O renomado prof. Michael Jordan (Univ. de Berkeley) irá nos visitar dia 7 de agosto (terça) e proferir uma palestra às 11h sobre "Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science".

O prof. Michael Jordan é um dos maiores expoentes mundiais em Aprendizado de Máquina e Redes Bayesianas, sendo reconhecido como um dos pesquisadores mais influentes da Computação! Mais detalhes na Wikipedia clicando aqui.

No recente artigo "Artificial Intelligence - ?The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet" ele comenta sobre o surgimento de um novo tipo de engenharia e da necessidade do rigor científico para evitar maiores catástrofes.

Ele vem ao Rio de Janeiro para proferir uma palestra plenária (palestras de grande destaque) no ICM 2018 (International Congress of Mathematicians), congresso que acontece a cada quatro anos, e vai passar pela UFRJ!

Resumo:

The rapid growth in the size and scope of datasets in science and technology has created a need for novel foundational perspectives on data analysis that blend the inferential and computational sciences. That classical perspectives from these fields are not adequate to address emerging problems in Data Science is apparent from their sharply divergent nature at an elementary level---in computer science, the growth of the number of data points is a source of "complexity" that must be tamed via algorithms or hardware, whereas in statistics, the growth of the number of data points is a source of "simplicity" in that inferences are generally stronger and asymptotic results can be invoked. On a formal level, the gap is made evident by the lack of a role for computational concepts such as "runtime" in core statistical theory and the lack of a role for statistical concepts such as "risk" in core computational theory. I present several research vignettes aimed at bridging computation and statistics, discussing the problem of inference under privacy and communication constraints, the problem of the control of error rates in multiple decision-making, and the notion of the "optimal way to optimize".

Bio resumida:

Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive and biological sciences. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015 and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009.

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