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CIS Seminar: “Intelligence Augmentation for Scientific Researchers”
February 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Special location for this talk: 105 Amy Gutmann Hall
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are powering revolutionary interactive tools that will transform the very nature of the scientific enterprise. We describe several large-scale projects at the Allen Institute for AI aimed at developing open models, agentic platforms, and novel interaction paradigms in order to amplify the productivity of scientists and engineers.
Daniel S. Weld
General Manager and Chief Scientist of Semantic Scholar, Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Prof. Emeritus at the University of Washington
Daniel S. Weld is General Manager and Chief Scientist of Semantic Scholar at the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. After formative education at Phillips Academy, he received bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982. He landed a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1988, received a Presidential Young Investigator’s award in 1989, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator’s award in 1990; he is a Fellow of the Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Assocaition for Computing Machinery (ACM). Dan was a founding editor for the Journal of AI Research, was area editor for the Journal of the ACM and on the editorial board for the Artificial Intelligence journal. Weld is a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group and has co-founded three companies, Netbot (sold to Excite), Adrelevance (sold to Media Metrix), and Nimble Technology (sold to Actuate).