Mobile Tea #19: Natural Language Processing, Face Detection & iOS

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On Wednesday, November 1st starting at 5:30pm, the MobileTea #Boston community and the MassTLC Council (http://www.masstlc.org/)will present the 19th edition of MobileTea hosted at Infrared5 (http://infrared5.com/)’s Boston Office.

Are you haunted by a Production issue that you caused in your past life? Does the ghost of the outage walk the halls of your home while you sleep?

Do you have a horrifying review of your app in the app store? Or how about some code that was more at home in a spider web than the world wide web?

Well, if you have been tricked by unearthly bugs then get those skeletons out of the closet and treat the Mobile Tea community to your ghost stories!

In addition to two talks we'll have an open mic night for your stories. We’ll enjoy some some treats, strange brews and sip Zombies to toast your haunted code. We’ll laugh so hard nobody will hear your screams.

Participation is "free as in beer" and the evening will consist of 2 interspersed talks and open mic session with 2 networking sessions in between that include live music and hors d'oeuvres.

Presentations will vary from 20 to 30 minutes and networking breaks will vary from 15 to 30 minutes. Be prepared for an informal atmosphere, great food, and drink. Bring your passion for all things development and innovation and on this night bring your stories, too. We look forward to meeting you!

Performing live: @d'ella (https://twitter.com/es_della)

Mixologist: Chris Allen (https://twitter.com/mrchrisallen)

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Registrations open at 5:30 PM, the event starts at 6:45 PM.

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Event Program:

Networking Session 1 - Live Music - Food & Drink

Open Mic for Horror Stories [MobileTea Team and Community Members] Step up to the mic and share with us a production horror story, grotesque coding or a horrifying app review. Your choice!(speech level: intermediate; duration: 30 minutes)

URLProtocol: With Power Comes Responsibility [James Graham]
Safely unleash the power of the Apple-sanctioned man in the middle of your iOS apps, discover the power of being fully in control of your app communication layer.(speech level: intermediate; duration: 30 minutes)

What’s scarier than developing for an install base that’s okay with you listening to them? Trying to figure out what they’re saying! [Bill Rogers @billsvoice (https://twitter.com/billsvoice)]
As voice begins to dominate the next generation of UI development understanding Natural Language Processing and the data science principles behind it will become the core of all development. Thankfully companies (locally) are working on PaaS projects to help simplify the complex problems of understanding voice and translating it to actions. While Orbita focuses on Healthcare currently, their core technology allows cross-platform NLP application development for Amazon Alexa, Google Home, & iOS. CEO Bill Rogers will present on the NPL development process, common roadblocks, and other tips for adding voice functionality to your mobile development projects.(speech level: intermediate; duration: 30 minutes)

Networking Session 2 - Live Music - Food & Drink

Cauldron, live face detection and masks [Chris Allen @mrchirsallen (https://twitter.com/mrchirsallen)]
Chris Allen, co-founder and CEO of the live streaming platform Red5 will provide a sneak peak into his company’s latest creation, a realtime video processing engine called Cauldron. He will show a demo of how it can process live video streams and add face detection and transparent masks streaming it between devices, all with less than .5 seconds of latency. Chris will also talk about the implications of live video processing and what it means to the future of user experiences and to humanity as a whole.(speech level: intermediate; duration: 25 minutes)

Networking Session 3 - Live Music - Food & Drink