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IBM Diversity Scholarship 2019
This year we are offering ten travel scholarships. Our conference scholarships bring us one step closer in our mission. As part of the application, you are to develop an article on an artificial intelligence concept on the Machine Intelligence Community platform. This can be a summary of a research paper, an article explaining an algorithm or math concept, or research that you are working on. Your research does not need to have been published, but the original work should be available online and a link should be provided. Here are some examples technical articles: Dijkstra’s in Disguise, Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks, Weight Agnostic Neural Networks, Yes you should understand backprop, Is Optimization a Sufficient Language for Understanding Deep Learning?
Timeline
Application opens July 1, 2019
Application closes July 31, 2019
Acceptance emails August 3rd, 2019
Applicant confirmation August 5th, 2019
IBM Scholars Dinner September 6th, 2019
Conference September 7th, 2019
The Scholarship
- Fully-paid round-trip flight for the conference
- Fully-paid hotel for the conference
- Night-before dinner with your IBM sponsors
Help Us Materialize and Disseminate Knowledge
Develop an educational article on a topic of your choice. Acceptable articles should adhere to the following:
Basic requirements
- Final article must be published on the platform. You must click the “publish” button in the top-left of the editor for it to be publicly viewable.
- All images, diagrams, graphics, quotes, research papers, resources and facts must be cited using eJournal in-text citation style (refer to Wikipedia or Distill.pub for examples).
- All content submitted must be original work.
- Article must be a unique topic not yet on the platform.
- There are no strict length requirements. However, you should expect to write the equivalent of at least 2 - 3 pages in a standard word document.
Technical evaluation
- Relevant. Article focuses on technical merit of a specific topic in artificial intelligence.
- Detailed. Explanations are illustrated clearly and overall article is coherent.
- Challenging. Technically advanced concepts are self-contained. Could a reader with basic undergraduate math understand your article?
Who should apply?
- You are at least 18 years old.
- You identify as an underrepresented junior researcher/ engineer studying artificial intelligence.
Email us with questions at conference@machineintelligence.cc