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SUMMARY:Applying Data Science and AI Effectively
DESCRIPTION:\n\nPlease join us for a special guest seminar on Monday\, Marc
 h 25th from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the WRF Data Science Studio. The seminar 
 will feature Dr. Alfred Spector\, a Visiting Scholar at MIT and a Senior A
 dvisor at Blackstone. The seminar will be offered in-person in the WRF Dat
 a Science Studio Seminar Room\, 6th floor of the UW Physics/Astronomy Towe
 r - campus map\n\n\n"Applying Data Science and AI Effectively"\nAbstract: 
 Applying data science and artificial intelligence effectively requires a c
 onsiderably broader focus than just data and machine learning. Based on th
 e speaker and his co-authors' recent book (Data Science in Context\, Cambr
 idge Univ. Press\, 2022)\, this presentation distills these additional cha
 llenges into a rubric and illustrates its application with a multitude of 
 examples from diverse domains. Beyond the rubric\, the presentation also p
 resents useful frameworks to help in making the complex trade-offs that ar
 e often inherent in AI and DS solutions. While the talk should have practi
 cal value to those applying AI and DS techniques\, it also illustrates con
 temporary research challenges.\nBio: Dr. Alfred Spector is a Visiting Scho
 lar at MIT and a Senior Advisor at Blackstone. His career has led him from
  innovation in large-scale\, networked computing systems to broad engineer
 ing and research leadership. Recently\, he co-authored a textbook\, “Dat
 a Science in Context: Foundations\, Challenges\, Opportunities.”\nPrevio
 usly\, Spector was CTO and Head of Engineering at Two Sigma Investments. B
 efore that\, he spent eight years as VP of Research and Special Initiative
 s at Google\, and he held various senior-level positions at IBM\, includin
 g as global VP of Services and Software Research and global CTO of IBM’s
  Software Business. Earlier in his career\, he founded Transarc Corporatio
 n\, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide-area file sys
 tems\, and he was a tenured professor at Carnegie Mellon University.\n\nSp
 ector is a Hertz Fellow and also a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE. He
  is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Acade
 my of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Spector won the 2001 IEEE Kanai Award for Dis
 tributed Computing and the 2016 ACM Software Systems Award. In 2018-19\, D
 r. Spector lectured widely as a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar (for example\, on t
 he growing importance of computer science across all disciplines based on 
 the evocative phrase\, “CS+X”). He has been a member of the ACM Turing
  Award Committee and has done national service through chairing the NSF’
 s CISE Advisory Board and membership on the Army and now the Defense Scien
 ce Boards. He has had extensive international experience due to broad resp
 onsibilities at IBM\, Google\, and Two Sigma. Dr. Spector obtained a Ph.D.
  in computer science from Stanford and a B.A. in applied math from Harvard
 .
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