AI Technologies that Matters in the New Era of Computing The IBM-ILLINOIS Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) is a multi-year joint venture between IBM Research and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to solve the most pressing issues facing the new computing era of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing. The C3SR center is also an integral part of the IBM AI Horizons Network. Three layers are pivotal to defining a computing paradigm: applications, software, and hardware... Three layers are pivotal to defining a computing paradigm: applications, software, and hardware. The recent shift of computing paradigm to AI/cognitive computing has brought opportunities to rethink the design of the three layers and an end-to-end cross layer AI/cognitive system optimization. At C 3 SR, we aim to develop technologies to improve AI/cognitive application developers' productivity on a heterogeneous infrastructure... Experts from IBM and Illinois will research..