CIS Colloquium, Feb 06, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Location Constraint Processing for Proximity Detection Zhengdao Xu, University of Toronto An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. A proximity relation measures whether a set of moving objects is close to each other, for example, […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Jan 30, 2008, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, Wachman 447 Moving Objects Databases Dr. Dan Lin, Purdue University With the rapid developments in positioning technologies and wireless communications, tracking of continuously moving objects has become feasible in terms of technology and implementation cost. However, this recent development poses new challenges to traditional database systems since […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Dec 12, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Wearable Technology at the Point-of-Care Dr. Paolo Bonato, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Significant progress in computer technologies, solid-state micro sensors, and telecommunication has advanced the possibilities for individual health monitoring systems. […]
Read More »CIS Special Event Dec 05, 2007 Prof. Yuan Shi, Prof. Sanford Sorkin Becoming an Entrepreneur in Science and Technology (Panel Discussion) TECH Center 111 03:30PM – 04:30PM
Read More »Stat Dept Seminar Nov 28, 2007 Dr. Junhui Wang On Large Margin Hierarchical Classification TLC 401B 03:00PM – 04:00PM
Read More »Short Course Lecture, Nov 28, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Python Programming Brian Cole Some interesting and helpful documentation for Python programming http://www.yottamusic.com/apisearch/python/2.5 http://www.python.org/doc/ http://docs.python.org/lib/module-select.html http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/oodesign/oodesign.html http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/nonprog/nonprogpython-2.4.html http://diveintopython.org
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Nov 14, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Predicting Where Faults are Hiding) Dr. Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Research Paper Title: “Some Progressive Ideas on Regression Testing” Authors: Andy Podgurski and Elaine J. Weyuker All software systems evolve, and there are many causes for this evolution. […]
Read More »Short Course Lecture Nov 07, 2007 Jon Bringhurst PHP Programming TECH Center 111 03:30PM – 04:30PM
Read More »Geography and Urban Studieds Dept / Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center Nov 07, 2007 Prof. Michael Goodchild The Case for Space Hamilton Library, 6th flr. Weiss Hall 03:30PM – 05:00PM
Read More »Short Course Lecture Oct 31, 2007 Howard Walowitz Flash Programming TECH Center 111 04:30PM – 05:30PM
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 24, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Solving the challenges of Scaled Product Platform Development Brian O’Neill, Gestalt LLC Building integrated, interoperable software on large inter-organizational scales requires a different approach than typical “in-house” software development. The commercial industry has implemented effective techniques to tackle this problem. They leverage open source […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 17, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Integration of Low and Mid Level Spatial Cognition Processes for Robot Perception Prof. Rolf Lakaemper, Temple University To increase the mobility of autonomous robots to a level of applicability in real world environments, novel methods in robot perception are required to master tasks of […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium Oct 10, 2007 Prof. Longin Jan Latecki, Nagesh Adluru Contour Grouping Based on Local Symmetry TLC 401A 03:30PM – 04:30PM
Read More »Stat Dept Seminar, Oct 05, 2007, 03:00PM – 04:00PM, TLC 401B Application of False Discovery Rate Methods in Clinical Trials Joseph F. Heyse, Vice-President of Early Development Statistics, Merck Research Laboratories Almost all multiple comparison and multiple endpoint procedures applied in clinical trials are designed to control the Family Wise Error Rate (FWER) at a […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Oct 03, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Artificial General Intelligence Prof. Pei Wang, Temple University Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the attempt to generate intelligence as a whole in computers. This talk will start at the historical background and recent development of AGI research, as well as its relation with Artificial […]
Read More »CIS Colloquium, Sep 19, 2007, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, TECH Center 111 Inferring Contextual Semantic Information from Text Using a Model of Human Episodic and Semantic Memory Dr. Shane Mueller, Applied Research Associates Inc. Over the past twenty years, a number of techniques have been developed to infer meaningful representations from naturalistic text data based on […]
