RISE Camp – RISE Camp

was held on Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12, 2018

RISE Camp is a bootcamp organized by the UC Berkeley RISELab where you can get exposure to research and hands-on experience with systems and technologies for emerging AI applications including reinforcement learning, prediction serving, agile ML development, context management, and AI security.

You can watch recordings of all the talks HERE.

Questions? Please email: risecamp@cs.berkeley.edu

LATEST UPDATES

November 7, 2018: All the RISE Camp 2018 videos have been posted to our YouTube channel! Please enjoy and share!

Agenda

DAY 1 – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018

Theme: Systems support for Emerging AI applications

- 8:00AM: Breakfast
- 8:45AM: Lab Introduction/Overview [Ion Stoica]
- 9:00AM: Tutorial overview [Ionel Gog]
- 9:15AM: Ray: Distributed Execution Framework for Emerging AI Applications
  - 9:15 – 9:45AM: Ray Talk [Phillip Moritz]
  - 9:45 – 11:00AM: Ray Tutorial Lab
- 11:00AM: Break
- 11:30AM: RLlib: Ray Reinforcement Learning Library
  - 11:30 – 11:45AM RLlib Talk [Eric Liang]
  - 11:45 – 12:45PM RLlib Tutorial Lab
- 12:45 – 1:45PM: Lunch
- 1:45 PM: Tune: Hyperparameter search
- 1:45 – 2:00PM Tune Talk [Richard Liaw]
- 2:00 – 3:00PM Tune Tutorial Lab
- 3:00PM: Clipper: a Low-Latency Online Prediction Serving System
  - 3:00 – 3:30PM: Clipper Talk [Simon Mo]
  - 3:30 – 4:30PM: Clipper Tutorial Lab
- 4:30PM: Break
- 5:00PM: ML in Context: Preserve, Share, and Analyze Experiments with Flor
  - 5:00-5:30PM: Flor Talk [Rolando Garcia]
  - 5:30-6:30PM: Flor Tutorial Lab
- 6:30 – 9:00PM: Reception

DAY 2 – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

Theme: Data Analytics and Security

8:00AM: Breakfast
9:00: Tutorial Overview [Chia-Che Tsai]
9:15AM: PyWren: Pushing Microservices to Teraflops
- 9:15 – 9:45AM: PyWren Talk [Eric Jonas]
- 9:45 – 10:45AM: PyWren Tutorial Lab
10:45AM: Break
11:15AM : Opaque: Secure analytics on SparkSQL
- 11:15 – 11:45AM : Opaque Talk [Ankur Dave]
- 11:45 – 12:45AM: Opaque Tutorial Lab
12:45 - 2:00PM: Lunch
2:00PM: WAVE: Global-scale Authorization for IoT without an Authority
- 2:00 – 2:30PM: WAVE talk [Michael Andersen]
- 2:30 – 3:30PM WAVE Tutorial lab
3:30PM:Integrated tutorial: Ray+Clipper+Flor+WAVE
4:30 – 4:45PM Concluding remarks [Raluca Popa]

FAQs

What are the prerequisites for attendees of the RISE Camp?

Experience programming in Python in notebook environment
Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts (e.g., training, validation, linear models)
Laptop (with charger) and “modern” browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. – for technical details, please go to this link)

Logistics

Venue: RISE Camp 2018 will be held at International House at UC Berkeley campus. Directions, parking and transportation options can be found here.

Questions? Please email: risecamp@cs.berkeley.edu

Tutorials

RISE Camp tutorials are now available at this GitHub Link.