A few months ago, I blogged about how to reduce AlexNet image resolution without giving up much ImageNet accuracy. I’m not quite sure what I did wrong, but I’m not able to reproduce those results. I’m sorry for leading you down the wrong path, and thanks to the 10 people who wrote me with questions […]
Running AlexNet in Caffe with 128×128 instead of 256×256 images, we observed a 5.4x speedup and a
Making scrambled eggs is as easy as “scramble some eggs and cook them,” right? Well, sort of. There are a lot of subtle choices! Martha Stewart endorses the “scramble some eggs and cook them” philosophy. Dani Spies adds water when beating the eggs, and she cooks them in coconut oil. Gordon Ramsay adds a few […]
The latest Green500 rankings were released last week at Supercomputing 2010! My work on the NCSA EcoG cluster with Profs. William D. Gropp and Wen-Mei Hwu and research scientist Mike Showerman earned two Green500 awards. In light of this, Prof. Wen-Mei Hwu and I were featured on yesterday’s Champaign-Urbana news: According to Green500, EcoG is […]
My work with Profs. William D. Gropp and Wen-Mei Hwu and research scientist Mike Showerman is featured in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Newsletter! In March 2010, a team of fifteen University of Illinois and NCSA computer scientists including professors, graduate students, and undergrads set out push the limits of energy efficiency in […]
During Fall 2009 and Spring 2010, I led a course on Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Illinois. The course was especially targeted toward first-year engineering students interested in technical startups and social entrepreneurship. In addition to Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the iFoundry program offers a plethora of courses and opportunities for engineering students. The […]
While perusing the blog of Chris Sells of Microsoft, I came across the best interview question I’ve ever seen: I walked into my first technical interview at Microsoft, and before I could say anything, the woman says, You’re in an 8×8 stone corridor. I blink and sit down. Interviewer: The prince of darkness appears before […]
This week, with a group of University of Illinois computer science students, I visited Google’s Chicago office. The Chicago location was founded primarily to house Chicago-based engineering superstars Brian “Fitz” Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, both of whom joined us at Illinois for the ACM Reflections|Projections Conference last fall. Today, the University of Illinois group was […]
Earlier this week, the University of Illinois Daily Illini published a database of salaries for all University of Illinois faculty and staff. Top salaries included football coach Ronald Zook at $1,052,500.10 and Engineering Dean and Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering Ilesanmi Adesida at $309,466. The range of salaries also included Special Education Clerical Assistant […]
