Adam Drake will present his PhD Dissertation Proposal on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Library (3361B TMCB). The title of his proposal is "Improving Spectral Learning." Please click more for an abstract of his research. Adam's advisor is Dr. Dan Ventura.
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Adam Drake's Research Area Exam will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Library (3361B TMCB). Adam's advisor is Dr. Dan Ventura.
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Kentaro Toyama, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, will present his talk titled: Computing for Socio-Economic Development, on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 11:00 am in 1170 TMCB.
Abstract: On the same planet where there are 1.4 billion Internet users, a far less fortunate 1.4 billion people survive below the World Bank's extreme poverty line. Computing technology has transformed the lives of the wealthiest people on the planet, but it remains out of reach and irrelevant for the poorest. How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? Can you keep five rural schoolchildren from fighting over one PC? What value is technology to a farmer earning a dollar a day?...
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Ilya Raykhel will defend his MS Thesis on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm in the CS Conference Room. The title of his thesis is "Real-Time Automatic Price Prediction for eBay Online Trading." Please click more for an abstract of this thesis. Ilya's advisor is Dr. Dan Ventura.
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Social Robots and Human Social Development
Abstract: Social robots recognize and respond to human social cues with appropriate behaviors. These robots are unique tools in the study of human social development, and have the potential to play a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment of social disorders such as autism...
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The Church Family History Department engineering and product managers will walk through the development tools, strategies and techniques used as we develop cutting edge genealogy software. We'll be discussing things like agile development with Scrum, development tools used, engineering team formation, interaction and responsibilities, rapid prototyping through the labs.familysearch .org site, etc. We will demo for you several of the upcoming software solutions we are currently working on using these tools and techniques including FamilyTree, RecordSearch and FamilySearch Indexing. Finally, we will outline the various development support services that are provided through Family History developer programs for those who would like to build software that interacts with FamilySearch.
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