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Interviewer: Hi there. Welcome to

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the Future Technologies Conference

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here in Vancouver, Canada.

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With me Computer Scientist

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El Sayed Mahmoud.

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Interviewer: Hi there.

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El Sayed: Hi

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Interviewer: Tell me what research

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are you you involved in at the moment?

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El Sayed: Yeah, my current research

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focuses on machine learning.

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We are developing data analytics

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algorithms that help us develop innovative

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solutions for health and business problems.

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Interviewer: Okay. Health and business

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problems. Anything in particular?

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Can you give me one example maybe?

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El Sayed: Okay. So one of my current

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projects just promotes using

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food as medicine.

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Interviewer: Okay.

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El Sayed: In this particular project

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we are trying to use data analytics to

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extract this information from

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scientific papers.

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I mean, the type of information we are

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looking for which link the food component

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in nutrition to a specific or particular

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disease like heart attack

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or something like that.

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The ultimate goal of this project is

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to build a huge database

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which will link this useful information

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and this in future will change the way

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we treat diseases to outweigh

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the side effects of the drugs.

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Interviewer: Does that mean that if I get

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a disease, then what will happen to me

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once your research is finished?

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El Sayed: Okay, so you will, some foods

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will be recommended for you and that's all.

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Interviewer: Okay.

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El Sayed: And that is the future for medicine.

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Interviewer: Okay, so you will tell me

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JJ eat this and this and this

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and that's good for you.

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El Sayed: Yes, and we started the first

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step by preparing just a huge database

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which examines all the papers published,

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scientific papers, and approve the results

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published related to which relate

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the food components in nutrition

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to a particular health condition.

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Interviewer: Okay. And what are the challenges

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that you are facing in this research?

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El Sayed: Yeah, in this research actually

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the main challenge it's common for

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data analytics because the machine

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learning, our ultimate goal is just to

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teach the computer how to learn. That's it.

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So teaching the computer how to learn

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or extract useful information

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is not an easy task and actually this

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learning is limited by the amount of

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the available data and also it's limited

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with performance measures.

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When we measure, we need to select

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the best model which represents it.

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And my ultimate goal, I would like to

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alleve this limitation by something,

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I would like just to make it simple,

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we call it develop or derive analytic model.

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But simply that means we are trying

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to present the problem mathematically

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and find the solution in a mathematical context.

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Then this model will provide us with some

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instructions or guidelines to improve

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the robustness and scalability

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of our learning algorithms

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or provide better guidelines

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to develop this learning.

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Interviewer: Interesting and in the end you

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will make the world a more healthy place.

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Right?

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El Sayed: I hope.

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Interviewer: You hope. Okay good.

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That's what you're hoping for.

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This conference is about future technologies.

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Where do you think that technology

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will take us in the future?

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El Sayed: Based on my area, I believe

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that we are going to ultra thin smart

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phones which will be connected

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to unlimited cloud computing services,

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and within ten years I don't know if cloud

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computing will continue with the

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same name cloud computing.

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It will be something fundamental.

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Looks like right now when you use

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the computer you say I'm using the computer

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but you don't say I'm using the CPU

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because the CPU is something default,

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you don't say it.

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So it looks like cloud computing will be

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something fundamental in the future

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and I can see everything will be smart,

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flexible, optimal, robust, scalable,

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and big data has a big role in the future.

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Interviewer: Looking at this conference,

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how do you like it?

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El Sayed: I love it. Actually everything

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especially the key note speakers,

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and all the presented papers,

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they are relevant to what we are trying

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to do for the future, improve the world.

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Interviewer: Perfect. Well thank you,

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enjoy the rest of the conference.

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El Sayed: Yeah, thank you very much.

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Appreciate the effort here in the conference.

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Interviewer: Okay thank you, and if you

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would like to see more interviews like

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this, know about the research going on

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in the world, please check the website

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and you will find lots more videos.

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Thank you.

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