Kristian Hammond presented at O'Reilly Strata Conference in London on the 1st of October on the topic of "Transparency Transformed: From Data to Insight," and he will be at Strata NY to present "Mainstream Big Data Through Storytelling" on October 23rd. Read more: Strata London | Strata NY.
Kristian Hammond one of the founders and CTO of Narrative Science, a company focused on the automatic generation of stories and related content based upon data. On leave from the Department EECS at Northwestern University, he is a researcher in the areas of human-machine interaction, context-driven information systems and artificial intelligence. After completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Yale University in 1986, Dr. Hammond founded The University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1998, Dr. Hammond moved to Northwestern University to form Northwestern’s Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab) and began focusing on the generation of narratives based on search and data analytics. In 2010 he founded Narrative Science with Larry Birnbaum and Stuart Frankel and went on leave in 2011 to help guide the development of the technology into products that are transforming the way in which data is understood and content is generated.
