Eric Horvitz - Kirkland WA Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA
Assignee:
Microsoft Corp. - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 1760
US Classification:
705 9
Abstract:
Directing automated services for messaging and scheduling. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines a message to analyze. The method then determines the probability that the user would like to review a calendar or to schedule an appointment based on information in the message, based on the message, and based on the scheduling probability, selects one of the following options: (1) inaction, (2) automatic action, or (3) suggested action with user approval. Upon the method selecting either the (1) automatic action option or the (2) suggested action with user approval optionâthe latter also in conjunction with receiving actual user approvalâthe method performs a scheduling action based on the message in a manner that takes into consideration the precision and confidence of the scheduling action.
Learning By Observing A Users Activity For Enhancing The Provision Of Automated Services
Eric Horvitz - Kirkland WA Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06N 500
US Classification:
706 45, 434350, 706 12
Abstract:
Learning by observing a users activity for enhancing the provision of automated services. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines a text to analyze. The method then determines the probabilities of a users goals associated with the text based on features observed in the text, related materials, or user actions, and based on the probabilities of a users goals, selects one of the following options: (1) inaction, (2) automatic action, or (3) dialog with users about potential actions to seek a users approval. Upon the method selecting either the (1) automatic action option or the (2) dialog with user about suggested actionâthe latter also in conjunction with receiving actual user approvalâthe method performs an action based on the text. In one embodiment, the method waits a predetermined time prior to action, determined by performing a statistical regression as to the predetermined time that should be waited based on a length of each text. Furthermore, in one embodiment the action probability is determined by a text classification system, such that the system is continually trained based on each text inputted thereinto.
Contextual Models And Methods For Inferring Attention And Location
Eric J. Horvitz - Kirkland WA David O. Hovel - Bellevue WA Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA Carl M. Kadie - Bellevue WA
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 300
US Classification:
702150, 707500, 709223, 345337
Abstract:
Determination of the current context of the user, such as the users current location and attentional state, is disclosed. The determined context can be used to assist determination as to whether, when and how notifications intended for the user should be conveyed to him or her. In varying embodiments of the invention, the context is determined via one or more of: direct specification by the user; direct measurement using one or more sensors; a user-modifiable profile indicating context; one or more potentially user-modifiable rules that indicate context; and, and inferential analysis utilizing a model, such as a Bayesian network or other statistical model.
Modulating The Behavior Of An Animated Character To Reflect Beliefs Inferred About A Users Desire For Automated Services
Eric Horvitz - Kirkland WA Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 314
US Classification:
345764, 345781, 345751, 345709, 345745
Abstract:
Modulating the behavior of an agent for directing automated services such as for messaging and scheduling is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method inputs an action probability. The action probability has a location within a region corresponding to an option that in one embodiment can be one of: (1) inaction, (2) automatic action, and (3) engaging the user in a dialog about the users desire for automated action, followed by action pending receipt of user approval. The method then modulates the behavior of the agent depending on the location of the action probability within the region. In one embodiment, the region in which the action probability is located is divided into two or more sub-regions, such that the behavior of the agent is modulated based on which sub-region in which it lies. In another embodiment, a continuous function is imposed onto the region in which the probability is located, where the function yields a confidence level based on the location of the action probability within the region, such that the behavior of the agent is modulated based on this confidence level.
System And Method For Constructing And Personalizing A Universal Information Classifier
Eric J. Horvitz - Kirkland WA, US Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA, US Gregory P. Baribault - Kirkland WA, US
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F017/30
US Classification:
707 5, 707 6, 709206
Abstract:
A system and method for personalizing an information classifier is provided. The system includes a default or universal classifier that is pre-trained with features that have relatively universal discriminatory relationships for multiple people and that is operable to produce a measure that a message is classified as having one of several characteristics. The system further includes a second classifier that is constructed and personalized through via a more general search through the space of potentially discriminatory features. The second classifier, after personalization, is intended to classify information at a level exceeding that of the first classifier based on the specific preferences, habits, and desires of the user who personalizes the second classifier. The system further includes a weighting component that facilitates a combining component producing an integrated measure based on input from both the first classifier and the second classifier.
