Deep Nets, Bayes And The Story Of AI (Part 2)

We're lucky enough to have Dr David Barber from UCL giving us a second talk on the story of Deep Nets, Bayes And AI. There's no requirement to have attended the first talk, and this time round we'll be covering more in depth topics from an applied perspective.

18:30 Drinks & food

19:00 Deep Nets, Bayes & the story of AI

20:00 Questions & Networking

Dr 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 at 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. He is also the author of the well known 'Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning'.

Sponsors

Semantic Evolution (http://www.semantic-evolution.com) is sponsoring the food and drink for the meetup.

Semantic are a market leader in providing unstructured data classification, extraction and normalisation technologies to the finance industry. As a rapidly growing company they are constantly on the lookout for talented and creative problem solvers with practical experience of AI, and are currently hiring!

For those looking to gain experience they are also pleased to announce their 2016 summer internship program and welcome applications via their website (http://www.semantic-evolution.com).

Please note:
If you're not on the RSVP list please don't attend the meetup as security won't let you in. You may also be turned away if you're late to the meetup so we don't disturb the speaker and other attendees.