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Events for March 18, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Mar 18, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Mar 18, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Evolutive Video Coding
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Seishi Takamura, NTT, Kanagawa, Japan
Talk Title: Evolutive Video Coding
Abstract: Evolutive methods based on genetic programming (GP) enable dynamic algorithm generation, and have been successfully applied to many areas such as plant control, robot control, and stock market prediction. However, conventional image/video coding methods such as JPEG, H.264/AVC and HEVC all use fixed (non-dynamic) algorithms without exception. In this talk, we introduce and investigate GP-based, highly nonlinear o pixel predictor to reduce lossless bit rate o image filter to enhance coding gaino transform to enhance coding gain that are specifically evolved for each input image.
Biography: Seishi Takamura (1991, 1993, 1996 B.E., M.E. Ph.D. The University of Tokyo) joined NTT in 1996, where he is engaged in research on efficient video coding. During 2005-2006 he was a visiting scientist at IVMS Group, Stanford Univ. In 2009 he was elevated to Distinguished Technical Member of NTT. He has been Involved in HEVC standardization activity since 2010. He has been Vice Chair (2009-2010) and Chair (2011-2012) of the IEEE Tokyo SectionTPC. Since 2013 he is also the treasurer of the above section and of the IEEE Japan Council. Since 2006 he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Tr. CSVT (2007-2010 Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE CAS Society recipient). He is a member of MENSA, IPSJ, IIEEJ and ITE. A senior member of IEEE and IEICE. He is the recipient of 23 academic awards and inventor of 100+ patent applications.
Host: Prof. Antonio Ortega
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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NL Seminar- Carlos Strapparava: "Computational Explorations of Creative Language"
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Carlos Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica
Talk Title: Computational Explorations of Creative Language
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Dealing with creative language and in particular with affective, persuasive and even humorous language has often been considered outside the scope of computational linguistics. Nonetheless it is possible to exploit current NLP techniques starting some explorations about it. We briefly review some computational experiences about these typical creative genres. We will start introducing techniques for dealing with emotional and witty language. Then we will talk about the exploitation of some extra-linguistic features: for example music and lyrics in emotion detection, and an audience-reaction tagged corpus of political speeches for the analysis of persuasive language. As examples of practical applications, we will present a system for automatized memory techniques for vocabulary acquisition in a second language, and an application for automatizing creative naming (branding).
Biography: Carlo Strapparava is a senior researcher at FBK-irst (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica) in the Human Language Technologies Unit. His research activity covers artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, cognitive science, knowledge-based systems, user models, adaptive hypermedia, lexical knowledge bases, word-sense disambiguation, affective computing and computational humour. He is the author of over 150 papers, published in scientific journals, book chapters and in conference proceedings. He also played a key role in the definition and the development of many projects funded by European research programmes.
He regularly serves in the program committees of the major NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, etc.). He was executive board member of SIGLEX, a Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2007-2010), Senseval (Evaluation Exercises for the Semantic Analysis of Text) organisation committee (2005-2010).
On June 2011, he was awarded with a Google Research Award on Natural Language Processing, specifically on the computational treatment of creative language.
Host: Zornitsa Kozareva
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=23224ee225654a44a628a46f8cc2e9381dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=23224ee225654a44a628a46f8cc2e9381d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
