After leaving IBM Research where he worked on the SyNAPSE neuromorphic silicon chip, Greg Corrado became one of the founding members and the Co-technical Lead of Google’s Large Scale Deep Neural Networks Project. He is now Senior Research Scientist at Google and in this talk gives some insight into the project. Corrado has also undertaken extensive research in artificial intelligence, computational ...

Avi Bryant of Stripe is the Author of Brushfire, an extremely scalable framework for distributed and supervised learning of decision tree ensembles in Scala. This talk, featuring cookie monster, covers the architecture and algorithm of Brushfire where Bryant also runs through examples of using it with Scala library Scalding to build trees on Hadoop. Also, for context, one of the inspirations ...