{"462091":{"#nid":"462091","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Cognitive Systems Seminar Series: Dr. Guruduth Banavar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Guruduth Banavar is Vice President of Cognitive Computing at IBM Research, responsible for the next generation of cognitive\/AI systems known as Watson \u2013 these are systems that learn, reason, and interact naturally with people. Guru has worked across IBM\u2019s businesses to co-innovate with clients in multiple industries, for example, to build a City Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro. Guru has also served on high-level boards, such as NY Governor Cuomo\u2019s commission for improving New York State\u2019s resilience to natural disasters after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and other int\u2019l media, and he received a 2009 National Innovation Award by the President of India for the Spoken Web project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, see \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ibm.biz\/GuruduthBanavar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/ibm.biz\/GuruduthBanavar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the first talk of the Georgia Tech Cognitive Systems Seminar Series, Dr. Guruduth Banavar of IBM will discuss Next Generation Cognitive Systems."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-10-23 16:33:56","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:51","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-06T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-06T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-06T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-06 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-06 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-06 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"462101":{"id":"462101","type":"image","title":"Dr. Guruduth Banavar","body":null,"created":"1449256373","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:53","changed":"1475895206","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:26","alt":"Dr. Guruduth Banavar","file":{"fid":"203626","name":"guruduth.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/guruduth.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/guruduth.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5195,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/guruduth.jpg?itok=QJ_VfMMa"}}},"media_ids":["462101"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}