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Improving Subseasonal Forecasting with Machine Learning
| Lester Mackey, Soukayna Mouatadid, Genevieve Flaspohler, et Judah Cohen
This content was previously published by Nature Portfolio and Springer Nature Communities (opens in new tab) on Nature Portfolio Earth and Environment Community (opens in new tab). Improving our ability to forecast the weather and climate is of interest to all…
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
MIT announced danah boyd is the recipient of the 2022-23 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). The Morison Prize recognizes an outstanding individual who combines humanistic values with effectiveness in practical affairs, particularly in science and technology. danah…
Prix | Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Lester Mackey named IMS Fellow
Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Dr. Mackey received the award for deep theoretical work in statistical machine learning with impactful applications.
AI self-play for algorithm design
| Adam Tauman Kalai et Patrick Haluptzok
Self-play has helped AI systems succeed in games like chess and Go. Can the same method help improve AI programming abilities? Using easy-to-check, hard-to-solve programming problems, researchers show AI can create, solve, and train on its own puzzles.
Prix | ACM SIGecom
Nicole Immorlica receives SIGecom 2023 Test-of-Time Award
The ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and…
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Kalai’s contributions have helped shape modern cryptographic practices and…
Prix | Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Lorin Crawford honored as a 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awardee
Lorin Crawford is one of eight awardees of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Award. For path-breaking research combining theory and methods of mathematics, statistics and computing to generate new knowledge and insight about the genetic basis of disease, and for…