I mistakenly used later timing. Talk normally begins 7:30, gather/mingle 7ish.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real > life. > > Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak > this month -- next week. > Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel > like Monday. > Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7 ish gather, 7:30 talk > Adam Russell > "Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues" > > LIVE Speaker ! > ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge) > > > ABSTRACT > This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in > getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior > experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the > audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to > perform more complex tasks. > > Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular > imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started > to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars, > automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language > processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply > products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be > attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label > for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility > for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted > in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new > projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop > the skills necessary to pursue this new area. > > While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop > algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller > treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning > work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the > fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes, > built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged > down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of > implementation. > > SPEAKER > Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied > Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype > applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and > technology to address issues of importance to Optum business > interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning. > Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of > Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational > Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the > work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on > an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. > > NOTES >> Parking Alert. >> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , >> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours. >> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots >> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.) >> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks >> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for >> circling), and paid lot/garages. > > (Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple > quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving > until after they become free.) > >> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can! >> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced, >> unlike most in-town garages.) >> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving, >> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only >> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound. > > parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar > > DETAILS >> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT >> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!] >> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions). >> Talk begins at 7:30. >> Refreshments in the hallway prior. > >> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or >> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday. >> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first >> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had >> the last several years) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
