CmpE Events & Announcements

Females in Computer Science in the USA

Wed, 19 Jun 2013

Diana Franklin, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Computer Science

Abstract:
Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females
pursuing and succeeding in the field. Companies suffer due to reduced
product quality, students suffer because educators have failed to
adjust to diverse populations, and future generations suffer due to a
lack of role models and continued challenges in the environment.
I draw on the latest research in sociology and education to hypothesize
why females in the United States do not pursue computer science,
and what obstacles those who do pursue it face.

Biography:
Diana Franklin is tenured teaching faculty and Director of the Center
for Computing Education and Diversity at UCSB. Franklin received her
Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2002. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER
award and an inaugural recipient of the NCWIT faculty mentoring
award. She was an assistant professor (2002-2007) and associate
professor (2007) of Computer Science at the California Polytechnic
State University, during which she held the Forbes Chair (2002-2007).
Her research interests include parallel programming and architecture,
computing education, and ethnic and gender diversity in computing.
She has a new book coming out this spring: "A Practical Guide to
Gender Diversity for CS Faculty."

Notes: Diana Franklin will be available for a Q&A and discussion session
after the talk between 12-1pm.
Refreshments will be served.

Date&Time: 19.06.13 11:00
Place: ETA 16 (AVS)

Optical illusions and visual perception

Tue, 21 May 2013

Dr. Hilmi Or

Bio: Dr. Hilmi OR studied medicine at the University of Ulm with a
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship. He worked at Trakya University as an eye surgeon, and had his private practice for many years. Some of the Dr. Or�s special interest themes in ophthalmology are optics and refraction, contact lenses, cataract and refractive surgery. Dr. Or combines his knowledge in light, vision, visual perception and their effects in medicine, arts and forensic sciences. He has given many oral presentations about visual perception and perception measuring tests in ophthalmology, contributed lectures, conference and panel presentations nationally and internationally. In 2007 he became Master of Arts in Photography with a thesis entitled
�The comparison of photographic drawing in the eye and the
photography.� He is currently pursuing two doctoral programs, one in photography about the effects of visual perception in photographs, and one in forensic sciences. He served in the Scientific Board of the Journal Turkish Society of Ophthalmology, and presently is a Fellow of European Board of Ophthalmology. Since 2005 he is an Artist of International Federation of Photography (AFIAP), and since 2012 he serves in the Turkish National Committee on Illumination (Artificial Lighting)

Date&Time: 21.05.13 12:00
Place: AV� - ETA 14

Crowd Simulation

Tue, 14 May 2013

Prof. Dr. Daniel Thalmann

Prof. Daniel Thalmann is with the Institute for Media Innovation at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a pioneer in research on Virtual Humans. His current research interests include Real-time Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality, crowd simulation, and 3D Interaction. Daniel Thalmann has been the Founder of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland, Professor at The University of Montreal and Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. Until October 2010, he was the President of the Swiss Association of Research in Information Technology and one Director of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of 6 other journals. Daniel Thalmann was member of numerous Program Committees, Program Chair and CoChair of several conferences including IEEE VR, ACM VRST, and ACM VRCAI. Daniel Thalmann has published more than 500 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality. He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including 'Crowd Simulation' (second edition 2012) and 'Stepping Into Virtual Reality' (2007), published by Springer. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1977 from the University of Geneva and an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) from University Paul- Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in 2003. He also received the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award in 2010 and the 2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.

Date&Time: 14.05.13 14:00
Place: Ali Vahit �ahiner Seminar Room

Simulation of the Physiological human : a case study with ballerinas

Tue, 14 May 2013

Prof. Dr. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 30 years. She obtained several Bachelor's and Master's degrees in various disciplines (Psychology, Biology and Biochemistry) and a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Geneva in 1977. From 1977 to 1989, she was a Professor at the University of Montreal in Canada and then Professor at the University of Geneva.

Nadia Thalmann In 1989, she founded the interdisciplinary research group MIRALab at the University of Geneva. Her global domain of research is Virtual Humans and Social Robots. She has acquired a great experience of collaborative research through her strong participation to more than 50 European Research Projects. She has coordinated several projects, the most recent one is the Marie Curie Project MUSTISCALE HUMAN.

She is Editor-in-Chief of The Visual Computer Journal published by Springer Verlag, Co- Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds published by Wiley and Associate Editor of many other scientific journals.

Together with her PhD students, she has published more than 500 papers and books on Virtual Humans and Social Robots with research topics such as 3D clothes, hair, body gestures, emotions modelling, and medical simulation.

She has been invited to give more than 300 keynote lectures in various institutions and organizations, among them the World Economic Forum in Davos. She was Vice-Rector at the University of Geneva from 2003-2006. She is a Member and President of high level international evaluation committees, among the recent ones the Jury of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, the Advisory Board for Computer Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Review Panel in Ottawa and the European Research Council.

