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Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

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Summary

Deborah Hanus discusses some of the challenges that can arise when working with data. With recent advances in computational power, ML is positioned to change interaction with the world around. A surge of well-maintained ML libraries has made it possible for engineers to use ML models with minimal background. However, many find that using ML responsibly can be harder than it seems.

Bio

Deborah Hanus is a PhD candidate studying machine learning in Harvard University's Computer Science Department. She has worked as an engineer at a San Francisco start-up and Google. She has been awarded the Fulbright Student Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Intel/ACM SIGHPC Computational Data Science Fellowship.

About the conference

Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Oct 10, 2017

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