. Data from the ph... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | Seattle Roundup: Algorithmia, Array, Intellectual Ventures, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking investments in Algorithmia, which is building a marketplace for algorithms, and Array Health Solutions, which powers health insurance marketplaces.
A... |
| Apr 16, 2014 | Husky Pride: Check out these 5 startups founded by University of Washington grads, professors | Seattle Tech Meetup organizer Brett Greene and University of Washington professor Ed Lazowska inside the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science.
The talent and tenacity of graduates and professors from the University of Washington was on... |
| Apr 3, 2014 | 4 key trends that are revolutionizing enterprise effectiveness | For the last several years, conventional wisdom has been that enterprise software is the exciting area in which venture capitalists should invest.
A large number of celebrated exits have occurred with firms such as Workday, Tableau, and Spl... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | Come See AllSee, UW’s New Low-Power Gesture Control System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The chorus of Hotel California sings out from the mobile phone in Bryce Kellogg’s pocket. He waves his hand to turn down the volume. He flicks his fingers a couple of times an... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Wikileaks In A Box: SecureDrop Is WhistleBlower Communication Tool For Media | In an effort to protect government whistleblowers from unprecedented levels of surveillance, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has launched SecureDrop, an anonymous submission tool for secure communications between sources and journalists... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Big Insight—Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle Nov. 19 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s not about the data, it’s about the insight.
While the accumulation of data shows no signs of slowing, some argue the term “big data” has passed peak marketing hype. This ... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | EBay Buys Price-Predicting Startup Decide, Adds to Seattle Office | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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One of Seattle’s best-pedigreed tech startups is joining a big name in the industry. Decide, a price-forecasting service formed by veterans of the Far... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | First human brain-to-brain interface allows remote control over the internet, telepathy coming soon | The first human-to-human, brain-to-brain noninvasive interface has been created by researchers at the University of Washington. The system allows one researcher to remotely control the hand of another researcher, across the internet, merely... |
| Aug 9, 2013 | Roundup: WTIA, Lytics, SwopBoard, Contour, Obama at Zillow & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You may have heard earlier this week that a local technology entrepreneur purchased an old media company. In other news around the Northwest this week, the Washington Technolo... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks | Startup vet Oren Etzioni (left) shared stories and advice with Michael Grabham and the Startup Grind crowd Wednesday evening.
Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more of... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | UW Tech Turns Home WiFi Network Into Gesture Control System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If they weren’t outdated already, 1980s innovations like the Clapper and the medical alert pendants of “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” fame may have met their 21st century ma... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Researchers teach Wi-Fi to “see,” identify gestures | Changing the channel with a wave from the kitchen in the WiSee test apartment.
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| Mar 22, 2013 | Decide Raises $8 million To Expand to ‘All E-Commerce Categories’ | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Decide.com, the company that uses big data to help consumers buy smarter, is about as Seattle as it gets right now in tech, having just closed an $8 million Series C funding r... |
| Cool robot hand learns as it goes | It’s a device that brings to mind the bodyless hand, Thing, from The Addams Family: a human-like robotic hand, engineered by scientists at the University of Washington, that can learn on its own as it handles a specific task.
The hand has f... |
| Scientists develop app to diagnose jaundice in newborns | As hospitals speed new mothers out the door, one unintended consequence is that infants can develop signs of jaundice after they’re home. That means it then takes more time to diagnose and treat the condition than if it had been caught befo... |