Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Tailored to 3D-Stacked Near-Memory Processing LLM Decoding (U. of Edinburgh, Peking U., Cambridge et al.)

A new technical paper, “Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design,” was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh, Peking ...
The Age

Students paying $56,000 to watch six-year-old taped lectures at Australia’s most prestigious university

Students at the nation’s most prestigious university are being taught remotely using online lectures filmed in the COVID era. The University of Melbourne, which said this week it was facing a ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can’t Quit the Lecture? Try Quasi-Active Learning

Step into most college classrooms today and you will likely see a familiar scene: slides glowing at the front, a professor lecturing, students scribbling notes or staring at laptops. Despite decades ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
PBS

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...
The Straits Times

Sunset for traditional lecture halls: How polytechnics are rethinking learning and student spaces

SINGAPORE – A giant green screen, professional video and lighting equipment, and a production control room now make up one of Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) lecture theatres – a space that, until 2025, ...
LinkedIn

12 Lectures, 1 Postmortem: My Takeaways from Berkeley's Agentic AI MOOC

I learned that the modern LLM training pipeline is way more complex than I thought. It's not just about pretraining on 10+ trillion tokens for months at >$10M cost. The real magic happens in the ...
Los Angeles Times

Academic lectures have invaded L.A. bars and tickets are selling out in minutes

On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a purple-lighted stage and stands next to a drum set. Audience members, seated in neat rows and ...
Saint Louis University

Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture

The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, named in honor of former Dean Richard J. Childress (1969-1976), is a premier academic event highlighting a provocative and timely area of law. The lecture ...
Boston.com

Boston’s hottest ticket? A bar seat for a lecture from a professor.

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...
The Harvard Crimson

Norton Lectures Celebrate 100-Year Anniversary

The Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Harvard University Press hosted a discussion commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Norton Lectures on ...