Abstract: We are poised on the brink of a new era of computing, one in which computers will increasingly partner with people to improve our lives and enhance our ability to solve complex problems.  These new systems will feed on data and leverage a diverse set of analytic tools and strategies, constantly learning.  In this talk, we’ll introduce cognitive computing.  We’ll show how recent changes in the availability of data have driven rapid advances in analytics, enabling smarter applications, and bringing us to this new era.  We’ll see how Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computer, an early example of a cognitive system, is growing up, and describe some emerging cognitive applications that may change our world.  Last, but not least, we’ll describe a new, cognitive chip that may change how we compute in the era of cognitive computing. 

 

Bio: Laura Haas is an IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research’s Accelerated Discovery Lab. She was Director of Computer Science at IBM’s Almaden Research Center from 2005 to 2011, and had worldwide responsibility for IBM Research’s exploratory science program from 2009 through 2013.  From 2001-2005, she led the Information Integration Solutions architecture and development teams in IBM's Software Group.  Previously, Dr. Haas was a research staff member and manager at Almaden.  She is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 LUW was developed, on Garlic, a system which allowed integration of heterogeneous data sources, and on Clio, the first semi-automatic tool for heterogeneous schema mapping. She has received several IBM awards for Outstanding Innovation and Technical Achievement, an IBM Corporate Award for information integration technology, and the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award.  Dr. Haas was Vice President of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees from 2004-2009, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the IBM Academy of Technology, an ACM Fellow, and Vice Chair of the board of the Computing Research Association. 

 

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