Synthetic Intelligence Forum is delighted to partner with Microsoft to present a series on Applied AI.

You are invited to join us for part four of this Microsoft AI Series on Applied AI with the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and Technical Fellow at Microsoft.

Title: A Holistic Representation Toward Integrative AI

Abstract: We are in the midst of a renaissance with AI capabilities that is comparable to one of the most important inventions in history, Gutenberg’s printing press. Similar to the printing press, AI has drastically changed the way society evolves and impacted all aspects of human life. In today’s digital age, innovators are focused to develop technologies with the capability to learn and reason more like people—technology that can make inferences about situations and intentions more like the way people make these decisions. In this talk, Dr. Huang describes the notion of XYZ-code as a foundation to push AI forward towards the development of AI that better aligns with human abilities.

About the speaker:

Bio: Dr. Xuedong Huang is a Technical Fellow in the Cloud and AI group at Microsoft and the Chief Technology Officer for Azure Cognitive Services.

Huang oversees the Azure Cognitive Services team and manages researchers and engineers around the world who are building AI-based services to power intelligent applications.

In 1993, Huang joined Microsoft to establish the company’s speech technology group, where he led Microsoft’s spoken language efforts for over a decade. In addition to bringing speech recognition to the mass market, Huang led his team in achieving historical human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, conversational question answering, machine reading comprehension and image captioning. Huang’s team provides AI-based Azure Vision, Speech, Language and Decision services that power popular world-wide applications from Microsoft like, Office 365, Dynamics, Xbox and Teams to numerous 3rd party services and applications.

Huang is an IEEE & ACM fellow. He was named Asian American Engineer of the Year (2011), Wired Magazine’s 25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business (2016), and AI World’s Top 10 (2017). Huang holds over 100 patents and has published over 100 papers & two books.
Before Microsoft, Huang was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of the Alan Newell Award for research excellence.

You are invited to join us online for this “must-attend” event.

Profiles of the host and presenter:
• Vik Pant, PhD – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikpant/
• Xuedong Huang, PhD – https://www.linkedin.com/in/xdhuang/

Microsoft AI:
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AI Research – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/artificial-intelligence/
Azure AI – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/ai-platform/
AI Platform, Tools, and Services – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-platform

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