AI Seminar- Big Data Intelligence
- When:
- Friday, December 14, 2012, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Where:
- 11th Floor Conf. Room (#1135)
- Speaker:
- Evelyne Viegas
- Description:
Abstract: After an overview of Microsoft Research and some of the major projects we are working on with the research community, I will introduce the Big Data Intelligence initiative. Big Data Intelligence is about making sense of the 5V's (i.e. Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, Vitality) of Big Data enabling researchers to advance the state of the art in machine learning and human intelligence and allow innovators to create solutions and build applications to exploit the data revolution via the creation of an ecosystem of people, datasets and services.
Webcast:
http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=c0f48f8fa8164592bb6599044e9fddb61dBio: Evelyne Viegas is the Director of Semantic Computing at Microsoft Research, based in Redmond, U.S.A. Semantic Computing is about interacting with data in rich, safe and semantically meaningful ways, to create the path from data to information, knowledge and intelligence. In her current role, Evelyne is building initiatives which focus on information seen as an enabler of innovation, working in partnership with universities and government agencies worldwide. In particular she is creating programs around computational intelligence research to drive open innovation and agile experimentation via cloud-based services; and projects to advance the state-of-the-art in knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty at web scale.
Prior to her present role, Evelyne has been working as a Technical Lead at Microsoft delivering Natural Language Processing components to projects for MSN, Office, and Windows. Before Microsoft, and after completing her Ph.D. in France, she worked as a Principal Investigator at the Computing Research Laboratory in New Mexico on an ontology-based Machine Translation project. Evelyne serves on international editorial, program and award committees.
