The Digital Readiness Webcast Series is a collaboration between the Defense Acquisition University and the System Engineering Research Center (SERC), a University-Affiliated Research Center of the Department of Defense.
Description:
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) have had a fascinating evolution from 1950 to the present. This talk sketches the main themes of AI and machine learning, tracing the evolution of the field since its beginning in the 1950s and explaining some of its main concepts. These eras are characterized as "from knowledge is power" to "data is king".
Speaker:

Dr. Gregg Vesonder - Industry Professor - Software Engineering; Program Head, Software Engineering program - Stevens Institute of Technology
Gregg Vesonder is an Industry Professor in Software Engineering and Program Head of the Software Engineering program. Prior to this role he served as Executive Director of the Cloud Platforms Research Department at AT&T Labs Research. His Department at AT&T Labs Research focused both on Cloud Platforms and Mobile and Pervasive Systems.
His professional and research activities emphasize software, software engineering and the relationship of small systems (embedded, sensor based) to large scale systems. Vesonder also is interested in applying these techniques, learning by doing and social media to graduate and post graduate education and STEM for grade school and beyond.
DAU FY20 Webcasts
Every Thursday, 12:30 pm | Eastern Standard Time | 1 hr 30 mins
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