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Events for October 12, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 12, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember 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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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Gully Burns, D. Phil., Supervising Computer Scientist, Project Leader (USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute)
Talk Title: TBA
Biography: http://www.isi.edu/people/burns/homepage
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CS Seminar: Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research) - Towards Hybrid Systems for Combining and Machine and Human Intelligence
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research Redmond
Talk Title: Towards Hybrid Systems for Combining and Machine and Human Intelligence
Series: CS Seminar Series
Abstract: Despite advances in Artificial Intelligence, computer systems still have limitations in accomplishing tasks that come naturally to humans such as making sense of images or carrying out a successful dialog. Having easy and on demand access to human intelligence through crowdsourcing offers us a new type of resource to train, improve and complement intelligent systems. However, this resource comes with a new set of challenges. Making human computation a reliable component of intelligent systems requires moving away from manual designs and controls towards generalizable automation techniques, algorithms, models and designs. In this talk, I will present an overview of our recent research efforts towards this goal focusing both on using machine intelligence for reliable crowdsourcing and on developing AI systems that can benefit from having humans in the loop.
I will start by showing how machine learning and decision-theoretic reasoning can be used in harmony to leverage the complementary strengths of humans and computational agents to solve crowdsourcing tasks efficiently. Next, I will present an overview of different studies towards maintaining reliable access to human intelligence. I will conclude the talk by discussing opportunities and challenges in using crowdsourcing to power and improve AI systems.
Biography: Ece Kamar is a researcher at the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Ece earned her Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University. While at Harvard, she received the Microsoft Research fellowship and Robert L. Wallace Prize Fellowship for her work on Artificial Intelligence. She currently serves in the program committee of conferences such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, WWW, UAI and HCOMP. Her research interests include human-computer collaboration, decision-making under uncertainty, probabilistic reasoning and mechanism design with a focus on real-world applications that bring people and adaptive agents together.
Host: Teamcore Research Group
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Verizon Information Session
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This an Info Session with Verizon.
At Verizon, we design, build and operate global networks, information systems and mobile technologies that connect people, grow businesses and economies, and improve communities. Verizon is one of the largest communication technology companies in the world. We operate America's largest 4G LTE wireless network and the nation's premiere all-fiber broadband network.
Technology inspires us. We believe that through our powerful technology, we can help transform any industry, leave a positive impact on any issue and create new possibilities for our customers and our world.
We are problem-solvers, engineers, technologists and innovators. Every day, we connect millions of people, companies and communities with our powerful technology. Not many companies get the chance to change the industry and the world through innovation. We do.
Imagine your job is essential to realizing a safer, smarter future. With a career in Engineering with us, it is. We need your analytical, tech-savvy expertise to help people stay connected, give first responders the support they need, and ensure government agencies are able to protect our homeland. Sound like superheroes? Close. It's our Engineering team, which has mastered the world's biggest, most reliable network-- for our customers and for society.Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
