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Enriching Life - Question and Answer Session

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Panel Discussion
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  • Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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  • Duration: 23 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Mar 2013
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Global Grand Challenges Summit

About the session

Advances in information and communication technology have changed the ways we work, play and create in ways that were almost inconceivable 20 years ago. Researchers working at the interface between engineering and the creative arts are investigatingother technologies which might have an equally radical impact on our lives. This panel discussion looks at emerging technologies - from 3D printing, to artificial intelligence, to synthetic biology, to clothing that cleans the air - and asks how they might enhance the art we make, the stories we tell, the ways we interact with each other, and the ways we understand ourselves.

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    Eric Brown

    IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Watson Technologies, Director and Principal Investigator

    Eric Brown is the Director and Principal Investigator for Watson Technologies at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Eric earned his BSc at the University of Vermont and MSc and doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, all in computer science. Eric joined IBM in 1995 and has conducted research in information retrieval, document categorization, text analysis, question answering, bioinformatics, and applications of automatic speech recognition. Since 2007 Eric has been a technical lead on the DeepQA project at IBM and the application of automatic, open domain question answering to build the Watson Question Answering system. The goal of Watson is to achieve human-level question answering performance. This goal was realized in February of 2011 when Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised Jeopardy! exhibition match. Eric’s role on the project has spanned architecture development, special question processing, and hardware planning, and he is currently leading the team to apply Watson to clinical decision support in healthcare. Eric has published numerous conference and journal papers, and holds several patents in the areas of text analysis and question answering
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