{"490831":{"#nid":"490831","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag Seminar: Ashok Goel and the GT Watson+ Research Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAshok\u0026nbsp;Goel and the GT Watson+ Research Group\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJill and Other Georgia Tech Incarnations of Watson\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGT Watson+ is a set of cognitive systems designed, developed and deployed at Georgia Tech on top of IBM\u2019s Watson cognitive system. It includes cognitive systems for question answering in support of biologically inspired design, ecological modeling, and education and training in artificial intelligence. GT Watson+ adds layers of semantic processing to Watson and explores the use of external data sources. For example, in the project on ecological modeling, it exploits Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Encyclopedia of Life, the world\u2019s largest database of biological species. In this team talk, we will present several instances of GT Watson+.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAshok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing and Director of the School\u2019s Design \u0026amp; Intelligence Laboratory. DILab\u2019s GT Watson+ group presently consists of Parul Awasthy, Jose Delgado, Ashok Goel, Lalith Polepeddi, Spencer Rugaber, Bradley Sheneman, Divya Vijayaraghavan, and Bryan Wiltgen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAcknowledgements: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWatson is IBM\u2019s cognitive system for question answering (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/\u003C\/a\u003E). Encyclopedia of Life is Smithsonian Institution\u2019s database of biological species and other biodiversity information (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eol.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.eol.org\u0022\u003Ewww.eol.org\u003C\/a\u003E). This research is supported by a Georgia Tech IDEAS pilot grant.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT Watson+ is a set of cognitive systems designed, developed and deployed at Georgia Tech on top of IBM\u2019s Watson cognitive system. It includes cognitive systems for question answering in support of biologically inspired design, ecological modeling, and education and training in artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jill and Other Georgia Tech Incarnations of Watson"}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2016-01-26 12:55:40","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:56","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-01-28T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-01-28T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-01-28T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-01-28 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-01-28 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-01-28 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"254861":{"id":"254861","type":"image","title":"Ashok Goel_new","body":null,"created":"1449243846","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:44:06","changed":"1475894934","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:54","alt":"Ashok Goel_new","file":{"fid":"198194","name":"131021ar069.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131021ar069_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131021ar069_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":22589,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/131021ar069_0.jpg?itok=Epmhp-k2"}}},"media_ids":["254861"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}