Name: Amazon/Edinburgh Research Workshop in NLP & Machine Learning
Location: TBD

Amazon/Edinburgh Research Workshop in NLP & Machine Learning

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, will train a new generation of data scientists, comprising 50 PhDs over five intake years, with the technical skills and interdisciplinary awareness necessary to become R&D leaders in this emerging area.For more information: datascience.inf.ed.ac.ukInformation about you: how we use it and with whom we share it.We will use your personal data to allow us to process your registration, communicate with you and obtain your feedback about the event.We are processing the information about you for these purposes because by registering for the conference, you are entering into a contractual agreement for us to do so. In order to facilitate online bookings for our events, we use Eventbrite - a third party service which is not operated by the University of Edinburgh. Details of Eventbrite's privacy policy can be found at:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-privacy-policy?lg=en_GBWe will not share information about you with any other third party.We will hold the personal data you provided us for 6 months.We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.If you have any questions about the privacy policy for this event, please contact datascience-community@inf.ed.ac.ukIf you have queries about the University of Edinburgh's privacy policy go to:https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/notice

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AMAZON/EDINBURGH RESEARCH WORKSHOP IN NLP & MACHINE LEARNING, 24th-26th April 2017
Amazon is organising a 3-day Workshop in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh's CDT in Data Science.  The aim of the Workshop is to introduce Amazon's work in NLP and Machine Learning to academics and students at the University and to give Amazon an overview of the work being done by the students.  The Workshop will aim to make connections between communities, build links, identify opportunities to collaborate or help one another and to discuss different uses of NLP/Machine Learning at Amazon and in the academic community.
 
DAY ONE: 24th April - AMAZON TALKS & ENGAGEMENT
Venue: Informatics Forum, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE
Time: 9.30am - 6pm
A day of talks and discussions from Scientists at Amazon, where they will give an overview of how machine learning drives the customer experience across a range of different areas and the unique challenges and opportunities they face operating at Amazon's scale.
 DAY TWO: 25th April - CLOUD COMPUTING FOR MACHINE LEARNING
Venue: Amazon Development Centre, 2-4 Waterloo Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3EG
Time: 10am - 6pm
LAPTOP ESSENTIAL: Hosted in collaboration with AWS, this day will focus on hands-on use of Amazon services to accelerate machine learning research, particularly in the areas of deep learning (on-demand GPU machines) and processing large datasets with Spark.  You should leave with practical experience using these tools on an example problem and a sense of how on-demand cloud computing can simplify and expand your research. Please bring your laptop.
 
DAY THREE: 26th April - ACADEMIC TALKS & POSTERS
Venue: Amazon Development Centre, 2-4 Waterloo Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3EG
Time: 9.30am - 6pm
A day of Talks and Posters from Academics with the opportunity for faculty, students and postdocs to present their work and discuss important topics in machine learning research.

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