Updates and events.

Apple is sponsoring the 28th annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). KDD will be held in Washington D.C. from August 14 to 18. It is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.

Earlier this year, Apple hosted the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML). This virtual event brought Apple and members of the academic research communities together to discuss the state of the art in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning through a series of talks and discussions over two days.

Apple is sponsoring ACL (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held in a hybrid format from May 22 to 27. ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

Apple is sponsoring the ACM Human-Computer Interaction conference (CHI), which will be held in a hybrid virtual and in-person format from April 30 to May 5. CHI is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

Apple is proud to announce the 2022 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.

The Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference was held virtually on December 6 - 14. NeurIPS is a global conference focused on fostering the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects.

Apple sponsored the twenty-third International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). ASSETS is a forum for presenting research on the design, evaluation, use, and education related to computing for people with disabilities and older adults. This took place virtually on October 18, 19, 20 and 22.

Apple is a sponsor of the 33rd Interspeech conference, which was held in a hybrid format from August 30 to September 3. Interspeech is a global conference focused on cognitive intelligence for speech processing and application.

Apple sponsored the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021). This conference focused on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing and took place virtually on August 1 to 6.

Apple sponsored the annual conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The conference focuses on computer vision and its applications and took place virtually from June 19 to 25.

Apple sponsored the 46th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). The conference focuses on signal processing and its applications and takes place virtually from June 6 to 11.

Apple is proud to announce the 2021 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship. Each Scholar receives two years of funding as they pursue their PhD, internship opportunities, and a two-year mentorship with an Apple researcher in their field. Nominated students were selected based on their innovative research, their record as thought leaders and collaborators in their fields, and their unique commitment to take risks and push the envelope in machine learning and AI.

Apple sponsored the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference, which was held virtually from November 16 to 20. EMNLP is a leading conference focused on natural language processing.

Apple sponsored the thirty-second Interspeech conference, which was held virtually from October 25 to 29. Interspeech is a global conference focused on cognitive intelligence for speech processing and application.

Apple sponsored the thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), which was held virtually from July 12 to 18. ICML is a leading global gathering dedicated to advancing the machine learning field.

Apple sponsored the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) from July 5 - 10. ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of research areas regarding computational approaches to natural language.

Apple sponsored the 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in May 2020. With a focus on signal processing and its applications, the conference took place virtually from May 4 - 8. Read Apple’s accepted papers below.

Apple had three papers accepted at the conference of Human-Computer Interaction (CHI), the premier international conference on interactive technology, in April 2020. Researchers from across the world gather at CHI to discuss, research, and design new ways for people to interact using technology. Although the conference was not held this year, you can read the accepted papers below.

Apple attended Interspeech 2019, the world's largest conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. The conference took place in Graz, Austria from September 15th to 19th. See accepted papers below.

Apple continues to build cutting-edge technology in the space of machine hearing, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, text-to-speech, and artificial intelligence, improving the lives of millions of customers every day.