Managing Asynchronous Objects Received Over Multiple Communication Protocols
Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA, US Dominique Fortier - Snoqualmie WA, US Joseph K. Ollis - Bellevue WA, US
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
H04M 1/57 G06F 15/177
US Classification:
709200, 709217, 707 10, 34082522
Abstract:
Systems and methods for managing asynchronous object transfers over multiple wireless networks. At a device, each received object is detected and parsed to extract identifying information such as sender and object type. Each object is stored in a temporary storage without being processed by any application of the device. The user is prompted to either accept or reject each object, one at a time or all together. Each accepted object is persistently stored on the device and processed by an application that is associated with the type of object. Rejected objects are deleted from the temporary storage and are not persistently stored on the device.
Unified Object Transfer For Multiple Wireless Transfer Mechanisms
Joseph K. Ollis - Bellevue WA, US Andrew W. Jacobs - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
H04B 5/00 H04B 7/00 H04M 1/00
US Classification:
455 412, 4555521, 4555531, 455556, 455557
Abstract:
A source wireless device is capable of transmitting items over a wireless network using a number of different wireless transfer mechanism such as, for example, Infra-Red (IR) or Bluetooth. Several potential destination wireless devices may be capable of receiving the item using at least one of the different wireless transfer mechanisms. The user selects one or more destination wireless devices to send items to using a unified user interface that lists the various potential destination wireless devices. After a user selects items to transfer as well as the destination wireless device(s), the wireless transfer mechanism appropriate for transfer to each device is then automatically identified without requiring user selection of the particular wireless transfer mechanism.
Unified Object Transfer For Multiple Wireless Transfer Mechanisms
A source wireless device is capable of transmitting items over a wireless network using a number of different wireless transfer mechanism such as, for example, Infra-Red (IR) or Bluetooth. Several potential destination wireless devices may be capable of receiving the item using at least one of the different wireless transfer mechanisms. The user selects one or more destination wireless devices to send items to using a unified user interface that lists the various potential destination wireless devices. After a user selects items to transfer as well as the destination wireless device(s), the wireless transfer mechanism appropriate for transfer to each device is then automatically identified without requiring user selection of the particular wireless transfer mechanism.
Virginia Mason Medical Ctr Clin 1100 9Th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 2062236600 (Phone)
Certifications:
Hematology, 1988 Internal Medicine, 1982 Medical Oncology, 1987
Awards:
Healthgrades Honor Roll
Languages:
English
Philosophy:
Patient care is the reason I entered the field of medicine. My goal is to treat each patient with the best that modern scientific medicine can offer, together with compassion and humanity.
Education:
Medical School University College, University Of London Graduated: 1977 Medical School St Thomas West Middlesex Ho Graduated: 1978 Medical School Charing Cross Hospital Graduated: 1979 Medical School Northwick Park Hospital Graduated: 1980 Medical School Royal Marsden Hospital Graduated: 1980 Medical School Ucla School Med Graduated: 1983
St. George's Hospital Medical School - Doctor of Medicine Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center - Fellowship - Hematology and Oncology (Internal Medicine) The Royal Marsden - Residency - Internal Medicine Charing Cross Hospital - Residency - Internal Medicine
Board certifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine Certification in Internal Medicine American Board of Internal Medicine Sub-certificate in Hematology (Internal Medicine) American Board of Internal Medicine Sub-certificate in Oncology (Internal Medicine)
Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Managing Director at Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management
Location:
New York, New York
Industry:
Real Estate
Work:
Columbia Business School - Greater New York City Area since Jan 2009
Adjunct Professor
Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management - Greater New York City Area since Dec 2008
Managing Director
Angelo Gordon & Co. Aug 1998 - Dec 2008
Director
Hines Jul 1996 - Aug 1998
Project Manager
Grubb & Ellis 1990 - 1994
Analyst
Education:
Columbia Business School 1994 - 1996
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Real Estate
University of Pennsylvania 1984 - 1988
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art History, Criticism and Conservation
Skills:
Excel Customer Service Word Customer Relations PowerPoint
UC Merced since Aug 2012
Doctoral Student
Miami University Aug 2010 - Aug 2012
Master's Student
