Brian Sletten
Brian Sletten is a renowned consultant, speaker and software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He provides advice and practical solutions for organizations interested in adopting disruptive technologies and concepts to their development and management.
Brian has recently been at Devoxx, ÜberConf and NFJS, speaking about an exciting new binary format for fast cross-platform implementation, called WebAssembly.
He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting, and more, and has trained close to 3000 people on machine learning Worldwide. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording Career.
Brian is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He is the President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc., a professional services company focused on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA.
Brian tweets regularly from @bsletten
Talks I've Given
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Keynote: AI, Natural Stupidity and Swimming Submarines
Featuring Brian Sletten
There are two sides to the Artificial Intelligence of our imaginations. While we dream of the ways AI will free and enrich us, from a different perspective we see Damocles’ sword hanging tenuously over us. The excitement of the Possibility is counterbalanced by the existential Dread of Humanity’s...
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TensorFlow.js : Bringing ML into the Browser?
Featuring Brian Sletten
The numerics of machine learning seem like the least likely thing you would expect to run in a browser. The recently-released TensorFlow.js will provide exactly that, however. This Javascript implementation of the TensorFlow APIs is backed by GPU-accelerated WebGL and the optimizations available...
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WebAssembly: The Web Will Eat Your Desktop
Featuring Brian Sletten
Don't miss the inaugural Architecture Matters event where we're joined by Brian Sletten, who'll be telling us more about WebAssembly!
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Machine Learning and NLP
Featuring Brian Sletten
Machine Learning techniques are useful for analyzing numeric data, but they can also be useful for classifying text, extracting content and more.
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CUDA, OpenCL and the GPGPU Revolution
Featuring Brian Sletten
The most basic introduction to computers spells it out: software runs on the CPU. At some point, this became not entirely true. Graphics cards now support general purpose computing via apis such as CUDA and OpenCL. This talk will introduce you to how and why you can take advantage of these...
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Resource-Oriented Architecture Patterns for Webs of Data
Featuring Brian Sletten
Want to delve deeper into the array of solutions provided by resource-oriented architecture? Then join Brian Sletten as we explore the developments and subtleties of this increasingly popular field.
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Resource-Oriented Architecture Patterns for Webs of Data
Featuring Brian Sletten
Want to delve deeper into the array of solutions provided by resource-oriented architecture? Then join Brian Sletten as we explore the developments and subtleties of this increasingly popular field.
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REST Security - REMOTE SESSION
Featuring Brian Sletten
This talk will now be streamed by video at Skills Matter - join us to directly ask Brian your questions
In this final talk of Brian Sletten's "Brain Blitz" series, Brian will start with the basics of REST security but moves quickly into real strategies for modern defense-in-depth...
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Information Resources: Moving Beyond Objects (Part 2)
Featuring Brian Sletten
This is part 2 of Brian Sletten's tutorial. We explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do...
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Information Resources : Moving Beyond Objects
Featuring Brian Sletten
In this session, we will explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do amazingly powerful things with...
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Testing REST with BDD
Featuring Brian Sletten
In this first talk of Brian Sletten's "Brain Blitz" series, Brian highlights the problems of sufficiently testing REST APIs while providing a rich and relatively straight-forward solution to the problem. We will use a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool like Cucumber to establish...
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REST: Beyond the Basics
Featuring Brian Sletten
In this intermediate level talk, Semantic Web and scalable systems expert Brian Sletten will take you beyond the basics of REST into security, Hypermedia-driven Representation design, and versioning of RESTful services.
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RDFA : Weaving Richness and Meaning in the Web
Featuring Brian Sletten
The human web is reasonably well in hand by now. We are getting pretty good at building systems that people find valuable and entertaining. We have not spent as much time concerned about our software friends.
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