Great Lakes Software Symposium - November 2 - 4, 2018 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Brian Sletten

Great Lakes Software Symposium

Chicago · November 2 - 4, 2018

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Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

Presentations

Machine Learning: Overview

Machine Learning is a huge, deep field. Come get a head start on how you can learn about how machines learn.

The Decentralized Web

While the Web itself has strong decentralized aspects to how it is used, the backend technologies are largely centralized. The naming systems, the routing systems and the traffic that all points back to the same place for a website are all centralized technologies. This creates both a liability as well as a control point.

In order to break free of some of these limitations, new technologies are emerging to provide a more decentralized approach to the Web.

WebAssembly

What happens if web applications got really fast?

Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing

Documents contain a lot of information. We'll introduce you to a variety of techniques to extract them.

Machine Learning: TensorFlow

This open source machine learning framework from Google has taken off. Come learn what you can do with it in your own organization.