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Olga Papaemmanouil receives NSF CAREER Award

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 … Continue reading

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Brandeis hosts David Waltz Symposium

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 … Continue reading

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New Grant

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.

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New Grant

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 … Continue reading

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Martin Clifford: “A Social Network as a Business”

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

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Melissa Leffler: If I knew then what I know now

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.

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Johann Larusson: Engineering a scalable learning analytics engine based on written language analysis.

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.

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Stuart Lewtan: “Zintro – A Search and Connect Engine”

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.

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Jeffrey Beir: “How to get your product to ‘go viral’”

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 … Continue reading

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Book Published

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 … Continue reading

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