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The RingTHE JOURNAL OF T HE CAMBRIDGE COMPU T ER LAB RING Issue XLVIII — May 2018 Who’s who 2 Part IB Group Projects 5 Virtual World Generator Hall of Fame news 3 Computer Laboratory news 10 Research Skills 9 Review of ‘Neural Acceleration for General–Purpose Approximate Programs’ www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ring 2 Who’s Who Adam Cohen–Rose (CL BA95) has joined Sean Moran (CTH BA05) is working at Tesco Labs as a software development engi- Huawei where he is a Senior Research Scien- Events calendar neer. tist in Machine Learning. William Denman (PhD14) has been Barney Pell (T PhD93) has joined the 2018 appointed Quantitative Developer at Orbis Board of Directors of Ecoation Innovative May Investments in Vancouver. Solutions Inc, The Ecoation artificial intel- ligence platform predicts the type, location Tuesday 8th, 6.30pm Simon Fothergill (PhD13) has recently and level of crop stress using plant signals, Bay Area Ringlet Bar joined PROWLER.io as a senior data scien- and communicates this intelligence daily to Southern Pacific Brewing, 620 tist. growers on their phone or computer. Treat Ave, San Francisco Andy Harter (F BA83 CC PhD90) CBE, David Singleton (JN BA02) recently June FREng, CEng, FIET, FBCS, CITP, FLCM, joined Stripe from Google, where he was FRSA, has been appointed the High Sheriff director of Android Wear. David will lead Wednesday 6th, 6.30pm of Cambridgeshire. Stripe’s global engineering efforts. London Ringlet Bar Venue to be confirmed Bjarne Stroustrup (CHU PhD79) has been named the recipient of the 2017 August Faraday Medal, the most prestigious of the Thursday 2nd, 6.30pm Institution of Engineering and Technology London Ringlet Bar (IET) Achievement Medals. Venue to be confirmed Bjarne has also been awarded the 2018 October Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering “for conceptualizing and developing the Wednesday 3rd, 6.30pm C++ programming language.” The $500,000 London Ringlet Bar annual award is given to engineers whose Venue to be confirmed accomplishments have significantly benefited society. December Stephen Thornhill (CHU MA98) is Senior Tuesday 4th, 6.30pm London Ringlet Bar Andy Harter CBE Principal Engineer at Menlo Security Inc. Venue to be confirmed There is a High Sheriff in every county in Andy Twigg (K PhD06) is Entrepreneur in England and Wales, and their history and Residence at Milliways Ventures in the San tradition goes back before the Norman Francisco Bay Area. Conquest. The Office is the oldest Royal appointment. Paul Ward (Q MA94) works for RBS in London where he is Data Innovation Strategy Bjarki Holm (M MA05, PhD10) is working Lead. for Lucidworks as VP of Solutions. David Young (JN BA90) has joined Wates Laura James (CC MA00 PhD05) is Entre- Group as IT roadmap programme manager. preneur in Residence at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Univer- Ali Mustafa Zaidi (ED PhD14) has been sity of Cambridge appointed Research Architect at ARM. John Lusty (CHU MA98) has joined FiveAI as VP Simulation. © The Cambridge Computer Lab Ring 2018 The Ring — Issue XLVIII — May 2018 3 Hall of fame news Bromium GeoSpock fare types, make payments, and deliver visual and barcode mobile tickets to a passenger Bromium was named Cambridge Computer GeoSpock raised an additional $6.6M in through a secure ticket wallet. Lab Ring Company of the Year 2018 at closing its Series A funding round bringing the Hall of Fame Awards, held at Queens’ the total raised to $13.2M. The round was College on April 11th 2018. led by Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) PetaGene with existing investors Parkwalk Advisors Bromium also received two Government and Sir Michael Marshall. In addition, Japa- PetaGene won Product of the Year Award Security News™ (GSN) Homeland Security nese strategic investors Global Brain and 31 2018 for PetaSuite, at the Cambridge Awards for the second consecutive year. It Ventures also participated. Computer Lab Ring Year Hall of Fame won in the Best Anti-Malware Solution and Awards held on April 11th 2018. Best Email Security/Loss Management Solu- The company’s data engine analyses extreme tion categories, and was also named a finalist amounts of contextual data in sub–second PetaGene is the market leader for genomic for Best Application Security Solution. response times. It has the capability to data compression, making genetic data significantly improve artificial intelligence smaller, faster and better, to enable a new (AI) speed, enabling the use of extreme data era of Precision Medicine. DroneDeploy to train new systems, and can integrate and PetaSuite by PetaGene is the market leading DroneDeploy, the leading cloud soft- correlate information from a wide variety of solution for genomic data compression. ware platform for commercial drone, has data sources at a moment’s notice. The plat- Thanks to the rapidly declining cost of DNA launched a drone solution for the roofing form is used by customers in the mobility, Sequencing, the promise of Precision Medi- industry that automatically generates accu- smart city, ad tech, financial services, cine for cancer, rare