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STEM Spotlight on Biomedical Engineering
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
University Calendar
The Department of Biomedical Engineering will showcase research in the field to 300 students from three middle schools in Compton Unified School District and a Long Beach high school. Lab tours of faculty research will be accompanied by interactive demonstrations planned by the Ph.D. students of BME, the undergraduate biomedical engineering students organization, and the student group, Motivate & Empower.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/k-12/stem-spotlight/Audiences: K-12 Schools pre-registered
Contact: Katie Mills
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EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lin Zhong, Professor, Rice University
Talk Title: The mess at the hardware/software boundary
Abstract: As computing embraces heterogeneity, an increasing fraction of operating system deals with hardware directly, usually with unsafe languages like C and assembly and a primitive programming model based on registers and interrupts. This leads to a mess at the lowest level of software which is error-prone, difficult to maintain and evolve. This talk presents our recent effort in taming this mess with proper designs. We show that with a little bit hardware support, many of the hardware-facing functions can be moved out of device drivers and made generic, leading to much simplified hardware-specific software.
Biography: Lin Zhong is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering with Rice University. He received his B.S and M.S. from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been with Rice University since September 2005. At Rice, he leads the Efficient Computing Group to make computing, communication, and interfacing more efficient and effective. He and his students received the best paper awards from ACM MobileHCI, IEEE PerCom, and ACM MobiSys (3), and ACM ASPLOS. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Duncan Award from Rice University, and the RockStar Award from ACM SIGMOBILE. More information about his research can be found at http://www.recg.org.
Host: Xuehai Qian
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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USC Decide Fall Symposium
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ali Abbas, Yannis Yortsos, DECIDE
Talk Title: Next Generation Ethics
Host: Ali Abbas, Stephen Gee
More Information: Next Gen Ethics Symposium.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, titled "What Would it Take to Make LA Sustainable by 2050?"
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Amin Arbabian, Professor, Stanford University
Talk Title: Microwave-Ultrasound Hybrid Systems in Imaging and Implantable Medical Devices
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Amin_Arbabian_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jenny Lin
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Biomedical Engineering Speakers
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: Department of Biomedical Engineering: Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: tba
Host: Brent Liu, PhD
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mo Chen and Mohammad Sowlat, Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: See Attachment
More Information: Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar Abstract.pdf
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Learning from Zero: Recent Advances in Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers using Crowdsourcing
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yu Su, UCSB
Talk Title: Learning from Zero: Recent Advances in Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers using Crowdsourcing
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Semantic parsing, which parses natural language into formal languages, has been applied to a wide range of structured data like relation databases, knowledge bases, and web tables. To learn a semantic parser for a new domain, the first challenge is always how to collect training data. While data collection using crowdsourcing has become a common practice in NLP, it's a particularly challenging and interesting problem when it comes to semantic parsing, and is still in its early stages. Given a domain and a formal language, how can we generate meaningful logical forms in a configurable way? How to design the annotation task so that crowdsourcing workers, who do not understand formal languages, can handle with ease? How can we exploit the compositional nature of formal languages to optimize the crowdsourcing process? In this talk I will introduce some recent advances in this direction, and present some preliminary answers to the above questions. The covered works mainly concern knowledge bases, but we will also cover some ongoing work concerning web APIs.
Biography: Yu Su is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at UCSB, advised by Professor Xifeng Yan. Before that, He received a bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2012, with a major in Computer Science. He is interested in the interplay between language and formal meaning representations, including problems like semantic parsing, continuous knowledge representation, and natural language generation. He also enjoys applying deep learning on these problems.
Host: Xing Shi 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/
