Dr. Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI and professor of computer science at the University of Washington, addresses one of the Holy Grails of AI: acquiring, representing and utilizing common-sense knowledge, during a distinguished lecture series held at the Office of Naval Research.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit fighting political deepfakes. He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), having served as CEO from its inception in 2013 until late 2022. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where he helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and open information extraction. He has authored several award-winning technical papers, achieving an H-index of 100 (100 technical papers each cited over 100 times). Finally, he is a technical director of the AI2 Incubator and a Venture Partner at Madrona. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft).
Learning Common Sense: A Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research
