From sajid at cmu.edu Wed Jun 6 14:23:00 2007 From: sajid at cmu.edu (Sajid M. Siddiqi) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:23:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Research] [Fwd: [UAI] NATO ASI on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security - Announcement and Call for participation] Message-ID: <4182.128.237.240.9.1181154180.squirrel@128.237.240.9> FYI ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [UAI] NATO ASI on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security - Announcement and Call for participation From: "Patrick Gallinari" Date: Wed, June 6, 2007 11:39 am To: uai at engr.orst.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security September 10 - 21, 2007 Villa Cagnola - Gazzada - Italy http://mmdss.jrc.it This 2-week Workshop brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments in exploiting Massive Data Sets. Emphasis is placed on available techniques and their application to security-critical applications. The Workshop is sponsored by the PASCAL and the MUSCLE Networks of Excellence *Important* Limited funding is available for participants, see the Workshop web page. This workshop is intended as a forum for discussion and participants are required to attend for the whole duration of the workshop. Workshop Dead line for registration : June 15 2007 *Objective* Today our world is awash in data and we live in an Information Society where every action leaves a trace, generating massive amounts of data. Recent scientific developments provide technologies to exploit these huge amounts of data and extract from it critical information. Used today in many commercial applications (marketing campaigns, user profiling and recommendations on e-commerce sites, web search, users communities ...), these technologies can also be used for security-critical applications (fraud detection and money laundering, intrusions detection, intelligence gathering, terrorist networks detection, Web surveillance...). It is the purpose of this workshop to review the various technologies available (data mining, social networks, search engines, crawling and indexing, text-mining, data streams) in the context of very large data sets. The workshop will provide survey presentations , oral presentations & posters to help building a scientific community aware of security issues and techniques to solve them. *Lecturers* - R. Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Barcelona - A-L. Barabasi, Univ. Notre Dame - USA (#) - C. Best, IPSC - JRC - Italy - L. Bottou, NEC - USA - R. Feldman, Bar Ilan Univ. - Israel - F. Fogelman-Souli?, Kxen - France - P. Gallinari, Univ. Paris 6 - France - L. Giles, Pennsylvania State University - USA - I. Guyon, Clopinet - USA - D. Hand, Imperial College, UK - G. H?brail, ENST & EDF - France - B. Huberman, HP Labs - J. Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA (#) - N. Tishby, Hebrew Univ. - Israel - V. Vapnik, Columbia Univ. - USA (#)to be confirmed *Directors* Clive Best, JRC - IT Fran?oise Fogelman-Souli?, Kxen - FR Patrick Gallinari, Universit? Paris 6 - FR Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University - IL *Important Dates* Deadline for submission of application form: June 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2007 Deadline for Accommodation form : July 1, 2007 NATO ASI MMDSS: September 10-21, 2007 Send your Application Submission to mmdss at jrc.it For all information, see , *Contact Us* If you require any help, send your queries to mmdss at jrc.it -- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! new address (Dec. 2006) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prof. Patrick Gallinari UPMC, LIP6 104 avenue du pr?sident Kennedy, F75016 Paris Tel: 33144277370, fax: 33144277000 http://www-connex.lip6.fr/ _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai at ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai From awm at google.com Wed Jun 13 13:51:21 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:51:21 -0400 Subject: [Research] Fwd: Call for Post-Doc in computer vision at Microsoft Research (Redmond) In-Reply-To: <8BC463DAE5D85E40B762DA955D01262C1FC285503A@NA-EXMSG-C107.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <8BC463DAE5D85E40B762DA955D01262C1FC285503A@NA-EXMSG-C107.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <982f89350706131051x23347408h78937be5d79c6e9e@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Zitnick Date: Jun 13, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Call for Post-Doc in computer vision at Microsoft Research (Redmond) To: "frey at psi.toronto.edu" , "jordan at cs.berkeley.edu" , "russell at cs.berkeley.edu" , "koller at CS.Stanford.EDU" , "tommi at ai.mit.edu" < tommi at ai.mit.edu>, "zoubin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk" , " hinton at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk" , "awm at cs.cmu.edu" < awm at cs.cmu.edu>, "afb at cc.gatech.edu" , "axs at cs.cmu.edu" < axs at cs.cmu.edu>, "az at robots.ox.ac.uk" , " bregler at cs.stanford.edu" , "brooks at ai.mit.edu" < brooks at ai.mit.edu>, "brown at cs.rochester.edu" , " dnm at cs.rutgers.edu" , "dph at cs.cornell.edu" < dph at cs.cornell.edu>, "dt at cs.toronto.edu"
