IEEE CIS Lecture by Dr. Erik Mueller "Building Intelligent Assistants"
In the first installment of this season's IEEE Lecture Series, we are delighted to feature a talk by Dr. Erik Mueller, a Senior Director at Capital One.
Abstract:
On March 10, 2017, Capital One launched Eno, the first natural language SMS chatbot from a U.S. bank. Eno allows customers to track account balances, see recent transactions, and make credit card payments by texting in natural language. In this talk, I present (1) a history of intelligent assistants, (2) intelligent assistants at Capital One including Eno, (3) AI capabilities for intelligent assistants, (4) the role of machine learning, and (5) continuous improvement of intelligent assistants.
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- Date: 10 Oct 2018
- Time: 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- University of Maryland
- College Park, Maryland
- United States 20814
- Building: A.V. Williams
- Room Number: 2460
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Northern Virginia Chapter (Joel Goodman | George Stantchev)
- Starts 04 October 2018 12:30 AM
- Ends 10 October 2018 06:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Erik Mueller of Capital One Bank
Building Intelligent Assistants
Biography:
Dr. Erik Mueller is a Senior Director at Capital One, where he leads teams that develop AI capabilities for intelligent assistants. As a member of the original Watson Team at IBM for five years, he helped develop the Watson Jeopardy! system, Watson for Healthcare, and WatsonPaths. He is the author of several books, including Commonsense Reasoning and Daydreaming in Humans and Machines. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from UCLA and an S.B. in computer science and engineering from MIT.
Agenda
6:30 - 7:00pm Check In/Networking; Light dinner with pizza and refreshments
7 - 7:50pm Lecture
7:50 - 8:10 Q&A + Networking
If arriving by car, feel free to use parking lot 11b, which is open for general access after 4pm. If arriving by Metro, free shuttle service is available from the College Park station to campus.