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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification AcademyFri, Jul 11, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates:
Session 2 (SAP 0614-06):
Monday, June 2nd - Friday, June 6th, 2014
Monday, June 9th - Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, June 13th, 2014
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 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated 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.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Fri, Jul 11, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will 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 youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented 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 USC and 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.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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NL Seminar- Factored Markov Translation with Robust Modeling
Fri, Jul 11, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yang Feng, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Factored Markov Translation with Robust Modeling
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Phrase-based translation models usually memorize local translation literally and make independent assumption between phrases which makes it neither generalize well on unseen data nor model sentence-level effects between phrases. We present a new method to model correlations between phrases as a Markov model and meanwhile employ a robust smoothing strategy to provide better generalization. This method defines a recursive estimation process and backs off in parallel paths to infer richer structures. Our evaluation shows an 1.1â⬓3.2% BLEU improvement over competitive baselines for Chinese-English and Arabic-English translation.
Biography: Yang Feng is a postdoctoral scholar in Kevin Knight's NLP group in USC/ISI. She got her Ph.D. degree in 2011 from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her interests are machine translation and machine learning, focusing on Bayesian inference and Gaussian process. Now her main work is to improve ISI syntax-based system.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
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/
