CIS Seminar: “Data Discovery: Unleashing the Value of Data”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Organizations use only a small portion of all data they own. Consequently, most of the potential value is untapped. This happens because their analysts suffer a data discovery problem: when […]

CIS Seminar: ” Natural language to structured knowledge representations”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Computing machinery such as smartphones are ubiquitous, and so will be smart home appliances, self-driving cars and robots in the near future. Enabling these machines with natural language understanding abilities […]

CIS Seminar: “Machine Learning: Why Do Simple Algorithms Work So Well?”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

While state-of-the-art machine learning models are deep, large-scale, sequential and highly nonconvex, the backbone of modern learning algorithms are simple algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent, or Q-learning (in the […]