talk: Ophir Frieder on Collective Intelligence, Noon Wed 11/13

UMBC Information Systems Department
Distinguished Lecture for the Fall

Collective Intelligence

Dr. Ophir Frieder

Georgetown University

12:00-1:00pm Wednesday, 13 November, ITE 456

Collective Intelligence is group intelligence generated by the collaboration of many individuals. However, such intelligence is only as powerful as one’s ability to digest it. Thus, after describing two recent efforts, the first focusing on early disease detection using microblogs and the second focusing on collaborative tag labeling. Potentially, I will likewise describe an older effort that effectively integrates information and comment on its potential for the future.

Ophir Frieder holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Computer Science and Information Processing and is Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is also Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics in the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.