PRAGUE and MUNICH, Jan. 15,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in
digital security products, today announced that Garry Kasparov,
Chess Grandmaster, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation in
New York and Avast Security
Ambassador, and Michal Pechoucek, Chief Technology Officer at
Avast, and Director of the AI Center at the Czech Technical
University, will discuss the risks and opportunities of AI on the
"Bavaria" stage at the annual Digital Life Design (DLD) Conference
in Munich, Germany. The talk
titled "What does AI add to our lives?" will take place on
January 20 at 1:20 p.m. CET and will also demonstrate how AI
can be used to thwart cyberattacks.
Artificial Intelligence is today increasingly applied in
critical areas such as medicine and across industries including
automotive and manufacturing, but it also raises questions: Which
jobs are machines taking from humans? What advantages will humans
continue to have over AI algorithms? In conversation with Michal
Pechoucek, Garry Kasparov will address these questions and discuss
the role of AI in our society in the future.
On January 19th at 5:00 p.m. CET, Garry Kasparov will also play
chess with ten selected participants of the conference
simultaneously.
About Garry Kasparov, Avast Security Ambassador
Garry
Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history in
1985 and was the world's top-rated player for 20 years. He first
discovered the potential of AI during his famous matches against
the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. Ever since, he's spoken about
future tech, most recently as Avast's security ambassador. His
matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov and Deep Blue popularized
chess and machine intelligence in unprecedented ways.
About Michal Pechoucek, CTO at Avast
Michal Pechoucek
joined Avast as CTO in September
2019. Mr. Pechoucek leads the core technology and R&D
organization at Avast. He is also responsible for the company's
scientific research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence,
machine learning, and cybersecurity. Before joining Avast, Mr.
Pechoucek spent over twenty years as a professor at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in
Prague, during which time he led
the Department of Computer Science and founded the Artificial
Intelligence Center in 2001. Mr. Pechoucek has authored more than
400 high impact publications and contributed numerous innovative AI
applications to research in computer science. He also started and
successfully exited several startups in the field of Artificial
Intelligence.
About Avast
Avast (LSE: AVST) is a global leader in
digital security products. With over 400 million users online,
Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands that protect
people from threats on the internet and the evolving IoT threat
landscape. The company's threat detection network is among the most
advanced in the world, using machine learning and artificial
intelligence technologies to detect and stop threats in real time.
Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are
top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, SE
Labs and others. Visit: www.avast.com.
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