Dr. Olukotun is a Stanford Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. His talk on the impact of machine learning included:
- Recent advances in image recognition, natural language processing, planning, and knowledge base construction
- Society-scale impact: autonomous vehicles, personalized medicine, and personalized recommendations
- How developing high-quality machine learning applications requires deep knowledge, custom tools and high-performance computing
