Updates and events.

Apple is sponsoring Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which will be held in a two part virtual and hybrid format. The virtual event will take place on May 7 to 13, and the hybrid main conference on May 22 to 27. ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications.

Apple is sponsoring the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). It will be held virtually from April 25 to 29. ICLR is a gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of deep learning.

The AI/ML Residency Program invites experts in various fields to apply their own domain expertise to innovate and build revolutionary machine learning and AI-powered products and experiences. As AI-based solutions spread across disciplines, the need for domain experts to understand machine learning and apply their expertise in ML settings grows. The program aims to invest in the resident’s technical and theoretical machine learning development to help advance their professional careers.

Apple sponsored the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference, which was held in a hybrid format from November 7 to 11. EMNLP is a conference focused on natural language processing.

Apple sponsored the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), which was held virtually from October 11 to 17.

Apple sponsored the annual conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). This conference focuses on all aspects of the data science lifecycle, from data cleaning and preparation, to data transformation and the dissemination of results. KDD took place virtually from August 14 to 18.

Apple sponsored the thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). This conference focuses on the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning and will take place virtually from July 18 to 24.

Update: You can now leverage Apple’s tensorflow-metal PluggableDevice in TensorFlow v2.5 for accelerated training on Mac GPUs directly with Metal. You can get started here.

Apple sponsored the annual conference of North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). The conference took place virtually from June 6 to 11.

Apple sponsored the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, which was held virtually from December 6 to 12. 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-second ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), which was held virtually from October 26 to 28. ASSETS is a global conference focused on education surrounding computing for older adults and people with disabilities.

Apple sponsored the forty-third Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference, which was held virtually from July 25 to 30. SIGIR is a leading international forum focused on presenting new research in the informational retrieval field.

Apple Scholars is a program created to recognize the contributions of emerging leaders in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate level. As part of Apple Scholars, Apple is proud to announce the recipients of PhD fellowships in AI/ML. In recognition of these outstanding PhD students, each will receive support for their research and academic travel for two years, internship opportunities, and a two-year mentorship with an Apple researcher in their field. Nominated students were selected based on their innovative research, record as thought leaders and collaborators in their fields, and unique commitment to take risks and push the envelope in machine learning and AI.

Apple sponsored the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), which took place virtually from June 14 - 19. CVPR is the premier annual international computer vision event.

Apple sponsored the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) in April 2020, which took place virtually from April 26 - May 1. ICLR focuses on the advancement of representation learning, and this year’s conference included presentations on cutting-edge research on deep learning areas including computer vision, text understanding, data science, and more.

Apple attended the 33rd Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in December. The conference took place in Vancouver, Canada from December 8th to 14th.

Apple product teams are engaged in state of the art research in machine hearing, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, text-to-speech, and artificial intelligence, improving the lives of millions of customers every day.