diseases and diagnostics rate and comprehensive roof analytics. For telematics, and telco sectors, who benefit is moving out of research labs and into the the first time, roofing, solar, and insurance from interactive analytics at scale. clinic. Unfortunately, Precision Medicine companies can easily and affordably inspect budgets are rapidly becoming dominated and measure roofs with industry–leading Masabi by IT infrastructure costs. PetaSuite enables accuracy. organisations to dramatically slash the cost of Masabi, the global leader in mobile ticketing storing and collaborating with genomic data, DroneDeploy’s roofing solution integrates and Software–as–a–Service (SaaS) based fare by up to a factor of six times. Since winning an autonomous 3D Flight App with a roof– collection for public transit, has announced a Best of Show at Bio–IT World beating EMC, specific flight mode and an application that new strategic partnership with Uber to add IBM, Dell and other top–tier vendors, it has generates PDF roof reports and DXF files. public transit mobile ticketing into the Uber gone on to provide its solution to leading The 100% cloud–based mapping and roof app. Once an agreement is reached with a organisations around the world, including inspection platform allows companies to transit agency, Uber users will have the AstraZeneca, the NHS, DNAnexus and capture information from multiple houses, option to book and display Masabi customers’ many research institutions. and start generating insights immediately. transit tickets in the app, allowing for seam- less transfers from ride–sharing to public Factmata transit services for convenient multimodal Questionmark journeys. The two companies will also be Questionmark, global provider of assess- Factmata has closed its seed funding round. working together to offer the integration to ment technologies and portal solutions, has new cities around the globe. The investors included Biz Stone, co–founder been awarded a “Best Advance in Assessment of Twitter and Craig Newmark, founder of Uber’s new ticketing option will be powered and Survey Technology” award by leading Craigslist. by Masabi’s Justride SDK, the first and only independent research and analyst firm, mobile ticketing SDK for public transit. The Brandon Hall Group as part of their Excel- SDK allows 3rd party applications to request lence in Technology Program. The Ring — Issue XLVIII — May 2018 © The Cambridge Computer Lab Ring 2018 4 HALL OF FAME NEWS Re:infer Job listing Re:infer, has raised $3.5m in a round led by Touchstone Innovations. April 2018 The London–based artificial intelligence StarLeaf startup delivering cognitive automation also • Senior software engineer drew support from Crane Ventures along- side existing backers Seedcamp and Dr Jason • Software development engineer in Test Kingdon, an AI entrepreneur. • Product manager Re:infer’s deep learning tech automates the Outschool interpretation of communications data and • Principal software engineer bridges the gap between humans and infor- Graphmasters mation technology systems. • Software engineer Klydo Sophos • Machine learning engineer Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, has been recognized at the March 2018 PLC Awards 2017 as the winner of the Inno- Leanplum vation in Technology award. Sophos is the • Various (based in San Francisco, New first company in the PLC award’s 32–year York and Sofia, Bulgaria) history to win this award in successive years. The award acknowledges Sophos’ continued Tech Marionette focus on innovation in next–generation • Sotware developer endpoint and network security to drive growth and market success, since its initial InferStat public listing in 2015. • Data scientist (part–time contracting) • Full stack developer (part–time The PLC Awards for 2017 were extended contracting to offer recognition to all publicly quoted companies on the main market, from February 2018 fledging indices through to FTSE 100, for Flagfast their success and outstanding achievements • Full stack developer (Python) throughout the year. Ensoft • Software engineer Speechmatics Speechmatics has launched Global English, an accent–agnostic language pack for If you have a job advert that you speech–to–text transcription. would like included in the weekly listing, Global English (GE) was trained on thou- please send the details (as a word doc) to cam–[email protected] sands of hours of spoken data from over 40 countries and tens of billions of words drawn from global sources, making it one of the most comprehensive and accurate accent–agnostic transcription solutions on the market. © The Cambridge Computer Lab Ring 2018 The Ring — Issue XLVIII — May 2018 5 Part IB Group Projects Yifan Bai reports on Team Oscar’s project Virtual World Generator Introduction Investigated Work Digitalisation and virtualisation are happening almost everywhere in VisualSFM: Visual Structure–from–motion [1] is a library with the people’s daily life — taking a photo after the algorithm lecturer’s notes input as a sequence of images taken by a monocular camera, generating spanned the blackboards, or holding a phone turning several rounds the point cloud reconstructed.