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Talks & Presentations Collection

December 18, 2019

Bringing Multi-Container to Constrained Devices: The Case of the IoT Gateway

Containerization has been driving the scene in cloud technology, but it stretches far beyond the cloud domain. In fact, the AGILE project develops a container based open software framework for IoT gat …

How Amy, an artificial intelligence capable of scheduling meetings, understands human intents

December 18, 2019

Rakesh Chada introduces x.ai's Amy, an AI assistant that schedules meetings via email. Rakesh discusses Amy's architecture and the various challenges the team faced during its design and shares several machine learning approaches for intent classification. Rakesh concludes by exploring a novel method for error optimization in a conversational agent that exploits customer error tolerance.

Integrating deep learning libraries with Apache Spark

December 18, 2019

Joseph Bradley and Xiangrui Meng share best practices for integrating popular deep learning libraries with Apache Spark, covering cluster setup, data ingest, configuring clusters, and monitoring jobs. Joseph and Xiangrui then demonstrate these techniques using Googles TensorFlow library.

Is the body the missing link for true AI?

December 18, 2019

Ben Medlock explores the future of AI, explaining why the potential it holds is not at all frightening. Ben argues that the key to achieving elusive human-like AI lies in a central piece of the puzzle: embodiment.

Lab: Linux Container Internals

December 18, 2019

Have you ever wondered how Linux containers work? How they really work, deep down inside? Questions like: How does sVirt/SELinux, SECCOMP, namespaces, and isolation really work? How does the Docker Da …

Live and let die: The need for an AI-enabled enterprise (sponsored by Arago)

December 18, 2019

The internet giants are fully embracing AI. The services they offer are all aimed at using data to draw a map of the world, and they are using AI to build disruptive approaches that can't be replicated by established enterprises, which are threatened by these disruptions. However, as Rene Buest explains, most leaders still underestimate the effect this will have on their businesses.

Machine learning on Google Cloud Platform (sponsored by Google)

December 18, 2019

Amy Unruh offers a quick overview of machine learning on Google Cloud Platform and demonstrates a couple of the Google Cloud ML APIs. She then briefly highlights a few OSS TensorFlow models and explains how to use transfer learning to fine-tune them with your own data.

Machines as thought partners

December 18, 2019

AI systems should not only propose solutions or answers but also explain why they make sense. Statistical machine learning is a powerful tool for discovering patterns in data, but, David Ferrucci asks, can it produce understanding or enable humans to justify and take reasoned responsibility for individual outcomes?

Magenta: Machine learning and creativity

December 18, 2019

Doug Eck offers an overview of Magenta, a Google Brain project to develop new generative machine learning models for art and sound creation, allowing us to better understand how machine learning can be used by artists and musicians to make something new. Doug provides demos and explains where this work fits in with other AI research being done at Google and elsewhere.

Open Source Beyond Software

December 18, 2019

The phrase 'Open Source', to many people, means 'software you don't have to pay for'but actually it's much more than that. It's a way of thinking and working focused on transparency and collaborating …

Open Source is Just About the Source, Isn't It?

December 18, 2019

Your project's code base is rock solid, you are rolling releases early and often, your test suite is comprehensive and running regularly, your code is well performing without any glitches. Everything …

Programming your way to explainable AI

December 18, 2019

As interactive and autonomous systems make their way into nearly every aspect of our lives, it is crucial to gain more trust in intelligent systems. Mark Hammond explores the latest techniques and research in building explainable AI systems. Join in to learn approaches for building explainability into control and optimization tasks, including robotics, manufacturing, and logistics.

seccomp(2) vs pledge(2)

December 18, 2019

seccomp is a computer security facility in the Linux kernel, pledge is a similar security facility in the OpenBSD kernel. In this presentation Giovanni Bechis will review the development story and pro …

Strategies for integrating people and machine learning in online systems

December 18, 2019

Clara Labs is fusing machine learning (ML) with distributed human labor for natural language tasks. The result is a virtuous cycle: ML predictions improve workers efficiency, and workers help improve prediction models. Jason Laska explores the challenges of building a real-time(ish) knowledge workforce, how to integrate automation, and key strategies Clara Labs learned that enable scale.

