RDM - Research & Development Meetup #2

All right! Following the great conversations of RDM#1, let's jump to some more formal discussion by introducing subjects through talks. Our main topics for these meetup are: The Distributed Web and Machine Learning + Artificial Intelligence

Agenda

• Quick gist of what is RDM, why, what and how it started

• The Distributed Web by David Dias (https://github.com/diasdavid)

• Machine Learning + Artificial Intelligence by João Ascensão

Abstracts

The Distributed Web by David Dias (https://github.com/diasdavid)

IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. IPFS is a compilation of great ideas in the academia that are distilled and mixed together, creating a system that is currently being deployed in the network. This talk will cover the network data structures and some cryptography fundamentals of how IPFS works and is made possible.

Machine Learning + Artificial Intelligence by João Ascensão

Uniplaces is an online marketplace for student accommodation. João Ascensão is going to walk us through of how to use large data sets against recommender algorithms to increase user retention rate.

Date

5pm Saturday March 26

Location

Lisbon Uniplaces HQ