Veranstaltungen

04. Juni 2019, 17:30 bis 19:00

2019 Vienna Gödel Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction and Forecast

Vortrag

How should we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its progress in recent years? Does AI threaten humanity, or will it be a source of beneficial technology? Oren Etzioni’s talk will address these issues building on work at the Allen Institute for AI (www.allenai.org), a non-profit research institute based in Seattle.

17.30 Welcome Address

 Sabine Seidler, Rector
 Hannes Werthner, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics

17.45 Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Oren Etzioni

18.30 Discussion

Chair: Stefan Szeider, Professor for Algorithms and Complexity

Dr. Oren Etzioni 

has served as the CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence since its inception in 2014. He has been a Professor at the University of Washington’s Computer Science department since 1991, and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. He has garnered several awards including Seattle’s Geek of the Year (2013), the Robert Engelmore Memorial Award (2007), the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award (2005), AAAI Fellow (2003), and a National Young Investigator Award (1993). He has been the founder or co-founder of several companies, including Farecast (sold to Microsoft in 2008) and Decide (sold to eBay in 2013). He helped to pioneer meta-search (1994), online comparison shopping (1996), machine reading (2006), and Open Information Extraction (2007). He has authored over 100 technical papers that have garnered over 2,000 highly influential citations on Semantic Scholar. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1991 and his B.A. from Harvard in 1986.

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Children can be looked after during the programme: Please send an e-mail until 23 May 2019 topr@informatik.tuwien.ac.at

Bild: Oren Etzioni / TU Wien

Kalendereintrag

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EI 7 | Campus Gußhaus
1040 Wien
Gußhausstr. 27-29

 

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Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien
Kontakt: Zentrum für Koordination und Kommunikation
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