Deep Nets, Bayes and the story of AI

We're delighted to announce the first Bayesian networks meetup hosted at the 250 year old Lloyds Register Group headquarters in Fenchurch Street, London, co-sponsored by Lloyds Register and Bayes Server. To kick off the series, Dr David Barber from UCL will introduce Deep Nets, Bayes and the story of Artificial Intelligence, and the application of cutting edge approaches to real world problems.

Programme

6:30pm for beer, food and chat

7:00pm 'Deep Nets, Bayes and the story of AI'

8:00pm Q&A (and more beer)

David Barber

David Barber received a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and subsequently a PhD in Theoretical Physics (Statistical Mechanics) from Edinburgh University. He is currently Reader in Information Processing in the department of Computer Science UCL where he develops novel information processing schemes, mainly based on the application of probabilistic reasoning. Prior to joining UCL he was a lecturer at Aston and Edinburgh Universities.