Raj Reddy speaks on "The Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Problems in Data Mining and Discovery"

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Computer Science & Engineering
Distinguished Lecture Series

Raj Reddy
 Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor
Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon
 

?The Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Problems in
Data Mining And Discovery?

 

Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Time:   11:00 ? 12:15
Place:  BYAC 210

Abstract
 

The goal of the Universal Digital Library and the Million Book Project is
to create a universal, free to read, digital library containing all the
books ever published. Unfortunately many of these will be in English and
inaccessible to over 80% of the world's population.  Even when books
in other languages become available online, their content will remain
incomprehensible to most people.  Natural Language Processing
Technology is not yet perfect but promises to provide a way out of this
conundrum.  In this talk, we will discuss some of the special and
unique research problems in data discovery that arise digital libraries
and other online content such as multi-lingual search, translation and
summarization.

Bio

Dr. Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer
Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/FrontDoor.html at Carnegie Mellon
University

http://www.cmu.edu/. He began his academic career as an
Assistant Professor at Stanford in 1966. He has been a member of the
Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1969. He served as the founding Director of
the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of
Computer Science from 1991 to 1999.
 
Dr. Reddy's research interests include the study of human-computer
interaction and artificial intelligence. His current research projects
include Million Book Digital Library Project; PCtvt: an Information
Appliance for rural environments (PC, TV, PVR, Video Phone, Audio Phone
all in one) for use by illiterate people; FTTV: Fiber To The Village
Project; Mobile Autonomous Robots; and Learning by Doing.
 
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering

http://www.nae.edu/ and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences

http://minerva.amacad.org/. He was president of the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence

http://www.aaai.org/ from 1987 to 89. Dr. Reddy was awarded
the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand of France in 1984. He was
awarded the ACM

http://www.acm.org/ Turing Award

http://www.acm.org/awards/turing/ in
1994, the Okawa Prize

http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/oka/
index.html  in 2004, and the Honda Prize

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/hf/eng/index.html  in 2005. He
served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory
Committee (PITAC

http://www.ccic.gov/ac/ from 1999 to 2001.