17 Feb 2012
Cambridge, U.K.
SPECIAL LECTURE
On 17 February 2012, 17:30 to 18:30, Dr. David Gondek from IBM Watson
Research Center in Hawthorn NY (U.S.A.) will give a general audience
lecture entitled
IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare
Could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor?
in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge,
England.
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/TiC@Kings/watson.html
Dr. Gondek's lecture is part of the celebrations of the centenary of Alan
Turing (1912-1954) and is sponsored by the programme Public Understanding of
Artificial Intelligence (PUAI) of the AISB. Dr. Gondek will also give a talk at
the event TiC@Kings taking place at King's College on Saturday, 18 February
2012, and Sunday, 19 February 2012.
TiC@Kings as well as the special IBM Watson lecture are organized as part of
the Alan Turing Year 2012 and sponsored by the King's College of our Lady and
Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences, and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and
Simulation of Behaviour (AISB).
Abstract. "Chronic kidney disease for $500 please!" Although medical providers
are unlikely to utter these words as they search for appropriate medical
information and clinical guidelines to diagnose and manage patients, they may
soon have an advanced computer system reading their notes and listening to
their conversations with patients. Could IBM's automatic question-answering
system Watson, which decisively bested the two greatest champions in the quiz
show Jeopardy!, be reconfigured to gather evidence for professionals providing
your health care? Could it answer questions about the latest medical knowledge,
dig up hidden but crucial facts from your health record, and even help diagnose
diseases that may have gone unrecognized? Challenges abound, from capturing the
much deeper and subtler reasoning that medical reasoning demands, to
identifying gaps of information in a patient's records, and ultimately to
transform Watson from a system which competed against people on a quiz show to
one which can interactively work with them to better care for your health.
Dr. David Gondek leads the Knowledge Capture and Learning and Medical
Adaptation groups for the Watson project, which develop and apply artificial
intelligence techniques including natural language processing, machine
learning, and knowledge representation and reasoning for the Watson question
answering system, focusing on the tasks of analyzing questions, weighing
evidence, and evaluating confidence in hypotheses. He was the lead for machine
learning and game strategy on the IBM Jeopardy! Challenge to build a computer
system capable of winning at the quiz show, Jeopardy!, and is currently working
on extending Watson to help support evidence-based decision making in medicine.
Dr. Gondek received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth
College and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Organizers. Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Liesbeth De Mol (Gent), Benedikt Löwe
(Amsterdam & Hamburg), Ken Moody (Cambridge), Giuseppe Primiero (Gent).