Chris Callison-Burch is an assistant research professor in the Computer Sciences department and John Hopkins University where his work consists of statistical machine translation, data-driven paraphrasing and evaluation metics.

Noel Dickover focuses on human performance technology including social software, communities of practice cultivation, performance centered learning, performance... [read more]

Chris Callison-Burch is an assistant research professor in the Computer Sciences department and John Hopkins University where his work consists of statistical machine translation, data-driven paraphrasing and evaluation metics.

Noel Dickover focuses on human performance technology including social software, communities of practice cultivation, performance centered learning, performance centered design, usability design, work culture transformation, and group-based facilitation. He has employed his requirements analysis expertise to design social software implementations, large scale government knowledge sharing sites and web-based training applications. He is the co-founder of CrisisCommons.

Lukas Biewald is the founder and CEO of CrowdFlower, a company that provides Labor-on-Demand to help businesses outsource high-volume, repetitive tasks to a massively-distributed global workforce. Before founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a senior scientist and manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., acquired by Microsoft in 2008.  He led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan after graduating from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. Recently, Lukas won the Netexplorateur Award for GiveWork – a collaboration with Samasource that brings digital work to refugees worldwide.  Lukas is also an expert level Go player.

The is the first time that Lukas will speak at a Meetup!