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Thousands of technology professionals from around the world recently gathered in Long Beach, California, for the sold-out Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, a multi-track machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience event featuring talks, demonstrations, symposia and oral / poster presentations, along with several workshops. Leaders in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data engineering from Memorial Sloan Kettering attended NIPS and announced the winner of a unique competition created by MSK, Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations. For more information and to set up interviews or access photos and video, email [email protected].

In the largest-ever genetic analysis of people being treated with checkpoint inhibitors, Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers looked at patients who received several checkpoint inhibitors for a number of different cancers at many different hospitals. Researchers found that people who had a greater diversity and more variation in their human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes responded much better to immunotherapy compared with those who had less diversity. For more information or to speak with an expert, contact Rebecca Williams at [email protected].