<div dir="ltr">There is a live hangout  with Andrew Ng happening now!<div>Please join! Great chance to ask him questions and interact.</div><div> <span class=""> <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c55iio9rmb6r8m0vcl3tuk5qpjs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/events/c55iio9rmb6r8m0vcl3tuk5qpjs</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Here is his short bio:</div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><i><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Andrew Ng</span> researches primarily in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning" title="Machine learning" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">machine learning</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning" title="Deep learning" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">deep learning</a>. His early work includes the Stanford Autonomous Helicopter project, which developed one of the most capable autonomous helicopters in the world,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-2" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-3" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[3]</a></sup> and the STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) project,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-4" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[4]</a></sup> which resulted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROS_(Robot_Operating_System)" title="ROS (Robot Operating System)" class="" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">ROS</a>, a widely used <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software" title="Open source software" class="" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">open-source</a> robotics software platform.</font></i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><i><font size="1">Ng is also the author or co-author of over 100 published papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields, and some of his work in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision" title="Computer vision" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">computer vision</a> has been featured in a series of press releases and reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-5" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[5]</a></sup> In 2008, he was named to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">MIT</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Review" title="Technology Review" class="" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Technology Review</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR35" title="TR35" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">TR35</a> as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-6" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-7" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[7]</a></sup> In 2007, Ng was awarded a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Fellowship" title="Sloan Fellowship" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Sloan Fellowship</a>. For his work in Artificial Intelligence, he is also a recipient of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJCAI_Computers_and_Thought_Award" title="IJCAI Computers and Thought Award" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Computers and Thought Award</a>.</font></i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><i><font size="1"><br></font></i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><i><font size="1">On May 16, 2014, Ng announced from his Coursera blog that he would be stepping away from his day-to-day responsibilities at Coursera, and join <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu" title="Baidu" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">Baidu</a> as Chief Scientist, working on deep learning.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="" style="line-height:1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng#cite_note-8" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">[8]</a></sup></font></i></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px"><font size="1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng</a></font></span><br></p><div><br></div><div>Cheers. Sorry for the spam.</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Saiph Savage<br><br><br></div>
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