ML-India Reportage | NIPS Conference 2016 & Grace Hopper India Celebration 2016

[Nishank Varshney]

Hi all,

ML-India is pleased to report on events in ML taking place this month. Early December witnessed NIPS 2016 taking place in Spain and Grace Hopper India Celebration 2016 being organized in Bangalore.

1. The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is a single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, followed by parallel-track workshops.

NIPS 2016 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain from 5th-10th December, 2016. This year, the conference had close to 730 accepted papers and posters along with 50+ workshops and tutorials. The keynote was provided by speakers from FB research, Salk institute, Deep Mind and Boston Dynamics and a couple more. 

Click here to read some notes from the conference, prepared by various researchers.

2. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing.  

GHC India organised this conference in Bangalore from 7th-9th December, 2016. The talks organised during the three-day conference focused on the real world applications of various theoretical concepts. The session on  Deep Learning for Real Business Applications had Ms. Hima Patel, Analytics Manager at Visa, Mr. Srikanth Narasimhan, an IT Engineer from Cisco, Mr. Nanda Kambhatla, Leader Cognitive Solutions, Global Business Services, Asia Pacific (IBM), on its panel. 

Read about their talks here.

We are in the process of compiling Indian researchers’ work presented at NIPS 2016. If you presented any or are aware of such presentations, please feel free to share here with the rest of the group.

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Nishank Varshney
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