On April 11 at 12:15 p.m. Dr. Collin Cherry will give a keynote talk entitled “Making sense of Language Models and Large Language Models”, part of the University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science (UWORCS) annual conference.

“Dr. Colin Cherry will give a high-level tour of the history of language modeling, from humble beginnings in information theory to the development of the various techniques that eventually allowed the crucial addition of the word “large,” and closing with some of the recent discoveries that have helped create the flexible conversationalist we know today.” Details via Western Events Calendar: http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/science/2023-04/uworcs-2023-keynote-speaker.html

Dr. Colin Cherry is a Research Scientist at Google Montreal, working with Translate. Full details/brief speaker bio: https://www.csd.uwo.ca/conf/UWORCS/2023/#keynote

“University of Western Ontario Research in Computer Science (UWORCS) is the annual Computer Science conference organized by graduate students to provide graduate and senior undergraduate students an opportunity to present their research in front of a friendly audience of peers and faculty members,” according to Andrew Bloch-Hansen, UWORCS Chair. Details via UWORCS: https://www.csd.uwo.ca/conf/UWORCS/2023/