IEEE Kharagpur Section

Over the past decade, the confluence of sophisticated algorithms and tools, computational infrastructure, and data science has fueled a machine learning revolution across multiple fields, including speech and handwriting recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, social network filtering, and machine translation. Ensuing advances are changing the way we interact with technology in our daily lives. This is particularly salient when it comes to user input on mobile devices, be it speech, handwriting, touch, keyboard, or camera input. Increased input intelligence boosts device responsiveness across languages, improving not only basic abilities like tokenization, named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging, but also more advanced capabilities like statistical language modeling and question answering. In this talk, I will give selected examples of what Apple has been doing to impart input intelligence to mobile devices, with two overarching themes as sub-text: (i) enhancing interaction experience through machine learning, and (ii) transforming users' digital lives without sacrificing their privacy. Speaker(s): Dr. Jerome R. Bellegarda, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421710

Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a direct link between the human brain and the computer. It involves registering the activity of the central nervous system and interpreting it to determine the state of the human brain or to decode a certain number of commands. In this talk we will discuss ways to detect and interpret brain activity, and some interesting achievements in various research labs. Also, we will look at the BCI market a show some of the devices and algorithms designed by Microsoft Research. Speaker(s): Dr. Ivan Tashev, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421711

Containerization is one of the most promising modern alternatives to virtualization where lightweight ‘containers’ with only few sufficient properties are run as VMs instead of full-scale OS in virtual mode. Docker and Kubernetes are currently the de-facto standard tools worldwide to implement containerization. Containiration finds useful applications in almost all modern day applications. As such, a detailed tutorial and introduction to these concepts are very important, especially to developers and researchers starting their journeys. In this talk, we will learn the basics of Containerization and how it revolutionizes application development, deployment, and management. We will gain hands-on experience with: - Creating and managing docker containers. - Using docker compose to orchestrate multiple containers. - Deploying application in Kubernetes clusters. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421561