He moved to Beijing as one of the founding members of Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia). Shum joined Microsoft Research in 1996, as a researcher based in Redmond, Washington. Previously he oversaw the research activities at Microsoft Research Asia and the lab’s collaborations with universities in the Asia Pacific region, and was responsible for the Internet Services Research Center, an applied research organization dedicated to long-term and short-term technology investments in search and advertising at Microsoft.
In this talk, I’ll describe the Bing Dialog Model in detail and demonstrate it in action through some innovative features, in particular applying social contexts and entity understanding for user task completion.īIOGRAPHY: Harry Shum is the corporate vice president responsible for search product development at Microsoft Corporation. Powering this new paradigm is the Bing Dialog Model that consists of three building blocks: an indexing system that comprehensively collects information from the web and systematically harvests knowledge, an intent model that statistically infers user intent and predicts next action based on the harvested knowledge, and an interaction model that elicits user intent through mathematically optimized presentations of web information and knowledge that matches user needs. To tackle this challenge, we have designed Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, not just to navigate users to a landing page through a blue link but to continue engaging with users to clarify intent and facilitate task completion with Bing’s deep understanding of the underlying entities and domains of user interest. Many studies have shown that when users are ushered off the conventional search result pages through blue links, their needs are often partially met at best in a “hit-or-miss” fashion. The talk will conclude with a discussion of some of the moral and ethical issues we will have to confront as a society when BCIs start making the transition from the laboratory to our daily lives.ĪBSTRACT: The decade-old Internet search outcomes, manifested in the document-centric form of “ten blue links,” are no longer sufficient for Internet users. I will describe how devices such as a computer cursor, a prosthetic hand, and a humanoid robot can be controlled through motor imagery and stimulus-evoked potentials decoded from EEG and ECoG signals. This talk will provide an overview of recent developments in the field, with highlights from two approaches that my collaborators and I are exploring at the University of Washington: a non-invasive technique known as electroencephalography (EEG) for recording from the scalp and an invasive technique known as electrocorticography (ECoG) for recording from the brain surface. BCIs have now enabled communication in locked-in patients, helped restore movement in paralyzed and disabled individuals, and are increasingly being used in novel applications such as security, lie detection, alertness monitoring, entertainment, gaming, education, and human augmentation. However, the advent of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is rapidly making this idea a reality, with researchers demonstrating the control of cursors, prosthetic arms, wheelchairs, and robotic avatars all through brain signals.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, and the recipient of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award for work in scalable architectures and distributed systems.ĪBSTRACT: The idea of controlling objects by thought alone has long been a staple of science fiction novels and movies. in Computer Science from Stanford and his A.B. He was also founder and CEO of Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems, and was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in highly reliable, highly scalable distributed computing.
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Previously, Spector was Vice President of Strategy and Technology IBM’s Software Business, and prior to that, he was Vice President of Services and Software Research across IBM. Spector is Vice President for research and special initiatives at Google, and is responsible for research across Google, as well as its University Relations Programs, Open Source Activities, and internal technical education.