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Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing
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Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing
Students Earn National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Fourteen UConn students and alumni have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships L-R, Brandon D'Agostino, Joshua Dupont, Berk Alpay, Caroline Donaghy Copy Link A UConn undergraduate, three graduate students, and 10 alumni have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF-GRFP). The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF-GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding students in NSF-supported disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and ...
Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable. Reread the first sentence of this story. Just two words, "language" and...
Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Previous image Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable. Reread the first sentence of this story. Just two words, “language” and “inefficient,” convey almost the entire meaning of the sentence. The importance of key words underlies a popular new tool for natural language processing (NLP) by computers: the attention mechanism. When coded into a broader NLP algorithm, the attention mechanism homes in on key words rather than treating every word with equal importance. That yields ...