From awd at cs.cmu.edu Mon Oct 2 11:57:37 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:57:37 -0400 Subject: [Research] Agenda for the lab meeting tomorrow Message-ID: <1159804657.26666.28.camel@localhost> Hello, Here is the agenda for tomorrow's meeting (NSH 1507, 11:30am-1pm): 1. Talk by Kaustav about his new approach to anomaly detection in multivariate multinomial data (30-40 minutes, discussion included). 2. Review of CBP data and experiments conducted on it so far, by John (20-30 minutes, discussion included). 3. Important announcements by Artur (the rest of the time). Looking forward to seeing you all there, Artur From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Oct 6 14:09:14 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:09:14 -0400 Subject: [Research] Lab Meeting on Tuesday Oct 10 at 12noon (please note the unusual starting time) Message-ID: <1160158154.29918.41.camel@localhost> Where: NSH 1507 When: Tuesday Oct 10 12noon--1pm (note the unusual starting time) Who: John Ostlund What: Container data & our work on it so far From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Tue Oct 10 11:42:55 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:42:55 -0400 Subject: [Research] Lab Meeting on Tuesday Oct 10 at 12noon (please note the unusual starting time) In-Reply-To: <1160158154.29918.41.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <025d01c6ec82$c15f4df0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Just a reminder, lab meeting today at noon in NSH 1507. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 2:09 PM To: research at autonlab.org Subject: [Research] Lab Meeting on Tuesday Oct 10 at 12noon (please note theunusual starting time) Where: NSH 1507 When: Tuesday Oct 10 12noon--1pm (note the unusual starting time) Who: John Ostlund What: Container data & our work on it so far _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research From awm at google.com Tue Oct 17 10:20:16 2006 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:20:16 -0400 Subject: [Research] Jobs at Yahoo Message-ID: <982f89350610170720x62dea853xdfeb54e7742354a7@mail.gmail.com> Pavel Bherkin at Yahoo asked me to forward this on to the Auton Lab for the benefit of future soon-to-be Auton Lab graduates (he made the comment that Auton Lab folks were number one on his list of folks he felt he needs right now). Andrew *Yahoo! Data Mining and Research Group (DMR)* is looking for* *an* *outstanding data mining researcher who wants to work on real problems leading to solutions that make a direct and measurable business impact. This individual should enjoy formulating problems based on customer needs, selecting, modifying and/or building appropriate tools or methodologies, and providing true end-to-end solutions for diversified challenging data mining and data research projects. We encourage our team members to stay abreast of novel academic work and seek patents and/or publish work when appropriate. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your data mining skills to the 10 terabytes of data that Yahoo! captures every day. The following criteria will be used in finding the ideal candidate: * Expertise and desire to work hands-on in analyzing and modeling large industrial data sets * Experience in exploratory data analysis and data mining process * Knowledge of data mining and machine learning methods and tools * Ph.D. in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field * Strong candidates with a Master's degree in the above field and rich industry experience will also be considered * Excellent communication skills and ability to understand business requirements * Team spirit and ability to aggressively execute independently * Creativity and passion in achieving goals * Software development skills (C/C++, Perl, Java, SQL, etc.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Mon Oct 23 09:35:35 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:35:35 -0400 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab meeting this Tuesday Message-ID: <000901c6f6a8$1f2cdbd0$0200000a@scs.ad.cs.cmu.edu> Speaker: Purna Sarkar Topic: Graphs, active pairs and approximate nearest neighbors Abstract: Random walks on graphs is an extremely well-explored area. Recently many data-mining applications have been developed using a random walks perspective. The graphs are obtained from a relational database (e.g the IMDB database, social networks or recommender networks) which links entities who have been observed to co-occur in some event. Random walks on such a graph gives rise to a very intuitive distance measure on entities in the graph, namely the expected hitting time, which is the expected number of hops a random walk takes to hit a destination node starting from a source node. Though this measure empirically proves to be highly predictive of the future behavior of the entities, existing techniques in essence require computing the pseudo-inverse of a sparse graph laplacian, and do not scale very well for massive data sets.In this talk we'll describe these concepts and why they are important in graph-based data mining. We are currently developing strategies that are guaranteed to retrieve approximate nearest neighbors under these kinds of distance measures within an epsilon distance of the true ones without looking at all pairs of nodes. Place & time: The Usual (NSH 1507, 11:30am) Date: Tuesday, October 24th. From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Wed Oct 25 11:54:51 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:54:51 -0400 Subject: [Research] Jeanie's Farewell Message-ID: <006b01c6f84d$e7edf620$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Please join us in NSH 3001 at 2:30pm on Friday, October 27th as we say goodbye and good luck to Jeanie. We hope to see you there! Kristen Schrauder, Administrative Coordinator Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics Institute Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3128 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412.268.7551 Fax: 412.268.7350 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 26 11:36:52 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:36:52 -0400 Subject: [Research] Tue Nov 28 lab meeting: special place, time & topic :-) Message-ID: <1161877012.5512.64.camel@localhost> Dear Autonians, The Auton Lab is going to a hockey game! The Lab is sponsoring an outing to the Pittsburgh Penguins game on November 28th (vs. New York Islanders) at 7pm, at Mellon Arena. Please let Kristen know if you wish to join and if you plan to bring significant others so that we could get a head count and buy the tickets in advance. In case you were not following this hockey season, the Penguins have been doing quite well so far. They are loaded with young and exceptionally talented players who are capable of playing a very entertaining style of ice hockey. They are fun to watch! Artur From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Oct 27 09:45:15 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:45:15 -0400 Subject: [Research] Tue Oct 31 lab meeting: the usual time and place Message-ID: <1161956715.18911.8.camel@localhost> Speaker: Brent Bryan Title: Distributed M-Trees Abstract: We propose a simple, yet powerful method for constructing distributed M-Trees. In fact, this method can be easily extended to many sorts of tree-based structure. We demonstrate that the distributed MTree easily obtains a linear scaling in size, while maintaining near optimal scalings in construction and search time. In the true nature of Auton talks, this one will be fairly informal, with the presenter dancing between slides (generated for a different talk, so permissable) and the white board. Please come and bring questions and comments. Place & Time: NSH 1507, Tue Oct 31, 11:30am-1pm. Food: Yes. From awm at google.com Tue Oct 31 15:45:25 2006 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:45:25 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fwd: [nvo-team] FW: CS faculty job In-Reply-To: References: <4547B05B.9050204@physics.ucdavis.edu> Message-ID: <982f89350610311245n1cd199abo94d4a3578d5cd7ae@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Hanisch Date: Oct 31, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: [nvo-team] FW: CS faculty job To: NVO Team CS faculty position at UC-Davis, FYI.... ------ Forwarded Message From: Tony Tyson Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:21:47 -0800 To: Subject: CS faculty job Hi Bob, Would you please circulate this CS faculty job ad re LSST? attached pdf. 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