The Gerard Salton Lecture Series

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This lecture series honors our former colleague with speakers who similarly are innovators in their fields. It is brought to you with the support of Amit Singhal, PhD '97.

Gerard Salton (1927- 1995)

A towering figure in the field of information retrieval, Gerard Salton synthesized ideas from mathematics, statistics, and natural language processing to create a scientific basis for extracting semantics from word frequency. The impact of his contribution is profound - five textbooks, over 150 research papers, and dozens of Ph.D. students. The modern information science research scene, with its terabyte databases, Web, and related technologies, owes a great deal to Gerry's pioneering efforts.

Past Events

09.08.16 4:15pm

Unsupervised Learning: The Next Frontier in AI

Salton Speaker: Yann LeCun, Facebook/NYU

Host: Bart Selman

09.15.16 4:15pm

Optimization and Small Data: Still Interesting After All These Years?

Speaker: Margaret Wright, NYU

Host: David Bindel

All lectures are presented in G01 Gates Hall, Cornell University.

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