[Research] Save the Date for Auton Lab picnic @ Dave & Busters

[Karen Widmaier]

Hello,

The Auton Lab annual picnic will be held on Sunday, September 29th from
11:30 am until 4pm @ Dave & Buster's at the Waterfront.

Please RSVP asap to let me know if you are able to attend and the number of
people in your party. (Spouses and family are welcome)

This year we are hoping that Andrew Moore will be able to attend. (it is
penciled in on his calendar)

Karen



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Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 2:33 PM
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Subject: [Research] Fwd: LTI Colloquium, this Friday (6 Sept), Andrew Moore

FYI



Dear All

We have a colloquium this Friday by our own Andrew Moore.
Details below.

-Bhiksha
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LTI Colloquium
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
Time:  2.30-3.50pm,   Friday, 6th September 2013
Speaker : Andrew Moore  (Google)

Title:   Computational Statistics meets Fashion

Abstract:

I will present some of the computer vision and machine learning technology
behind fashion and shopping results in Google. The aim is to provide a
personalized experience for fashion of the same kind of flavor that Pandora
does in music or Netflix does in movies. There are many technological
challenges in achieving a great user experience. Users expect close to no
errors, especially when it comes to personalized results. As a result, we
developed advanced algorithms for segmentation and auto-tagging of images.
The talk will illustrate first a technical demo, followed by a dive-in to
the algorithmic details of segmentation, visual search and some components
of auto-tagging. Google has recently started launching these experiences on
Google Shopping in order to have a wider reach to its users.

Speaker Bio:

Andrew Moore, Vice President - Engineering, Google, is responsible for
building products and new technology for Google's efforts in Ads and
Commerce. Andrew is also site lead for Google's Pittsburgh office, which
develops core machine learning and systems technology behind many of
Google's advertising quality systems. It is also the home of the numerical
and statistical approaches for Google Shopping, new methods for managing
planet-wide fleets of data centers, and (through the acquisition of
PittPatt) computer vision systems for the Android platform.

Prior to joining Google in January 2006, Andrew was a Professor of Robotics
and Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University. Andrew began his career writing video-games for an obscure
British personal computer (). He rapidly became a thousandaire and retired
to academia, where he received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in
1991. He researched robot learning as a Post-doc working with Chris Atkeson,
and then moved to CMU.

Andrew is a AAAI fellow, and co-author of Handbook of Biosurvellance, and
his machine learning tutorial slides have been viewed over a million times.
>From 2002-2005 Andrew was co-director of the University of Pittsburgh's
Biomedical Security Center.

--
Bhiksha Raj
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Tel: 412 268 9826


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