What I learned: stories and lessons from an academic lifetime
Oren Etzioni (Emeritus, University of Washington / AI2 Incubator)
Emeritus Lecture
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 3:30 pm
Abstract
In high school, I aspired to be a standup comic, but I walked into the wrong bar and ended up studying computer science. Over the last 40 years, I had some wild rides and contributed to the Allen School's illustrious history. I plan to share some amusing highlights with you as parables whose morals are broadly applicable.
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Bio
Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He now serves as Technical Director of the AI2 Incubator. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington as of October 2020 and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group. His awards include AAAI Fellow, Seattle’s Geek of the Year, and several Test of Time and Best Paper awards. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft). He has written over 200 technical papers, as well as commentary on AI for The New York Times, Wired, and Nature. He helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and Open Information Extraction.
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