Reasearch Seminars in the Area
CS related lectures, talks and seminars found in the local area.
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Carnegie Mellon University
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CHALLENGES FOR PHOTONICS IN FUTURE SYSTEMS
A.F.J. Levi
University of Southern California
Thursday, February 12, 2004
4:00 PM
125 Scaife Hall
Refreshments 3:30PM
Abstract:
The aftermath of the telecommunications bubble suggests one should rethink the role of photonics in systems. This talk will discuss some of the ideas we have been working on, including new methods to manufacture components, new opportunities to insert phonics into systems, and new software to “discover” better device designs.
Bio:
Professor Levi received his PhD in physics from Cambridge University in 1983. He joined the USC faculty in mid-1993 after working for 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He invented hot electron spectroscopy, the microdisk laser, and carried out pioneering work on parallel fiber-optic interconnect components in computer and switching systems. His current research interests include the scaling of ultra-fast electronic and photonic devices, and the system-level integration of advanced optoelectronic technologies, manufacturing at the nanoscale, and the subject of Adaptive Quantum Design. To date he has published over 200 scientific papers, several book chapters, is author of the book 'Applied Quantum Mechanics', and holds 12 U.S. patents.
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Translingual Information Processing
Salim Roukos
IBM T.J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights
Thursday, March 04, 2004
4:00 PM
Wean Hall 7500
Refreshments 3:45PM
Abstract:
Searching unstructured information in the form of (largely) text with increasing image, audio and video content is fast becoming a daily activity for many people. Increasingly, the content is becoming multilingual (e.g. one such trend is that non-english speakers became the majority of online users in the summer of 2001 and continue to increase their share). To help assist users with accessing answers to their information needs regardless of the original language of the relevant content, we at IBM Research have a number of projects to handle multilingual content ranging from machine translation, information extraction, to topic detection and tracking. In this talk, we will present an overview of our work on statistical machine translation and demonstrate a cross-lingual search engine to search Arabic content using English queries. We will also briefly discuss an automated metric, called Bleu, for the evaluation of translation systems.
Bio:
Salim Roukos is the Manager of Natural Language Technologies Department at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The research groups in his department focus on various areas of statistical modeling for Natural Language Processing covering language modeling, parsing, natural language understanding for conversational systems, information extraction, and machine translation.
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PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES AND TOOLS
Tony Hoare
Microsoft Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Thursday, April 15, 2004
4:00 PM
Wean Hall 7500
Refreshments 3:45PM
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SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Sharad Malik
Princeton University
Thursday, April 22, 2004
4:00 PM
Wean Hall 7500
Refreshments 3:45PM
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CHALLENGES FOR PHOTONICS IN FUTURE SYSTEMS