David Brin
Website: http://www.davidbrin.com
Project Neo: http://anewbreedofhuman.com/announcement-trailer/
AI talk for World of Watson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlwsJpwg3e0
“Will we diversify into many types of humanity?” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/future-is-here/david-brin/?no-ist
Articles and speculations by David Brin about transparency, freedom and technology http://www.scoop.it/t/the-transparent-society
Articles and speculations by David Brin about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) http://www.scoop.it/t/seti-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence
And about science fiction http://www.scoop.it/t/speculations-on-science-fiction

 

Caroline Sinders
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90124399/why-ux-design-for-machine-learning-matters
https://news.vice.com/story/technology-alone-cant-stop-online-harassment

 

Rahul Mehrota
Machine Comprehension by Text-to-Text Neural Question Generation – https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02012
Towards Information-Seeking Agents – https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02605
Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader – https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02270

Datasets:
1. NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Dataset – http://datasets.maluuba.com/NewsQA
2. Frames: A Corpus For Adding Memory To Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems – http://datasets.maluuba.com/Frames

 

Scott Clark
Recent article about SigOpt and deep learning: https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/28/next-battleground-deep-learning-performance-scale/
Recent blog post and example: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/fast-cnn-tuning-with-aws-gpu-instances-and-sigopt/

 

Shalini De Mello
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/online-detection-and-classification-dynamic-hand-gestures-recurrent-3d-convolutional
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/dynamic-facial-analysis-bayesian-filtering-recurrent-neural-networks
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/robust-model-based-3d-head-pose-estimation