Simons Institute Courses

Scheduling with Time-Evolving Uncertainty for Content Review Prioritization in Social Media

Discover how to optimize content moderation scheduling on social media platforms using algorithms that handle time-evolving uncertainty in post views and human review systems.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Inadequacy of Offline LLM Evaluations - A Need to Account for Personalization in Model Behavior

Discover how personalization fundamentally changes language model behavior, revealing why standard offline evaluations fail to capture real-world AI performance in user interactions.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Computer Architecture 101 and Its Future

Explore computer architecture fundamentals, from Moore's Law to domain-specific designs, plus emerging challenges like memory bandwidth limits and opportunities with chiplets and high-bandwidth tech.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies Boot Camp

Explore algorithmic foundations for emerging computing technologies through expert insights from Washington University researcher I-Ting Angelina Lee.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rethinking Computing with Neuro-Inspired Learning - Algorithms to Hardware

Explore neuro-inspired computing algorithms and their hardware implementations, bridging the gap between brain-like learning mechanisms and practical computational systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Do Research with Systems Researchers

Discover practical insights from a systems researcher's journey, covering both failures and successes in collaborative algorithmic research for emerging computing technologies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hardware Constraints in Computing - Exploiting Locality, Parallelism, and Operation Specialization

Explore fundamental hardware design constraints from CMOS gates to ML accelerators, covering performance, energy efficiency, locality, parallelism, and cost factors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reconfigurable Architectures - Generalities, Open-Source and Emerging Technologies

Dive into reconfigurable architectures from FPGA fundamentals to emerging technologies, exploring OpenFPGA framework and future hardware-level reconfigurability innovations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Future of Hardware Technologies for Computing

Explore revolutionary NanoSystems and 3D chip architectures that promise 1,000X energy improvements for AI/ML workloads, addressing the memory wall through ultra-dense integration.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Health Monitoring with Wireless Sensors and Machine Learning

Discover how wireless sensing and machine learning enable touchless health monitoring, tracking breathing, heart rate, and sleep without wearable devices for clinical applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Real In-Memory Processing

Discover how to perform computations directly within memory systems, eliminating data movement bottlenecks and revolutionizing processing efficiency in emerging computing architectures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The "Compute Continuum" and its Energetics

Explore the energy dynamics of distributed computing systems across the compute continuum, from edge devices to cloud infrastructure, with insights from UC Berkeley's Jan Rabaey.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Memory-Centric Computing - Enabling Fundamentally Efficient and Intelligent Machines

Discover how memory-centric computing architectures can overcome data bottlenecks and enable orders of magnitude improvements in performance and energy efficiency for AI and analytics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advancing Digital Design - Challenges and Solutions

Explore emerging technologies and design methodologies for next-generation AI/ML systems, focusing on heterogeneous integration and logic synthesis optimization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies

Explore algorithmic foundations for emerging computing technologies in this comprehensive technical presentation from VMware's industry expert.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video