[UCI-Calit2] Wikisanner Presentation 2pm Friday in Room 3008

Shellie Nazarenus snaz at calit2.uci.edu
Thu Nov 8 12:30:01 PST 2007


Mark you calendars and join us tomorrow!

 

Title: Wikiscanner: My Summer of Dilettante Data-mining or

Making a corporation-sized cannon and letting the Internet decide where
to point it 

 

Speaker: Virgil Griffith, California Institute of Technology

 

Date: Friday, November 9, 2 p.m

Location: Calit2 Building, Room 3008

 

Abstract: The web today contains vast amounts of useful information, but
it is scattered within a disconnected archipelago of web sites as well
as public and private databases. Using both traditional and novel
techniques, with small effort one can unite the information from these
islands to produce novel, entertaining online services. By fusing
information from disparate or little-known databases, I aim to empower
everyday users by giving them powerful, promiscuously interoperable
digital intelligence tools typically reserved for major corporations. In
this talk, I will discuss the glories and ease of amateur data-mining to
make the Internet a more interesting place.

 

The talk will also include amusing behind-the-scene WikiScanner
anecdotes as well as a how-to for useful data-mining tools.

 

About the Speaker: Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in
Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of
Technology. On weekdays he studies evolution, computational
neuroscience, and artificial life. On weekends, he makes the Internet a
better and more interesting place. Virgil gained notoriety as a freshman
in college when the fallout from his first paper caused him to get sued
under the Sedition and Espionage Act. Recovering from litigation-related
injuries, the following year he dropped out of college to become faculty
at the Indiana University School of Informatics. After a stint as
faculty, he resumed his undergraduate career at Indiana graduating two
years later. Now under the auspice of expensive Caltech lawyers, Virgil
has renewed his security research part-time with particular interest in
data-mining for the people. In science, his passion is the creation of
artificial intelligence and the scientific study of consciousness.

 

 

 

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