BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Scaling up Innovation through Analogy Mining
DTSTART:20191014T161500
DTEND:20191014T173000
DTSTAMP:20260510T202422Z
UID:3dc4c0acb1cbfae993d2dce0221d0e9206a7b7027f6f55577e20d6a1
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Dafna Shahaf - Hebrew University of Jerusalem\nVideo of he
 r talk\n\nAbstract:\nThe availability of large idea repositories (e.g.\, t
 he U.S. patent database) could significantly accelerate innovation and dis
 covery by providing people with inspiration from solutions to analogous pr
 oblems. However\, finding useful analogies in these large\, messy\, real-w
 orld repositories remains a persistent challenge for either human or autom
 ated methods.\n \nIn this work we explore the viability and value of lear
 ning to find analogies -- ideas in far domain that are similar on an abstr
 act level. Our approach combines crowdsourcing and machine learning. We de
 monstrate that our methods allow us to find analogies with higher precisio
 n and recall than traditional information-retrieval methods. In an ideatio
 n experiment\, analogies retrieved by our models significantly increased p
 eople's likelihood of generating creative ideas.\n\nBio:\nDafna Shahaf is 
 an Associate Professor in computer science at the Hebrew University of J
 erusalem. Dafna's research focuses on helping people make sense of massive
  amounts of data\, with a special emphasis on unlocking the potential of t
 he many digital traces left by human activity to contribute to our underst
 anding (and the computers emulation) of human capacities such as humor and
  creativity.  She received her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mell
 on University\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and a
 t Microsoft Research.\nShe has won a best research paper award at KDD 2010
  and KDD 2017\, an ERC starting grant\, a Microsoft Research Fellowship\, 
 a Siebel Scholarship\, a Magic Grant for innovative ideas\, and Wolf's Fou
 ndation Krill Award\, as well as MIT Tech Review's "Most thought-provoking
  paper of the week".\n\nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR