Andrew and Kathleen Booth Lecture 2018
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Senate House
No booking required
The Andrew and Kathleen Booth Memorial Lecture is delivered annually by a distinguished computer scientist to commemorate Professor Andrew Booth's work in creating some of the world's first electronic computers at Birkbeck and also his wife, Kathleen Booth's work on designing and programming these early computers. For more details of their work, please see the Short History of Computing at Birkbeck.
We are delighted to announce that this year, we will be joined by Professor Zoubin Ghahramani FRS, Chief Scientist for Uber and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Ghahramani is also Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Fellow of St John's College. He was a founding Cambridge Director of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science. He has worked and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Toronto, the Gatsby Unit at University College London, and Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on probabilistic approaches to machine learning and artificial intelligence, and he has published over 250 research papers on these topics. He was co-founder of Geometric Intelligence (now Uber AI Labs) and advises a number of AI and machine learning companies. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his contributions to machine learning.
The Andrew and Kathleen Booth Lecture 2018 will be a stimulating evening attended by alumni, friends and staff of Birkbeck's Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. If you would also like to attend the event, please register your interest with the BEI Events Coordinator, Aaliyah Archer including the following details:
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