Read More »IST Colloquium, Jun 28, 2007, 03:00PM, TLC 305B Generalized morphologic transformation and its applications Dr. Wenyu Liu, Associate dean and Professor in Dept. of Electronics and information Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. Wuhan, P.R.China How to describe non-rigid body motion and metamorphosis, which includes 3D arbitrary object metamorphosis, interpolation between keyframes in 2D […]
Read More »Mar 23, 2007, 01:30PM – 02:45PM, TLC 405B Comparative Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks Dr. Mehmet Koyuturk, Purdue University, http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/koyuturk/ Emergence of high-throughput experiments and resulting databases capture relationships and interactions between biomolecules. These interactions enable modeling and analysis of a cell from a systems perspective – generally using network models. In this talk, we […]
Read More »Mar 16, 2007, 01:30PM – 02:45PM, TECH Center 111 Injecting Utility into Anonymized Datasets Daniel Kifer, Cornell University, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/dkifer/ Limiting disclosure in data publishing is an important issue. As data collection and data management capabilities improve, more entities are collecting and storing detailed information about individuals. Examples include the Census Bureau, insurance companies, credit agencies, […]
Read More »Mar 13, 2007, 02:30PM – 03:45PM, TECH Center 111 Learning Embeddings for Similarity-Based Retrieval Dr. Vassilis Athitsos, Boston University, http://cs-people.bu.edu/athitsos/ Similarity-based retrieval is the task of identifying database patterns that are the most similar to a query pattern. Retrieving similar patterns is a necessary component of many practical applications, in fields as diverse as computer […]
Read More »Feb 23, 2007, 01:30PM – 03:00PM, TLC 405B Synonym Resolution on the Web Alexander Yates, University of Washington, http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ayates/ The Web is a vast resource of information on practically anything one can think of. Unfortunately, the information is mostly in unstructured text, making it difficult for machines to process. This talk presents new methods for […]
Read More »Feb 21, 2007, 02:30PM – 04:00PM, TECH Center 111 Manifold Regularization and Low-Density Techniques for Semi-supervised Learning Vikas Sindhwani, Univ. of Chicago, http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~vikass In many applications of machine learning, large amounts of data can be cheaply and automatically collected. However, the process of manually labeling this data for the purposes of training learning algorithms is […]
Read More »Feb 15, 2007, 02:30PM – 04:00PM, TECH Center 111 Learning to Extract Relations from the Web and Biomedical Corpora Razvan Bunescu, Univ. of Texas at Austin, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/razvan/ Automatically identifying semantic relationships between entities mentioned in text documents is an important task in natural language processing. The set of relevant relationships can be very diverse, ranging […]
Read More »IST Colloquium, Feb 02, 2007, 01:30PM – 03:00PM, Wachman 322 Pharmacogenomics: search for individualized therapy Prof. Evgeny Krynetskiy, Ph.D., D. Sc., Associate Professor, Temple University School of Pharmacy The topic of this presentation is Pharmacogenomics – a rapidly evolving discipline that uses the tools of Human Genetics to tailor medicinal treatment based on individual’s genetic […]
Read More »IST Colloquium, Jan 26, 2007, 01:30PM – 03:00PM, TECH Center 111 Biomedical Text Understanding and User Modeling Prof. Hyoil Han, Drexel University My talk will be related to biomedical text understanding and user modeling. Biomedical researchers who search for documents via PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes […]
Read More »Lecture Series on Useful Statistics Oct 13, 2006 Peter de Blanc Introduction to Bayesian Networks Wachman 322 02:45PM – 04:00PM
Read More »IST Colloquium, Oct 06, 2006, 03:00PM – 04:30PM, Wachman 322 High Performance Grid Computing Ahmed Ibrahim, Assistant Prof., Tanta University, Egypt Computational grids allow the federation of significant computational and storage resources to solve challenging problems in science, engineering, medicine, finance, and entertainment. Involvement of multi-core platforms and wireless communications in the traditional grids comprised […]
Read More »Lecture Series on Useful Statistics Sep 29, 2006 Prof. Marc Sobel Gibbs Sampling and Hidden Markov Models in the Event Detection Problem Wachman 322 02:45PM – 04:00PM
Read More »Lecture Series on Useful Statistics Sep 08, 2006 Prof. Marc Sobel Bayesian Inference, EM, and Gibbs Sampling Wachman 322 03:00PM – 04:00PM
Read More »IST Colloquium, Jul 20, 2006, 01:30PM – 03:00PM, Wachman 322 Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Link Analysis William M. Pottenger, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University Due to recent concerns with terrorism and security there has been an increasing focus on techniques that discover links and relations in data. Numerous efforts that employ data […]
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