The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday February 20, 2017 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"AlphaGo -- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning"
Presented by:
Eric Rasmussen
Description:
In March 2016, the computer program AlphaGo cracked the game of Go, an ancient strategy board game with ~2.082 * 10^170 legal positions (imagine a 2 followed by 170 zeroes). The complexity of Go has made it the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research for decades, but until last year computer Go programs were no match for human intuition.
This talk will give a gentle introduction to the machine learning techniques that made the breakthrough possible, along with links and resources to open source machine learning libraries.
About the Speaker:
Eric Rasmussen is an avid Go player, functional programming evangelist, and Lead Software Developer at newcars.com.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit 3141 5th Street Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/
------------ About LUGOD: ------------
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Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
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