
Andrew Musselman, Committer & PMC Member, Apache Mahout
https://mahout.apache.org
https://github.com/apache/mahout
https://www.amazon.com/Apache-Mahout-MapReduce-Dmitriy-Lyubimov/dp/1523775785
https://books.google.com/books/about/Matrix_Computations.html?id=5U-l8U3P-VUC&source=kp_cover

Byron Galbraith, Chief Data Scientist, Talla
Neural Information Retrieval Resources:
Mitra and Craswell (2017) Neural Models for Information Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01509
Mitra and Craswell (2017) Neural Text Embeddings for IR
WSDM 2017 Tutorial
https://www.slideshare.net/BhaskarMitra3/neural-text-embeddings-for-information-retrieval-wsdm-2017
Zhang et al. (2016) Neural Information Retrieval: A Literature Review
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06792
Neu-IR Workshop at SIGIR
http://neu-ir.weebly.com/

Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Janzamin, H. Sedghi and A. Anandkumar, Beating the Perils of Non-Convexity: Guaranteed Training of Neural Networks using Tensor Methods, 2015
Janzamin*, H. Sedghi* and A. Anandkumar, Score Function Features for Discriminative Learning: Matrix and Tensor Framework, 2014
H.Sedghi and A. Anandkumar, Provable Methods for Training Neural Networks with Sparse Connectivity, NIPS Deep Learning Workshop 2014, ICLR workshop 2015
Sedghi, M. Janzamin and A. Anandkumar, Provable Tensor Methods for Learning Mixtures of Generalized Linear Models, AISTATS, 2016
Sedghi and A. Anandkumar, Training Input-Output Recurrent Neural Networks through Spectral Methods, 2016

John Maxwell, Data Scientist, Nordstrom
The Offset Tree for Learning with Partial Labels:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.4044.pdf
Efficient Bandit Algorithms for Online Multiclass Prediction:
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~sham/papers/ml/banditron.pdf
Doubly Robust Policy Evaluation and Learning:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.4601.pdf
A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.0146.pdf
Microsoft Decision Service White Paper:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/multi-world-testing-mwt/
Taming the Monster: A Fast and Simple Algorithm for Contextual Bandits:
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/agarwalb14.pdf
John’s blog: some posts on contextual bandits
http://john-maxwell.com

Luna Dong, Principal Scientist, Amazon
lunadong.com

Margaret Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Google

Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
[1] E.g., Harley Shaiken, A Robot is After Your Job; New technology isn’t a panacea, N.Y. Times, Sept. 3, 1980, at A19. The AI Winter refers to the period in the mid-1980s in which interest in AI began to drop as the field failed to yield significant practical gains. See Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030, 51, Stanford University, Sept. 2016, online at https://ai100.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ai_100_report_0831fnl.pdf. Skynet is the name of the fictional, murderous artificial intelligence in the Terminator movie series.
[1] Id. at 9, 26–27.
[1] National Science and Technology Council, Exec. Office of the President, Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, 12 (2016).
[1] U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence (Nov. 30, 2016), online at http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=042DC718-9250-44C0-9BFE-E0371AFAEBAB; U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, The Transformative Impact of Robots and Automation (May 5, 2016), online at https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-calendar?ID=BB1C3FD8-9FD1-46BA-917C-E5B3C585F1CC.
[1] Ilina Lietzen, Robots: Legal Affairs Committee calls for EU-wide rules, European Parliament News (Jan. 12, 2017, 12:27 PM), http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20170110IPR57613/robots-legal-affairs-committee-calls-for-eu-wide-rules; Robotics Policy Office is to be Established in METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (July 1, 2015), http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2015/0701_01.html.
[1] E.g., April Glaser, LinkedIn’s and eBay’s founders are donating $20 million to protect us from artificial intelligence, recode (Jan. 10, 2017, 4:35 PM), online at http://www.recode.net/2017/1/10/14226564/linkedin-ebay-founders-donate-20-million-artificial-intelligence-ai-reid-hoffman-pierre-omidyar ($5 million from the Knight foundation and $1 million donation from the Hewlett Foundation to Harvard and MIT); Carnegie Mellon Receives $10 Million From K&L Gates to Study Ethical Issues Posed by Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon University
News (Nov. 2, 2016), online at https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/november/gift.html ($10 million donation establishing the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies); Max Tegmark, Elon Must donates $10M to keep AI beneficial, Future of Life Institute (Jan. 15, 2015), online at https://futureoflife.org/2015/10/12/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-keep-ai-beneficial ($10 million donation from Elon Musk to Future of Life Institute).
[1] Harry Surden, The Variable Determinacy Thesis, 12 Colum. Sc. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2011). See also Harry Surden, Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. 121, 162–63 (2016).
[1] Future of Life Institute, AI and Law, 3:05, YouTube (Feb. 20, 2017), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9l90FMIWkY&feature=youtu.be.
[1] See José de Sousa E Brito, Right, Duty, and Utility: from Bentham to Kant and from Mill to Aristotle, XVII/2 Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Utilitaristas 91, 92 (2010).
[1] See, e.g., Nat’l Soc’y of Prof’l Eng’rs v. United States, 435 U.S. 679 (1978) (Department of Justice complaint against engineers for price and marketing practices). See also In the Matter of the American Medical Association, et al., 94 F.T.C. 701 (1979) (doctors); In the Matter of Connecticut Chiropractic Ass’n, 114 F.T.C. 708 (1991) (chiropractors); In the Matter of Nat’l Soc’y of Prof’l Eng’rs, 116 F.T.C. 787 (1993) (engineers).
[1] Romain Dillet, Apple Joins Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft in AI Initiative, TechCrunch (Jan. 27, 2017), online at https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/27/apple-joins-amazon-facebook-google-ibm-and-microsoft-in-ai-initiative.
[1] Ryan Calo, Robotics and the Lessons of Cyberlaw, 103 Calif. L. Rev. 513, 542 (2015).
[1] See Kate Crawford & Ryan Calo, There is a blind spot in AI research, Nature (Oct. 13, 2016), online at http://www.nature.com/news/there-is-a-blind-spot-in-ai-research-1.20805 (discussing different approaches to AI’s social impacts).
[1] E-mail from Solon Barocas to Ryan Calo (1:12 PM, Jan. 24, 2017) (on file with author).

Serena Yeung, PHD Student, Stanford
End-to-end Learning of Action Detection from Frame Glimpses in Videos. CVPR 2016.
Serena Yeung, Olga Russakovsky, Greg Mori, Li Fei-Fei.
http://ai.stanford.edu/~syyeung/frameglimpses.html
Every Moment Counts: Dense Detailed Labeling of Actions in Videos. IJCV 2017.
Serena Yeung, Olga Russakovsky, Ning Jin, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Greg Mori, Li Fei-Fei.
http://ai.stanford.edu/~syyeung/everymoment.html
Learning to Learn from Noisy Web Videos. CVPR 2017.
Serena Yeung, Vignesh Ramanathan, Olga Russakovsky, Liyue Shen, Greg Mori, Li Fei-Fei.
http://ai.stanford.edu/~syyeung/resources/YeuRamSheRusMorLiCvpr17.pdf

Tianqi Chen, PHD Student, University of Washington
https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet
https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
http://dlsys.cs.washington.edu/