ACM Events - Google Prediction API: Machine Learning as a Service on the Cloud

PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 21, 2010 -
Association for Computing Machinery
 
WHAT: Google Prediction API: Machine Learning as a Service on the Cloud

WHO: Max Lin, Google Research

WHEN: Monday July 26, 2010; 6:30 – 9:00 pm

WHERE:  LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View, CA 94043

COST: FREE

DESCRIPTION: Using machine learning tools to analyze big data is no longer a question of when, but rather how soon. Analyzing big data, however, is challenging: large resources need to be provisioned, algorithms need to be scaled, and predictive models need to be integrated with existing software.

The Google Prediction API now adds Google’s machine learning solutions to developers’ toolkits through a simple, three-step process. In this talk we will introduce the advantages of machine learning on the cloud, present strategies of training classifiers on terabytes of data, and discuss how the Google Prediction API alleviates the restrictions of resource provisioning, scalability, and integration in big data analysis.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Max Lin is a software engineer with Google Research in New York City office, and the tech lead of the Google Prediction API team. Prior to Google, he published research work in video content analysis, sentiment analysis, machine learning, and cross-lingual information retrieval. He graduated with a PhD degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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