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Gary William Flake is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and author of the book, The Computational Beauty of Nature (MIT Press 1998), which is used in college courses worldwide. He has numerous publications spanning over 15 years which have focused on machine learning, data mining, and self-organization. His other research interests include Web measurements, efficient algorithms, models of adaptation inspired by nature, and time series forecasting. Flake received his bachelor's degree in 1989 from Clemson University, and his PhD in 1993 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He became a research scientist at NEC Research Institute in 2000 and the leader of its Web data-mining program. Dr. Flake became Overture's Chief Science Officer in 2002, and after Yahoo merged with Overture, ran Yahoo! Research Labs, its corporate research and development activities, and company-wide innovation effort, eventually becoming a vice-president.

Country or city of residence: Bellevue, Washington
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BCLS 2010 - Digital Technology - Full Length 09/23/2010 
Digital Technology: Technology as a Tool for Social Change Blouin Creative Leadership Summit September 23, 2010 Featuring Ali Velshi, Chief Business Correspondent, CNN Nathan Eagle, Founder, txteagle Dr. Gary Flake, Director, Live Labs Microsoft Dr. Jeffrey Friedberg, Chief Trust Architect, Microsoft Chris Hughes, Co-Founder, Facebook and Jumo Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist Digital technology has not only changed the way in which commerce and business is organized, it has fundamentally altered how social relations are created, maintained and carried out. With the rise of micro-blogging and collaborative writing forums such as Wikipedia, the Internet has created a space that allows for new collectives to form, based upon the generation and exchange of information and knowledge. How, then, can digital and networked technologies be used to create new forms of political and social consciousness? What new innovations are on the horizon and what impact will they have?
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Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? 02/09/2010 
Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
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