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Over 400 lectures are available from more than 125 speakers with topics covering Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Mobile Computing, and dozens more.
Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Albert Bifet
Albert Bifet is Full Professor at University of Waikato in New Zealand and LTCI, Telecom Paris, IP-Paris. An author of two books on Data Streams, Bifet is one of the leaders of MOA, scikit-multiflow, Apache SAMOA and streamDM software environments for implementing algorithms and running experiments for online learning from evolving datastreams. He has served as Co-chair of the Industrial Track of IEEE MDM, ECML PKDD, KDD BigMine, and Data Streams Track of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

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- Stephen Brewster Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Stefan Bruckner Bergen, Norway
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- Laura M Haas San Jose, CA, United States
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