IST Austria Lecture "Computational thinking, inferential thinking & data science" by Michael Jordan

On November 8, 2017, Michael I. Jordan, one of the world's most influential computer scientists working on machine learning, statistics and artificial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, gave his IST Lecture "On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science". According to him, the rapid growth in the size and scope of datasets in science and technology has created a need for novel foundational perspectives on data analysis that blend the inferential and computational sciences. In his lecture he presented several research vignettes aimed at bridging computation and statistics, including the problem of inference under privacy and communication constraints, and including a surprising cameo role for symplectic geometry.