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NL Seminar- Victor Chahuneau: " Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages with Synthetic Phrases"
Wed, Jul 10, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Victor Chahuneau, CMU
Talk Title: "Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages with Synthetic Phrases"
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Translation into morphologically rich languages is an important but recalcitrant problem in machine translation. When confronted with the large vocabulary sizes resulting from various morphological phenomena, the independence assumptions made by standard translation models mean that vast amounts of parallel training data (which do not generally exist) would be necessary to reliably estimate the numerous required parameters. On the other hand, previous attempts to remedy this situation have been unsatisfying either because they were highly language-dependent, or because they failed from a modeling perspective (e.g., they improved performance on long-tail types at the expense of frequent types).
We present a simple and effective approach that deals with the problem in two phases. First, a discriminative model is learned to predict inflections of target words from rich source-side annotations. Then, this model is used to create additional sentence-specific phrases that are added to a standard translation model prior to decoding. Our approach relies on morphological analysis of the target language but we show that an unsupervised Bayesian model can also be used in place of a standard supervised analyzer. We report significant improvements in translation quality when translating from English to Russian, Hebrew and Swahili.
Biography: http://victor.chahuneau.fr/
Host: Qing Dou
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
Lean Six Sigma White Belt (formerly: Introduction to Lean Six Sigma) class will introduce you to the tools and techniques for implementing lean principles. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the philosophy, methods and benefits of lean and value stream mapping as they apply to all types of enterprises. You will be introduced to lean concepts via hands-on exercises. This course is offered both on-campus and online.
A lean enterprise views itself as part of an extended value chain, focusing on the elimination of waste between you and your suppliers and you and your customers. This seminar is the first step in learning the principles of lean. The instructors for this course have extensive experience implementing lean principles worldwide. This seminar will teach you the history and basics of lean and demonstrate why these practices have such a significant impact on operations. The live course features an interactive simulation that illustrates lean principles.
Course Topics
* Cellular flow
* 5S
* Lean and Six Sigma
* SMED
* Value stream mapping
* Waste reduction
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Identify and eliminate waste within operations
* Interpret a value stream map
* Manage a lean process transformation
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $745
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $600
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Includes course materials available for download and viewable archive of lecture for 30 days.
Reduced rates are available for USC alumni and Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) members. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for more information.
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus, online with interactivity, and online with archive access:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 0.7 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Registration Information
To register for this upcoming course, please visit the Lean Six Sigma White Belt Registration Form.
More info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/leansixsigmawhitebelt
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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NL Seminar- Daniel Bauer: "Understanding Descriptions of Visual Scenes Using Graph Grammars"
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Bauer, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Understanding Descriptions of Visual Scenes Using Graph Grammars"
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: I will present work on the interpretation of descriptions of visual scenes such as âA man is sitting on a chair and using the computer’. One application of this research is the automatic generation of 3D scenes which provides a way for non-artists to create graphical content and have wide-ranging applications in entertainment and education.
The core task of text-to-scene generation involves understanding the high-level content of a description and translating it into a low-level representation representing a 3D scene as a set of relations between pre-existing 3D models. Linguistic, spatial, and world-knowledge inference is required in this process on different levels.
My talk will present VigNet, a repository of lexical- and world knowledge needed for text-to-scene generation, which is based on FrameNet. I will also describe how visual scenes can be represented as directed graphs and how information in VigNet can be encoded in Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Grammars to enable semantic parsing and generation of a scene.
