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Stanford Seminar: Data For The People, Andreas Weigend of Social Data Lab

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Channel: Stanford Online · 2017 · Education

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EE380:  Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar
Data For The People 
Speaker:  Andreas Weigend, Social Data Lab

Andreas Weigend will share his journey from starting as a PhD student at Stanford in neural networks, to becoming the Chief Scientist at Amazon, and ultimately writing the book Data for the People, that came out last week (Jan 31, 2017) and was displayed on Times Square for free! 

About the Speaker:
Andreas has taught courses at Stanford in CS, MS&E, Psych and Stats, and is now a lecturer at UC Berkeley. He is also a mentor at StartX and a limited partner at Founders Fund, focusing on social-local-mobile technologies and consumer behavior.

Andreas is the founder and director of the Social Data Lab. Clients include Alibaba, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, GE, Hyatt, Lufthansa, MasterCard, Lufthansa, Tencent, and the World Economic Forum. He lives in San Francisco, Shanghai, and on weigend.com/where.

For more information about this seminar and its speaker, you can visit http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/170215.html

Support for the Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series provided by the Stanford Computer Forum.

Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week.

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