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SUMMARY:Building location-based services - Salvatore Scellato\, Senior Sof
 tware Engineer\, Google
DTSTART:20151021T121500Z
DTEND:20151021T131500Z
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CONTACT:Jan Samols
DESCRIPTION:In the age of ubiquitous mobile devices with increasing comput
 ation power and sensing capabilities\, location-based apps and services ar
 e still facing many hurdles to accurately and truthfully understand where 
 the user is. Solving this problem requires a multidimensional approach tha
 t spans the entire technological stack\, from mobile sensors and hardware 
 enhancements to large-scale data processing and machine intelligence.\n\nT
 his talk will cover the technological challenges characterising the proces
 s of precisely locating a device\, understanding the semantics associated 
 with a location\, and gaining insights about how users move around and exp
 erience the world.\n\nBiography\n\nSalvatore is a Senior Software Engineer
  at Google\, where he leads mobile projects related to location inference 
 and context-awareness\, contributing to products with millions of users.\n
 \nSalvatore completed his PhD in 2012 in the Network and Operating Systems
  group at the Computer Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. His main
  research interests include online social networks\, location-based servic
 es\, human mobility modelling and related software systems. During his PhD
  he published in the fields of data mining\, online social systems and use
 r behaviour modelling.  Salvatore was also a research intern at Google\, a
 nd he joined the company full-time soon after completing his PhD.\n
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory
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