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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering TalkWed, May 29, 2019
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen (HS juniors and younger) 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!
RSVPLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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PhD Defense - Zahaib Akhtar
Wed, May 29, 2019 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
PhD Candidate: Zahaib Akhtar
Date:
Wednesday May 29th, 2019
10:00a.m. - 12:00
Location: SAL 2nd Floor Conference Room
Committee: Antonio Ortega, Barath Raghavan, Ramesh Govindan
Title:
Understanding and Optimizing Video Delivery
Abstract:
In this work, we strive to understand and optimize the performance of systems which serve video over the Internet. Towards this end, we make the following three contributions. First, we perform a systematic study of the video management plane -- the systems which form the video delivery pipeline. Second, we propose an approach called Oboe to improve the performance of client side video players by tuning Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms to the characteristics of a network. A range of different algorithm when augmented with Oboe improve their performance by up to 25%. Finally, we propose a caching algorithm called AVC which is specifically tailored for video workload. AVC outperforms state of the art caching algorithms by exploiting various properties of adaptive bitrate video. In particular, a LRU cache requires 3x the memory used by AVC to match its performance.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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NL Seminar-Quantifying the morphosyntactic content of Brown Clusters
Thu, May 30, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Manuel Ciosici, Aarhus University
Talk Title: Quantifying the morphosyntactic content of Brown Clusters
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Brown and Exchange word clusters have long been successfully used as word representations in Natural Language Processing NLP systems. Their success has been attributed to their seeming ability to represent both semantic and syntactic information. Using corpora representing several language families, we test the hypothesis that Brown and Exchange word clusters are highly effective at encoding morphosyntactic information. Our experiments show that word clusters are highly capable of distinguishing Parts of Speech. We show that increases in Average Mutual Information, the clustering algorithms' optimization goal, are highly correlated with improvements in encoding of morphosyntactic information. Our results provide empirical evidence that downstream NLP systems addressing tasks dependent on morphosyntactic information can benefit from word cluster features.
Biography: Manuel is a soon to graduate Ph.D. student at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research is focused on understanding the kinds of information encoded in word representations and how that information can be used in downstream NLP applications.
Host: Xusen Yin
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/s/diiPj/Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - CR #689
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/s/diiPj/
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Fri, May 31, 2019
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen (HS juniors and younger) 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!
RSVPLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
