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Perhaps you’ve heard about Project Adam over the last few days. That work, which shows that large-scale, commodity distributed systems are able to train extra-large deep neural networks efficiently, has received its share of attention in the tech media this week after being featured during the 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in the event-opening keynote address by Microsoft executive Harry Shum.
Or maybe you saw the story On Welsh Corgis, Computer Vision, and the Power of Deep Learning, which appeared on the Microsoft Research website. That one was based on a fascinating interview with project colleagues Trishul Chilimbi and Johnson Apacible—one not dissimilar to Channel 9’s engaging video discussion with Chilimbi as part of the Microsoft Research Luminaries series.
