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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title>/dev/pasky</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:pasky@ucw.cz" /> <link rel="stylesheet" title="Default" href="main.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <!-- This looks ugly when we cannot center the tile grid. <p class="citat"> “Those who would give up<br /> a little freedom for a little safety<br /> deserve neither freedom nor safety.”<br /> - - Benjamin Franklin </p>--> <h1 class="myname">Petr Baudi拧 <span class="mymail">pasky@ucw.cz</p></h1> <br clear="all" /> <!-- Huh, it seems we cannot use :after { clear: both; } instead due to MSIE. --> <div class="tiles"> <div class="tile"><h2>Person</h2> <img class="myphoto" src="me_2008-08-25-cut-253x300.jpg" /> <p>I am a pro­gram­mer and Compu­ter Sci­ence rese­archer, stron­gly rooted in the open source hacker culture. My focus is Arti­ficial Intel­ligence and Linux sys­tem program­ming. As another hobby, I enjoy messing with digital cir­cuits and I like the game of Go. I also like Doing Things Right™. <!--and dis­like Ordi­narity.--></p> <p class="signpost"> <a href="http://log.or.cz/">Blog</a> <a href="cv/">CV</a> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>Rossum</h2> <!-- <p>I offer professional services as consulting programmer. I pro­vide <strong>expert consulting</strong> in my focus areas (ML and NLP, Linux, HPC, Git and such).<br/> I am available for cont­rac­tual <strong>pro­gram­ming</strong> work, and offer <strong>training</strong> in UNIX and Linux pro­gram­ming, Git version control and open­source deve­lopment.</p> --> <p>I'm the co-founder of <b>Rossum</b>, a London / Prague startup providing a leading solution for <b>Cognitive Data Capture from Docu­ments</b> using bleeding edge computer vision AI.</p> <p>Before, we co-founded <b>Ailao</b>, a Prague AI company working on <b>user-friendly machine learning on unstructured data</b> like images and documents.</p> <!-- <p><a href="https://www.winwinjob.cz/petr-baudis/214/#job">Would you like to work with me? [CZ]</a></p> --> <p class="signpost"> <a href="http://rossum.ai/">Rossum</a> <a href="http://ailao.eu/">Ailao</a> <a href="http://vize.it/">vize.it</a> <!--<a href="pro/">Details</a> <a href="help/">Get help</a>--> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>Research</h2> <p>My current main research focus is <!-- <strong>Artificial Intelligence,</strong> in par­ti­cular --> <strong>Information Extraction</strong> (from natural language data) and <strong>Ma­chi­ne Learn­ing</strong>. I have cre­ated the <strong><a href="http://ailao.eu/yodaqa/">YodaQA</a> qu­est­ion ans­wer­ing system</strong> (think IBM Watson DeepQA) and the <a href="https://github.com/brmson/dataset-sts">dataset-sts</a> framework for <b>processing sentences with neural networks</b>.<br/> <!-- Monte Carlo Tree Search, Algorithm Portfolios and advan­ced Machine Learning methods. --> I am also the main author of the world-class Go playing program <a href="http://pachi.or.cz/">Pachi</a>, and did some work in conti­nuous black­-box op­timi­za­tion.<!--; my goal is for it to reach pro­fes­sional stre­ngth in 19×19 Go. In the past, I have been digging into version control a bit too.--></p> <!--<p class="signpost"> <a href="TODO">Publications</a> </p>--> <p class="signpost"> <a href="http://ailao.eu/yodaqa/">YodaQA</a> <a href="go/">Go</a> <a href="https://scholar.google.cz/citations?hl=en&user=j9OlBw0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works">Papers</a> <a href="sci/">(misc)</a> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>Portfolio</h2> <p>I have contributed to my fair share of open source projects; most notably, I have been wor­king on <a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a>, <a href="http://elinks.cz/">ELinks</a> and <a href="http://sourceware.org/glibc/">glibc</a>. Almost all my personal pet projects are open source too. I have also conjured up a couple of web services, did not shy away from some reverse engineering and done a wide variety of consulting work.</p> <p class="signpost"> <a href="dev/">Projects</a> <a href="pres/">Talks</a> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>Teaching</h2> <p>For quite a few years, I have been teaching a variety of courses (mostly related to UNIX, high performance computing and AI) at the Charles University; I also taught at the Czech Technical University.</p> <p class="signpost"> <a href="vyuka/">Courses (CS)</a> <a href="http://www.root.cz/skoleni/zaklady-skriptovani-v-shellu/">Training (CS)</a> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>Hobby Hacking</h2> <p>I am <a href="https://brmlab.cz/user/pasky">quite involved</a> with <a href="http://brmlab.cz/">the Prague hackerspace</a>. I work on most of my hobby projects there, mostly invol­ving some hardware and micro­control­lers. Doors, robots, scientific experiment apparata, sensors, com­plex LED control, you name it!</p> <p>That said, building <a href="https://rossum.ai/">Rossum</a> is taking most of my energy and time nowadays.</p> <p class="signpost"> <a href="http://brmlab.cz/">brmlab</a> </p> </div> <div class="tile"><h2>More Stuff</h2> <ul> <li><a href="mailto:pasky@ucw.cz">pasky@ucw.cz</a></li> <li><a href="pubkey.txt">PGP</a>, <a href="sshkey.txt">SSH</a> public keys</li> <li><a href="geek-code.txt">Geek Code</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?key=14674506">Go Player</a></li> </ul> <hr class="short" /> <ul> <li><a href="vimrc">.vimrc</a>, <a href="muttrc">.muttrc</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/pasky/">Social net­works?</a> <li><a href="anime/"><em>Good</em> Anime</a></li> <li><a href="denik/">膶ten谩艡sk媒 den铆k (CS)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-0.50&soc=-5.08">Political Compass</a></li> <!--<li><a href="TODO">Quotes</a></li>--> <li><a href="cp/">Junk Dir</a></li> </ul> </div> <!-- <div class="tile"><h2>This Page</h2> <p>Please note that as of Jun 2 2011, this page is still in deve­lop­ment. I plan to expand details on my projects and research pub­li­ca­tions so far. Also, the teaching sub­pages use a dif­fe­rent theme. The kind reader is asked for pati­ence and tole­rance.</p> </div> --> <br clear="all" /> </div> </body> </html>