Microsoft's Production Configurable Cloud : built in custom nic + fpga for highly configurable and dynamic network stack in Microsoft DC. The work is really impressive. It demonstrate how pervasive FPGA and customization hardware will be in future datacenter.
Open Pilot : open source driving agent providing Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) for Hondas and Acuras. This is a really interesting solution and I wonder how fast other company will start to leverage or opensource their own solution in order to accelerate adoption. However without extremely strong verification and proof system ( formal method ) it will be extremely hard ( and illegal probably ) to deploy such software at this stage.
Nuts and Bolts of Building Deep Learning : Andrew Ng reiterated at NIPS2016 that there is no secret AI equation that will let you escape your machine learning woes. All you need is some rigor. [video]
