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Artificial Intelligence: A Perspective From Pioneers
Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. These are among the biggest knowledge technologies changing everything. Imagine how much Google, Facebook and other companies understand you. How can you learn what these technologies are and what they can do?
To see the future it helps to look at history. This panel will look at where we have been from the perspective of pioneers who have been part of the current data and knowledge revolution.
What are these technologies and how do they affect us?
What changed to enable AI now?
What are the short term impacts?
What will the long term future hold?
Will computers think soon?
Moderator and Panelists:
Expert Moderator:
Dixon Dick is the CEO and Founder of Archethought, is a 35 year veteran of the technology industry. His experience includes a broad variety of development, leadership and creative roles, solving difficult software, hardware and team challenges. He is a Founding Member of TinkerMill, the Longmont Hackerspace, and is a community advisor for the City of Longmont. Dixon engaged in corporate and graduate work in Neural Networks at the University of Houston in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Archethought’s practice and products are big data engineering in support of machine learning and artificially intelligent systems.
Panelist Members:
Lorien Pratt, Chief Scientist at Quantellia, Lorien Pratt has been delivering artificial intelligence solutions for her clients for over 30 years. These include the Human Genome Project, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Energy, and the Administrative Office of the US Courts. The inventor of the fields of machine learning Inductive Transfer and Decision Intelligence (DI), Pratt received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, an innovation award from Microsoft, and the Exemplary Research award from the Colorado Advanced Software Institute. Formerly a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, Pratt has given two TEDx talks, and cofounded her own company, Quantellia, in 2010, which offers machine learning, decision intelligence, and full-stack software solutions. Quantellia subsidiaries offer AI and DI-based banking, health care, and educational solutions. Previously a well-known technology analyst, Pratt has also authored dozens of academic papers, was invited editor for the journals Machine Learning and Connection Science , co-edited Learning to Learn (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Learn-Sebastian-Thrun/dp/0792380479/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440567998&sr=8-1&keywords=learning+to+learn+thrun), and wrote the Decision Engineering Primer (http://forms.aweber.com/form/90/568343590.htm). Today, Pratt delivers and builds solutions for multiple clients, is a five-star rated provider with the Harvard Innovation Lab’s Experfy platform, and is technology lead for the Buckminster Fuller-inspired Silicon Valley SimCenter. Recently covered on TechEmergence, on the JohnMac radio show, and by Bloomberg BNA, Pratt blogs at www.lorienpratt.com (http://www.lorienpratt.com/).
Jeff Rose, Founder, Chief Operating Officer at ThinkTopic, Jeff’s expertise is in operating systems, algorithms, neural networks, image processing and information retrieval. He holds both a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and he left a Ph.D. at la Universitá della Svizzera italiana and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to join DeepMind (later acquired by Google) in London as their first research engineer. Jeff is an avid traveler who spent almost a decade living, working, and backpacking all over Europe and Asia.
The monthly, community-driven event is produced by Startup Longmont and Longmont Economic Development Partnership, SeeThru Incorporated, Successful Sales Solutions, Eight One Partners, Archethought and Co-Solve. We are looking for the next new tech idea to feature and for sponsors. For more information, contact Tammie Baumann at tammiebaumann@yahoo.com .