Seminars (Spring 2014)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 2014

(Previous Course Codes: COMP 690 & COMP 691)

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
10 Feb 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The New HDFS Features in Apache Hadoop v2 Dr. Tsz-Wo Sze
Hortonworkds/Apache Hadoop		 S.C. Cheung
17 Feb 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Theoretical Elements in Computer Science Research and Paper Writing Dr. Ke Yi
HKUST		 K. Yi
24 Feb 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Big Data in Pictures: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Visualization Dr. Huamin Qu
HKUST		 H. Qu
03 Mar 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Feature Selection for Big Data with Trillion Dimensions Dr. Ivor Tsang
Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore		 J. Kwok
07 Mar 2014, Fri (15:00-16:00) LTG Computational and Robotic Models of Evolutionary Semantics [Joint Seminar] Dr. Michael Spranger
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo Japan		 D. Wu
10 Mar 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 7 Mar 2014, Fri, 3pm in LTG]    
17 Mar 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Privacy Preserving Similarity Evaluation of Time Series Data Prof. George Kollio
Boston Univ.		 L. Chen
24 Mar 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Application Driven Systems Research Dr. Lin Gu
HKUST		 L. Gu
27 Mar 2014, Thu (16:00-17:00) LTH Urban Computing-Using Big Data to Solve Urban Challenges Dr. Yu Zheng
MSRA		 L. Chen
28 Mar 2014, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTF Visual Programming for Spreadsheets Dr. Phil Cox
Dalhousie Univ.		 S.W. Cheng
31 Mar 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF [Rescheduled to 27 Mar 2014, Thu, 4pm in LTH]    
07 Apr 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Semantic Matching: The Next Big Thing for Natural Language Processing? [Joint Seminar] Dr. Hang Li
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab		 D. Wu
10 Apr 2014, Thu (16:00-17:30) LTH Planet-Scale Sensing: from lab to the real world Dr. Feng Zhao
MSRA		 L. Chen
14 Apr 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Experience Sharing: How to Conduct Research Dr. Raymond Wong
HKUST		 R. Wong
21 Apr 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
28 Apr 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Rooting out the Rumor Culprit in Online Social Networks Dr. Chee Wai Tan
City Univ. of HK		 G. Chan
05 May 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Routing over eXplicit Paths in Data Centers: Design and Applications Dr. Kai Chen
HKUST		 K. Chen

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2014

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
18 Mar 2014, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm2463 Regularizers for Structured Sparsity [AI Group Seminar] Prof. Massimiliano Pontil
Univ. College London		 J. Kwok
16 May 2014, Fri (16:00-17:00) LTH K-NN Queries with Operating Time Constraints in Time-Dependent Road Networks Prof. Mario Nascimento
Univ. of Alberta		 L. Chen
28 May 2014, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3530 Finding Answers and Generating Explanations for Complex Biomedical Queries [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Esra Erdem
Sabanci Univ., Turkey		 F. Lin
30 May 2014, Fri (15:00-16:00) Rm3501 Global Software Engineering Research in a Small Country Prof. Kevin Ryan
Univ. of Limerick, Ireland		 S.C. Cheung
23 Jun 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) Rm3501 An Organizational Actor Approach to Gathering Early Phase Requirements Prof. Carson Woo
Univ. of British Columbia		 D. Lee
25 Jul 2014, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 Big Graph Processing Prof. Wook-Shin Han
POSTECH		 L. Chen
29 Aug 2014, Fri (15:00-16:00) LTH Challenges and Opportunities in Improving Cloud Service Reliability and Availability Prof. Chunming Qiao
SUNY Buffalo, USA		 K. Chen

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2014.

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