Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Uncategorized
Speaker Name
Alfred Z. Spector.
Affiliation
MIT
Building and Room number
34-401 Grier Room A
Abstract
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector. The talk will be followed by a fireside chat moderated by Cadence Design Systems Professor Aleksander Mądry. Data science has provided unprecedented opportunities to learn new insights and to predict, recommend, cluster, classify, transform, and optimize. However, no new technology arrives without complications, and we have recently seen both the press and various political circles illustrating real, potential, and fictional implications of the field. This presentation aims to balance the opportunities provided by data science against the many challenges that have ensued.
Biography
Alfred Spector’s career has led him from innovation in large scale, networked computing systems (at Stanford, CMU, and his company, Transarc) to broad research leadership: first globally leading IBM Software Research and then Google Research. Most recently, he was the CTO at Two Sigma Investments, but is now focused on completing a textbook. In addition to his managerial commitments, Dr. Spector has lectured widely on the growing importance of computer science across all disciplines (CS+X) and on the Societal Implications of Data Science.