In his talk, distinguished engineer shares his take on the question "Can we use artificial intelligence to improve education?" From the 84 billion neurons in human brains to the Netflix suggestion algorithm, Dan McCreary exemplifies the benefits of AI in education. Dan McCreary is an author, speaker, and evangelist for graph technologies. As a Distinguished Engineer at Optum, he works with business units within United Healthcare (Fortune 6) to evaluate and integrate advanced technologies including AI, Graph, and NoSQL into their digital ecosystem. Dan McCreary is an author, speaker, and evangelist for graph technologies. As a Distinguished Engineer at Optum, he works with business units within United Healthcare (Fortune 6) to evaluate and integrate advanced technologies including AI, Graph, and NoSQL into their digital ecosystem.
Dan has a solid background and understanding of solution architecture. He has worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT Computer, at Bell Labs as an integrated circuit designer and as the owner of Integrity Solutions, a consulting firm of over 70 employees. He has expertise in NLP, US federal data integration (NIEM), XML standards, taxonomy and ontology development, and semantic search.
He is the co-author of "Making Sense of NoSQL" and was the co-founder of DATAVERSITY's NoSQL Now! series of conferences. His current research is helping organizations evaluate the cost-effectiveness of migrating from relational to graph databases. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx