Email:[email protected]@beliefnetworks.net
Twitter:@BeliefNetworks @jaxsoncreole What is it like Out There? A
Presentation to CSCE 190
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Currently the CTO, Co-Founder, BeliefNetworks, INC. With more
than twenty years of technology experience, he spent the past seven
as an architect within Microsoft Corporation working on such
products and technologies as the Windows Networking Stack, Vista
Audio architecture, Metadata architectures, secure Audio-Video
path, and Media Center edition. Before leaving Microsoft in 2007,
Tanner supported IPv6 and RFID solutions, Trustworthy Computing,
Metadata Standards, Emergency/DataFusion Enterprise Architecture
and Media Architectures Prior to Microsoft, Ted was CTO/VP of
R&D for MongoMusic directing all aspects of knowledge
discovery, machine learning, signal processing research,
intellectual property management. MongoMusic was purchased by
Microsoft Corp. in 2000 for 75MM. Previously, Ted was the Media
Architect at Apple Computer Inc. working on adaptive media
processing architectures for OS9 and OSX. In total, Ted has held
instrumental roles in 4 start-ups, including Avid/digidesign,
Crystal River Engineering and Spatializer, 3 tendered offers and 1
IPO. A little bit about me 7/15/20152
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3 Established 2007 Privately Owned Sales & Business Office:
Madison Ave, NYC R&D: Charleston, SC All original IP About
BeliefNetworks, Inc. Market leading provider of related content
& ad recommendations Customers range from premium online
publishers to mobile ad networks
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7/15/20154 We combine semantic intelligence and predictive
analytics to deliver real time, relevant ad targeting and content
recommendations to drive user engagement Semantically contextual ad
targeting Content recommended includes articles, blogs, Tweets,
video and photos Inter- and intra-site dynamic recommendations
BeliefNetworks, Inc. Service
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7/15/20155 Why Software? Creating software is much like writing
a movie script or creating a play. It is one of the most artistic
forms of expression in the world. Essentially anyone with practice
can create amazing pieces of art with little or no barrier to entry
There is nothing that I know of that can take an idea to money or
idea to affect quicker than making software
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7/15/20156 The World Of Software The Software industry is
Gi-Normous (gigantic and enormous) Formal methods are crucial to
gain an edge Everyone basically has the same foundation
Extracurricular efforts are paramount Gain perspective on your
interest
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Media/ Games Operating Systems Security Your Love of Software
Where to Focus? 7/15/20157 Search/ Learning
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Where to Focus? 7/15/20158 Mathematics - know the math love the
math - duplicate MATLAB routines in C/C++/C#/JAVA/ASM Take an
elective in a social science - in most cases software is about
engineering solutions that have some level of human interaction -
archeology, psychology, sociology, literature If your focusing on
hardware/software take an elective in the other discipline -
understand why certain processes work Read at least one book on
software development - (Code Complete by McConnell / Microsoft
Press)
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Importance of Experience 7/15/20159 Convert your class work to
external solutions to real world problems. Become a member in the
IEEE/ACM or related organization/sub-organization - read all of the
journals Use social media - Linkedin/Twitter/Facebook Internships
are very useful - provides insight into commercial code development
Create your own projects /website/applications
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What are We Looking for? What are We Looking for? 7/15/201510
Passion - If you do not care go home Adaptability - you are
learning foundation You are not your code - check your attitude in
at the door Creativity - how do you think with no answers? Sample
code - working code goes a long way
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What To Expect For An Interview: Interviews will consist of
coding or analysis of coding problems - Linked Lists, Strings,
Concurrency (see - http://maxnoy.com/interviews.html)
http://maxnoy.com/interviews.html Practice using the same medium
(e.g. paper and pencil) and time limits (e.g. 30 minutes) as the
real interview. During the interview, don't obsess over little
mistakes that happen. Don't be rude to your interviewer. (your
professor is nice compared to what could happen - trust me) Non
technical questions: Why Should I Hire You? What are your personal
interests?