Superhuman AI for strategic reasoning: Beating top pros in heads-up no-limit Texas holdem

December 18, 2019

Tuomas Sandholm offers an overview of Libratusan AI that beat a team of four top specialist pros in heads-up no-limit Texas holdem, which has 10^161 decision pointsand explains how Strategic Machine is applying the domain-independent algorithms behind Libratus to a variety of imperfect-information games.

The Empire Strikes Back - We Just Need an Emperor

December 18, 2019

The immense success of Linux in the commercial space stems from many factors: its open source nature, extensibility, availability, lower cost, higher security - and the fact it has a Benevolent Dictat …

Transactional Updates with btrfs and RPMs

December 18, 2019

Applying small updates is normally no problem in a running system. But what about if there is a new major release of your favorite Desktop? Or a major version update of your used Linux distribution? T …

What's New with ftrace?

December 18, 2019

Ftrace is the official tracer of the Linux kernel. It's been a while since I last talked about what is in ftrace. But I haven't stopped developing more features. This talk will give a very brief overv …

Why Should We Care About Kernelnewbies!

December 18, 2019

Linux kernel being one of the largest open source project, attracts many newish programmers. But do they really end up contributing to the project? What are the common technical and non-technical issu …

A hands-on data science crash course for modeling and predicting the behavior of (large) distributed systems

December 17, 2019

Data science is a hot topic. Bart De Vylder offers a practical introduction that goes beyond the hype, exploring data analysis, visualization, and machine-learning techniques using Python for modeling the behavior of distributed systems. You'll leave with a solid starting point to implement data science techniques in your infrastructure or domain of interest.

A/B testing sexism: Interviewing as a female executive in tech

December 17, 2019

Lisa van Gelder shares what she learned from an accidental A/B test. Last year, she interviewed for a new executive job at the same time as two (white, male) friends, and they compared notes. Lisa explains how "unqualified" is used to reject marginalized groups in tech and what we can do about itboth as individuals interviewing and as hiring managers looking to improve the interview process.

Achieve predictable performance (sponsored by Intel)

December 17, 2019

Alex Grbic explains how a single FPGA can deliver significant acceleration for multiple workloads. This new approach of integrating data analytics frameworks and existing databases enables enterprise customers to run unmodified applications without requiring any FPGA expertise and can be used with unstructured, NoSQL, and traditional relational databases, such as Swarm64.

Application tracing tutorial

December 17, 2019

In the past, applications were monolithic, and tracing flows for performance and bottlenecks was straightforward, as there was likely a single code base. In today's world, with multiple processes constituting a single application, tracing becomes more challenging. Bryan Liles offers a hands-on demonstration for implementing tracing in modern applications.

Bringing People Together with Open Source

December 17, 2019

ROSE (short for Red Hat Open Source for Education) is a cross-community effort lead by Red Hat Israel that brings students from Tira and Ra'anana to the Red Hat offices to learn about the Linux operat …

Every Day Opportunities for Inclusion and Collaboration

December 17, 2019

Do you feel left out or uncomfortable at the company Christmas Party? Do you avoid "the water cooler" and limit interactions to "business only"? Do you find many such business-social inter …

First Steps: Running Your First Ever Diversity Survey

December 17, 2019

If we want to find out how diverse our open source communities are, where is the best place to start? Running a survey always sounds like a pretty straightforward task to accomplish this, and at the t …

How Linux Changes Lives

December 17, 2019

This talk explains how Linux is introduced to school students in government schools in the state of Kerala in South India, and how that is changing a generation of students by helping them to understa …

Inclusive Team Dynamics; An Open Approach

December 17, 2019

This talk will share the story of how Red Hat utilized an open collaborative approach to promote inclusion within our global teams. We identified 4 key themes for improving team dynamics; including ot …