Publicado em: 03/06/2014

Palestra com Nélson Mattos sobre Pesquisa no Google

No dia 9 de junho, próxima segunda-feira, acontecerá a palestra intitulada “Extending People’s Capabilities – a key motivation for research at Google”, que será ministrada pelo Dr. Nélson Mendonça Mattos. O evento faz parte das comemorações dos 25 anos do INF, e acontecerá às 10h, no Anfiteatro do Instituto de Informática – prédio 67, setor IV, no Campus do Vale.

TITLE
Extending People’s Capabilities – a key motivation for research at Google

ABSTRACT
For years internet services have been extending the capabilities of people with ever growing appealing applications and services. Intelligent alerts, smart recommendations, predicting intent, etc. have become just the latest features of many such applications. I believe the combination of large user communities, powerful cloud infrastructure, and consumer platforms are making such a rapid progress feasible. At Google, these are also driving research projects across a significant number of areas. In this talk, I will give an overview of the main research areas at Google and how these are creating broad new opportunities in our field.

BIO
During his 30-year career as a technical executive, Nelson was Google’s Vice-President for Europe and Emerging Markets, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice-President for Information and User Technologies, as well as a Professor at the University of Kaiserslautern.

During his tenure at Google, he grew the engineering presence in Europe from less than 300 to more than 3000 engineers, and his team made major contributions to many Google projects including: Google Chrome, Android and Mobile products, Google+ Hangouts, privacy, child protection extensions to Search, YouTube copyright protection tools, Transit and other Google Maps features, Google Calendar, Priority Inbox for Gmail, and many more. Nelson also spearheaded Google’s efforts to bring cultural content online through the Paris-based Google’s Cultural Institute and Google’s drive to increase Internet adoption in emerging markets. Nelson has always been very passionate about making the Internet an integral part of the daily life of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East who cannot yet benefit from the use of this technology.

At IBM, Nelson created the new Information Integration business for the company driving new products to market and executing five key acquisitions worth billions of dollars. Nelson’s career with IBM also included key roles in database development where he led major language extensions to IBM’s DB2 product and drove the database standards worldwide; in this capacity, he contributed to the design of the SQL 1999 international standard through more than 300 accepted proposals.
Before his time with IBM, Nelson was an associate professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was involved in research on object-oriented and knowledge base management systems. Currently, Nelson is an independent consultant, an active member of the Board of Directors of Grameen Foundation, RBS – a large media group in Brazil, and Mobile Planet in Kenya, as well as a board member of research forums such as the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. He authors a column on technology for a large newspaper in Brazil, gives lectures, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He leverages his technical and cultural skills obtained by having lived in multiple continents and travelled extensively across the globe to help organizations create technical solutions that will have a positive impact, particularly in Emerging Markets.

Nelson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Kaiserslautern and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. He has published more than 80 papers on database management and related topics, holds 13 patents, and is the author of An Approach to Knowledge Base Management.