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Events for August 03, 2016
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SERC TALKS: Systems Engineering Research Center
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Astronautical Engineering, Systems Architecting and Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dinesh Verma, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: What Were the Top Issues and Opportunities from the SERC Model Centric Design and Acquisition Forum?
Series: SERC Talks
Abstract: Model centric engineering can be characterized as an overarching digital and visual approach to engineering. Digital technologies are changing how organizations are conceptualizing, architecting, designing, developing, producing, and sustaining. Some use model centric environments for customer engagements, as well as design engineering analyses and review sessions. Some are integrating mission and system level modeling and simulations originally created for design and development and expanding them into new cloud like services enabled by the industrial Internet. Most organizations today have a unique capability realized by integrating commercial technologies and tools with their own innovations.
The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) organized an Industry Government Forum to gain insights from key stakeholders in the user community on how to transform our engineering and acquisition culture in light of these advancements, how to align engineering and business acquisition models; and explore ideas and concepts to improve the efficiencies, and speed development, deployment, and sustainment of needed capabilities to the user.
The intent of this Forum was for key stakeholders in industry, government, and academia to converge and identify high value air gaps that remain as hurdles in model centric engineering, and that can be addressed through focused research and policy. This presentation will highlight the primary insights and challenges identified during this forum.
Biography: Dinesh Verma is Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, while concurrently serving as the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center, the first University Affiliated Research Center established by the DoD for Systems Engineering Research. He also serves as the Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration.
Host: Systems Engineering Research Center
More Info: http://www.sercuarc.org/
Webcast: https://stevensinstitute.webex.com/mw3100/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=stevensinstitute&nomenu=false&main_url=%2Fmc3100%2Fmeetingcenter%2Fdefault.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dstevensinstitute%26rnd%3D2399697570%26main_url%3D%252Fmc3100%252Fe.do%253Fsiteurl%253DLocation: Webex Webinar
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Barry Boehm
Event Link: http://www.sercuarc.org/
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Can machines understand and generate stories?
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Angeliki Lazaridou, USC/ISI Summer Intern
Talk Title: Can machines understand and generate stories?
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Computational creativity is an emerging field of AI, with linguistic creativity being an interesting test-bed for developing and evaluating machines with reasoning capabilities. A concrete example is story generation and understanding, a task which unlike the vast majority of traditional NLP that treats sentences in isolation, requires deep understanding of the general context and discourse of stories.
In this talk, I will present some preliminary steps towards this goal and show how sequence-to-sequence models can be applied to this task. Overall, our results on story understanding are on par with current state-of-the-art (that nevertheless have no generative capabilities), while at the same time producing sometimes rather amusing story endings.
Biography: Angeliki is a final year PhD student at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento. She received her MSc from the Saarland University, where she worked with Ivan Titov and Caroline Sporleder on Bayesian models for sentiment and discourse. She is currently working at the intersection between language and vision under the supervision of Marco Baroni.
Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/202452984a364bc8875b71bf115149281dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/202452984a364bc8875b71bf115149281d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
