The Computer Science Colloquium
 

Schedule - Spring 2013

January 31 Dan Roth
(Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)
Constrained Conditional Models: Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Natural Language Understanding
February 28 David Blei
(Princeton University)
Probabilistic Topic Models of Text and Users
March 21 Esther Ezra
(New York University)
On the Geometric Hitting-Set Problem
April 18 Yoram Moses
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (on sabbatical at Stanford)
Knowledge as a Window into Distributed Coordination
April 25 Imed Zitouni (Microsoft Research)
Information Extraction Crossing Language, Robustness and Domain Barriers
May 2 Peter Bell (hackNY)
Trends in database technologies
May 9 (11:00-noon, Science Center, Room 4102) Zornitsa Kozareva (USC Information Sciences Institute)
Knowledge Extraction and Taxonomization from the Web
May 9 (4:15-5:30, room 9204/05) Krzysztof Ciesielski (West Virginia U Math. and U of Pennsylvania, Medical Image Processing Group)
Delineating objects in images via minimization of $\ell_p$ energies: Fuzzy Connectedness, Graph Cut, and Random Walk algorithms.
May 16 Philippe Codognet,
University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris) / University of Tokyo
Experiments in Parallel Constraint-Based Local Search


The schedule will be updated shortly

The Colloquium is supported by generous contributions from the Bloomberg, Information Builders, Inc., and Netlogic, Inc.

       


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