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This is going to be the one of the most intense machine learning big data events ever created in New York City. We have an all star line up of speakers.
Food and Refreshments will be available.
Speakers
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John Myles White, Co-Author of Machine Learning for Hackers
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Talk Title: Machine Learning for Hackers
Abstract: In this talk, I'll review the basic ideas of machine learning and show how simple methods developed by researchers can be treated as black-box function calls by using several existing languages like R and Python. We'll work through the intuitions behind linear regression, logistic regression and k-nearest neighbors and show how they might be applied in common situations like spam classification.
About John: John Myles White is one of the two authors of the book "Machine Learning for Hackers", published by O'Reilly. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Princeton Psychology Department, where he studies decision-making. John is also actively involved in the statistical programming community and has written several popular R packages, including ProjectTemplate and log4r. His new primary interest is preparing the Julia language for use in statistical computing.
Website: johnmyleswhite.com Twitter: @johnmyleswhite
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Ryan Prichard, CTO of Knewton
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Talk Title: Knewton Adaptive Learning Platform
Abstract: Knewton is a technology company that uses data to continuously personalize online learning content for individual students. Knewton analyzes data about the performance of each student and similar students on the platform, as well as the relevance of the educational content, in order to serve up the best activity for each student at a particular moment in time. The platform is continuously adaptive, meaning it responds in real time to each students activity on the system and adjusts to provide the most relevant content. The platform refines its recommendations through network effects that harness the power of all the data collected, for all students, to optimize learning for each individual student.
About Ryan: Ryan Prichard is responsible for driving Knewton's technology vision. He has over 12 years of development and management experience in creating highly performant software systems in the financial and engineering industries. He recently managed the development of PayPal's core Payments and Credit systems supporting money movement across their entire customer base. Prior to that, he worked at BillMeLater where he created their Servicing Platform supporting millions of financial customers daily. Ryan holds a Bachelors Degree in Informations Decision Systems with a minor in Computer Science and a Masters in Software Engineering, both from Carnegie Mellon University.
NuoDB Speakers
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Adam Abrevaya, VP of Engineering +
Wiqar Chaudry Director of Product Management
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Talk Title: Machine Learning with NuoDB
Abstract: Cloud computing, faster machines, and the proliferation of mathematics and programming have made machine learning accessible to almost anyone. However, once all the analytics and the number crunching are done, you still need a place to store, access, and report on your results. NuoDB is an elastically scalable SQL database that can take full advantage of the cloud and help you organize your results not just for machines but for the people behind the machines as well.
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Biographies of Speakers from NuoDB
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Adam Abrevaya, Vice President of Engineering, has been building and managing world-class engineering teams and products for almost two decades. His passion is around building and delivering high-performance core infrastructure products that companies depend on to build their businesses. Adam started his career at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he developed a distributed platform and image processing algorithms for detecting dangerous weather patterns in radar images. The system was deployed at several airports around the country. From there, Adam joined Object Design and held various senior management positions where he was responsible for managing several major releases of ObjectStore (an Object database) along with spearheading the development team building XML products that included: Stylus Studio, an XML database, and a Business Process Manager. Adam joined Pantero Corporation as VP of Development where he developed a revolutionary Semantic Data Integration product. Pantero was eventually sold to Progress Software. From Pantero, Adam joined m-Qube to manage and build the team creating its Mobile Messaging Gateway platform. The m-Qube platform is a carrier grade product that has become the leading Mobile Messaging Gateway in North America and generated billions of dollars in revenue. Adam continued managing the mQube platform along with expanded roles after acquisitions of the technology from VeriSign and Mobile Messenger.
Wiqar Chaudry, Director of Product Management, is an IT professional with over a decade of experience in database systems and web technologies. He has been responsible for designing large scale data warehouses for the fortune 500 and has played key roles in several data centric start-ups as a solutions architect, sales engineer, and product manager. Academically Wiqar holds a BBA in Finance from Temple University, and an MS in Computer Information systems from Boston University. In his spare time Wiqar writes a blog on collaborative economics. You can follow him on twitter @WiqarC.
Sponsors
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Knewton
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Knewton is a technology company that uses data to continuously personalize online learning content for individual students. Knewton analyzes data about the performance of each student and similar students on the platform, as well as the relevance of the educational content, in order to serve up the best activity for each student at a particular moment in time.
http://www.knewton.com/
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NUODB
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NuoDB is a NewSQL cloud database. It looks and behaves like a traditional SQL database from the outside but under the covers it's a revolutionary database solution. It is a new class of database for a new class of dataleft.
Created by an experienced team of software experts with the support of avisionary investment team, NuoDB is redefining the world of transactional databases.
http://www.nuodb.com/
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O'Reilly Media
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O'Reilly Media will provide book giveaways at the event. We ask that if you receive a book from O'Reilly Media at our event you write a review on the book.
Please send a copy of your book review to Marsee or Jon (usergroups@oreilly.com ). Include "Book Review" and the title of the book in your subject line of your email along with the name of our group New York Software Engineers (NYSE).
You can also send reviews to:
Marsee Henon and Jon Johns
O'Reilly Media
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastopol, CA 95472
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Techno Solutions Group
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Techno Solutions Group is a New York City based IT Staffing company that is focuses on the needs of clients ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
The Founder of Techno Solutions Group is Victoria Ricciuti with an educational background in labor relations and experience at Gartner Group, Software Spectrum, Borden, Inc. and Quaker Oats managing human resources.
Techno Solutions Group, Inc. sponsors NYSE with financial, logistic, and promotional support.
http://www.technosgi.com
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Become Noticed
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Become Noticed is a San Francisco SEO Company that focuses on best practices and engaging the latest Web technologies to build strong Web strategies for clients developing Websites and Applications.
The Founder of Become Noticed Michael Latulippe is a software engineer and Web developer specializing in PHP, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, and HTML5 technologies.
Become Noticed, Inc. sponsors the NYSE group with financial, logistic, and promotional support.
http://www.becomenoticed.com
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