Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation

Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images

Gyorgy Denes, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional Network-Informed Approach

Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Cambridge Design Partnership - Think Small: Embedded Software FTW!

Food provided

Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking

Kyunghan Lee (UNIST).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

The SPHERE project

Ian Craddock (University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Securing IoT with Azure Sphere

James Scott (MSR).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Green Custard Ltd: Innovating at pace in IoT

Food provided

Zoltan Molnar and Gavin Dolling .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

PETs, POTs, and pitfalls: rethinking the protection of users against machine learning

Carmela Troncoso (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Trip Report - CCC

Richard Mortier (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick/Alan Turing Institute).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Optimisation of a Modern Numerical Library: a Bottom-Up Approach

Jianxin Zhao (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Gearset - Continuous Delivery in Practice

Food provided

Ben Roberts, Software Engineer and Luke Drury, VP of Engineering.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Systematic Rateless Coding for Efficient Data Transport in Data Centres

Mohammed Alasmar (University of Sussex).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

DIAL seminars

Data Driven Design - Advanced analytics on a major railway enhancement in the North

Aaron Johnson (Jacobs Asset Management).

Seminar Room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00