Build Intelligence from the Physical World

Date:
2009/7/29 11:00-12:30
Place:
10号館1階第一講義室

Lecturer:
Dr. Xing Xie
Membership:
Microsoft Research Asia
Professional Affiliation:
Dr. Xing Xie is a lead researcher in the Web Search and Mining Group of Microsoft Research Asia, and a guest Ph.D. advisor in University of Science and Technology of China. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, working on spatial data mining, location based services, mobile and pervasive computing. He has served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences such as WWW, GIS, CIKM, MDM, and IUI. During the past years, he has published over 80 referred journal and conference papers. And he is a senior member of IEEE.

Lecture Concept:
Context aware computing sought to deal with linking changes in the environment with computer systems. In other words, computing systems become more intelligent through analyzing and reacting to the physical world surrounding them. The coming era of cloud computing brings new opportunities to this long studied research area. By accumulating and aggregating physical world contextual information from multiple users and multiple devices over a long period, we can obtain collective social intelligence from them. Based on this, more innovative Internet services can be developed to facilitate people’s everyday lives. At Microsoft Research Asia, we are working on various technologies with a view to managing physical world information and building intelligence from them. In this talk, I will present our recent work on this direction, as well as other related works in Microsoft and the industry. Archive:
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/gcoe-media/core-seminar/16/
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