On Friday, April 3, the Computer Science Department will host its final colloquium of the Spring 2020 semester. Ryan Levering (TCNJ Class of 2002) of Google will give a technical talk on recent trends in data management in the industry entitled “Knowledge in Search Engines”. An abstract of his talk can be found below.
Please join CS faculty and students via Google Hangout Meet from 12:30 – 1:30 PM for this talk.
Google Hangout Meet:
https://meet.google.com/omi-
If you’d like to participate in the talk and ask questions, please email Dr. Yoon to be added as a guest to the room. CSC 299 students will automatically be added as guests.
If you only would like to listen to the talk, use the live stream link below at the time of the talk. You will need to log in with your TCNJ credentials: https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/9188dcfd-f173-454c-8561-13eac32b5c95
Abstract:
Search engines have come a long way in the past twenty years as user needs and technology have changed. More and more, users are expecting search engines to know what they want rather than just be an index of web pages. In order to solve this very hard problem, they continue to incorporate techniques and patterns from many different computer science disciplines. From natural language understanding to databases, these disciplines help to build a semantic graph of knowledge. In this talk, we’ll go over some of those exciting problems and how Google is approaching them.
Bio:
After graduating in 2002 from The College of New Jersey Computer Science Department, Ryan Levering attended graduate school at SUNY Binghamton. There he made it almost all the way through a PhD dissertation in applied machine learning before deciding that he’d rather write code than papers. He spent some time in a flight search company working on machine learning systems before the company was acquired by Google, where he’d always wanted to work. Now he works on APIs and tools for Google to ingest structured data from the people who own it. He lives near Boston with his wife and two children.