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月: 2015年10月

Computational Art to introduce computing doe CS0 and Outreach

After Attending an AI session at the Grace Hopper Conference I participated in a GFX session/workshop. The first task for the participants of the workshop was to be creative! Draw yourself as the master of code in 30 seconds. This … Continue reading

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Follow, #hashtag and @mention: Mining Social Media for Disaster Response (Danelle Shah

Number of mobile devices has exceeded human population and this only continues to increase New apps and platforms Advances in data science The challenges faced in using data for disaster recovery Problems of big data – Volume velocity variety veracity value Requires processing and sense making of the data Presence of policies in social networking […]

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Virality At BuzzFeed (Anita Mehrotra)

Overall thoughts: Anita captured succinctly the area of social network data, how graph data is complex and what goes into analyzing sharing and why do we even care about sharing trends. Some quick points from her presentation Susceptible infected recovery model is used to figure out how the sharing of black and blue dress blew […]

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A Glimpse of the Future: Emerging Technologies at GHC15

This was a lively and insightful session  featuring Kate Boeckman, Obi Felten, Asta Roseway, Jess Kimball Leslie, and Vida Ilderem, who are all immersed in different aspects of emerging technologies. The discussion that touched on a lot of interesting emerging technologies, from smart homes and the Internet of Things, to self driving cars. Full notes from the […]

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GHC15: Attacks Presentations

Web Security: Thinking Like An AttackerSarah Chmielewski, Associate Technical Staff of MIT Lincoln LaboratorySoftware development focuses on the end user – performance, functionality and usability.  Lots of attacks happening against web based appl…

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GHC15: It’s Not Just the Pipeline: Why Fixing the Culture is Essential

I was drawn to the GHC15 session “It’s Not Just the Pipeline: Why Fixing the Culture is Essential” after experiencing oh-so-much in my first three years as an industry professional.  Making it through a Computer Science major in college wasn’t exa…

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Using Data Science to Increase Diversity in the Tech Workforce (Genetha A. Gray)

Intel hired a data scientist who is working on the hiring process. She has looked into the retention, new hires and diversity and developed a prediction model that given current representation, how many to hire, promote to reach the target goal. She wants to borrow ideas from economic forecasting and computational biology to build comprehensive […]

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Building Cross-Functional Teams to Create Innovative Data Products (Anu Tewary)

Overall thoughts on the presentation: Anu’s presentation is relevant to all teams working in data space and building products with a data driven focus. I looked her idea of having candidates interviewed by members from diverse backgrounds and cross roles. Her idea of pods is also interesting and coupled with cross pollination, it paves the […]

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Complex Problems

Managing fraud, recognizing speech, and creating more autonomous robots are just three areas that use artificial intelligence to come to grips with complexity. In this panel, industry and academic experts Tara Sainath,  Lydia Kavraki, and Jin Zhang discussed how they … Continue reading

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GHC15: Identity and Privacy Presentations

Identity & Access Management: Who is Touching What?Laura Chapba, VP of Bank of AmericaLaura found herself with a 1.8 GPA and realized she should not be in pre-med. Major change to tech! Graduated with a 3.1 after LOTS of hardwork and then started h…

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