Interest Groups
Machine Intelligence
Machine Intelligence Group foucuses on research and applications in areas like Computer Vision, Natural Language and Data Mining.
Systems & Networks
Systems and Networks group focuses on research and applications in areas like OS, DBMS and Computer Networks.
Theoretical Computer Science
Theoretical CS focuses on research and applications in areas like DSA, Computationl Complexity Theory and Cryptography.
Women in computer scinece
Women in Computer Science group works towards promoting and supporting the growing community of women in Technology.
Global Tech News
Almost 70% of IT Staff Say Firms Working on Tech Gender Diversity
In the annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget Information Technology (IT) salary survey, 67% of respondents said their firms were working on gender diversity, yet just 29% said their company had a plan in place to do so. Less than a third of respondents said similarly-qualified men and women earned the same wage in their company.
AI Finds More Than 1,200 Gravitational Lensing Candidates
A research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used a deep residual neural network to identify over 1,200 gravitational lensing candidates. The candidate lenses discovered can yield significant insights on the role of dark matter in large celestial objects, and if verified, could more than double the number of known lenses.
Blogs
Computer Vision without the 'Black Box'
December 28th, 2020 2 MinsA research at Cynthia Rusin’s lab tries to find out what happens in a machine’s mind as it learns. Their work reveals how much a neural network recollects different concepts as an image travels through the network’s layers.
An AI used Facebook data in improving diagnosis for mental illness!
December 28th, 2020 1 MinAn AI scanned facebook messages of volunteers for over an year and was able to find signs of their conditions before they received a psychiatric diagnosis.
Virtual Conferences and Volunteering
December 24th, 2020 1 MinThe Conferences are going virtual, its time to return back the karma.