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SUMMARY:Recent Advances in Information Processing - Dr. Henrique Malvar\, 
 Chief Scientist and Distinguished Engineer\, Microsoft Research
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CONTACT:Prof. Ramji Venkataramanan
DESCRIPTION:We present an overview of new technologies for signal and info
 rmation processing\, with specific emphasis on new scenarios for audio and
  visual information processing\, new user interfaces\, and speech and lang
 uage processing. Many of those technologies are a result of developments i
 n new computing architectures\, streaming data processing\, and deep neura
 l networks\, all related to the rapid growth in new technologies for the e
 fficient communication\, storage\, and analytics on big data.\n\n\n*BIO*: 
  Henrique (Rico) Malvar is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and the Chie
 f Scientist for Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1997\,
  founding a signal processing group\, which developed new technologies suc
 h as new media compression formats used in Windows\, Xbox\, and Office\, m
 icrophone array processing technologies used in Windows\, Tablet PCs\, and
  Xbox Kinect\, and others. Rico’s group also developed the first prototy
 pe of the RoundTable videoconferencing device. Rico was a key architect fo
 r the media compression formats WMA and HD Photo / JPEG XR\, and made key 
 contributions to the H.264 video format\, which todays accounts for 2/3 of
  all Internet traffic (Netflix\, YouTube\, etc.). Rico received a Ph.D. in
  EECS from MIT (1986). He has over 115 issued US patents\, and over 160 pu
 blications in scientific and technical venues. He is an IEEE Fellow and ha
 s received many awards\, including a Technical Achievement Award from the 
 IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2002\, and being elected a Member of the
  U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
LOCATION:LR5\, Department of Engineering
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