Apple Feb 2008 - Aug 2010
Creative
Apple Oct 2007 - Feb 2008
Mac Specialist
StrataMark Dynamic Solutions Sep 2001 - Oct 2007
Data analyst & translator
Education:
University of California, Merced 2012 - 2017
Miami University 2010 - 2012
Miami University 2003 - 2007
Sycamore High School 1999 - 2003
Skills:
iLife Windows Teaching LaTeX iWork OS X iPhone Mathematica C++ Python Aperture Microsoft Office
Graduate Student Teaching Award Miami University College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant American Association of Physics Teachers Undergraduate Summer Scholar Miami University Research fellowship
2014 to 2000 Project Manager, Consumer ProductsAmerican Express Company New York, NY 2010 to 2014 Team Lead, Global Supply ManagementMid-Atlantic Promotions Philadelphia, PA 2005 to 2010 Coordinator, Promotions
Education:
La Salle University Philadelphia, PA 2005 Master of Arts in Clinical-Counseling PsychologyDeSales University Center Valley, PA 2002 Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Skills:
Proficiency with Windows and Mac OS and MS Office and Adobe Creative Suites
Plaintiffs Personal Injury Automobile Accidents and Injuries Automobile Negligence Slip and Fall Motorcycle Accidents Bicycle Accidents Commercial Vehicle Liability Litigation Solo & Small Firm
ISLN:
906223312
Admitted:
1978
University:
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1975
Appeals and Critical Motions Commercial Litigation Professional Liability Litigation Financial Services Litigation
ISLN:
901145701
Admitted:
1992
University:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1989; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1989; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1989
Law School:
Harvard Law School, J.D.; Harvard Law School, J.D.
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Foundation stirs controversy by charging cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug
There isnt a member of the board of JLF who wouldnt rather be able to do this without charging people, said Andrew Jacobs, who sits on the boards of the foundation and NorRD Bio, a small Cambridge bioinformatics firm that helps make the vaccines. It really was a choice of this or nothing.
Date: Mar 04, 2023
Category: Health
Source: Google
Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About
connect us with families of people who had fallen ill, as did a Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital. But one after another withdrew. Theyve backed out, a hospital official told my colleague Andrew Jacobs when we were hours from an interview with relatives of a C. auris patient who had died.
Date: Apr 08, 2019
Category: Health
Source: Google
Candida Auris: Why This Fungus Is An Emerging Threat
The question though is how candid are healthcare facilities being about theirCandida auris problems? Not as candid as they could be, according to what Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs wrote for the New York Times. Their article described what happened after Royal Brompton Hospital in London realized
Date: Apr 07, 2019
Category: Health
Source: Google
The Daily 202: The chain of ineptitude and institutional failure that facilitated Russia's election interference
From the New York Times Andrew Jacobs: After the Chinese authorities blocked the Canadian beauty queen Anastasia Lin from attending the 65th annual Miss World pageant in China last year, the events British organizers offered her a consolation prize, of sorts: They promised to allow her a chance
Millburn High School senior, Andrew Jacobs, co-president of the club, had presented to the Millburn school board the prior night, noting the club has held a number of fundraisers to benefit veterans since 2014, when the Students Aiding Veterans and the Wounded Warriors clubs joined.
government plans to police elderly citizens who prefer to do things their own way remains to be seen, but the Chinese government could inspire a dance-led defiance from its most placid citizens. According to Andrew Jacobs, ofThe New York Times, reaction to the guidelines on the streets has been hostile.
Date: Mar 24, 2015
Category: Business
Source: Google
Strong Calls for Change on Eve of China's National Congress
As my colleague Andrew Jacobs wrote recently, re-education through labor has evolved into a sprawling extralegal system of 350 camps where more than 100,000 people toil in prison factories and on farms for up to four years. Sentences are meted out by local public security officials, and defendants
Mr. Liu is not the only one under extreme pressure, a trend examined by my colleague Andrew Jacobs in Beijing. A weightlifter sobbed on national TV that he had disgraced the motherland for only getting a silver medal. Two Chinese women were among eight badminton players expelled from the London Ga
Date: Aug 07, 2012
Category: World
Source: Google
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Bellevue College - Information Technology, Sammamish High School
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Adventure photographer and entrepreneur from the Northwest
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