Colloquia & Events - Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics

CIS Colloquium

CIS Colloquium Nov 11, 2009 Mitch Marcus Wachman 447 11:00AM – 12:00PM

CIS Colloquium, Nov 04, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Bare Machine Computing (BMC) Ramesh K. Karne and Alexander L. Wijesinha, Towson University An operating system (OS) serves as a middleware between hardware and applications. The OS provides higher levels of abstractions to application programs thus hiding the execution intricacies from them. Modern OSs such […]

Geometric Context in 3D Computer Vision

CIS Colloquium, Oct 28, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Geometric Context in 3D Computer Vision Gang Li, Siemens Research Central to 3D computer vision are tasks such as stereo reconstruction, 3D tracking, Structure and Motion, etc. Although there exist solutions to these problems, they tend to use context either heuristically or incorrectly when applied […]

The Science and Engineering of Protocols for Dynamic Complex Networks

CIS Colloquium, Oct 22, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center 111 The Science and Engineering of Protocols for Dynamic Complex Networks Alhussein Abouzeid, National Science Foundation and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Over the past few years, we have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of networking technologies, notably wireless and mobile, in our day-to-day lives, including areas of […]

Mining, Modeling and Simulation of the Biomolecular Network

CIS Colloquium, Oct 14, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Mining, Modeling and Simulation of the Biomolecular Network Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel University In this talk, we present a novel method to mine, model and evaluate the regulatory system which executes a cellular function, and can be represented as a biomolecular network. Our method consists […]

Power and Thermal Management in Data Centers

CIS Colloquium, Oct 08, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center 111 Power and Thermal Management in Data Centers Krishna Kant, Intel Research, NSF CISE Fueled by burgeoning online services, power and thermal management in data centers are becoming critical for a variety of reasons including power densities, utility costs and environmental impact. In this talk, […]

Fairness, Bandwidth Differentiation, and Quality of Service in CSMA/CA Networks

CIS Colloquium, Oct 07, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Fairness, Bandwidth Differentiation, and Quality of Service in CSMA/CA Networks Shigang Chen, University of Florida In this talk, we examine some intriguing problems related to fairness, bandwidth differentiation and quality of service in CSMA/CA networks. IEEE 802.11 access points have been almost universally deployed in […]

Recovering a 3D shape from a single 2D image: computational model and psychophysics

CIS Colloquium, Sep 30, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Recovering a 3D shape from a single 2D image: computational model and psychophysics Tadamasa Sawada, Purdue University I will present a new computational model that recovers a unique 3D shape from a single 2D image by applying a priori constraints: symmetry, planarity, maximum compactness and […]

Speeding up MATLAB Applications

CIS Colloquium, Sep 24, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:30PM, Tuttleman 300AB Speeding up MATLAB Applications Jeremy Barry, The MathWorks, Inc. In this session we will discuss and demonstrate simple ways to improve and optimize your code that can boost execution speed by orders of magnitude. We will also address common pitfalls in writing m-code, explore the […]

Ethical Hacking and Information Security

CIS Colloquium, Sep 17, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Tuttleman 300AB Ethical Hacking and Information Security Robert Lai, SAI Corp. According to data in the latest edition of the IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index published by Foote Partners, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification pay was up 40% in the last quarter of 2008. The demand […]

In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: What Jefferson Can Teach Us About the Internet (and vice versa)

CIS Colloquium, Sep 16, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: What Jefferson Can Teach Us About the Internet (and vice versa) David Post, Temple Law Jefferson — Jefferson the natural historian, the Jefferson of “Notes on the State of Virginia” — has a great deal to teach us about the […]

Contribution of Applied Algorithms to Applied Computing

CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Sep 11, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Contribution of Applied Algorithms to Applied Computing Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University There are many attempts to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematician and engineers to discuss advanced computing for scientific, engineering, and practical problems. This talk is about the role and contribution of […]

Object Models for Boundary Extraction with Application to Medical Imaging Analysis

CIS Colloquium, Sep 10, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center 111 Object Models for Boundary Extraction with Application to Medical Imaging Analysis Xiaolei Huang, Lehigh University Object boundary extraction is an important task in computer vision and medical image analysis. It remains a challenging problem due to the common presence of cluttered objects, object texture, […]

Nonlinear Statistical Language Modeling

CIS Colloquium, Sep 02, 2009, 01:00PM – 02:00PM, Wachman 447 Nonlinear Statistical Language Modeling Joseph Picone, Chair, Temple ECE Statistical or machine-learning techniques, such as Hidden Markov models and Gaussian mixture models, have dominated the signal processing and pattern recognition literature for the past 25 years. However, such approaches are prone to overfitting and have […]

Understanding computer-supported small-group cognition

CIS Colloquium, Apr 29, 2009, 12:00PM – 01:00PM, Wachman 447 Understanding computer-supported small-group cognition Gerry Stahl, Drexel University Most sciences, methodologies, analyses and theories that help us to understand and design for computer users focus on individual users. In the Virtual Math Teams Project, small groups of students meet online to collaborate on challenging math […]

Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part I

Short Course Lecture, Apr 27, 2009, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 447 Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part I Henry Paradiz There are plenty of open source frameworks already available for PHP. So much so that it might be confusing as to which you should use. In this series of four talks I’ll be teaching […]

Modeling statistics of photographic images

CIS Colloquium, Apr 22, 2009, 12:00PM – 01:00PM, Wachman 447 Modeling statistics of photographic images Siwei Lyu, SUNY Albany Photographic images distinguish from the rest of image space with their statistical regularities. Such statistical regularities are best revealed in the wavelet domain. In this talk, I will discuss two approaches to build mathematical models capturing […]

Modularity in Design: Formal Modeling and Automated Analysis

CIS Colloquium, Apr 15, 2009, 12:00PM – 01:00PM, Wachman 447 Modularity in Design: Formal Modeling and Automated Analysis Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University Reasoning about the evolvability properties and economic implications of design structures is critical to high-consequence decision-making, but it remains difficult, in part due to the lack of formal theories linking design structures to […]

Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part III

Short Course Lecture, Apr 13, 2009, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 447 Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part III Henry Paradiz There are plenty of open source frameworks already available for PHP. So much so that it might be confusing as to which you should use. In this series of four talks I’ll be teaching […]

Program Visualization and Alice: Past, Present, and a Look into the Future

CIS Colloquium, Apr 06, 2009, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Program Visualization and Alice: Past, Present, and a Look into the Future Steve Cooper, St. Joseph’s University A program visualization tool, Alice (www.alice.org), has been used as the basis for the creation of an innovative curriculum for teaching introductory computing courses. In Alice, students build […]

Efficient Quality-of-Service Provisioning and Communications in Hybrid Wireless Networks

CIS Colloquium, Apr 03, 2009, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Efficient Quality-of-Service Provisioning and Communications in Hybrid Wireless Networks Xiaojiang (James) Du, North Dakota State University Wireless networking and communication technology has been widely used in many areas, and is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years. At the same time, increasing proliferation […]

Updated-based Cache Access and Replacement Policies

CIS Colloquium, Apr 02, 2009, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Tuttleman 404 Updated-based Cache Access and Replacement Policies Yang Xiao, University of Alabama Update information makes the corresponding cached data objects invalidated under a strong consistent policy, and the data object cache hit information becomes almost useless. In this talk, we will present some of our studies […]

Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part II

Short Course Lecture, Mar 30, 2009, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 447 Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part II Henry Paradiz There are plenty of open source frameworks already available for PHP. So much so that it might be confusing as to which you should use. In this series of four talks I’ll be teaching […]

Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks

CIS Colloquium, Mar 25, 2009, 02:00PM – 03:30PM, Kiwa Auditorium Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation Copyright was developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does […]

Autonomic Cloud Systems Management: A Machine Learning Approach

CIS Colloquium, Mar 20, 2009, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Autonomic Cloud Systems Management: A Machine Learning Approach Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University Cloud computing, unlocked by virtualization, is emerging as an increasingly important service-oriented computing paradigm. Management is key to providing accurate service availability and performance data and to enabling on-demand real-time capacity planning […]

Adaptation in Dynamic Computing Systems: Two Perspectives

CIS Colloquium, Mar 19, 2009, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, TECH Center Room 111 Adaptation in Dynamic Computing Systems: Two Perspectives Weisong Shi, Wayne State University Adaptation is an important principle in computer systems design. In this talk, I will describe how to leverage this principle from two perspectives. One is an adaptive applicationlevel framework in heterogeneous […]

Modeling Text Quality in Newspaper Text and Machine Translation

CIS Colloquium, Mar 18, 2009, 12:00PM – 01:00PM, Wachman 447 Modeling Text Quality in Newspaper Text and Machine Translation Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania The goal of our work is to develop models of text quality, including coherence, fluency and general readability. Models of text quality are a critical component for a range of text […]

Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part I

Short Course Lecture, Mar 16, 2009, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 447 Building Custom PHP Frameworks to Scale, Part I Henry Paradiz There are plenty of open source frameworks already available for PHP. So much so that it might be confusing as to which you should use. In this series of four talks I’ll be teaching […]

Supervised Dimensionality Reduction via Convex Optimization

CIS Colloquium, Feb 18, 2009, 12:00PM – 01:00PM, Wachman 447 Supervised Dimensionality Reduction via Convex Optimization Dr. Yuhong Guo Recently, supervised dimensionality reduction has been gaining attention, owing to the realization that data labels are often available and indicate important underlying structure in the data. In this work, we propose a novel convex supervised dimensionality […]

Modeling Dependent Expression Data

Stat Dept Seminar, Feb 12, 2009, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Alter Hall 746 Modeling Dependent Expression Data Dr. Donatella Telesca, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center We consider modeling dependent high throughput expression data arising from different molecular interrogation technologies. Dependence between molecules is introduced via the explicit consideration of informative prior information associated with available pathways, representing […]