ACL 2022
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.
ICASSP 2022
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.
CHI 2022
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.
ICLR 2022
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.
Announcing the 2022 Apple Scholars in AI/ML
Apple is proud to announce the 2022 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.
The AI/ML Residency Program
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.
NeurIPS 2021
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.
EMNLP 2021
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.
ASSETS 2021
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.
ICCV 2021
Apple sponsored the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), which was held virtually from October 11 to 17.
Interspeech 2021
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.
KDD 2021
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.
ACL 2021
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.
ICML 2021
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.
CVPR 2021
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.
Leveraging ML Compute for Accelerated Training on Mac
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.
ICASSP 2021
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.
NAACL 2021
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.
Announcing the 2021 Apple Scholars in AI/ML
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.
NeurIPS 2020
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.
EMNLP 2020
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.
ASSETS 2020
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.
Interspeech 2020
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.
SIGIR 2020
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.
ICML 2020
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.
Introducing Apple Scholars in AI/ML
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.
ACL 2020
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.
CVPR 2020
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.
ICASSP 2020
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.
ICLR 2020
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.
CHI 2020
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.
NeurIPS 2019
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.
Interspeech 2019
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.