Dissertation Defense, Nov 26, 2008, 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Wachman 447 Techniques for Extracting Contours and Merging Maps Nagesh Adluru Committee: Dr. Longin Jan Latecki, Adviser (Computer & Information Sciences) Dr. Rolf Lakamper (Computer & Information Sciences) Dr. Slobodan Vucetic (Computer & Information Sciences) Dr. Marc Sobel (Statistics) Contour grouping and robot mapping are central components […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 20, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Kiva Auditorium Computational Complexity Theory and Holographic Algorithms Dr. Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin, Madison Computational Complexity Theory is the study of intrinsic difficulties of computational problems. The most prominent open problem is the conjecture that P is not equal to NP. In essense this conjecture states […]
Read More »Dissertation Defense, Nov 17, 2008, 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Wachman 447 Statistical Analysis of Biological Interactions of Homologous Proteins Qifang Xu Committee: Dr. Zoran Obradovic, Advisor (Computer & Information Sciences department) Dr. Roland Dunbrack (Fox Chase Cancer Center) Dr. Richard Coico (Microbiology and Immunology department) Dr. Slobodan Vucetic (Computer & Information Sciences department) Dr. Longin Jan […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 12, 2008, 03:45PM – 04:45PM, Wachman 447 The Changing Face of Programming Brian Kernighan, Princeton University The rapid evolution of languages, tools, environments and expectations presents major challenges and opportunities for programmers and for software engineering education. This is true across all kinds of programming, but is especially so for Web systems, […]
Read More »Short Course Lecture, Nov 12, 2008, 02:30PM – 03:30PM, Wachman 447 The Origins and Evolution of the C Programming Language and Other Languages Brian Kernighan, Princeton University This talk will be an informal discussion of the grand history of programming languages, including aspects of the development of the C Programming Language as well as many […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 05, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Information Extraction: Knowledge Discovery from Text Ralph Grisham, New York University Much of the information on the Web is encoded as text, in a form which is easy for people to use but hard for computers to manipulate. The role of information extraction is to […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 04, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Tech Center 111 Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University A dependency parse uses directed edges to connect syntactically related words within a sentence. These simple sentence diagrams have proved useful for information extraction, machine translation, semantic clustering, and other NLP tasks. Finding the […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 29, 2008, 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Wachman 447 Visual Representation Bridging Machine Learning to Computer Vision Le Lu, Siemens Research In this talk, I will first emphasize on the global view of finding the “right” visual representations which brings effective machine learning techniques to meet and tackle a variety of computer vision applications, […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 22, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Multiscale Random Fields with Application to Contour Grouping Prof. Longin Jan Latecki We introduce a new interpretation of multiscale random fields (MSRFs) that admits efficient optimization in the framework of regular (single level) random fields (RFs). It is based on a new operator, called append, […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 08, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 When Right Is Wrong: An fMRI Study of Overt Picture Naming in Patients with Language Impairment Due to Stroke Dr. Whitney Anne Postman-Caucheteux, Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University Aphasia is language impairment due to brain damage usually affecting the left hemisphere, […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 01, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Orchestra: Sharing Inconsistent Data in a Consistent Way Dr. Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania One of the most pressing needs in business, government, and science is to bring together structured data from a variety of systems, formats, and terminologies. For instance, the emerging field of […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 26, 2008, 01:00PM – 02:00PM, Wachman 447 Recognition, Detection, and Analysis from Visual Information Dr. Haibin Ling, Temple University, CIS Dept Visual input is very important for human to understand and interact with the world. Computer vision, together with areas such as machine learning, medical imaging, and human computer interaction, aims to […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 17, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Functions of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Relationship with Human Disease Network Dr. Zoran Obradovic, Professor, Temple CIS and Director, IST Center About 10 years ago we developed the first prediction based method to show that thousands of proteins lack fixed structure or are disordered (or […]
Read More »Preliminary II Examination, Aug 04, 2008, 10:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Identify biological interfaces from crystal structures of homologous proteins Qifang Xu Committee: Dr. Zoran Obradovic (Advisor) Dr. Roland L. Dunbrack, Jr. Dr. Slobodan Vucetic Dr. Longin Jan Latecki Many proteins function as homooligomers and are regulated via their oligomeric state. For some proteins, the […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, May 02, 2008, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Friend or Foe? Dr. Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University / NSF Program Director Ad hoc wireless networks are multi-hop networks in which mobile nodes cooperate to maintain network connectivity. These networks perform various functions including routing. In this presentation, […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 30, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, TECH Center 111 NARS: an Artificial General Intelligence Project Prof. Pei Wang NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System) is designed to serve as the core of general-purpose intelligent systems. It is built according to the belief that “intelligence” is the capability for a system to adapt to its environment […]
