New subject: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Deep Learning CS Colloquium This Thursday: Andrew Ng

23 Sep 2014

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 *Subject: **[Iacs-exec] Deep Learning CS Colloquium This Thursday: 
 Andrew Ng*
 *Date: *September 23, 2014 3:17:18 PM EDT
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 Late addition to the CS Colloquium Calendar that I suspect will be of 
 interest to IACS folks… This Thursday 9/25 in G115 at 4pm!

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 Deep Learning: Overview and Trends

 Andrew Ng

 Deep learning is the leading approach to many problems in computer 
 vision,
 speech recognition, NLP, and other areas.  In this presentation, I 
 will give a
 broad overview of deep learning.  I will discuss the key reasons for its
 success, and the important role that scalability plays.  I will also 
 describe
 unsupervised learning approaches to deep learning--such as the 
 "Google cat"
 result, in which a neural network learned to recognize cats by watching
 unlabeled YouTube videos--and discuss why this might become increasingly
 important.  Finally, I will discuss recent trends in deep learning, and
 some possible future applications.

 Bio:

 Andrew Ng is Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-founder of
 Coursera; and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
 University.

 In 2011 he led the development of Stanford University’s main MOOC 
 (Massive
 Open Online Courses) platform and also taught an online Machine 
 Learning class
 to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera.  Ng’s 
 goal is
 to give everyone access to a great education, for free.  Today, Coursera
 partners with top universities to offer online courses.  With over 9 
 million
 students, it is the world's largest MOOC platform.

 Ng also works on machine learning, with an emphasis on deep learning. 
  He had
 founded and led the “Google Brain” project, which developed 
 massive-scale deep
 learning algorithms.  This resulted in the “cat” result, in which a 
 massive
 neural network with 1 billion parameters learned from unlabeled 
 YouTube videos
 to detect cats. More recently, he is working to build up Baidu 
 Research, which
 is developing applications of large scale deep learning to computer 
 vision,
 speech, NLP, and other areas.

 Recent awards include being named to the Time 100 list of the most 
 influential
 people in the world; Fortune 40 under 40; and being named by students 
 as one
 of the top 10 professors across Stanford University. 
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