Category: Talks
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talk: Christopher Rose (Rutgers): Write or Radiate
Write or Radiate Professor Christopher Rose Rutgers University 1:00pm Friday December 9, 2011, ITE 227 Communication theory researchers do the relatively routine but deeply important work that maintains and expands our increasingly connected society. It is therefore easy to forget that communications research, by its very nature, is more than about telephones and the Internet,…
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MS defense: Sawhney on Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees
MS Thesis Defense Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees Mayank Sawhney 12:00-1:30pm Thursday 1 December 2011, ITE 346 Mining high speed data streams has become a necessity because of the enormous growth in the volume of electronic data. In the past decade, researchers have suggested various models for learning in both stationary and concept drifting…
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talk: Wolfson on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1pm Fri 12/2, ITE 227
Silence of the labs: Why are we still commuting the way we did 40 years ago? Professor Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago 1:00pm Friday 2 December 2011, ITE 227 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been in research and development since the 70's but their impact so far has been relatively small. In this…
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MS defense: Pilz on Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments, 11/30
Masters Thesis Defense Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments Brian Pilz 10:00am 30 November 2011, ITE325b Let a data stream have length m over an alphabet of n letters, with letter i occurring m_i times for i = 1,…,n. For any k, define the frequency moments F_k as F_k = sum_{i=1}^n m_i^k. Alon, Matias, and Szegedy…
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talk: Rutledge on multichannel amplitude compression for speech processing, 11/18
EE Graduate Seminar Time-Varying Amplitude Compression Processing to Preserve and Enhance Spectral Contrast in Speech Signals Dr. Janet C. Rutledge Dean, UMBC Graduate School Vice-Provost for Graduate Education Affiliate Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 11:30-12:45 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 231 Multichannel amplitude compression processing is used to reduce the level variations of speech to fit…
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Ph.D. Defense: Justin Martineau on Sentiment Analysis, 1:30pm Fri 11/18
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau 1:30-4:00 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 325b, UMBC Sentiment analysis is the automatic detection and measurement of sentiment in text segments by machines. This thesis provides methods to identify, characterize, and isolate the sentiment bearing terms…
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Talk: Stochastic Graph Grammars, Oates, 11/11/11
EE Graduate Seminar Stochastic Graph Grammars Prof. Tim Oates Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC 11:30am Friday November 11, ITE 231, UMBC Many important domains are naturally described relationally, often using graphs in which nodes correspond to entities and edges to relations. Stochastic graph grammars compactly represent probability distributions over…
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talk: Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment, 10:30am Tue 11/8
Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment: Issues, Models and Applications Dr. Gabriel Jakobson Altusys Corporation, Princeton NJ 10:30-11:30am 8 November 2011, ITE 325 Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound impact both on ongoing mission and future missions, whose operations are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting…
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talk: Marti Hearst on Natural Search User Interfaces, 12pm Fri 11/8, ITE 459, UMBC
Human-Centered Computing Speaker Series UMBC Information Systems Department 'Natural' Search User Interfaces Professor Marti Hearst School of Information University of California, Berkeley 12:00-1:00pm Friday 18 November 2011, ITE 459 What does the future hold for search user interfaces? Following on a recently completed book on this topic, this talk identifies some important trends in the…
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CSEE students to present research at upcoming symposiums
CSEE Students Joe Tuzo (CMSC), JJ Seymour (CMSC) and Varish Mulwad (CMSC) will present papers at the AAAI FAll Symposium on November 4-6 in Arlington, Virginia. Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC) will present her research at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon. Joe Tuzo (CMSC BS '11) and JJ…