, " dyer at cs.wisc.edu" , "flynn at nd.edu" , " hager at cs.jhu.edu" , "hanrahan at cs.stanford.edu" < hanrahan at cs.stanford.edu>, "hebert at ri.cmu.edu" , " huang at ifp.uiuc.edu" , "hugh at acfr.usyd.edu.au" < hugh at acfr.usyd.edu.au>, "irfan at cc.gatech.edu" , " jb141 at eng.cam.ac.uk" , "Jepson at cs.toronto.edu" < Jepson at cs.toronto.edu>, "kanade at cs.cmu.edu" , " ki at iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp" , "kriegman at uiuc.edu" < kriegman at uiuc.edu>, "levoy at cs.stanford.edu" , " quan at cs.ust.hk" , "lsd at umiacs.umd.edu" , "malik at cs.berkeley.edu" , "medioni at iris.usc.edu" < medioni at iris.usc.edu>, "mcmillan at graphics.lcs.mit.edu" < mcmillan at graphics.csail.mit.edu>, "nayar at cs.columbia.edu" < nayar at cs.columbia.edu>, "Olivier.Faugeras at sophia.inria.fr" < Olivier.Faugeras at sophia.inria.fr>, "peleg at cs.huji.ac.il" < peleg at cs.huji.ac.il>, "perona at systems.caltech.edu" < perona at gladstone.systems.caltech.edu>, "Roger.Mohr at inria.fr" < Roger.Mohr at inria.fr>, "sandy at media.mit.edu" , " seth at lcs.mit.edu" , "thorpe at ri.cmu.edu" , "tomasi at cs.duke.edu" , "tp at ai.mit.edu" , "welg at ai.mit.edu" , "dnister at cs.uky.edu" < dnister at cs.uky.edu>, "marc at cs.unc.edu" , "efros at cs.cmu.edu" , "rehg at cc.gatech.edu" , " seitz at cs.washington.edu" , " maneesh at eecs.berkeley.edu" , "billf at mit.edu" < billf at mit.edu>, "fredo at mit.edu" , "rdz at cs.cornell.edu" < rdz at cs.cornell.edu>, "sjg at cs.harvard.edu" , " deussen at inf.tu-dresden.de" Cc: MSR Interactive Visual Media Group Please forward as appropriate. Microsoft Research, Redmond, is currently looking to hire a post-doc researcher in computer vision specializing in object recognition or computational photography. A post-doc position typically lasts from one to two years, with an emphasis on research and academic publishing. Qualified applicants should have a Ph.D. (or close to defending) in computer science or related field, and a strong publication record. In object recognition and computational photography, research experience in the following subfields is preferred: - Object category recognition - Object instance recognition - Feature extraction - Image and video enhancement For details on our group and other projects, please see the MSR website ( http://www.research.microsoft.com/vision/InteractiveVisualMediaGroup/ ). Located on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, near Seattle, Washington, Microsoft Research is dedicated to basic and applied research in computer science. If interested, please send an e-mail to Larry Zitnick (larryz at microsoft.com) containing the following information: research statement, CV and list of references. The applicant should also request at least two references to email letters of recommendation directly to larryz at microsoft.com. The subject of all messages concerning your application should be "Vision PostDoc: ", e.g., "Vision PostDoc: David Marr". Interviews and offers will be given on a "rolling basis" for qualified applicants. Ideally, applicants should be available to start Fall 2007, or early 2008. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Jun 14 15:53:15 2007 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:53:15 -0400 Subject: [Research] Dr. Anna Goldenberg Message-ID: <1181850795.19087.123.camel@localhost> Please join us in NSH 1507 at 11am on Friday June 15th (yes, that's tomorrow!) to bid a farewell to Anna. Artur From awm at google.com Sat Jun 16 12:25:12 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:25:12 -0400 Subject: [Research] Fwd: could you please circulate this ad? bioinformatics/machine learning postdoc available at UCSD In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <982f89350706160925q28c4e9e6heb9ffbd28b8cf720@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles Elkan Date: Jun 15, 2007 2:45 PM Subject: could you please circulate this ad? bioinformatics/machine learning postdoc available at UCSD To: awm at cs.cmu.edu