Machine Learning Experts Gather in Boston - insideBIGDATA

RE•WORK will host its annual East Coast events on Deep Learning and the Internet of Things in Boston on 12 & 13 May. Over 300 machine learning and IoT enthusiasts and experts will come together to hear keynote presentations, panel discussions, fireside chats and to explore the startup showcase area. The Deep Learning Summit brings together leaders from industry, academia and startups to explore advances in deep learning methods and techniques, as well as their business applications in areas including finance, manufacturing, healthcare & transportation. Confirmed speakers and presentations include Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor at Université de Montréal; Tony Jebara, Director of Machine Learning Research at Netflix; Vivienne Sze, Assistant Professor at MIT; Naveen Rao, CEO & Co-Founder of Nervana Systems, and more. "Today's models can be trained on huge quantities of data, but that's not enough," says Bengio, who together with LeCun and Google's Geoffrey Hinton is one of the original musketeers of deep learning.