Nov 28 2016
Jerome Pesenti
Renowned Computer Scientist, VP Watson Core Technology at IBM
Jerome Pesenti is the Vice President of Watson Core Technology at IBM where he leads a global team of researchers and software engineers. He is also responsible for the Watson Developer Cloud, which exposes cognitive technologies as easy-to-consume cloud services. In 2000, Jerome co-founded the search and text analytics company Vivisimo which was acquired by IBM
“Jerome is lead developer of IBM’s Jeopardy-winning Watson supercomputer”
He is also active in the Big Data community through a non-profit that he created, Pittsburgh DataWorks, whose mission is to promote and provide access to big data education, projects, talent and technologies. In addition, Jerome is a Visiting Scientist at the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. At Vivisimo he advised many large corporate and government customers such as P&G, Airbus, J&J, DIA, SSA, or the US Air Force. Vivisimo’s technology was based on the machine learning research he conducted with his co-founders in the CS department of CMU from 1998 to 2000.[/expand]
Recognised as a leading computer scientist, Jerome has been involved with natural language processing, search, big data and machine learning for the past 16 years. He offers organisations valuable insights based on his research, and in his presentations he focuses on showing how to create value through innovation and how the use of new technologies can stimulate growth. [/expand]
A distinguished expert, Jerome Pesenti provides excellent and useful inside knowledge on the topic of computer science.[/expand]
Topics
Technology
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Cognitive Computing
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