Ladies of Code LDS | January 2018
January 18, 6:00 PM - Sky 2 Photos from event
Many thanks to our gracious sponsor, Sky Bigger Picture
Living In The Science Fiction Future - presented by Edafe Onerhime
From Star Trek to 2001: A Space Odyssey, science fiction has inspired, leap frogged and shaped how we live today. With artificial intelligence predicted to replace jobs and change the future of work, what are the alternative futures and opportunities for humans living the science fiction future?
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Edafe is a consultant data scientist with over 20 years of experience using data, modern statistical data science methods and data analysis skills to solve real world problems.
She wants to see the industry truly embrace its potential by embracing a wider cross-section of people.
Run Faster! My experience with software performance - presented by Sorina Grave
My talk is about software performance and my experiences with it over the years. It shows my personal view on why is performance important, how developers can ensure their code is fast and ideas for troubleshooting performance issues.
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Sorina got into tech from an early age studying computers since she was 14. She got her first dev job in 1999 and has worked for several big corporations over the years. Sorina is now employed by Sky and is excited to experience such diversity and enthusiasm for tech from everyone!
Business Analyst: Bridging the gap between business and technology - presented by Rebecca McCarthy
NLP in AI: Natural Language Processing accuracy – an agent prototype based on a functional linguistic theory - presented by Dr Kulvinder Panesar
My PhD research explores the long-standing issue within natural language processing (NLP) conversational agents (CA) of refining the accuracy of the interpretation of meaning to provide a realistic dialogue to support the human-to-computer communication. Underpinning this research, is Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a strong, mature, functional theory, which is computationally explored to formulate the linguistic engine of a conversational software agent (CSA). How this is derived, implemented and evaluated is discussed in the talk.
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Dr Kulvinder's role as a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, researcher and Java Programmer is supported by her strong interest in emerging technologies and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular the cognitive dimension and conversational behaviour. Her PhD research presented an innovative approach to address the accuracy of the interpretation of meaning of what is being said, and the facilitation of a response via a linguistically centred conversational software agent (LING-CSA).
Side Stepping into Tech - presented by Clare Devine
Clare is a software developer from the North East of England with an interest in front end development, and CSS in particular. She has been in the industry for almost three years and has been actively documenting her life on her blog as well as the great experiences she's had through work and writing about help she's come across along the way.
Clare Devine has written a blog post about the event here.
Arianne Donoghue has written a short article about the event here.