Nationality American Name Catherine Havasi | Influenced by Marvin Minsky | |
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Fields Computer scienceArtificial intelligence Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.B., 2003)(M.Eng, 2004)Brandeis University (Ph.D, 2009) Thesis Discovering Semantic Relations Using Singular Value Decomposition (2009) | ||
Building common sense from scratch
Catherine Havasi (born 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab. She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso. Havasi co-created MIT’s Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and led the MIT team that created the natural language AI programme ConceptNet. Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.
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- Building common sense from scratch
- Catherine havasi i love big data at ignitesxsw 2015
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Catherine havasi i love big data at ignitesxsw 2015
Early life and education
Catherine Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence and how the brain works from an early age after reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind. Havasi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied under Minsky. She became involved in the MIT Media Lab while still an undergraduate. She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University.
Career
In 1999, Havasi became involved in Open Mind Common Sense as cofounder with Marvin Minsky and Push Singh, also serving as its director. Havasi then led a team at MIT Media Lab to create ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.
In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company to build on the work of ConceptNet. The company has raised $8 million in financing. Luminoso clients include Sony, REI, Intel, Autodesk and Scotts.
Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014.
She is co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on AI and language.