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Events for May 29, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, May 29, 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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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Wed, May 29, 2013 @ 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Richard Vawter, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Speaker: Richard Vawter, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAP's Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2012. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated at between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years.
Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAP's certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
There will be two offerings of the SAP TERP10 Student Certification Academy in 2012. Both offerings will run for 9 full days, with the the certification examination to be given on the morning of the 10th day.
Biography: Although Prof. Richard Vawter hasn't flown for over a decade, he's had plenty of experience in the cockpit especially as a college student! His undergraduate degrees at both Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona and UCLA were accomplished by literally flying between classes.
Upon completing his Engineering degree at UCLA, Richard Vawter started work at Rockwell International analyzing the dynamic loads placed upon the Space Shuttle during the launch and entry phases of a mission. After the Challenger incident, Richard Vawter was chosen to be part of NASA's Crew Egress Team and assigned the task to design a system and method for the crew to escape the shuttle during a controlled emergency descent.
Following the resumption of the Space Shuttle flights, Prof. Vawter began taking graduate classes at the School of Engineering. After only one graduate class, Prof. Vawter became hooked on USC, completing Masters degrees in both Aerospace Engineering and Business Administration. After two years as a computer consultant, Prof. Vawter returned to USC and worked for the Marshall School of Business as a Computer Systems and Applications Specialist. During that time, he had the opportunity to fill in for a week teaching an ITP class and discovered his teaching talents when the students started clamoring for him to come back. Prof. Vawter began teaching officially at ITP in 1996 and currently focuses on SAP.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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PhD Defense - Ali Khodaei
Wed, May 29, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
PhD Candidate
Ali Khodaei
Committee
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (Outside Member)
Cyrus Shahabi (Chair)
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Title
COMBINING TEXTUAL WEB SEARCH WITH SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE WEB
Abstract
Over the last few years,Web has changed significantly. Emergence
of Web 2.0 have enabled people to interact with web document in new ways not possible before.
It is now a common practice for many web documents to get geo-tagged, time-tagged or integrated with popular social networks.
With these new changes and the abundant usage of spatial, temporal and social
information in web documents as well as user search queries,
the necessity of integration of such non-textual aspects of the web
to the regular textual web search has grown rapidly over the past few years.
To integrate each of those non-textual dimensions to the textual web search and to enable spatial-textual, temporal-textual and social-textual web search,
in this dissertation we propose a set of new relevance models, index structures and algorithms specifically
designed for adding each non-textual dimension (spatial, temporal and social) to the current state of (textual) web search.
First, we propose a new ranking model and a hybrid index structure called
Spatial-Keyword Inverted File to handle location-based ranking and indexing of web
documents in an integrated/efficient manner. Second,
we propose a new indexing and ranking framework for temporal-textual
retrieval. The framework leverages the classical vector space model and provides a complete scheme for indexing,
query processing and ranking of the temporal-textual queries. Finally, we
show how to personalizes the search results based on users' social
actions. We propose a new relevance model called PerSocial relevance
model utilizing three levels of social signals to improve the web
search. Furthermore, We Develop Several Approaches To Integrate
PerSocial relevance model Into The Textual Web Search Process.
(the last part - adding social signals to web search- is the topic of my defense presentation).
Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 333
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
