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Meeting Date: Thursday, Februay 21st, 2013

Speaker: Mary Elaine Califf, PhD, Interim Director/Associate Professor - School of Information Technology at Illinois State University

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Mary Elaine Califf is currently serving as the Interim Director of the School of Information Technology at Illinois State University, where she has taught since 1998. After attending high school in Jakarta, she began her college studies in the English department at Baylor University, where she received both a BA and an MA before changing her focus to computing. She stayed at Baylor for an MS in Computer Science, then completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in Computer Sciences in 1998. Dr. Califf’s primary research interests are in natural language processing and machine learning, particularly in applying learning to language processing. Her best known work is in developing rules to extract information from text documents. She has primarily taught programming, algorithms and data structures, and artificial intelligence courses.

Location:

Ozark House Restaurant
704 McGregor Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
Phone: (309) 827-3900

Web: http://www.ozarkhouserestaurant.com

Cost:

$25 Members
$28 Non Members
$5 - for presentation only/no dinner option (member/non-member)

Reservations:

Make your reservation today! Deadline is 02/15/2013.

Country Financial Members contact:

Trisha McClelland

Email: trisha.mcclelland@countryfinancial.com
Phone: 309-821-3083

All others, please email reservations@twincityaitp.org (State Farm Members: please email Cheryl Garret via internal email).

Last day to cancel reservation without charge is 02/18/2013.

Menu:

 

• Honey Glazed Ham
• Fried Chicken
• Au Gratin Potatoes
• Tossed Salad
• Green Beans
• Corn
• Rolls
• Cherry Cobbler

 

Agenda:

4:45 Social Networking
5:00 Announcements/Seminar: The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence by Andrew Ng (Stanford University)
5:30 Meal
6:15 Speaker
7:00 Wrap up (Door Prize, Next Meeting Announcement)