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Posted on Congratulations to Jordan Henkel for being chosen a 2021 Microsoft Research Fellow! Students are nominated by their university for this prestigious award, and only ten fellowships were awarded this year. Students receive two years of tuition and fees at their educational institution, a stipend, and an invitation to a two-day PhD summit. Henkel works with Professor Thomas Reps on the intersection of Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. For more about Henkel, and to view his acceptance video, check out the Microsoft page here.

Looking back 12 months at Insider’s preview of 2020, the danger of making even short-term predictions is starkly illustrated! The upcoming General Election, a post-Brexit trade deal, and the ongoing housing crisis were cited as the issues likely to dominate the political year; as it turned out, all featured but there was not one word about the issue that dominated the year - Covid-19.

 E-Mail Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don't move quickly. "The hang up is what's going on in the robot's head," she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Neuman has found a way to fight this mismatch between a robot's "mind" and body. The method, cal...

Designing customized “brains” for robots January 21, 2021MIT A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time. Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don’t move quickly. “The hang up is what’s going on in the robot’s head,” she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a “boatload of computation,” which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Compute...

Here the findings are largely unchanged from 2018: for the selected benchmark code, the code generation by our selected compilers has not changed significantly. Only the new hardware CPU influences the measurements: the new CPU has a higher clock frequency than previously, so for an equivalent mix of instructions we expect and observe a 10-40% raw performance improvement. Additionally, the Ryzen 7 3950X architecture has a somewhat more powerful superscalar execution unit than the 1800X, and is able to detect inter-instruction dependencies across more memory accesses. This causes more measure...