They called the late 20th century, and especially the period that saw the rise of the computer and the shift from the traditional industries to a digital economy, the “Information Age”.
It was indeed an apt name.
Nowadays, however, we are living in the “Too Much Information Age” , drowning in Big Data, and trying to invent the tools that will help us make sense of it all.
Cognitive systems are among those tools – and on this Thursday, Dr Matthias Reumann, representative of the IBM Research – Zurich laboratory, will be at the Starttech headquarters to show us how they can help us gain valuable insight from the huge volumes of data being produced daily and build the (literally) smart services and infrastructure of tomorrow.
In his presentation, which reads more like a full blown 101 course on Cognitive Computing, Dr Reumann will introduce the technology, explain why it matters, talk about Cognitive Computing use cases in Healthcare and other industries, and give us a glimpse of the Cognitive Computing APIs of tomorrow that are being built today in by IBM Research Labs.
There will also be a demo of IBM’s Watson technology, the World-Chess champion and Jeopardy-winning AI that is at the public face (and catch-all name) for IBM’s Cognitive Computing solutions across numerous sectors and industries (from tourism to consumer electronics and the Internet of Things).
You are all welcome at StartTech Venture’s headquarters (Likourgou 1, Athens, 105 51) this Thursday, July 7th (18:00-20:00), to attend Dr. Matthias Reumann’s presentation on Cognitive Computing, or on, as we prefer to call it, The Future.
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About the presenter
Matthias Reumann (1978) (@MatthiasReumann) received the Masters of Engineering in Electronics with the Tripartite Diploma from the University of Southampton, UK, in 2003 and continued his PhD studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with Prof. Olaf Doessel at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH).
Reumann focused on translational research in cardiac models and his PhD with summa cum laude in 2007. The research was awarded with two prestigious research awards by both clinical and biomedical professional societies. Reumann continued research in multi-scale systems biology at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. His work focused on creating high resolution heart models that scale on supercomputers that yielded several high profile publications in Science Translational Medicine, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Supercomputing.
He expanded his research interest to Genomics in 2010 at the IBM Research Collaboartory for Lifesciences – Melbourne, investigating higher order interaction of single nucleotide polymorphisms in breast and prostate cancer in collaboration with Prof. John Hopper. In 2011, Reumann build up and the healthcare research team at the IBM Research – Australia laboratory with focus areas in healthcare analytics, medical image processing and genomics. The goal in genomics was to bring next generation sequencing into a production environment in a public health microbiology diagnostic unit. Reumann moved back to Europe in December 2013 and joined the IBM Research – Zurich laboratory where his research focusses on sustainable, resilient health systems research to bridge the divide from bench to bedside to society.
Reumann is associate editor of the IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Senior Member of the IEEE and has served on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society from 2009 – 2013 as well as on the IEEE Technical Advisory Board form 2011 – 2012. His research is mentioned in editorials and reviews and has received numerous awards.