Biography: Daniel Bauer is a PhD candidate at Columbia University. His research interests include lexical and computational semantics, semantic parsing, and formal grammars in syntax and semantics. He is a co-founder of WordsEye Inc, a company that aims to make text-to-3D-scene generation available to everyone on social media. Daniel is currently an intern at ISI for the second summer in a row. He received his undergrad degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and a MSc in Language Science and Technology from Saarland University
Host: Qing Dou
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Six Sigma Black BeltMon, Jul 15, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Ph.D. Defense: "Thermal Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization for Three Dimensional Integrated Circuits"
Mon, Jul 15, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Fatemeh Kashfi, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: THERMAL ANALYSIS AND MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Abstract: Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit (3DIC) technology has been introduced to address the interconnect issues in nanometer circuit design that limit performance improvement and power reduction. However, stacking active layers of silicon leads to increased power density and overall higher temperatures in a 3D chip implementation for many designs. New thermal map modeling, and temperature measurement, mitigation and management techniques should be introduced for this technology. In this dissertation we study the thermal correlation between the stacked layers in 3DICs. We then propose a fast and efficient 3D thermal map modeling based on scaled hotspot areas, depending on the distance of a stacked layer from the heatsink and also thermal effects of the layers on each other. The efficiency of the proposed modeling is demonstrated with its use in a thermal sensor distribution algorithm. We also show that the thermal sensor distribution algorithm should be solved as a 3D problem. We furthermore propose a new 3D design for thermal sensor circuits to be shared between layers in a 3DIC.
We also study different methods of multiobjective optimization to find the optimum operating point of a VLSI circuit. We provide wide mathematical analyses of different multiobjective optimization techniques for this purpose. We also study the difference of convex and non-convex modeling of the objectives in the multiobjective optimization algorithms. We apply our multiobjective optimization methods to optimize three conflicting objectives of cost, performance and thermal reliability to find an optimum building block placement in 3DICs. The variables for the optimization are the number of layers, area of the 3DIC, position of the building blocks, number of TSVs and total wirelength. We use our proposed fast 3D thermal map modeling to eliminate the thermal analysis bottleneck in multiobjective optimization iterations.
Biography: Fatemeh Kashfi received her Bacholar of Sceince and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran in 2005 and 2008 respectively. She joined University of Southern California in 2008 where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree. From August 2010 to January of 2011, she interned at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her research interests include 3DIC design and analysis and power and thermal analysis in VLSI circuits.
Host: Professor Jeff Draper
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Tue, Jul 16, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Wed, Jul 17, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Thu, Jul 18, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Thu, Jul 18, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Novena Rangwala, PhD, Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Talk Title: Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: For the talk, I plan to cover projects that I worked on at BIDMC - Harvard, as well as at UIC. So there's some variation in topics, but essentially I will be discussing my technical development experiences with fast imaging techniques (e.g., in FSE, EPI, PROPELLER, etc.), resolution of related artifacts, and some applications of these sequences.
Biography: Dr. Rangwala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, working in the laboratory of Dr. David Alsop. Prior to that she was a PhD student at University of Illinois, Chicago, working in the laboratory of X. Joe Zhou.
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Thu, Jul 18, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Novena Rangwala, PhD, Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Talk Title: Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: For the talk, I plan to cover projects that I worked on at BIDMC - Harvard, as well as at UIC. So there's some variation in topics, but essentially I will be discussing my technical development experiences with fast imaging techniques (e.g., in FSE, EPI, PROPELLER, etc.), resolution of related artifacts, and some applications of these sequences.
Biography: Dr. Rangwala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, working in the laboratory of Dr. David Alsop. Prior to that she was a PhD student at University of Illinois, Chicago, working in the laboratory of X. Joe Zhou.
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Thu, Jul 18, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Novena Rangwala, PhD, Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Talk Title: Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: For the talk, I plan to cover projects that I worked on at BIDMC - Harvard, as well as at UIC. So there's some variation in topics, but essentially I will be discussing my technical development experiences with fast imaging techniques (e.g., in FSE, EPI, PROPELLER, etc.), resolution of related artifacts, and some applications of these sequences.
Biography: Dr. Rangwala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, working in the laboratory of Dr. David Alsop. Prior to that she was a PhD student at University of Illinois, Chicago, working in the laboratory of X. Joe Zhou.
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Thu, Jul 18, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Novena Rangwala, PhD, Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Talk Title: Fast MR Imaging Techniques and Applications to the Brain and Spine
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: For the talk, I plan to cover projects that I worked on at BIDMC - Harvard, as well as at UIC. So there's some variation in topics, but essentially I will be discussing my technical development experiences with fast imaging techniques (e.g., in FSE, EPI, PROPELLER, etc.), resolution of related artifacts, and some applications of these sequences.
Biography: Dr. Rangwala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, working in the laboratory of Dr. David Alsop. Prior to that she was a PhD student at University of Illinois, Chicago, working in the laboratory of X. Joe Zhou.
