Java-and-AI-Working-Group

The purporse of the JCP EC AI working group is to promote, support and accelerate development of Java platform for Artificial Intelligence.

People and Organizations

• Heather Vancura, JCP Chair, Working Group Lead
• Zoran Sevarac, Deep Netts Technologies, Working Group Lead
• JCP Executive Committee Members

Challanges and Painpoints

• What do we want to solve / what needs to be solved?
• What should be the final result, where we want to be
• What needs to be done and what are the next steps (roadmap)

Related Open JDK Projects

• Panama - Interconnecting JVM and native code (C, Python, ..), and simplifying calls to AI and native libraries.
  • Vector API - Using CPU vector operations to accelerate primitive mathematical operations used for AI/machine learning (part of Panama)
• Babylon - Extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as GPUs (code in Java, convert to hardware specific parallel code in runtime)
• Valhalla Combining abstractions of the object-oriented programming with the performance characteristics of simple primitive types.
• HAT (Heterogenious Acceleration Toolkit) How Babylon and Panama Enable Java GPGPU

How Can You Help/Participate

This is what we want, this is what is helpfull:

• Review and try things out. - What, let's be specific about this and give examples
• Give us feedback, share your experience. Not 'why you do it this way' or 'what about my use case'
• Share our high level slides on social media and events

Communication Channels

• Open JDK mailing lists List of all Open JDK mailing lists
• GitHub Issue as a communication channel for this WG?

Panama

• panama-dev Technical discussion related to the Panama Project
• panama-spec-comments Panama Project Expert Group Comments
• panama-spec-experts Moderated specification-only discussions for the Panama Project
• panama-spec-observers Panama Project Expert Group Observers

Babylon

• babylon-dev Technical discussion related to the Babylon Project

Valhala

• valhalla-dev Technical discussion related to Project Valhalla
• valhalla-spec-comments Valhalla Expert Group Comments
• valhalla-spec-experts Moderated specification-only discussions for the Valhalla Project
• valhalla-spec-observers Valhalla Expert Group Observers