Dr. Latecki has been awarded a new four year NSF grant

Dr. Latecki has been awarded a new four year grant from National Science Foundation. His project is aimed at Simultaneous Contour Grouping and Medial Axis Estimation. Project website: http://knight.cis.temple.edu/~shape/partshape/contour

SIAM SDM 09

Dr. Zoran Obradovic is serving as a Program Chair for 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 09) which is one of the premier peer-reviewed forums for sharing research results related to knowledge extraction from large, complex and noisy datasets. Jointly with his program co-chair Prof. Huan Liu from Arizona State University, Prof. Obradovic […]

Recruiting: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

The Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) Department and the Center for Information Science and Technology (IST) at Temple University are recruiting for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The position is contingent upon completion of a Ph.D. in computer science or a related field by August 15, 2008. Applicants are expected to have significant research accomplishments […]

IST Center Welcomes Dr. Alexander Yates

Dr. Alexander P. Yates has joined the CIS Department and the IST Center as Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington while working in the laboratory of Dr. Oren Etzioni. Dr. Yates’research interests include computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, specifically information extraction from the Web, entity resolution, natural language interfaces, parsing, machine […]

The ISTZORAN Group wins the Protein Disorder Prediction category at regions at the seventh Critical Assessments of Structure Prediction experiments meeting (CASP 7), Nov. 26-30, 2006.

The VSL2 predictor of intrinsically disordered protein regions developed by the ISTZORAN group has been rated as the best model at the 7th Critical Assessments of Structure Prediction experiments meeting (CASP 7). An older version of this model was the best model at CASP6. You can try the VSL2 predictor or download the VSL2 predictor package and set it up on […]

Information Science and Technology Center Report for Sept 2000 – Sept 2005 Period

September 2005 marked five years from inauguration of Information Science and Technology (IST) Center at Temple University. The main mission of the IST Center is advanced research and education aimed toward solving challenging problems in data mining, machine learning, multimedia databases, data compression, biomedical informatics, pattern recognition, computer vision, robot mapping, computational genomics, and artificial […]