Presentation: Papers We Love Meetup

Track: Microservices: Patterns & Practices

Location: Broadway Ballroom North Center, 6th fl.

Duration: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Day of week: Monday

Level: Advanced

Persona: Architect, CTO/CIO/Leadership, Data Scientist, Developer, General Software

Speaker: John Langford

Leading Machine Learning Researcher, Vowpal Wabbit Contributor

John Langford is a machine learning research scientist, a field which he says "is shifting from an academic discipline to an industrial tool". He is the author of the weblog hunch.net and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit. John works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members, and was previously affiliated with Yahoo! Research,Toyota Technological Institute, and IBM's Watson Research Center. He studied Physics and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, earning a double bachelor's degree in 1997, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He was the program co-chair for the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning.

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Speaker: Matt Adereth

Managing Director @TwoSigma

Matt Adereth is a Managing Director at Two Sigma Investments, where he works on tools, infrastructure and methodologies for quantitative financial research. He previously worked at Microsoft on Office, focusing on data connectivity and visualization features. In his spare time, he designs open-source ergonomic keyboards using Clojure.

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Speaker: Gwen Shapira

System Architect @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop

Gwen is a product manager at Confluent. She has 15 years of experience working with code and customers to build scalable data architectures, integrating relational and big data technologies. Gwen is the author of “Kafka - The Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures", and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Gwen is a PMC member on the Apache Kafka project and committer on Apache Sqoop. When Gwen isn't building data pipelines or thinking up new features, you can find her pedaling on her bike exploring the roads and trails of California, and beyond.

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