Top Minds Address Ways to Tame Big Data with Big Reasoning at IntelliFest 2013 in San Diego

SAN FRANCISCO - Aug. 27, 2013 - PRLog -- Organizers announced today that IntelliFest 2013, the International Conference on Reasoning Technologies, will be keynoted by three highly regarded leaders in big data, artificial intelligence, and rules engines. IntelliFest welcomes Dr. Ellen Voorhees, Dr. Daniel Miranker and Dr. Ernest Friedman-Hill to the podium at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, California from October 7-11, 2013.    Dr. Voorhees will speak on the topic “To Measure is to Know” on Tuesday, October 8. Big Data projects can fall short of expectations or outright fail for lack of clear data metrics and an understanding of what they mean in a given problem’s context. This talk examines the necessity of clearly and deeply specifying what exactly you intend to glean from Big Data before you build any software. Using lessons learned from the 20-year Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) project, Dr. Voorhees will focus on the role appropriate evaluation methodologies can play in understanding and categorizing content that is structured for humans rather than machines.  She is a member of the Retrieval Group in the Information Technology Laboratory at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and her specialty is information retrieval, search, and natural language processing.    On Wednesday, October 9, Dr. Daniel Miranker will address “Matching and Volume – Challenges of Scaling Pattern Matching.” His talk will address the 30-year old vision in computer science of creating intelligent systems capable of logical inference on large amounts of data, which the emergence of the semantic web and cloud computing has, again, brought to the forefront. Dr. Miranker is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin and creator of the LEAPS and TREAT pattern matching algorithms.His research spans bio-informatics, the semantic web, ontologies and data integration, intelligent information systems, and big data access methods. Dr. Miranker, who designed the first thousand-fold computer, was a founder of 5th Generation Computer Corporation, which commercialized that machine.    On Thursday, October 10, Dr. Ernest Friedman-Hill will present, “Jess: Making My Own Rules.” Dr. Friedman-Hill is a principal member of the technical staff atSandia National Laboratoriesin Livermore, California. He is the creator of the popularJessrules engine and is the author of “Jess in Action.” His current work at Sandia includes the development of software for mechanical design and analysis. In discussing the now 15-year old rule engine for the Java platform, Dr. Friedman-Hill will take the opportunity to look back at Jess’s history and evolution as the first Java implementation of the Rete algorithm, and its current incarnation as actively used in industry and academia. Dr. Friedman-Hill will forward to where Jess is going in the future, discussing the software engineering principles that have guided its development and the best practices that govern its use.    In addition to the three keynotes, other thought leaders representing some of the most advanced work being undertaken today to “tame big data” from around the globe will address a variety of issues facing the technical community today.    IntelliFest is a single-track conference where software and IT developers, project managers and executives responsible for driving new business development and initiatives can meet to learn about, discuss, and explore the state-of-the-art in reasoning technologies and applied AI to create intelligent products and services. Four days of presentations during IntelliFest 2013 will include case studies, code-walks, application demos, and engineering considerations surrounding this growing need.    Reasoning technologies include but are not limited to rule engines, constraint solvers, and machine learning algorithms. They are the building blocks of applied AI systems that exhibit logical reasoning, such as expert systems, case-based reasoning systems, theorem provers, and constraint satisfaction system. These systems, increasingly found at the core of cloud-based and “big data” applications, are widely used in business and research for automated decision-making, business rule processing, complex event processing, run-time governance, policy enforcement, rating systems, optimization, scheduling, predictive analytics, intrusion detection, security and integrity, fraud detection, and many other purposes.    IntelliFest attracts attendees from varied industries, such as aerospace, defense, finance, e-commerce, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation on the basis of their shared interest in leveraging reasoning technologies to deliver superior, more cost-effective products and services.    Conference Fee and Package Pricing    The Early Bird registration fee of $499 is extended until October 7, and all boot camps are $299. Special room rates are available at the Bahia Resort Hotel of $149 per night until September 6.This special rate is also available to attendees three days prior and following the event for those attendees who may wish to enjoy San Diego. Room nights are limited and attendees are encouraged to register early. To register, attendees should visit the conference registration site at http://intellifest.org/wordpress/registration/.    Sponsors    IntelliFest 2013 is sponsored by RedHat, Sandia National Laboratory, and Inteliops. Companies that support big data, reasoning, artificial intelligence, rules, decision-making and other such development technologies who wish to network with this unique audience are encouraged to consider sponsoring and exhibiting at IntelliFest. See sponsorship opportunities here.    About IntelliFest    The non-profit Rules Fest™ Association, Inc. produces the annual IntelliFest: International Conference on Reasoning Technologies, the world's only technical conference devoted to the practical application of reasoning technologies, the systems derived from them, and the developers who create those systems. More information is available at www.intellifest.org.    IntelliFest is a trademark of Rules Fest Association.    ###    Contact Information:    Media contact:    Brenda Ropoulos   VisionArts Communications, Inc.   Brenda@visionartscommunications.com   Phone: +1.510.414.6772   www.intellifest.org    For more information on registering and sponsorship for IntelliFest 2013, contact:    Jason Morris   Chairman, IntelliFest 2013   http://www.intellifest.org   info@intellifest.org

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