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Dr. Shahzad Khan is a senior researcher working at DISTIL Interactive, Ottawa, Canada. Shahzad studied computational linguistics at Cambridge University (UK) and has extensive experience in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, web technologies and analytics modelling.

In this talk, Dr. Khan will cover open source search software and discuss the merits of building your own search engine.