Carnegie Mellon University

Webinar - Neocortex CS-2 Overview

Presented on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 2:30 - 3:30 pm (ET), by Dr. Natalia Vassilieva from Cerebras. 

This webinar gives an overview of the Cerebras CS-2 server, to be featured in Neocortex. In order to help researchers better understand the benefits of this new technology, we invited you to participate in a virtual CS-2 overview presentation by Dr. Natalia Vassilieva from Cerebras.

Prior to the event, attendees were welcomed to submit and upvote questions at slido.com with code #511940, or directly at the webinar using the Q&A feature. The Slido page only took new questions prior to the event.

This webinar used the Zoom conferencing system. Attendees received connection details when completing the registration process.

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For more information about Neocortex, explore the project page and press release. For questions about this webinar, please email neocortex@psc.edu.

About the Instructor

Natalia Vassilieva, Ph.D., (Director of Product, Machine Learning at Cerebras Systems Inc.)

Dr. Vassilieva is the Director of Product, Machine Learning at Cerebras Systems, an innovative computer systems company dedicated to accelerating deep learning. Natalia’s main interests and expertise are in machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and application-driven software-hardware optimization and co-design. Prior to Cerebras, Dr. Vassilieva was affiliated to Hewlett Packard Labs where she led the Software and AI group from 2015 till 2019 and served as the head of HP Labs Russia from 2011 to 2015. From 2012 to 2015, Natalia also served as a part-time Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University and a part-time lecturer at the Computer Science Center, St. Petersburg, Russia. Before joining HP Labs in 2007, Natalia worked as a Software Engineer for different IT companies in Russia from 1999 till 2007. Natalia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from St. Petersburg State University.

For more information about Neocortex, explore the project page. For questions about this webinar, please email neocortex@psc.edu.