Title : Science as a service: From the lab to the cafe
| Presenter | Paul Groth |
| Abstract | The cloud has changed the way information technology is delivered, maintained and used. A single developer can obtain hundreds of compute nodes on demand - creating radical scalability at no capital expense. Software can improve weekly, even hourly, instead of being downloaded once a year. Delivering software as a service allows the aggregation of behavior across users driving powerful recommendation engines. These technical capabilities not only enable new products but also new business models. The trends that fueled software as as a service are now being applied to science. Start-ups such as Transcriptic provide access to fully capable labs on-demand in the cloud, again at no capital expense. Others are providing tailored services for fully reproducible computational experiments. In this talk, I provide a framework for thinking about science as a service. I overview multiple examples of services becoming available. I then talk about the implications for the role of AI in science. |
Title : Transpolitics: US Election Insights in Trends and Polls in Real Time based on Social Media
| Presenter | Ward van Breda |
| Abstract | Next week I will be speaking at the TL-Accelerate Conference (http://www.lt-accelerate.com/) in Brussels about a personal project called Transpolitics. Today I will show it to you at the WAI. Transpolitics turns to the world of political trend analysis and polling by providing models that are capable of real time interpretation of public opinions related to specific parties, politicians, and topics. For the opinion mining we use sentiment analysis technology which is specifically adapted to the political domain. For the calculation of current popularity of politicians, and prediction of seat allocation distribution, we use statistical analysis models, which use sentiment and semantic values as input vectors, among others. We have currently tuned the models to the US Presidential Elections 2016 and we will give a demo during the presentation. |