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Fri, Jul 19, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $7,245
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $7,245
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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AI Seminar- Martha Palmer: "Annotating Resources for the Clinical Domain"
Fri, Jul 19, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Talk Title: "Annotating Resources for the Clinical Domain"
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: In the general domain, large-scale linguistic annotation of syntactic structure and semantic labels fostered truly revolutionary advances in natural language processing systems. The availability of a similar large annotated resource for clinical language would enable equivalent progress in this domain by advancing methods development through rule-based and statistical approaches, involving a larger research community in the study of difficult NLP problems, and porting best-of-breed methodologies to healthcare.
Under the Strategic Health Advanced Research Project Area 4 (SHARP 4; www.sharpn.org) and the THYME NIH grant (1 R01 LM010090-01A1, Temporal Relation Discovery for Clinical Text, PI: Savova) 500,000 tokens of clinical narrative spread across specialties, patients, notes types and three sites (Mayo Clinic, Seattle Group Health Cooperative and Intermountain Health Care) are being annotated. Linguistic annotations comprise constituency parses, dependency parses, semantic role labels, coreference and temporal relations and are being done at the University of Colorado. In addition, domain specific entity and relation annotations are being done following UMLS guidelines jointly between Colorado, Harvard and the Mayo Clinic.
There are many challenges in porting general domain annotation schemes to the clinical domain, due to the fragmentary, informal style of the text and the domain specific terminology. It is also important to create diverse annotation datasets and to explore more efficient methodologies for porting to new domains, such as active learning. This talk will describe the status of the annotation effort, how the challenges are being addressed, the performance improvements observed in the newly trained components, and experiments with active learning for smart data selection.
Biography: Martha Palmer is a Full Professor at the University of Colorado with joint appointments in Linguistics and Computer Science and is an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow. She recently won a Boulder Faculty Assembly 2010 Research Award and was the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute in Boulder, CO. Her research has been focused on trying to capture elements of the meanings of words that can comprise automatic representations of complex sentences and documents. Supervised machine learning techniques rely on vast amounts of annotated training data so she and her students are engaged in providing data with word sense tags and semantic role labels for English, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu, funded by DARPA, and NSF. They also train automatic sense taggers and semantic role labelers, and extract bilingual lexicons from parallel corpora. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH. She is a co-editor for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and for LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, and on the CLJ Editorial Board. She is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, past Chair of SIGLEX and SIGHAN.
Host: David Chiang
More Info: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=ad22eb4390944a439d0e1eeada255aa21d
Webcast: TBALocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135
WebCast Link: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=ad22eb4390944a439d0e1eeada255aa21d
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NL Seminar- Jackie Lee: "Bayesian Approaches to Acoustic Model and Pronunciation Lexicon Discovery"
Fri, Jul 19, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jackie Lee, MIT
Talk Title: "Bayesian Approaches to Acoustic Model and Pronunciation Lexicon Discovery"
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: In the first part of the talk, we investigate the problem of acoustic modeling in which prior language-specific knowledge and transcribed data are unavailable. We present an unsupervised model that simultaneously segments the speech, discovers a proper set of sub-word units (e.g., phones) and learns a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for each induced acoustic unit. Our approach is formulated as a Dirichlet process mixture model in which each mixture is an HMM that represents a sub-word unit. We apply our model to the TIMIT corpus, and the results demonstrate that our model discovers phone units that are highly correlated with English phones as well as produces better segmentation than the state-of-the-art baselines. We test the quality of the learned acoustic models on a spoken term detection task. Compared to the baseline, our model is able to improve the detection precision of top hits by a large margin.
The creation of a pronunciation lexicon remains the most inefficient process in developing an automatic speech recognizer. In the second part of the talk, we discuss an unsupervised alternative to the conventional manual approach for creating pronunciation dictionaries. We present a hierarchical Bayesian model, which jointly discovers the phonetic inventory and the Letter-to-Sound (L2S) mapping rules in a language using only transcribed data. When tested on a corpus of spontaneous queries, our results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed joint learning scheme over its sequential counterpart, in which the latent phonetic inventory and L2S mappings are learned separately. Furthermore, the recognizers built with the automatically induced lexicon consistently outperform grapheme-based recognizers and even approach the performance of recognition systems trained using conventional supervised procedures.
