RLE IMMERSION SERIES TALK: Recent Advances in Information Processing

Speaker: Dr. Henrique (Rico) Malvar , Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research

Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Refreshments: 5:00 PM

Public: Yes

Location: 34-101

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Host: RLE, MIT

Contact: Tricia O'Donnell, 617.253.2297 , Tricia O'Donnell <tricia@MIT.EDU>

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Reminder Subject: TALK: Recent Advances in Information Processing, RLE IMMERSION: INFORMATION SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS

RLE IMMERSION: INFORMATION SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS

Recent Advances in Information Processing

Abstract:
We present an overview of new technologies for signal and information processing, with specific emphasis on new scenarios for data compression, visual information processing, new user interfaces, and speech and language processing. Many of those technologies are a result of developments in new computing architectures, streaming data processing, and deep neural networks, all related to the rapid growth in new technologies for the efficient communication, storage, and analytics on big data.

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Henrique (Rico) Malvar is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Scientist for Microsoft Research. He was born and raised in Brazil. Before moving to industry in 1994, he was a professor of electrical engineering at University of Brasília, Brazil. When he joined Microsoft in 1997, Rico started a signal processing group, which developed new technologies such as new media compression formats used in Windows, Xbox, and Office, microphone array processing technologies used in Windows, Tablet PCs, and Xbox Kinect, as well as machine learning technologies for music identification in Windows Media, junk mail filtering in Exchange, and others. The group also developed the first prototype of the RoundTable videoconferencing device. Rico was a key architect for the several media compression formats, such as WMA and HDPhoto/JPEG XR, and made key contributions to the popular video format H.264, used by YouTube, Netflix, Adobe Flash, digital TV, and many other applications. Rico received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. His technical interests include multimedia signal compression and enhancement, fast algorithms, multi-rate filter banks, and multi-resolution and wavelet transforms. He has over 160 publications and over 115 issued patents in those areas. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Marconi International Fellowship in 1981, was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in 1997, received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2002, and was elected a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2012.

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