Category: AI
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🗣 talk: Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science, 12pm Thr 4/5
ACM Faculty Talk Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science Dr. James Foulds, Information Systems, UMBC 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, 5 April 2018, ITE459, UMBC Word embeddings improve the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems by revealing the hidden structural relationships between words. Despite their success in many applications, word embeddings have seen very little…
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🗣 talk: Addressing Real-world Societal Challenges: Advanced Game-Theoretic Models and Algorithms 3/29
Addressing Real-world Societal Challenges: Advanced Game-Theoretic Models and Algorithms Dr. Thanh H. Nguyen, University of Michigan 1:15-2:15 Thursday, 29 March 2018, ITE 325, UMBC This talk will cover my research in AI, with a focus on Multi-Agent Systems, for solving real-world societal problems, particularly in the areas of Sustainability, Public Safety and Security,…
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🗣️talk: Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 11am Mon 3/12
Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Dr. David Chapman, Oceaneering International 11:00-12:00 Monday March 12, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned and unteathered submarine vehicles with a variety of applications from bathymetry survey to naval warfare. Attenuation and scattering of light and electromagnetic radiation through water severely restricts wireless communications as…
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talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…
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Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools
Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools Marie desJardins, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology and professor of computer science, recently wrote a piece for The Baltimore Sun about the importance of computer science education in K–12 schools. She is a leader in the artificial…
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talk: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition, 1pm Fri 2/23, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, February 23, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC We are interested in learning representations (features) that are discriminative for semantic image understanding tasks such as object classification, detection, and segmentation in images. A common approach to obtain such features is…
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talk: Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization on a D-Wave Quantum Annealer, 1:30 2/15
CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Series Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization with a D-Wave Quantum Annealer Dr. Daniel O’Malley Los Alamos National Laboratory 1:30 15 February 2018, ITE325, UMBC D-Wave quantum annealers represent a novel computational architecture and have attracted significant interest. Much of this interest has focused on the quantum behavior of D-Wave machines, and…
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Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC, 7-9pm Tue 2/13 and 2-4pm Fri 2/16
Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC UMBC will hold two free, public screenings of the award-winning documentary film AlphaGo, one 7:00-9:00pm Tuesday evening, February 13 and another 2:00-4:00pm Friday, February 16. Both will be held in lecture hall 5 (EMGR 027) in the UMBC Engineering Building (maps: campus, google). Each screening will be followed by…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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talk: Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures, 1pm Fri 12/1
ACM Student Chapter A Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures Hang Gao, Ph.D. student, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 1 December 2017, ITE 217, UMBC Recent advance and success in artificial intelligence technologies, e.g., deep learning, has drawn heavy investment from both universities and industries, leading to the emergence of many applications and…