Biography: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/people/clee.shtml
Host: Qing Dou
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013
Sat, Jul 20, 2013
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: ,
Talk Title: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 (co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Conference)
Series: ACM Symposium
Abstract: The ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 is the first international symposium focused on the user interface challenges that appear when users interact in the space where the flat, two-dimensional, digital world meets the volumetric, physical, three-dimensional (3D) space we live in. This considers both spatial input and 3D output, with an emphasis on the issues around interaction between humans and systems.
Due to the advances in 3D technologies, spatial interaction is now more relevant than ever. Powerful graphics engines and high-resolution screens are now ubiquitous in everyday devices, such as tablets and mobile phones. Moreover, new forms of input, such as multi-touch, finger and body tracking technologies are now easily available. In this environment, spatial UIs are transitioning out of the research community and game industry. More and more commercial 3D systems with spatial interaction capabilities exist, many priced at the consumer level. Until now, the challenges, limitations, and advantages of using this third dimension for human-computer interfaces have not been well understood.
These questions will only become more relevant as the associated technologies continue to cross the barrier towards wide adoption.
The two-day symposium will be held at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Los Angeles, CA, July 20th-21st, 2013 just prior to the ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 conference. SUI 2013 will provide a shuttle bus to SIGGRAPH 2013 on Sunday evening.
ACM SUI 2013 is co-sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Graphics and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI).
http://www.sui-symposium.org
Host: Evan Suma
More Info: http://www.sui-symposium.org
Location: Institute For Creative Technologies (ICT) -
Audiences: Registration Required
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: http://www.sui-symposium.org
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ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013
Sun, Jul 21, 2013
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: ,
Talk Title: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 (co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Conference)
Series: ACM Symposium
Abstract: The ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2013 is the first international symposium focused on the user interface challenges that appear when users interact in the space where the flat, two-dimensional, digital world meets the volumetric, physical, three-dimensional (3D) space we live in. This considers both spatial input and 3D output, with an emphasis on the issues around interaction between humans and systems.
Due to the advances in 3D technologies, spatial interaction is now more relevant than ever. Powerful graphics engines and high-resolution screens are now ubiquitous in everyday devices, such as tablets and mobile phones. Moreover, new forms of input, such as multi-touch, finger and body tracking technologies are now easily available. In this environment, spatial UIs are transitioning out of the research community and game industry. More and more commercial 3D systems with spatial interaction capabilities exist, many priced at the consumer level. Until now, the challenges, limitations, and advantages of using this third dimension for human-computer interfaces have not been well understood.
These questions will only become more relevant as the associated technologies continue to cross the barrier towards wide adoption.
The two-day symposium will be held at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Los Angeles, CA, July 20th-21st, 2013 just prior to the ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 conference. SUI 2013 will provide a shuttle bus to SIGGRAPH 2013 on Sunday evening.
ACM SUI 2013 is co-sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Graphics and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI).
http://www.sui-symposium.org
Host: Evan Suma
More Info: http://www.sui-symposium.org
Location: Institute For Creative Technologies (ICT) -
Audiences: Registration Required
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: http://www.sui-symposium.org
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Neural Network ReNNaissance: Jürgen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA)
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
Talk Title: Neural Network ReNNaissance
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Our fast, deep / recurrent neural networks won eight recent international pattern recognition competitions, and are the first machine learning methods to achieve human-competitive or superhuman performance on well-known benchmarks. We also can evolve big NN controllers without any supervision, using "compressed" encodings of NN weight matrices represented indirectly as a set of Fourier-type coefficients. Recently, the largest, evolved, vision-based NN controller to date, with over 1 million weights, learned to drive a car around a track using raw video images from the driver's perspective in the TORCS driving game. We are starting to use such methods in active, unsupervised, curious, creative systems of a type we introduced in 1990. They learn to sequentially shift attention towards informative inputs, not only solving externally posed tasks, but also their own self-generated tasks designed to improve their understanding of the world according to our Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, which requires two interacting modules: (1) an adaptive predictor or compressor or model of the growing data history as the agent is interacting with its environment, and (2) a reinforcement learner. The learning progress of (1) is the FUN or intrinsic reward of (2). That is, (2) is motivated to invent skills leading to interesting or surprising novel patterns that (1) does not yet know but can easily learn (until they become boring). We discuss how this simple principle explains science & art & music & humour. Time permitting, I'll also briefly discuss the recent theoretically optimal universal problem solvers pioneered in our lab, such as Gödel machines and the asymptotically fastest algorithm for all well-defined problems.
