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Events for February 20, 2014
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementThu, Feb 20, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
*A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
*A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
*A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
*Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
*A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
*A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Host: Corporate & Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%2526systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
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AI Seminar- Big Data Curation
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Renee Miller , Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems University of Toronto
Talk Title: Big Data Curation
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: A new mode of inquiry, problem solving, and decision making has become pervasive in our society, consisting of applying computational, mathematical, and statistical models to infer actionable information from large quantities of data. This paradigm, often called Big Data Analytics or simply Big Data, requires new forms of data management to deal with the volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data. Many of these data management problems can be described as data curation. Data curation includes all the processes needed for principled and controlled data creation, maintenance, and management, together with the capacity to add value to data. In this talk, I describe our experience in curating several open data sets. I overview how we have adapted some of the traditional solutions for aligning data and creating semantics to account for (and take advantage of) Big Data.
Biography: Renée J. Miller received BS degrees in Mathematics and in Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Canada's National Academy) and the Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems at the University of Toronto. She received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) , the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their careers and the National Science Foundation Career Award. She is a Fellow of the ACM, the President of the VLDB Endowment, and was the Program Chair for ACM SIGMOD 2011 in Athens, Greece. Her work has focused on the long-standing open problem of data integration and has achieved the goal of building practical data integration systems. She and her co-authors received the ICDT Test-of-Time Award for their influential 2003 paper establishing the foundations of data exchange.
http://dblab.cs.toronto.edu/~miller/
Host: Craig Knoblock
Webcast: TBALocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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E-Week: ASBME Bionic Pig Race
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Teams will receive robotic, walking pigs and have one week to modify it to be the best racer/obstacle course athlete! Teams may make any enhancements they would like, but they cannot replace the motor, and all the original parts must be present in some form.
Sign up by 2/10:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bP3koPfdd320IIi4on5SK2oweI78PaYBwR6UA5PD0uk/viewformLocation: E-Quad
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: ASBME
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CS STUDENT Colloquium: Melissa Roemmle
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Melissa Roemmle, USC
Talk Title: CS STUDENT Colloquium: Melissa Roemmle
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: We developed a web game called Triangle Charades in which players create and interpret animations of human behaviors using simple shapes. I will explain how we use this game as a data collection approach for the machine learning task of automatically recognizing human actions in animations.
Host: Jacob Beal
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Annual Showcase of the Body Engineering Los Angeles GK-12 Program
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Body Engineering Los Angeles GK-12 Program partners graduate students in engineering and science disciplines with K-12 teachers in an effort to improve the skills of the graduate students while supporting the K-12 efforts relating to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The annual showcase highlights the lessons and activities taught by the PhD Fellowship recipients in local middle schools.
http://bela.usc.edu/
Keynote Speaker: Kathryn Bowers, co-author of Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal
http://zoobiquity.com/authors/kathryn-bowers/
Attire: Casual
Menu: Hors d'ouevres and non-alcoholic drinks
Contact information:
Alycen Hall, Program Manager
Email: alycenha@usc.edu
Phone: 213.740.4143
Hosted by:
Krishna Nayak, PhD
Associate Professor
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
RSVP Deadline: Wednesday, February 19, 2014More Information: Showcase_Flyer_2014.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Ballrooms A and B
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alycen Hall
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E-Week: Minute to Win It
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Do you think you have what it takes to win it in a minute?
Participate in USC’s E-Week Minute to Win It games!
The Minute to Win it games will include a series difficult mini games where you will have only one minute to complete.
During the Minute to Win it Tournament one member of each team will play one game at a time and teams will be eliminated after each round of games depending on how well or fast the game was completed until there is one winning team that will win a special E-Week Prize!
In addition, there will be teams of engineering professors that will be competing as well, so even if you don’t want to participate come out and either support your professors and fellow classmates or watch them make a fool of themselves!
We’ll see you on February 20th at 4pm in SGM 123.
Free food will be provided to engineering students, and faculty!
Sign up by 2/17:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bP3koPfdd320IIi4on5SK2oweI78PaYBwR6UA5PD0uk/viewformLocation: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 102
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi KIUEL
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CS Colloquium: Vassilis Zikas (UCLA) - Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Vassilis Zikas, UCLA
Talk Title: Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: As more complex security challenges emerge, cryptography is called to provide provably secure solutions for a wide range of applications. Bridging the gap between theory and applications is perhaps the biggest challenge of contemporary cryptography. In this talk I discuss how combining ideas from game theory and cryptography provides the basis for the design of highly efficient, more resilient, and simpler provably secure protocols. I demonstrate this for the problem of secure computation, which has numerous applications, e.g., privacy preserving data mining and secure cloud computing. I further discuss recent developments on concrete efficiency of secure multi-party computation protocols which indicate that we can realistically expect large scale deployments in the next few years.
Biography: Dr. Vassilis Zikas is a researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include cryptography, information security, and game theory. Prior to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.
Host: Shanghua Teng
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
