The Many Types of "AI"
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Please note this is at the new Improving location. Please give yourselves time to find somewhere new if you have not been here yet (see additional instructions below).
Timing:
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Pizza
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Meeting
The Many Types of "AI"
ABSTRACT:
As programmers, we love solving problems. However, sometimes we need more than programmer grit to solve many problems with no easy answer. Suppose you need to tightly schedule 190 classes in 20 classrooms, with different class durations, recurrences, and constraints throughout the week? What about minimizing the operating cost of a train schedule while maintaining a steady movement of passengers? How about identifying objects in images? Or simply solving a Sudoku?
Come to this session to see live examples of optimization, stochastic, and machine learning models on the JVM to solve real-world problems like discrete optimization, Naive Bayes, Monte Carlo simulations, and artificial neural networks.
BIO:
Thomas Nield is a Business Consultant at Southwest Airlines, often balancing technology with operations research. He is also an author and trainer with O'Reilly Media. He wrote two books ("Getting Started with SQL" and "Learning RxJava") and regularly contributes to OSS projects.
Improving moved to 5445 Legacy Dr. in Plano. This is the Northwest corner of Legacy and Hedgcoxe. It doesn't have great signage right now so here is a picture of the south side of the building (the side facing Legacy) where you should park and enter.
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A couple of things:
• Doors will be locked after 6:00 PM but we will be monitoring the south doors until the meeting starts at 7:00 PM.
• After that or if you can't get in before then and no one is watching text (469) 444-0196.
• There is parking on the north side of the building too.
Hope to see everyone there.
The Many Types of "AI"