Keynote Speaker
William W. Cohen: William Cohen (CMU) received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Duke University in 1984, and a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1990. From 1990 to 2000 Dr. Cohen worked at AT&T Bell Labs and later AT&T Labs-Research, and from April 2000 to May 2002 Dr. Cohen worked at Whizbang Labs, a company specializing in extracting information from the web.
Dr. Cohen is member of the board of the International Machine Learning Society, is an Associate Editor for the journal Artificial Intelligence, and has served as an action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the journal Machine Learning and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He was General Chair for the 2008 International Machine Learning Conference, held July 6-9 at the University of Helsinki, in Finland; Program Co-Chair of the 2006 International Machine Learning Conference; and Co-Chair of the 1994 International Machine Learning Conference. Dr. Cohen has served on more than 20 other program committees or advisory committees.
Dr. Cohen is currently the co-Chair for the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, which will be held May 17-20, 2009 in San Jose. Dr. Cohen's research interests include information integration and machine learning, particularly information extraction, text categorization and learning from large datasets. He holds seven patents related to learning, discovery, information retrieval, and data integration, and is the author of more than 100 publications.
Industry Panel
The Industry Panel features panelist from several Social Media companies, whom will give their vision about needs, opportunities and current solutions of Data Mining and related techniques to real Social Media solutions. Up to date, the following companies have confirmed their presence in this panel:
- Strands: Strands, Inc. is a developer of social recommendation technologies founded in late 2003 by Dr. Francisco J. Martin. Strands develops technologies to better understand people's tastes and help them discover new things they will like. Strands has created a social recommendation engine that provides real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.
- Tuenti: Tuenti is a Madrid-based, social networking website that has been referred to as the "Spanish Facebook". According to the Google Annual Search Report, "tuenti" was the fourth fastest-rising global search term in 2008[4], and Alexa Internet ranks the site as one of the top-ten most visited in Spain.[5] It is currently estimated that there are more than 5 million users, making it the country's most popular social network.
- Optenet: Optenet is a global IT security company that provides high-performance security solutions to service providers and large enterprises worldwide. Optenet’s technology protects 75 mi llion end users around the globe, inclu ding customers of many of the world’s leading ISPs and mobile operators, as well as employees of globalenterprise organizations. The Company is a socially conscious or ganization, committed to eliminating illegal content on the Internet, protec ting children and supporting govern ment agencies and non-profit organiza tions that share the same goal.For futher information please visit: www.optenet.com