Shlomo Argamon
Shlomo Argamon (born 1967) is an American/Israeli computer scientist and forensic linguist. He is the associate provost for artificial intelligence and professor of computer science at Touro University.
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[edit]AI in Action: Shlomo Engelson Argamon of Touro University on Real-World Everyday Applications
[edit]AI in Daily Life: Insights from Shlomo Engelson Argamon of Touro University
- I grew up as a science and math nerd.
- I discovered a love of computing in high school, when personal computing was still fairly new the early 80s.
- The idea that computers could be programmed to lead to intelligence, as in the robots in the science fiction I enjoyed.
- I fell in love with the field of artificial intelligence as an undergraduate in applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon.
- I aimed at a research career and did my doctorate researching machine learning for mobile robots under the late brilliant Drew McDermott at Yale.
- I switched research directions towards natural language processing, using computers to understand human language.
- I discovered a love of integrating the precise and mathematical in computing with the personal and meaningful in language.
- The breadth of the field, combining math, computing, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and more, is what has kept me in it for decades.
- I saw the growing interest in data science as a distinct field, and proposed to the Illinois Tech university leadership.
- I recruited collaborators, led the development of a curriculum, and shepherded the proposal through a gauntlet of curriculum committees.
- I discovered a love for designing and implementing processes the help people learn and perform, and for building effective teams to address complex problems.
- Early in my work on using computers to analyze authorship figuring out who wrote a document based on the wording and grammar.
- My colleagues and I looked at the classic case of Shakespeare we looked at a play for which scholars disputed whether Shakespeare or his contemporary Christopher Marlowe wrote or if they each wrote different parts of it.
- To our great surprise and excitement, our results showed unequivocally that Marlowe had written the entire play.
For Data Scientists, Math Alone Isn’t Sufficient
[edit]Math Skills Alone Don’t Suffice for Data Scientists
- We want to produce well rounded data scientists.
- We are talking to people in industry who want to do adjunct teaching for some courses that are down to earth.
- Students coming in for a data scientist course are not looking for a real narrow technical focus but a broader in interdisciplinary approach.
- They may still not understand it involves learning to talk with people who are not technical.
- I hope they will learn how important these skills can be.
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