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The World Of Start-Ups So you have a great idea.. - Well so
does everyone else.. Three Reasons to create your own company: 1.
The Technology 2. The Process 3. The Monetary Gain or Social
Change
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The World Of Start-Ups The Technology The Technology is
interesting - not the focus Many will try to down play or destroy
Need to understand that you are not the tech Understand that it is
transitory
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The World Of Start-Ups The Process A wise person once told me
Trust The Process. Most are concerned with the endpoint. Amazing
affects on people and economy. There really are no rules per-se to
a start-up. Except Dont break the build, write world class code,
multi- task, Do it all as fast as possible
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The World Of Start-Ups The Money (or Social Change) Whether
most say it they are interested in the Money Social Change can also
be a close kin to Monetary Both reasons are coupled and great
catalyst affects These however cannot be your sole focus Except
People who invest want to make 10x investment
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The World Of Start-Ups Find a trusted partner (aka Co-Founder)
Understand what your building and why Create a pitch slide-ware
Look for seed funding Look for a couple of trusted team members
Build a prototype if possible - show something running What do you
need to do?
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The World Of Start-Ups For more info:
http://www.idea2bank.comhttp://www.idea2bank.com
http://www.lisamaki.com Get a legal team that is familiar with
startups Incorporate - Delaware Corp C - Exchange Shares for $$
Start looking at a Series A raise Consider speaking with customers
for refinement Except. If you are in stealth mode with a seasoned
team And if the technology or business model is disruptive What do
you need to do?
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Some Real World Problems Unstructured Data Analysis Data
Cleansing and Processing - measuring quality Distributed
Intelligent Agents and Systems Distributed Data Security in The
Cloud Dynamic Systems trade Privacy versus Security Perceptual
Processing Models for Media Wireless communications scaling
Technical Policy Concerns Usability and User Interfaces - Haptic
and other
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Some Real World Problems Map Reduction of Machine Learning
algorithms: MapReduce is a framework for processing huge datasets
on certain kinds of distributable problems Map Reduction of Machine
Learning Algorithms greatly increases the amount data that can be
discovered The advantage of MapReduce is that it allows for
distributed processing of the map and reduction operations.
Provided each mapping operation is independent of the other, all
maps can be performed in parallel
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Back-Propagation Neural Network Start by initializing the input
weights for all neurons to some random numbers between 0 and 1,
then: 1. Apply input to the network. 2. Calculate the output. 3.
Compare the resulting output with the desired output for the given
input. This is called the error. 4. Modify the weights and
threshold for all neurons using the error. 5. Repeat the process
until error reaches an acceptable value (e.g. error < epsilon
which means that the NN was trained successfully, or if we reach a
maximum count of iterations (epochs), which means that the NN
training was not successful
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Back-Propagation Neural Network Weights and Error updated in
Real Time
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Map Reduced BPNN For Each Split Do: SplitInputVector
(MyVector[]) Apply input to the network. For Each Worker Do: Modify
the weights and threshold for all neurons using the error.
MapWeightsToMemory(MyWeights[]); MapEpsilonToMemory(MyEpsison);
CheckOutputAcrossWorkers(); NextWorker(); NextSplit()
MergeResultVector();
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The Current and Future of Computing See Gartner Hype Cycle
Report: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124212
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124212
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InterNet Evolution to 2020 7/15/201524
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The Future Of Computing NEWS FLASH: The Exaflop is coming in
2018 - 100M Cores! This power will then see basic chipsets What are
we going to do with this power? See:
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/11/16
/supercomputers-100-million-cores-coming- 2018 and the SC09
conference in Oregon http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/11/16
/supercomputers-100-million-cores-coming- 2018
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A Hard Problem Maybe - make a system that can perceive the
differing levels of humor
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Ted Tanner, Jr. [email protected] @jaxsoncreole
www.idea2bank.com www.beliefnetworks.net Finding, Not Searching
7/15/201527 Thank You For Your Time!