Selected Presentations:

Invited Talks

Silver, D. An Overview of Inductive Transfer with Context Sensitive Neural Networks, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS, March 12, 2010.

Silver, D. IT Disconnect: High Demand / Low Supply, British Computer Society Meeting, London, UK, Feb 12, 2009.

Silver, D. Inductive Transfer and Lifelong Learning with Context Sensitive Neural Networks, Department of Computer Science, UWO, London, ON, May 26, 2008.

Silver, D.  Inductive Transfer and Lifelong Learning with Context Sensitive Neural Networks,  Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, March 6, 2008. 

Silver, D.  Inductive Transfer with Context Sensitive Neural Networks,  Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia, February, 2008. 

Silver, D.  Inductive Transfer and Lifelong Learning with Context Sensitive Neural Networks,  NRC Machine Learning and Data Mining seminar & workshop, NRC Fredericton, June 7-8, 2007. 

Silver, D. Consolidation and Transfer of Knowledge using Context Sensitive Neural Networks, Departments of Psychology and Math, Stats, and Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Nov 10, 2006.

Data Mining: An Overview, iDLab Breakfast Series. Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, May 26, 2006.

Silver, D. Data Mining: An Overview, iDLab Breakfast Series. Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, May 26, 2006.

Silver, D. Life-long Learning: Selective Inductive Bias and Knowledge Consolidation, Department of Psychology, McGill, May 21, 2004.

Silver, D. User Modeling, Identification and Adaptive Interfaces, Quarterly meeting of the Ottawa Chapter of IEE Computer Society, May 23, 2002.

Silver, D. Artificial Neural Networks, 2-part Lecture for the School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University, February, 2000.

Silver, D.  The Selective Transfer of Neural Network Task Knowledge, School of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, June, 2000.

Silver, D. Business Intelligence through Data Mining. Invited talk, Canadian Information Processing Society meeting, Halifax, January, 1999.

Other Presentations

Silver, D. IT Disconnect: High Demand / Low Supply, NS Dept. of Education Technology Supervisors Meeting, Halifax, April, 2009.

Silver, D. IT Disconnect: High Demand / Low Supply, British Computer Society Meeting, London, UK, Feb 12, 2009.

Interviewed on the EastLink cable TV program “In Conversation”, March, 2009

Silver, D. IT Disconnect: High Demand / Low Supply, Acadia Science Café, March 2, 2009. This presentation was taped by EastLink TV for their EastLink Magazine cable program

Silver, D.  Computer Science at a New Crossroads,  Administrative Talk as part of Application for the Director of the Jodrey School of Computer Science, March 23, 2006.

Silver, D.  Getting a Machine to Learn,  Technical Talk as part of Application for the Director of the Jodrey School of Computer Science, March 22, 2006.

Silver, D.  Getting a Machine to Learn, Acadia University, Science Café, October 24, 2005.

Fu, C-L. and Silver, D. 2004.  Time-Sensitive Sampling for Spam Filtering.  Presented at the Graduate Symposium, 17th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI 2004), London, Ontario, May, 2004.