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    Charles Elkan will give a keynote speech at IEEE ICSC 2015 about theory versus practice in data science. He will discuss how Amazon uses learning algorithms and large datasets to serve customers and improve efficiency. He will also talk about Amazon's approach to data science projects, which focuses on principles that are beneficial both inside and outside the company. Finally, he will examine which learning algorithms tend to be most successful in practice and discuss unsolved issues that arise across applications and should be a focus of more academic research.

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    Ieee Icsc 2015 Keynote Speech (Ii) : February 7, 2015 8:50 A.M. - 10:00 A.M

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    IEEE ICSC 2015 KEYNOTE SPEECH (II)

    February 7, 2015
    8:50 a.m. -10:00 a.m.

    Theory versus Practice in Data Science

    Charles Elkan

    University of California, San Diego, USA

    elkan@ucsd.edu

    Abstract

    In this talk I will discuss examples of how Amazon serves customers and improves efficiency using
    learning algorithms applied to large-scale datasets. I'll then discuss the Amazon approach to projects in
    data science, which is based on applying tenets that are beneficial to follow outside the company as
    well as inside it. Last but not least, I will discuss which learning algorithms tend to be most successful
    in practice, and I will explain some unsolved issues that arise repeatedly across applications and should
    be the topic of more research in the academic community. Note: All information in the talk will be
    already publicly available, and any opinions expressed will be strictly personal.

    Biography:
    CHARLES ELKAN is on leave from being a professor of computer
    science at the University of California, San Diego, working as Amazon
    Fellow and leader of the machine learning organization for Amazon in
    Seattle and Silicon Valley. In the past, he has been a visiting associate
    professor at Harvard and a researcher at MIT.

    His published research has been mainly in machine learning, data science,
    and computational biology. The MEME algorithm that he developed with
    Ph.D. students has been used in over 3000 published research projects in
    biology and computer science. He is fortunate to have had inspiring
    undergraduate and graduate students who are in leadership positions now
    such as vice president at Google.

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