{"id":1445,"date":"2018-06-15T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:32:51","slug":"kent-academic-gives-keynote-speech-at-city-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/06\/15\/kent-academic-gives-keynote-speech-at-city-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent academic gives keynote speech at City Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer Anna Jordanous was invited to give a keynote speech to computer scientists at investment bank Credit Suisse. \u00a0The\u00a0Credit Suisse IT Expo was themed around &#8216;AI &amp; Robotics&#8217; which ties in with Anna&#8217;s area of expertise, which is computational creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Anna was selected alongside speakers from the machine learning and artificial intelligence fields. One of the speakers was a former student Toby Leheup who works for Credit Suisse in the Semantic Technology, Analytics &amp; Machine Intelligence team. Toby graduated from Kent in 2016 with a First in BSc\u00a0Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) with a Year in Industry. He went to work for Credit Suisse after graduating, and he had also done a summer placement year with the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Anna said; &#8216;I am obviously delighted to be able to showcase my research with professionals in industry, but it is even more rewarding to be able to share the platform with a graduate who is making his mark in computer science.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer Anna Jordanous was invited to give a keynote speech to computer scientists at investment bank Credit Suisse. \u00a0The\u00a0Credit Suisse IT Expo was themed around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/06\/15\/kent-academic-gives-keynote-speech-at-city-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178041,124],"tags":[807,112409,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}