Assistant Professor of Computer Science Olga Papaemmanouil has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a highly selective grant that the National Science Foundation awards to junior faculty members who are likely to become academic leaders of the future.
The research project funded by Olga’s CAREER grant (“Towards Extensible Performance Management for Cloud Data Services“) aims to a) develop declarative mechanisms that allow application developers to express custom performance criteria for data processing tasks and b) exploit the properties of these mechanisms to design extensible resource, workload and Service-Level-Agreement (SLA) management services for cloud databases.
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Artificial Intelligence luminaries from across the nation gathered at Brandeis on Sunday Sept 23 to honor David Waltz, who was a professor at Brandeis from 1984-1993 and who passed away in March from cancer. Organized by Prof. Jordan Pollack with sponsorship from Brandeis, AAAI, and Ab Initio Software, the day long event featured keynotes and panels from 6 different phases of Waltz’s career reflecting on his work and his leadership. A complete schedule follows the break, and when video of the event is available it will link from here.
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Professors Mitch Charniack and Olga Papaemmanouil received a new grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “A Development Environment for Query Optimization Engineering” from Sept 2012 thru August 2015.
Professor James Pustejovsky and Marc Verhagen have received a new National Science Foundation grant “The Language Application Grid: A Framework for Rapid Adaptation and Reuse,” in collaboration with Vassar College. The Brandeis component is $1.4M and covers the period of August 2012 through July 2015
July 30th 2012, 1PM Volen 101
Martin is currently the CEO of SitterCity. Previously he was the founder of wis.dm, an
early question/answer social networks
July 23rd 2012, 2PM Volen 101 (NOTE NEW TIME)
Melissa is currently VP of Engineering, Service and Operations at Awareness Network, an
enterprise social networking firm. Melissa has been founder or co-founder of several
startups.
Thursday, July 19th 1PM Volen 101 (NOTE NEW DAY)
Johann holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brandeis University and specializes in engineering learning analytics visualizations, models and algorithms.
July 16th 2012 1PM Volen 101
Stuart Lewtan is founder & CEO of Zintro. Prior to Zintro, he was founder & CEO of
Lewtan Technologies. Stuart is also a Trustee of Brandeis University.
July 9th 2012, 1PM Volen 101
Jeffrey is founder and partner at Seed2A, where he helps teams go from Seed Stage to
Angel/VC Stage. Previously he was a partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, and cofounded eRoom Technology. He loves working with the earliest stage companies.
James Pustejovsky and his student Amber Stubbs have a new book “Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning” out from O’Reilly Books and Media: “Systems exist for analyzing existing corpora, but making a new corpus can be extremely complex. To help you build a foundation for your own machine learning goals, this easy-to-use guide includes case studies that demonstrate four different annotation tasks in detail. You’ll also learn how to use a lightweight software package for annotating texts and adjudicating the annotations.”
