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EVENTS
- Electrical Engineering Seminar
Making the Internet Fast
10:00 am, Mon., Mar. 28 | 750 CEPSR
Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Southern CaliforniaComputer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium
How to learn a quantum state
11:30 am, Mon., Mar. 28 | 750 CEPSR
John Wright, Carnegie Mellon UniversityRaymond D. Mindlin Lecture
Foundations of Predictive Computational Science: Selection and Validation of Models of Complex Systems in Presence of Uncertainty
2:30 pm, Mon., Mar. 28 | Davis Auditorium, 412 CEPSR
J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas at Austin
UG Coffee and Dessert Break
2:30 pm, Tue., Mar. 29 | CS Lounge - Data Science Institute Networking Night
Data Visualization
5:30 pm, Tue., Mar. 29 | Pulitzer Hall, The Brown InstituteComputer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium
Interacting with Personal Fabrication Machines
11:30 am, Wed., Mar. 30 | 750 CEPSR (Costas Commons)
Stefanie Mueller, Hasso Plattner Institute
Undergraduate Senior Dinner
7:00 pm, Tue., Apr. 5 |Data Science Day @ Columbia University
Data on a Mission
9:00 am, Wed., Apr. 6 | Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall - Computer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium
Adaptive Crowd Algorithms for Open-Ended Problems
11:30 am, Mon., Apr. 11 | 750 CEPSR (Costas Commons)
Lydia Chilton, University of WashingtonComputer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium
Reviving General Purpose Computing with Architectural Spe
11:30 am, Wed., Apr. 13 | 750 CEPSR
Tony Nowatzki, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Graduation Reception
4:00 pm, Tue., May. 17 |Offices closed
University Holiday (Memorial Day)
9:00 am, Mon., May. 30 |
NEWS
- Data Science Day at Columbia 2016 to feature lightning talks by CS professors Shih-Fu Chang, Julia Hirschberg, and Kathy McKeown. Event takes place April 6 in the Roone Arledge Auditorium.In an article on NASA's plan to use augmented reality in space, The Week interviews Steven Feiner, whose lab has shown that augmented reality reduces both the time to do a task and the error rate. But there are pitfalls also.Steven Bellovin and other experts explain how Marco Rubio oversimplifies when he says the FBI is only asking Apple to disable "the auto-erase mode on one phone in the entire world." May leave the wider public's data at risk.Steven Bellovin will be at the University of Texas at Austin March 24 to discuss international security issues related to encryption and privacy. Event is free and open to the public.
- CS startup NimbleDroid helped improve the startup time of the New York Times Android App by offering a simple way to identify bottleneck issues. NimbleDroid is the only profiling service available for mobile apps.Vishal Misra sees Indian regulators' brutal letter regarding Free Basics as devastating blow to Facebook. Of particular concern to regulators is Facebook's "self-appointed spokesmanship" for millions of Indians."Lot to learn before 5th generation network is launched," says Henning Schulzrinne. Future-generation networks warrant reducing operational complexity and integrating many types of networks. He expects a 5G rollout in 2020.Government "exceptional access" to encrypted communications won't work. Steve Bellovin explains why and cites study after study showing programmers don't get the crypto right —even when using standardized protocols.