Biography: Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber is with the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & USI & SUPSI (ex-TUM CogBotLab &CU). Since age 15 or so his main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist, then retire. This is driving his research on self-improving Artificial Intelligence. His team won many international competitions and awards, and pioneered the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. He also generalized the many-worlds theory of physics to a theory of all constructively computable universes - an algorithmic theory of everything. His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun (1990-2010) explains art, science, music, and humor.
Host: Stefan Schaal
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 422
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Low Rank, Sparsity and Beyond: Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Algorithms for Highly Accelerated Dynamic MRI
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sajan Lingala,Ph.D., University of Iowa
Talk Title: Low Rank, Sparsity and Beyond: Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Algorithms for Highly Accelerated Dynamic MRI
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: The imaging of dynamically evolving phenomena is central to several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. The simultaneous acquisition of high spatio-temporal resolutions, extended volume coverage, good signal to noise is often challenging in dynamic MRI due to the MR hardware limitations and the risk of peripheral nerve stimulation. The main focus of this talk is to introduce novel blind or adaptive signal models to enable reconstruction from highly undersampled measurements. I will start by describing conventional compressed sensing models that utilizes ââ¬Åfixed basesââ¬Â; discuss its challenges, and motivate why using "adaptive bases" would be beneficial. I shall then describe our contributions on adaptive models that include low rank and sparsity based modeling, blind compressed sensing, and motion compensated compressed sensing. I shall also show representative dynamic MRI applications including free breathing cardiac perfusion MRI, and parametric mapping that benefit from the acceleration provided by the proposed techniques.
Biography: Sajan Lingala completed his Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India). He is currently working towards his Phd at the University of Iowa with his thesis focused on developing novel image reconstruction algorithms for accelerated MR imaging. He is a recipient of American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship award, and a best graduate student award at the Iowa institute of Biomedical Imaging.
Host: Prof. Yoon Chul Kim
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Jul 26, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Talk Title: Designing 3-Dimensional Models to Study Tissue Specificity, Dormancy and Metastasis in Breast Cancer
Abstract: USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: USC PSOC
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - #250 Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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Lean Green Belt
Tue, Jul 30, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Lean Green Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This three-day course provides an in-depth understanding of lean enterprise principles and how to apply them within your organization. Your lean journey begins with a series of interactive simulations that demonstrate how each lean concept is applied and its impact on the process. Mapping the process flow and identifying the activities that add value from the customer's perspective is the cornerstone of this class. The class is then given a scenario and the students simulate the conversion from traditional to lean in a practical hands-on environment. The course also provides a structure for how to manage a lean process for continuous improvement. Participants will learn how to structure their organizations to support and continuously improve a lean process. Participants will also fully understand how to implement 5S within their plants and how to begin reducing setup time using the SMED process.
Course Topics
5S and muda
Point of use
Pull
SMED
Value-added
Value stream mapping
SMED
7 Wastes
Visual Workplace
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Create and improve a lean process
Implement 5S to develop a safe, clean working environment
Map the process flow and identify activities that add value
Reduce setup time using the SMED process
Who Should Attend
Engineers new to a managerial position
Engineers preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
Program Fees
On-Campus Participant: $1,545
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $1,200
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, faculty, and staff receive a 10% discount on registration.
Location [back to top]
Two course delivery options are available for participants: on campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus: Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area.
Overview of on-campus option:
The ability to interact with faculty and peers in person.
Access to hard copy course materials.
Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants â⬓ unless otherwise specified.
