Dr. John R. Smith is an IBM Fellow at IBM Research. He leads Discovery Technology Foundations as part of Accelerated Discovery.
Dr. John R. Smith received his B.S., M.S., M. Phil, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He has authored several hundreds of articles at top conferences and journal and is an inventor of over 100 United States patents.
Recent activities:
2021
- Dr. Smith participated on the SIA America 'Future Forward: Frontiers in AI and Machine Learning Research and Innovation' panel on July 23, 2021 (video).
2020
2019
2018:
2017:
- Dr. Smith gave a lecture on 'Industry Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Comprehension' as part of the 2017-2018 Columbia University Computer Science Distinguished Lecture series on Oct. 23, 2017.
- Dr. Smith gave a keynote talk on 'AI Challenges and Opportunities for Image and Video Understanding' at IBM Research | Brasil Colloquium 2017 on “Inteligência Artificial” on Oct. 10, 2017.
- Dr. Smith gave a talk on 'Augmented Creativity' at the IJCAI-17 AI Festival event on Creative Machines at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) on Aug. 25, 2017.
- Dr. Smith gave an invited talk at the IJCAI-17 Industry Day in Melbourne, Australia on Aug. 25, 2017.
- Dr. Smith gave an invited presentation at the Tech Open Air (TOA) Conference on July 13, 2017 (video).
- Dr. Smith participated on a panel moderated by Steve Lohr on 'The Future of Augmented Intelligence' at the World Science Festival in New York City on June 3, 2017.
- Dr. Smith presented 'Opportunities to Improve Our Lives leveraging Visual Recognition at Scale' at the LDV Vision Summit in New York City on May 25, 2017.
- Dr. Smith presented an invited talk on 'Can AI be Creative?' at the Institute of Communications Agencies in Canada (ICA) FutureFlash conference on May 17, 2017.
- Dr. Smith gave a Tribeca Lounge Talk on 'The Quest for AI and Creativity' at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017.
- Dr. Smith presented a plenary talk on 'New Challenges and Opportunities for Image Analysis in Healthcare' at IEEE Intl. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017 in April 2017.
- Dr. Smith presented an invited talk on 'Can artificial intelligence be creative?' at CPH – Art, Technology & Change at the CPH documentary film festival in March 2017.
- Dr. Smith participated on a panel on 'Convergence of VR and AI' at the MIT Tech Conference in February 2017.
2016:
Prior:
- 4th Multimedia and Vision Meeting in Greater New York Area, October 2014
- 3rd Multimedia and Vision Meeting in Greater New York Area, June 2013
- 2nd Multimedia and Vision Meeting in Greater New York Area, June 2012
- 1st Multimedia and Vision Meeting in Greater New York Area, February 2012
Editor-in-Chief articles for IEEE MultiMedia (2010 - 2014):
- 'How Many Visual Concepts?', January-March 2014 (vol. 21 no. 1).
- 'Herding Cats', October-December 2013 (vol. 20 no. 4).
- 'Lessons in Learning', July-September 2013 (vol. 20 no. 3).
- 'Reconstructing Events', April-June 2013 (vol. 20 no. 2).
- 'Just the Facets', January-March 2013 (vol. 20 no. 1).
- 'Problems Gone By', October-December 2012 (vol. 19 no. 4).
- 'Rich Media, Poor Media', July-Sept 2012(vol. 19 no. 3).
- 'A Virtual Opinion', April-June 2012 (vol. 19 no. 2).
- 'Minding the Gap', January-March 2012 (vol. 19 no. 1).
- 'Open Channel for News', Oct.-Dec. 2011 (vol. 18 no. 4).
- 'History Made Everyday', July-Sept. 2011 (vol. 18 no. 3).
- 'A Great Challenge', April-June 2011 (vol. 18 no. 2).
- 'Express Yourself', January-March 2011 (vol. 18 no. 1).
- 'Clicking on Things', October-Dec. 2010 (vol. 17 no. 4).
- 'The Not So Newlywed Game', July-Sept. 2010 (vol. 17 no. 3).
- 'The Red Balloon', April 2010 (vol. 17 no. 2).
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