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Short Course: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementTue, May 19, 2015
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: This program, an introductory course in Six Sigma, will give you a thorough understanding of Six Sigma and its focus on eliminating defects through fundamental process knowledge. Topics covered in addition to DMAIIC and Six Sigma philosophy include basic statistics, statistical process control, process capability, financial implications and root cause analysis.
This program is offered both in the classroom and online.
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Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Compressive Sensing RF Signals with Photonic Systems
Tue, May 19, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. George Valley, Aerospace Corporation
Talk Title: Compressive Sensing RF Signals with Photonic Systems
Abstract: We and other researchers worldwide have now developed several photonics approaches for measuring the properties of sparse RF signals using compressive sensing. In this talk I will review the most promising of these approaches, compare them and talk about several special issues that arise in photonic compressive sensing. These issues include mixing matrix calibration, recovery of off-the-grid sinusoids, and reducing system complexity.
Biography: George C. Valley has an AB from Dartmouth College and a PhD from The University of Chicago, both in physics. He has worked at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories, Hughes Aircraft Company, and is now Senior Scientist at The Aerospace Corporation. Past research work has focused on nonlinear optics, optical solitons, photorefractive materials, free-space laser communication and wave propagation in random media. Current research interests include photonic analog-to-digital converters, optical signal processing and compressive sensing.
Host: Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, EEB 536, x04667
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Artificial vs AuthenticThe Art of Language Invention
Tue, May 19, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David Peterson , HBOs Game of Thrones
Talk Title: Artificial vs Authentic:The Art of Language Invention
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: As long as humans have been using language, humans have been inventing language. Linguistic creativity has taken many different forms over the years, but it's made its greatest strides in the past 25 years. For languages like Esperanto and Volapük, functionality and unambiguity were lofty design goals. Today, with languages created for entirely different purposes, functionality is considered a prerequisite, and unambiguity a major design flaw. In this talk, David Peterson discusses naturalistic language creation, and the emerging art form known as conlanging.
Biography: David Peterson is a language creator and author. Since 2009, he's been working on HBO's Game of Thrones, having created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages. Since then, he's gone on to work on a number of other projects, including Syfy's Defiance, Syfy's Dominion, Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, the CW's Star-Crossed, the CW's The 100, and Showtime's Penny Dreadful. He authored the book Living Language Dothraki, an introductory guide to the Dothraki language, and in September, he'll be publishing The Art of Language Invention with Penguin Random House.
Host: Ashish Vaswani
More Info: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=714b19be3e114ca79ddb3ccfb55366f01d
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=714b19be3e114ca79ddb3ccfb55366f01dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm s1135 & 1137 Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=714b19be3e114ca79ddb3ccfb55366f01d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=714b19be3e114ca79ddb3ccfb55366f01d