Online with Interactivity: Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
Virtually participate in the course live â⬓ with the ability to either ask questions by phone or type questions via the ââ¬Åchatââ¬Â function to the entire class.
WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 2.1 (CEUs provided by request only)
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of the course.
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Completion and the Institute of Industrial Engineering certification in Lean Green Belt will be awarded to those participants that pass the assessment on the final day of the course.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
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Lean Green Belt
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Lean Green Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This three-day course provides an in-depth understanding of lean enterprise principles and how to apply them within your organization. Your lean journey begins with a series of interactive simulations that demonstrate how each lean concept is applied and its impact on the process. Mapping the process flow and identifying the activities that add value from the customer's perspective is the cornerstone of this class. The class is then given a scenario and the students simulate the conversion from traditional to lean in a practical hands-on environment. The course also provides a structure for how to manage a lean process for continuous improvement. Participants will learn how to structure their organizations to support and continuously improve a lean process. Participants will also fully understand how to implement 5S within their plants and how to begin reducing setup time using the SMED process.
Course Topics
5S and muda
Point of use
Pull
SMED
Value-added
Value stream mapping
SMED
7 Wastes
Visual Workplace
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Create and improve a lean process
Implement 5S to develop a safe, clean working environment
Map the process flow and identify activities that add value
Reduce setup time using the SMED process
Who Should Attend
Engineers new to a managerial position
Engineers preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
Program Fees
On-Campus Participant: $1,545
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $1,200
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@gapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, faculty, and staff receive a 10% discount on registration.
Location [back to top]
Two course delivery options are available for participants: on campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus: Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area.
Overview of on-campus option:
The ability to interact with faculty and peers in person.
Access to hard copy course materials.
Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants â⬓ unless otherwise specified.
Online with Interactivity: Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
Virtually participate in the course live â⬓ with the ability to either ask questions by phone or type questions via the ââ¬Åchatââ¬Â function to the entire class.
WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 2.1 (CEUs provided by request only)
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of the course.
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Completion and the Institute of Industrial Engineering certification in Lean Green Belt will be awarded to those participants that pass the assessment on the final day of the course.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/lean-green-belt
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CS Colloquium: Alexander Egyed: Consistency and the Impact of Changes during Model-Driven Engineering
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University (JKU)
Talk Title: Consistency and the Impact of Changes during Model-Driven Engineering
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: To be held in KAP 156.
Design models describe different viewpoints of a software system - separating functionality, from structure, behavior, or usage. While these models are meant to be separate in their description, they are nonetheless related by manifold dependencies. After all, they describe the same system. Yet, this network of dependencies is also the most significant obstacle to model-driven engineering. It is the root cause for failure to propagate changes correctly and completely. Although change propagation as a whole is a daunting challenge to tackle, this talk suggests an approach for addressing this problem in context of model-driven engineering where incorrect or incomplete changes are detectable in form of the inconsistencies they cause. Understanding the impact of a model change is thus analogous to the detection and repairing of inconsistencies introduced by these changes.
Biography: Prof. Dr. Alexander Egyed is a Professor at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Austria and Head of the Institute for Software Systems Engineering (SSE). He received his Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, USA under the mentorship of Dr. Barry Boehm in 2000 and, before joining the JKU in 2008, he worked as a Research Scientist for Teknowledge Corporation, USA (2000-2007) and then as a Research Fellow at the University College London, UK (2007-2008). He is most recognized for his work on software and systems modeling - particularly on consistency (=i.e., correctness and completeness) and traceability of models (i.e., where is information coming from, where is it being used?). Dr. Egyedââ¬â¢s work has been supported by research grants from Austria, Canada, European Union, UK, and USA and his work has been published at over a hundred refereed scientific books, journals, conferences, and workshops, with over 3000 citations to date. He was recognized as the 10th best scholar in software engineering in Communications of the ACM, was named an IBM Research Faculty Fellow in recognition to his contributions to consistency checking, received a Recognition of Service Award from the ACM, a Best Paper Award from COMPSAC, and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the USC. He has given many invited talks including four keynotes, served on scientific panels and countless program committees, and has served as program (co-) chair, steering committee member, and editorial board member of SoSyM and other journals. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGSOFT.
Host: Neno Medvidovic
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
