[Ottawa-pm] Another LAMP meetup at TravelPod: Feb 10

Clayton Scott clayton.scott at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 08:42:17 PST 2009


This talk actually has perl content. Please forward on to anyone else you
think might be interested.If anyone needs a ride out to the west end after
wards, I can help out there.

Talk details:

Speaker: Dr. Shahzad Khan
Topic: "Scalable techniques for large-text repositories: Google in a box
with LAMP tools"
Cost: Free

Come hear Shahzad speak, have a drink, mingle with other LAMP (PHP and Perl)
developers and entrepreneurs and check out the new TravelPod offices on the
ByWard market.

*Dr. Shahzad Khan* is a senior researcher working at DISTIL Interactive,
Ottawa, Canada. Shahzad studied computational linguistics at Cambridge
University (UK) and has extensive experience in artificial intelligence,
computational linguistics, web technologies and analytics modelling.

Shahzad is a passionate user of open source tools and has been involved with
FLOSS from the FreeBSD day (predating Linux).

Shahzad's industry experience focuses on computational modeling approaches
to understanding human learning, language, and behavior, which he continues
with his work on creating automated assessment capabilities for DISTIL's
products. Shahzad is also responsible for DISTIL's research efforts to
automate and streamline game content creation via AI based scalable
programmatic methods.

Shahzad regularly posts updates on his work at DISTIL on his blog at
textai.blogspot.com, and would welcome opportunities to collaborate with
individuals or groups working on assessment in serious games or AI based
method for content creation in meaningful games and simulations. He is also
deeply interest in sentiment analysis and user profiling techniques for
online social media.
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