Cc: Charles Elkan Hi Andrew! Could you please forward this ad to your local mailing lists? If you know any good candidates, just tell me their names and I'll follow up. Thanks a lot and best wishes, Charles ====================================================================== Wanted: Outstanding candidates for a bioinformatics/machine learning postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Start date: Any time in summer or fall 2007. Salary: Competitive, commensurate with qualifications. The position is available now because the current postdoctoral fellow, Sanmay Das (Ph.D. from MIT in 2006) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at a research university. What is the project? ------------------- This is a multi-year project funded by NIH to develop methods to update automatically an existing successful database of over 3000 membrane transport proteins known as TCDB. The PIs are Profs. Milton Saier and Charles Elkan. For more information on TCDB see http://www.tcdb.org/ New research will use machine learning, information extraction, other text mining, and data mining to develop tools that discover information to be included in future releases of TCDB. In addition to contributing to the TCDB project, the postdoc will be expected to conduct independent research in his/her areas of interest. Who should apply? ---------------- Researchers holding a Ph.D. in computer science, bioinformatics, or a related field. Current postdocs and new Ph.D. graduates are both welcome to apply. Essential: - Able to design and implement methods for real-world data mining - Able to first-author high-quality conference and journal papers Desirable: - Knowledge of machine learning methods applied to bioinformatics - Knowledge of cellular and molecular biology - Experience with robust, scalable, web-based software development Women and men of all nationalities are welcome to apply. Employment is contingent upon documentation of U.S. employment eligibility. Subject to UCSD policy, visa assistance for foreign applicants is available. How to apply ------------ Send a CV as soon as possible to Prof. Elkan at elkan at cs.ucsd.edu. Leading candidates will be asked to arrange for letters of recommendation to be sent. UCSD is an equal-opportunity employer. About San Diego and UCSD ------------------------ The UCSD campus is located in scenic southern California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean with comfortable weather all year long. The area is world-famous for the numerous research institutions, biotech and research companies located in the neighborhood of the the campus. UCSD is one of the top-ranked universities in the world for computer science and bioinformatics research. Just in the CSE department, computational biology faculty include Profs. Pavel Pevzner and Vineet Bafna. Machine learning faculty include Profs. 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When: Thursday, June 28th, 5:30 pm- 7:30 pm (Doors open at 5:30pm, talk starts at 6pm) Where: 4720 Forbes Avenue, Lower Level of the Collaborative Innovation Center (details below) Josh Bloch presents yet another installment in the continuing saga of Java Puzzlers, consisting of eight more programming puzzles for your entertainment and enlightenment. The game show format keeps you on your toes while the puzzles teach you about the subtleties of the Java programming language and its core libraries. Anyone with a working knowledge of the language will be able to understand the puzzles, but even the most seasoned veterans will be challenged. The lessons you take from this session are directly applicable to your programs and designs. Some of the jokes may even be funny. Bio: Joshua Bloch is Chief Java Architect at Google, author of the bestselling, Jolt Award-winning "Effective Java" (Addison-Wesley, 2001), and coauthor of "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" (Addison-Wesley, 2005). He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia. Details: The Collaborative Innovation Center has an internal parking garage accessible from Neville Avenue (intersection of 5th Ave and Neville); another option includes parking at the Carnegie Museum and then walking across the bridge towards CMU's campus. Directions to the Collaborative Innovation Center: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/cic Light refreshment to be served. Space is limited, so registration prior to the event is required. Please confirm your seat by emailing us: rsvp-pit at google.com We look forward to seeing you there! -Your friends at Google -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: