Corporate sponsorship of the annual NIPS Conference contributes to the successful outcome of each year's Conference and we appreciate your support and participation.
We welcome more sponsors, but please note: we can no longer guarantee your company's information will appear in the printed material. Our book has been sent to the publisher; it will be added to the NIPS website.
Sponsorship is closed for the 2015 meeting. Please visit our Sponsor Portal or Exhibitor Portal next year.
Platinum
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Perhaps as remarkable as two Stanford research students having the ambition to found a company with such a lofty objective is the progress the company has made to that end. Ten years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin applied their research to an interesting problem and invented the world's most popular search engine. The same spirit holds true at Google today. The mission of research at Google is to deliver cutting-edge innovation that improves Google products and enriches the lives of all who use them. We publish innovation through industry standards, and our researchers are often helping to define not just today’s products but also tomorrow’s.
At Microsoft, we aim to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We care deeply about having a global perspective and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. This involves playing a small part in the most fundamental of human activities: Creating tools that enable each of us along our journey to become something more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and we aim to enable our customers to thrive in this world.
ALIBABA GROUP’S MISSION IS TO MAKE IT EASY TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE.
We operate leading online and mobile marketplaces in retail and wholesale trade, as well as cloud computing and other services. We provide technology and services to enable consumers, merchants, and other participants to conduct commerce in our ecosystem.
Gold
Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers, sellers and developers.
N/A - please do not include any information on the Sponsors page
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. As a technology-based company, Baidu aims to provide the best and most equitable way for people to find what they’re looking for. In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potential customers.
Baidu USA is home to Baidu USDC and Baidu Research. Baidu USDC develops Internet-related business opportunities and advanced technologies in areas such as advertising, security, big data and cloud computing.
Baidu Research brings together global research talent to work on fundamental technologies in areas such as image recognition and image-based search, voice recognition, natural language processing and semantic intelligence. Baidu Research comprises three labs: the Silicon Valley AI Lab, the Institute of Deep Learning and the Big Data Lab. The latter are based in Beijing, China.
We’re Citadel, a worldwide leader in finance that uses next-generation technology and alpha-driven strategies to transform the global economy. We tackle some of the toughest problems in the industry by pushing ourselves to be the best again and again. It’s demanding work for the brightest minds, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Here, great ideas can come from anyone. Everyone. You.
Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
IBM Research is a research and development organization consisting of twelve laboratories, worldwide. Major undertakings at IBM Research have included the invention of innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data and in turning IBM's advanced services methodologies into reusable assets. IBM Research's numerous contributions to physical and computer sciences include the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and high temperature superconductivity, both of which were awarded the Nobel Prize. IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show. As part of IBM's Cognitive Business initiative, IBM Research is continually augmenting Watson's cognitive capabilities, thereby enabling real-world transformations of many domains of commerce, ranging from healthcare to law, finance, retail and media. IBM Research is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 13 Inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Ketchum Trading, LLC is a privately held, proprietary trading firm in Chicago.
Driven by algorithms and utilizing the most advanced software and technology in the industry, our multi-strategy firm makes markets and trades in futures, options, cash equities, and exchange traded funds.
The fundamentals of Ketchum Trading are simple: manage the risks inherent in modern markets, leverage state-of-the-art technology and proprietary models, and gain a mathematical advantage.
The rest takes care of itself.
NVIDIA is a world leader in visual computing. Our technologies are transforming a world of displays into a world of interactive discovery for everyone from gamers and scientists, to consumers and enterprises. We invest in our people, our technologies, and our research and development efforts to deliver the highest quality products to customers across the globe. NVIDIA's culture inspires our team of world-class engineers and developers to be at the top of their game. Data scientists in both industry and academia use GPUs for machine learning to make groundbreaking improvements across a variety of applications including image classification, video analytics, speech recognition and natural language processing. With thousands of computational cores GPUs have become the processor of choice for processing big data for data scientists.
Co-founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, The Voleon Group designs, develops, and applies cutting-edge technologies to investment management. We are a family of companies dedicated to solving large-scale scientific problems with statistical machine learning techniques.
Twitter is the heartbeat of the world: it’s the only platform that offers insight into everything that is happening in the last 15 minutes from the macro to very local. Every event happens on Twitter, and our team Cortex is responsible for surfacing the most relevant tweet, photos, videos and live periscopes from the massive and ever changing firehose of content.
Silver
Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services allow our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their content across every channel and screen.
AdRoll is a high-performance advertising platform that helps businesses of all sizes execute on marketing campaigns around the world. We are the world’s most widely used “real-time bidding” retargeting platform, with over 20,000 customers in more than 100 countries. What is real-time bidding? It means we help companies intelligently bid on advertising spaces billions of times a day in fractions of seconds. Our proprietary large-scale machine learning infrastructure ingests billions of events with billions of sparse features to produce models queried thousands of times per second. This scale pushes us to engineer supervised and unsupervised solutions that are frequently beyond the scope of the literature.
Analog Devices Lyric Labs is focused on interfacing with the real world, developing algorithms to process real data, and delivering unique processing solutions in hardware built to run machine learning, statistical inference, and deep learning algorithms, as well as cloud-hosted implementations.
Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) which commenced publication in 1970, is now the generally accepted premier international forum for the publication of results of current research in this field. The journal welcomes foundational and applied papers describing mature work involving computational accounts of aspects of intelligence. Specifically, it welcomes papers on: AI and Philosophy, automated reasoning and inference, case-based reasoning, cognitive aspects of AI, commonsense reasoning, constraint processing, heuristic search, high-level computer vision, intelligent interfaces, intelligent robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning and theories of action, reasoning under uncertainty or imprecision. The journal reports results achieved; proposals for new ways of looking at AI problems must include demonstrations of effectiveness. Papers describing systems or architectures integrating multiple technologies are welcomed. AIJ also invites papers on applications, which should describe a principled solution, emphasize its novelty, and present an in-depth evaluation of the AI techniques being exploited. The journal publishes an annual issue devoted to survey articles and also hosts a "competition section" devoted to reporting results from AI competitions. From time to time, there are special issues devoted to a particular topic; such special issues always have open calls.
Bloomberg technology helps drive the world’s financial markets. We provide communications platforms, data, analytics, trading platforms, news and information for the world’s leading financial market participants. We deliver through our unrivaled software, digital platforms, mobile applications and state of the art hardware developed by Bloomberg technologists for Bloomberg customers.
CenturyLink Cognilytics is a global leader in big data, decision sciences, and data visualization solutions including predictive asset maintenance, cybersecurity, risk analytics, demand forecasting, sales & marketing analytics, customer churn analytics, pricing and promotion analytics, and supply chain optimization. Our team focuses on leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to solve real world problems.
About Criteo
At Criteo, personalized digital performance advertising is what we do. And it’s what we do best. Known for the quality of our digital advertising technologies, developed by the 250+ world-class engineers working for our R&D in Paris, Grenoble and Palo Alto. Our technology takes an algorithmic approach to determining what user we show an ad to, when, and for what products.
Cubist Systematic Strategies is one of the world’s premier investment firms, deploying systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, driven by our passion to understand the world around us and fueled by unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Deep Genomics is inventing machine learning systems to discover how cells read and interpret the genome, taking computational genome diagnostics to the next level. We combine world-leading expertise in deep learning, genome biology, and precision medicine.
The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $37 billion in aggregate investment capital as of July 1, 2015 and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since its organization in 1988, the firm has earned an international reputation for financial innovation, technological leadership, and an extraordinarily distinguished staff.
The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technology leader with a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences to our audiences. It has five business segments: media networks (ESPN and ABC), parks and resorts, studio entertainment (both live action and animation), interactive and consumer products.
Disney Research was launched in 2008 to combine the best of academia and industry. The family of labs consists of Disney Research, Pittsburgh (co-located with Carnegie Mellon University); Disney Research, Zürich (co-located with The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/ETH); Disney Research, Boston; Disney Research Los Angeles (co-located with Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Animation Studios and other business units of the Walt Disney Company); and Pixar Research Group. These research labs partner with each of the business units of The Walt Disney Company to work on a broad range of commercially important challenges. Engagement with the global research community is encouraged and publication is viewed as a principal mechanism for quality control. Disney Research honors Walt Disney's legacy of innovation by exploring novel technologies and approaches, and our research has applications that are experienced by millions of people around the globe
eBay is The World's Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day.
Imagia’s mission is to layer actionable information atop medical imaging data. Together with our research and industry partners, we will integrate deep learning to oncology practices and products for better productivity and patient outcomes. We are poised to make clinically significant differences across the cancer care continuum in detection, diagnosis, image-guidance and treatment monitoring.
Maluuba is a well-funded startup connecting 50+ million people to technology through A.I. conversations. We are driven by the single purpose of building great products powered by natural language processing. Our goal? To help machines understand the world via human language. Our Montreal lab is a fast, nimble group of scientists tackling cutting-edge problems in areas of deep learning for NLP.
At AHL we mix mathematics, computer science, statistics and engineering with terabytes of data to understand and predict financial markets. Led by research and technology, we build models and write programs that invest billions of dollars every day. We are a small flat-structured company that seeks the best.
minds.ai is building a DNN training acceleration platform which will efficiently scale to hundreds if not thousands of GPUs. We have proprietary training algorithms and some of the greatest minds in the High Performance Computing world working together to slash overall training times from months down to weeks.
Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 70 million members in over 60 countries enjoying more than 100 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and films. Machine learning drives many aspects of the Netflix product and is core to Netflix's mission to provide the best content tailored to each individual's tastes.
Tackling Today’s Biggest Challenges. The Mission of Oracle Labs is straightforward: Identify, explore, and transfer new technologies that have the potential to substantially improve Oracle's business.
Oracle's commitment to R&D is a driving factor in the development of technologies that have kept Oracle at the forefront of the computer industry. Although many of Oracle's leading-edge technologies originate in its product development organizations, Oracle Labs is the sole organization at Oracle that is devoted exclusively to research.
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems, along with dozens of other acquired companies, brought a wide array of technologies to Oracle's portfolio. Oracle executives recognized that in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Sun brought the combined company the benefits of an independent research organization - now renamed Oracle Labs.
Panasonic is focusing on bringing new solutions to an ever-changing environment, full of cutting edge technologies. We apply Deep Learning as a tool to improve the real-life situations of today and the evolving situations of tomorrow. Deep Learning is just one of the key technologies we employ to understand more about each other and how to navigate through our lives: safely, honestly and happily.
We are a quantitative research and trading group with a strong track record of hiring, challenging, and retaining scientists interested in conducting research where the lab is the financial markets. Using state-of-the-art technology, we develop and deploy model-driven trading strategies. We value depth and expertise, encourage intellectual curiosity and seek constant innovation. We are a passionate community of tech geeks, science fiction fans, LOTR aficionados, musicians, athletes, and foodies. Come talk to us!
Sony’s US Research Center (USRC) is engaged in R&D of emerging technologies, and explorations in basic science for next-gen products and new businesses. By utilizing complex engineering and mathematical principles in computer vision, graphics and deep learning, our researchers create core technologies, algorithms and architectures for advanced multimedia & medical imaging platforms and products.
We are the UK’s national institute for data science. Our mission is to undertake data science research at the intersection of computer science, maths, statistics and systems engineering; provide technically informed advice to policy makers on the wider implications of algorithms; enable researchers from industry and academia to work together to undertake research with practical applications.
Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRI-NA) (est. 2008), located in Ann Arbor, MI, is one of Toyota's global advanced R&D sites. Research includes the development of intelligent driving systems for advanced safety and automated driving. Our team develops machine learning, computer vision, and robotics technologies applied to advanced sensor processing and decision making systems.
We find connections in all the world’s data. These insights guide investment strategies that support retirements, fund research, advance education and benefit philanthropic initiatives. So, if harnessing the power of math, data and technology to help people is something that excites you, let’s connect.
United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) delivers the world's most advanced technologies, innovative thinking and disciplined research to the businesses of United Technologies -- industry leaders in aerospace propulsion, building infrastructure and services, heating and air conditioning, fire and security systems and power generation.
Vatic Labs was built by scientists, engineers, and traders, working in collaboration to solve complex problems that will define the future of algorithmic trading. Through the application of statistical methods, machine learning, and cutting edge technology, our team is transforming novel trading ideas into strategies that boost market efficiency and provide sustainable liquidity for all market participants.
Collaboration, innovation, and teamwork are at the core of our ethos. The scope and scale of problems that we are solving require working as a cohesive team, where we all support the growth and learning of our peers. We invite scientists with innate drive and curiosity to inquire about opportunities with our growing team at either our San Francisco headquarters or New York research office.
Winton is a new kind of investment management business, driven by a scientific approach to trading financial markets. From humble beginnings, we have grown into one of the largest investment management businesses in Europe with an AUM exceeding $30 billion. We pride ourselves on providing a collaborative environment where original thought and stimulating research can flourish. Our continued success is founded upon the 350 outstanding researchers, engineers and finance professionals working across our offices in Europe, US, Australia and Asia.
Yahoo Labs powers Yahoo's most critical products with innovative science. As Yahoo’s research incubator for bold new ideas and laboratory for rigorous experimentation, Yahoo Labs applies its scientific findings in powering products for users and enhancing value for partners and advertisers. The Labs' forward-looking innovation also helps position Yahoo as an industry and scientific leader.
Exhibitor
Cambridge's publishing in books and journals combines state-of-the-art content with the highest standards of scholarship, writing and production. Visit our stand to browse new titles, available at a 20% discount, and to pick up sample issues of our journals. Visit our website to see everything we do: www.cambridge.org/us/academic.
Our business is publishing. With more than 2,900 journals and 200,000 books, Springer offers many opportunities for authors, customers and partners.
The MIT Press publishes extensively in books related to neural information processing and its' extensive list of sub-disciplines and cross-disciplines. Also visit CogNet, an indispensable resource in cutting-edge research spanning the human mind: cognet.mit.edu .