Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture – Predictive Learning – Dr. Yann LeCun, Facebook, New York Univ.

Co-sponsored by: IT, COMSOC, VTS

In honor of Claude Shannon – the father of information theory and arguably of all communications and networked systems – Bell Labs has created the Shannon Luminary Lecture Series and Award, to explore all topics of high impact and relevance to the future of human existence, with an annual series of ten talks by the leading visionary researchers, developers, thinkers and entrepreneurs from all fields of scientific, technological, engineering, mathematical, or related artistic endeavor.

The Feb. 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Yann LeCun, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University.  Dr. LeCun began his career at Bell Labs in 1988, where he developed theory around neural networks. His handwriting recognition tools are used for automated check processing across much of the financial industry. His further work in convolutional neural networks has revolutionized the fields of image analysis, speech recognition, and language translation. LeCun is now taking the next steps in Artificial Intelligence (AI), giving machines “common sense” so that they can use predictive models to train themselves. His presentation, “Predictive Learning: The Next Frontier in AI”, will be held in the Hamming Innovation Hall on the Murray Hill Bell Labs Campus. 

 Prior awardees include Eric Schmidt, Irwin Jacobs, Bob Metcalfe, Amber Case, Henry Markram and Zhenan Bao.

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This event is co-sponsored by the IEEE North Jersey Section and the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Speaker(s): Yann LeCun,

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Location:
Bldg: Bell Laboratories, Nokia, Hamming Innovation Hall
600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ
Murray Hill, New Jersey
07974