Date: 2009-02-18 Category: Events

Speech and Language Technologies in the Clouds
Challenges and Opportunities from Cloud Computing

Tuesday 3rd March
6.00pm 8.00pm Doors open 5.30pm for refreshments

Technium CAST
Parc Menai
Bangor
LL64 4HJ

Guest speaker: Dewi Jones from the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University

There are a confusing number of definitions for ’Cloud Computing’, some use ’cloud’ as a metaphor for the internet as an abstraction of complex infrastructure that it conceals. The cloud incorporates many recent software technology trends and buzzwords such as Software as a Service SaaS and ’Web 2.0’ even Web 3.0 in which a common theme is reliance on the Internet rather than the personal computer for satisfying the computing needs of users. This approach to delivery of applications and data storage has its fans and critics.

Dewi will present the challenges and opportunities cloud computing could have in store for their speech and language technologies research and development work at Bangor. Demonstrations of experimental web based applications, developed at the Unit, will be used as a basis for illustration and discussion.

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