Wes Chow
Director of Engineering, Advanced Analytics, Cortico at MIT Media Lab

Wes Chow is the director of engineering in advanced analytics at Cortico and a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. He’s an advisor to Chartbeat, where he was CTO for more time than healthy. Previously, he built early infrastructure for high-frequency trading shops and led the team that created Songza Radio, which was acquired and merged into Google Music.

Sessions

2:15pm–3:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Nassau

The digital hearth: Speech-to-text for civics

Application architecture, Key skills

Secondary topics: Case Study

Wes Chow (Cortico at MIT Media Lab)

In early 2019, Cortico and the MIT Media Lab deployed the digital hearth, a device designed to stimulate in-person conversations and bridge political divides, into communities throughout the US. Wes Chow outlines the industrial design of the system, its software system for remote operation, and the speech-to-text and machine learning pipeline used to analyze hundreds of hours of speech. Read more.