Read More »Preliminary II Examination, Apr 30, 2008, 02:30PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 447 Techniques for Extracting Contours and Merging Maps Nagesh Adluru Committee: Longin Jan Latecki (Chair) Rolf Lakamper Slobodan Vucetic Understanding machine vision can certainly improve our understanding of artificial intelligence as vision happens to be one of the basic intellectual activities of living beings. Since […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 23, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Towards a principled account of the mental representation of shape Jacob Feldman, Rutgers University The mental representation of shape, a critical problem in visual perception, is still surprisingly poorly understood. For example, it is widely accepted that a critical part of shape representation is the […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 16, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Energy Efficient Self Healing Sensor Network Protocol Based on Computing with Time Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute One of the most important concerns in design of sensor network algorithms and protocols is energy efficiency, as sensors have limited […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 09, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Presentations of the winning graduate and undergraduate projects Winners of Temple’s “Future of Computing” Competition The Future of Computing 2008 Competition Winners: Thomas Milewski, Zachary Parness, Henry Paradiz, Eric Zhivalyuk, Brandon Lis, Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi, Kosta Ristovski, Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Apr 08, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, TECH Center 111 Integrating Software Architecture-Centric Methods into Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Raghvinder Sangwan, Penn. State — Great Valley The choice of methodology for the development of the architecture for software systems has a direct effect on the suitability of that architecture. If the development process is […]
Read More »Short Course Lecture, Apr 02, 2008, 02:00PM – 03:00PM, Wachman 447 PHP and AJAX Development (Part 1) Henry Paradiz Web development solutions sought by today’s companies demands rich and dynamic web applications. PHP and AJAX help meet this demand not only by delivering solutions but doing so with code that can scale to meet any […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 26, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Memory-Constrained Data Mining Prof. Slobodan Vucetic Data mining concentrates on the development of computationally efficient and accurate tools for knowledge discovery from very large data sets. Many successful data mining algorithms scale linearly or even better with data size and can learn with high accuracy […]
Read More »Stat Dept Seminar, Mar 19, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Speakman 318 Statistical Methods for Inferring Gene Regulatory Modules and Networks Dr. Jun Xie, Department of Statistics, Purdue University This talk is about probability and statistical methods for analysis of genomic data. Our focus is on a specific problem of inferring gene regulatory module, which is […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Mar 05, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Convex Techniques for Learning with Latent Variables Dr. Yuhong Guo, University of Alberta In this talk, I will present my recent work — a novel approach for training probabilistic models in the presence of hidden variables. In particular, I will discuss a convex relaxation of […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 22, 2008, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Combining Multiple Heuristics Online Dr. Matthew Streeter, Carnegie Mellon University Heuristics for solving NP-hard problems often have complementary strengths and weaknesses. For example, algorithms developed by statistical physicists are extremely fast at solving satisfiable random Boolean formulae, while algorithms based on chronological backtracking are faster […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 20, 2008, 02:00PM – 03:00PM, Engineering & Architecture Building, Rm 126 Size-Constancy in the CAVE Dr. Robert Kenyon, University of Illinois – Chicago The use of Virtual Environments (VE) for research and commercial purposes relies on its ability to generate environments that faithfully reproduce the physical world. However, due to its limitations […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 13, 2008, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Fast and Highly-Available Stream Processing Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Brown University Recently, there has been significant interest in applications where high-volume, continuous data streams need to be processed with low latency. These applications include financial market monitoring, network monitoring, sensor-based environment monitoring, call analysis, battlefield monitoring, asset […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 08, 2008, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Wachman 447 Visual information Analysis and Its Application Dr. Haibin Ling, UCLA; Siemens Research Visual information analysis is of fundamental importance in computer vision and has many applications. In this talk I will introduce my work in this area in four parts. First, I will talk about […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Feb 07, 2008, 11:00AM – 12:00PM, TECH Center 111 Regularized image reconstruction techniques for accelerated MR imaging Ganesh Adluru, UCAIR Institute & SCI Institute, University of Utah Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is a powerful technique to obtain high quality images of different organs inside the body non-invasively. The images can be used to […]
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