Amazon DSSTNE

I got this from my colleague Rajat Arya: Amazon newly release a new deep learning framework called Amazon DSSTNE. I have connected with Scott Le Grand, one of the main developers, and he kindly agreed to talk about DSSTNE at our Data Science Summit US, July 12-13 in SF.  In addition, Jeff Dean, Google's TensorFlow creator will speak as well.

Ligra wins ACM PhD Dissertation Award

From my friend Jonthan Rosenblatt who is a Prof. at BGU. My other friend Michael Mahoney just published a blog post about Ligra work by Julia Shun which won the ACM Dissertation Award. Ligra is a shared memory graph processing system which improves our older PowerGraph work.

A nice big data visualization paper

I got this from my colleague Dick Kreisberg: Tang, J., Liu, J., Zhang, M., & Mei, Q. (2016, April). Visualizing Large-scale and High-dimensional Data. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 287-297). International World Wide Web Conferences .‏