From awd at cs.cmu.edu Mon Dec 11 15:57:00 2017 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:57:00 -0500 Subject: Maria and William rock! Message-ID: Maria De Arteaga and William Herlands have just co-organized an immensely successful workshop on ML for Development at NIPS. It did not only go very well and was well attended, but it was fun to be a part of it. At the end, the audience demanded a continuation at the next NIPS. I guess good things happen when you combine ML expertise with the awareness of pressing policy/societal issues. Congrats Maria and William! Oh, the media have found about it too: https://qz.com/1148086/the-most-impactful-ai-research-isnt-happening-in-silicon-valley/ [BTW, I think everyone can agree with the title of this article :P ] Cheers, Artur From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Mon Dec 11 16:13:03 2017 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:13:03 -0500 Subject: Maria and William rock! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <39a4e7d4-924e-cb77-a8c7-1ad49f7149b9@cs.cmu.edu> Indeed!! Congratulations! We will post on our MLD website! Thanks Amy! Best, ????? Manuela On 12/11/17 3:57 PM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Maria De Arteaga and William Herlands have just co-organized an > immensely successful workshop on ML for Development at NIPS. It did > not only go very well and was well attended, but it was fun to be a > part of it. At the end, the audience demanded a continuation at the > next NIPS. I guess good things happen when you combine ML expertise > with the awareness of pressing policy/societal issues. > > Congrats Maria and William! > > Oh, the media have found about it too: > https://qz.com/1148086/the-most-impactful-ai-research-isnt-happening-in-silicon-valley/ > > > [BTW, I think everyone can agree with the title of this article :P ] > > Cheers, > Artur From ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu Wed Dec 13 10:04:03 2017 From: ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu (Nick Gisolfi) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:04:03 -0500 Subject: [Hackathon] Save the Dates: January 19-21 Message-ID: Hi Everyone, The Auton Lab will be hosting a hackathon on the first weekend after the start of the spring semester. Please keep this in mind when making plans during that weekend. Ideally, everyone will be able to contribute a little bit of time so that we are fully staffed throughout the event. It will kick off Friday evening, continue all day Saturday, and end late afternoon on Sunday If anyone is specifically interested in helping plan for the event, please contact me via email. As a heads up, I will be polling opinion in the lab occasionally between now and the event for specific design choices we need to make. Thanks, - Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Dec 13 11:25:17 2017 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:25:17 -0500 Subject: [Hackathon] Save the Dates: January 19-21 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2b94453a-94c2-aaf2-c211-95749e3189d0@cs.cmu.edu> Thanks Nick! Everyone: Nick has actually proposed to call it a Hackauton. I liked it :) Thanks in advance for your involvement and help. This will be the first of the events to celebrate the 25 years of the Lab. Nick will follow up shortly with a brief explanation of the proposed format but we are open to ideas on how to make it better. The key idea is to expose the Lab more to the local CMU community and to hopefully stimulate more collaboration across SCS and campus of all people who are intrigued with applied ML. Cheers Artur On 12/13/2017 10:04 AM, Nick Gisolfi wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The Auton Lab will be hosting a hackathon on the first weekend after > the start of the spring semester. > > Please keep this in mind when making plans during that weekend.? > Ideally, everyone will be able to contribute a little bit of time so > that we are fully staffed throughout the event.? It will kick off > Friday evening, continue all day Saturday, and end late afternoon on > Sunday > > If anyone is specifically interested in helping plan for the event, > please contact me via email. > > As a heads up, I will be polling opinion in the lab occasionally > between now and the event for specific design choices we need to make. > > Thanks, > > - Nick From ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu Thu Dec 14 10:36:48 2017 From: ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu (Nick Gisolfi) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:36:48 -0500 Subject: [Hackathon] Save the Dates: January 19-21 In-Reply-To: <2b94453a-94c2-aaf2-c211-95749e3189d0@cs.cmu.edu> References: <2b94453a-94c2-aaf2-c211-95749e3189d0@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Thanks Artur! Everyone: https://goo.gl/forms/rU7hbWIj2ZEa841y2 Above is a link to a survey where we will collect suggestions for the hackathon's challenge problems. Hopefully, most of you can at least submit one proposal which is related to your past/present/future research efforts. Keep in mind that most participants will be undergraduates, so the challenge problem needs to be something they can make meaningful contributions toward over the course of a weekend. As far as details for the event, the schedule boils down to the following: Friday January 19th: Late afternoon kickoff, introduction to the challenge problems, and setting teams up with their computational resources. Saturday January 20th: Hack all day. Potentially, we will have speakers during meal times Sunday January 21st: Hack until late afternoon. A panel of judges will listen to presentations and decide on a winning team/individual Additionally: We will be providing meals and snacks throughout the event. Everyone will be strongly encouraged to get full nights of sleep over the weekend. The 3rd floor NSH Atrium is booked all weekend as well as NSH 3305, 3001, and 3002 for breakout spaces. If you have any suggestions for improvements to this schedule outline, please contact me. Please consider submitting a challenge problem proposal at your earliest convenience so we have time to curate a selection of the best submissions. You may submit as many proposals as you would like. Be creative! Feel free to pass the link for this form to anyone you believe would be interested in proposing a challenge problem. *Lastly, if you are interested in helping with the planning/organization of the event, please join the #hackauton channel on auton.slack.com . * (You should be able to sign up for the slack team with an andrew.cmu.edu email address) Thank you all so much in advance for your thoughtful submissions! - Nick On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Thanks Nick! > > Everyone: Nick has actually proposed to call it a Hackauton. > I liked it :) > > Thanks in advance for your involvement and help. > This will be the first of the events to celebrate the 25 years of the Lab. > > Nick will follow up shortly with a brief explanation of the proposed format > but we are open to ideas on how to make it better. > > The key idea is to expose the Lab more to the local CMU community and > to hopefully stimulate more collaboration across SCS and campus of all > people who are intrigued with applied ML. > > Cheers > Artur > > > On 12/13/2017 10:04 AM, Nick Gisolfi wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> The Auton Lab will be hosting a hackathon on the first weekend after the >> start of the spring semester. >> >> Please keep this in mind when making plans during that weekend. Ideally, >> everyone will be able to contribute a little bit of time so that we are >> fully staffed throughout the event. It will kick off Friday evening, >> continue all day Saturday, and end late afternoon on Sunday >> >> If anyone is specifically interested in helping plan for the event, >> please contact me via email. >> >> As a heads up, I will be polling opinion in the lab occasionally between >> now and the event for specific design choices we need to make. >> >> Thanks, >> >> - Nick >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: