Events - Past
The Department of Computer Science Pizza Seminar Series presents “Exploring the Potential of Data Depth for Uncertainty Characterization and Visualization of Ensembles” on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. (Room UB230), a lecture by Dr. Mahsa Mirzargar. Read more “Using Data Ensembles Seminar 11/30/2016”
Events - Past
Computational data analysis skills have crossed over from niche to mainstream. Join us Friday, January 6, 2017, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in the Lois Pope 7th floor auditorium, for a seminar by William Grisham, formerly at NSF and currently at UCLA, who developed the iNeuro Project, an effort to prepare a workforce to meet the challenge of large-scale data in neuroscience. Read more “Talk with Will Grisham of iNeuro 1/6/2017”
Events - Past
IDSC Advanced Computing has developed a new big data platform ready for university faculty, staff, and students. The Bigfoot Hadoop cluster has made big data collection and processing possible. It provides user friendly interfaces to allow users to load, process, and query big data easily and efficiently. In this lunch-and-learn session “Process Big Data on Bigfoot Hadoop Cluster: Load and Query,” Dr. Zongjun Hu will first introduce several big data technologies behind the interfaces, and then demonstrate the general procedures to communicate with the cluster and utilize it for big data discovery research. Read more “BIG DATA Lunch & Learn Thursday 12/01/2016”
Grants
A research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could help a University of Miami College of Engineering professor transform the aviation industry. Dr. Ge-Cheng Zha, a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with the CoE, and a IDSC Member, received a DARPA grant to conduct research including numerical simulation, design, and wind tunnel testing to further demonstrate the superior co-flow jet (CFJ) airfoil performance for extremely short takeoffs and landings, and ultra-high-transonic cruise efficiency. Read more “Ge-Cheng Zha receives DARPA Award for Aviation Transports”
News - Archived
Thomas Kohnstamm’s interview of Alberto Cairo for Microsoft is entitled “Show, don’t tell: Alberto Cairo, Power BI & the rise of data journalism“ (what is Power BI). This comes on the heels of the first Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium, organized by Dr. Cairo, and held on September 29-October 1, 2016, here at UM. Kohnstamm’s article illuminates the history of Visualization as visualizations themselves help to illuminate the rise of this fascinating approach. “Visualization no longer just complements a written story. It is the story. In our increasingly data-driven world, visualization is becoming an essential tool for journalists from national papers to blogs with a staff of one.” Read more “MICROSOFT profile of Visualization Director Alberto Cairo”
Events - Past
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a buzzword in both the research community and popular parlance in recent times. From Smart Cities to internet-connected appliances, the IoT has implications well beyond the technological and engineering fields. In this session of the IDSC Lunch and Learn series “Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensor Networks at UM (What is IoT and what do I do with it?)”, please join IDSC Director of Advanced Computing Joel Zysman to learn about current IoT based projects hosted at the University of Miami and the various data services available to the UM research community in support of sensor networks. Read more “Lunch & Learn on IoT and Sensor Networks 11/9/16”