For those interested in open deep question-answering – the following pointers from Jack Park may be of interest:
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Hi Jim,
I am glad we got to cross paths today. Below are some links mentioned, and a few as reminders:
[1] is my talk in Tokyo and Hokkaido about my project, originally called SolrSherlock, but renamed to OpenSherlock.
[2] is a document I am curating (slowly) to track all of the so-called “cognitive computing” projects and related documents, including open source, research, and commercial
[3] is a PhD thesis proposal I wrote and defended. While building the code to defend the dissertation, I realized that what I was building was worth far more than a PhD; that became OpenSherlock.
[4] WebbleWorld3, the creation of Professor Yuzuru Tanaka after the ending of OpenDoc; WW3 is the latest iteration, now in javascript and at GitHub with an apache license.
Cheers
Jack
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/jackpark/jst-talk-final
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XCHWQkgFBS8Iy_y9-1-R82jGS8T_CrKiMxleqpqtmJg/edit?usp=sharing
[3] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/techreport/kmi-10-01
[4] https://wws.meme.hokudai.ac.jp/#/mediaplayer/intro
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Jack and I crossed path yesterday at the Cognitive Colloquium in San Francsico:
Agenda
| 08:30 AM – 09:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
| Opening Keynotes | |
| 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | The Future of Cognitive Computing: Dr. John Kelly, Senior Vice President, Solutions Portfolio & Research, IBM |
| 09:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Cognitive Computing – Past and Present: Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Francis Crick Chair, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Brain Inspired Computing | |
| 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Panel Discussion: Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Francis Crick Chair, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Horst Simon, Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dr. Dharmendra Modha, Chief Scientist of Brain-inspired Computing, IBM Research Session Chair: Dr. Jeff Welser, Vice President and Lab Director, IBM Research – Almaden |
| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM | Break |
| Applications of Machine Learning | |
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Large Scale Machine Learning: Dr. Yoshua Bengio, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Operations Research, Université de Montréal |
| 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Dr. Yoshua Bengio, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Operations Research, Université de Montréal Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University Dr. John Smith, Senior Manager of Intelligent Information Systems, IBM Research Session Chair: Dr. Michael Karasick, VP Innovations, IBM Watson |
| 12:30 PM – 01:45 PM | Lunch and Demos |
| Building and Evaluating Cognitive Systems | |
| 01:45 PM – 02:15 PM | Proactive Learning and Structural Transfer Learning – Building Blocks of Cognitive Systems: Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 02:15 PM – 03:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. John Laird, The John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan Dr. Jerome Pesenti, Vice President, Core Technology, IBM Watson Session Chair: Rob High, IBM Fellow, Vice President, CTO Watson |
| 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM | Break |
| Embodied Cognition | |
| 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Robonaut 2 – Working with Humans on Earth and in Space: Dr. Myron (Ron) Diftler, Robonaut Project Leader, NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 04:00 PM – 04:45 PM | Panel Discussion: Dr. Myron (Ron) Diftler, Robonaut Project Leader, NASA Johnson Space Center Dr. Gaurav Sukhatme, Co-Director, Robotics Research Lab, University of Southern California Paul Hermes, Entrepreneur in Residence, Medtronic Grady Booch, Chief Scientist for Software Engineering, IBM Research Session Chair: Dr. Guruduth Banavar, Vice President, Cognitive Computing Research, IBM Research |
| Closing | |
| 04:45 PM – 05:00 PM | Dr. Guruduth Banavar, Vice President, Cognitive Computing Research, IBM Research |
| 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM | Reception |