During her Career, she has received more than 30 Awards such as "Woman in the Year", the early recognition in Montreal in 1987. Among the recent ones, she was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa in Natural Sciences from the Leibniz University of Hanover in Germany in 2009, the Distinguished Career Award from the European Association for Computer Graphics in Norrkoping, Sweden and an Honorary Doctorate of the University in Ottawa in 2010 and a Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society in Toronto in 2012.

Very recently, she received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in Germany given to "academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future".

Besides directing her research group MIRALab in Switzerland, she is presently Professor and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Date&Time: 14.05.13 13:30
Place: Ali Vahit �ahiner Seminar Room

Biomedical Information Extraction and Literature-based Scientific Discovery

Tue, 16 Apr 2013

Arzucan �zg�r

The vast amount of biomedical literature and its continuing rapid growth makes it difficult or impossible for the biomedical researchers to keep up with the relevant publications and utilize the knowledge contained in them. As a consequence, most of the knowledge remains hidden in the unstructured text of published articles. Our research in this domain has two main goals. The first goal is to extract information about genes, proteins, and their interactions from text. The second goal is to build large-scale models of protein/gene interactions and use these models for the generation of new scientific hypotheses. In this talk, I will first describe a relation extraction technique related to natural language processing and machine learning for identifying the interacting protein pairs in a sentence. Next, I will present a literature-based discovery approach based on integrating text mining with network analysis to uncover (potentially currently unknown) relationships among entities. I will describe the application of the proposed approach to two different problems, namely predicting gene-disease associations and predicting genes that are important for vaccine development.

Date&Time: 16.04.13 12:00
Place: ETA A2

Geli�en Teknoloji, Yerinde Sayan Hukuk: Bili�im, ceza yarg�lamas�n�n ��kmaz� m�?

Tue, 19 Mar 2013

Av. H�seyin Ers�z

Geli�en teknoloji kar��s�nda hukuk kurallar�n�n adapte edilmesi bir zorunluluk olmakla birlikte, bunun i�in yasal d�zenlemelerin ne kadar hayata ge�irilebildi�i ve pratikte ne t�r ��z�mler �retilebildi�i tart��ma konusu. Bilirki�ilik kurumu hukuki sorunlar�n ��z�m�nde her zamankinden daha etkili bir hale gelmi� durumda. Ancak T�rkiye'deki bilirki�ilik kurumunun d�nyadaki emsallerinden �ok geride oldu�unu s�ylemek gerekiyor. Yerel mahkemeler taraf�ndan T�B�TAK'a yapt�r�lan incelemelerin �o�u zaman olaylar� ��zmekten �ok daha karma��k hale getirdi�ine �ahit oluyoruz. Yarg��lar�m�z�n teknik bilgilerinin geli�en ve karma��kla�an teknoloji kar��s�nda �ok geride kalmas�, adil olmayan kararlar verilmesine neden oluyor. Bu konu�mada bu sorunlara �rnekler verecek ve ��z�m yollar� �nerece�iz.

Date&Time: 19.03.13 12:00
Place: A2

MS Thesis Defense: A Parallel Mesh Generator Based on Sequential Netgen

Mon, 11 Mar 2013

Yusuf Y�lmaz

Date&Time: 11.03.13 10:30
Place: AVS Seminer Odas�

BOUNCE team ranked 3rd on Task A and 4th on Task B of the Sentiment Analysis in Twitter competition in SemEval 2013.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013

BOUNCE team consisting of Nadin K�kciyan, Arda �elebi, Suzan �sk�darl�, and Arzucan �zg�r

ranked 3rd (among 23 teams) on Task A and 4th (among 35 teams) on Task B of the Sentiment Analysis in Twitter competition in SemEval 2013.

FP7 FIRESENSE Demo & Information Day

Wed, 05 Dec 2012

The Demo & Information Day for our FP7 FIRESENSE Project will take place on Dec 16, 2012 (Thursday) between 10:00-11:00am in the Dodge Hall (historic gymnasium). During the activity, the tasks of cameras and the sensors will be explained as well as demonstrating a fire scenario with smoke generated by using dry ice.

The Civil Protection team and Gymnasium personnel are expected to attend the activity. All interested are also cordially invited; we look forward to meeting you all. Refreshments from Orta Kantin will also be served.

''CMPE59G-NanoNetworking'' lecture videos available on YouTube and Facebook

Tue, 09 Oct 2012

The lecture videos for "CMPE59G - NanoNetworking" course are now publicly available on YouTube and Facebook.

You may access the videos and the Facebook group by clicking the links above. You may also search for the text "NanoNetworking" on YouTube or join the "NanoNetworking Group" in Facebook.