Industrial Innovation and its implications
John Langford
Abstract
We as a field are experience the industrialization of innovation generating structural changes to the process and outcomes of research and development. Where we are we in this process? How do you navigate the process? What are the failure modes and what does success look like? How can we organize effectively to work with a process of industrial innovation?
Speaker
John Langford
John Langford is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research. He studied Physics and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, earning a double bachelor’s degree in 1997, and received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Since then, he has worked at Yahoo!, Toyota Technological Institute, and IBM‘s Watson Research Center. He is also the primary author of the popular Machine Learning weblog, hunch.net and the principle developer of Vowpal Wabbit. Previous research projects include Isomap, Captcha, Learning Reductions, Cover Trees, and Contextual Bandit learning.
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