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”
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”
Events - Past
The VizUM 3rd Annual Symposium was held on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146. Our guests speakers were Colin Ware and Martin Krzywinski. Read more “VizUM 2016 featured Colin Ware & Martin Krzywinski”
Lectures & Seminars - Archived
Dr. Tsinoremas will provide an overview of the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing entitled “Big Data Approaches and Applications for Biomedical Data “, along with a brief description of its seven scientific programs and two technology platforms. Read more “IDSC Director Nick Tsinoremas speaks at UF Informatics Institute”
Events - Past
On December 4, 2016, IDSC Training & Outreach had the pleasure of welcoming 38 Girl Scouts to the second annual “Girl Scouts Can” Tech Event. The girls were eager and enthusiastic to meet computer scientists and graduate students in computational fields who led them through activities designed to create a scaffold of computational thinking and inquiry. Read more “3rd annual Girl Scouts Can draws 38 Participants”
Events - Past
“She Innovates Tech”—a collaboration between IDSC and CODeLLA—aims to inspire girls in Miami-Dade County between the ages of 9 and 17 to become next-generation innovators, problem solvers, and digital creators. This event is intended to build their skill sets and their confidence, while inspiring and encouraging them to pursue STEM education and careers. According to code.org, Florida had only 2,114 computer science graduates in 2014, of which, only 19% were women. Also, the percentage of female computer science majors in the US decreased 19% in 2016. Read more “She Innovates Tech Event Saturday 10/29/2016”
News - Archived
The National Science Foundation has awarded a consortium of 28 collaborating institutions, led by Clemson University, a $750,000 grant to fund a Research Coordination Network to set up a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of best practices, expertise, and technologies to enable the advancement of campus-based research computing activities. The project, entitled “RCN: Advancing Research and Education Through a National Network of Campus Research Computing Infrastructures – The CaRCC Consortium,” is designed to bring together a wide range of campuses and community stakeholders to form a novel, yet complementary, element of an evolving and expanding national cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Read more “IDSC joins NSF-funded CaRCC Consortium”
Events - Past
Join Mark Musen (Stanford), Janice Kranz and Stephan Schürer (University of Miami) for CDD’s Q3 Town Hall Webinar, “Human vs. Machine-Enhanced Scientific Discovery.” We’re seeing ‘Big Data’ everywhere: healthcare, business, sports, traffic control, biology, drug discovery. The ‘behind-the-scenes’ tool enabling the power of Big Data – searching, sharing, visualizing, querying, analyzing – is the Semantic Web (aka ‘Web 3.0’ a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee in a Scientific American article (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-semantic-web/) in 2001 to describe a web of data that can be processed by machines.) . The major advancement brought about by the Semantic Web is the treatment of data and metadata on the internet as one giant graph of knowledge. Instead of the disjointed islands of knowledge we are used to, with the Semantic Web, databases will be more naturally connected to one other (except where privacy prevents openness). Read more “Human vs. Machine-Enhanced Discovery”
Grants
Congratulations to Dr. Wangda Zuo! An Assistant Professor in the Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Miami College of Engineering, Dr. Zuo runs the Sustainable Building Systems Laboratory (SBS Lab), which focuses on developing cutting edge modeling and simulation technology and applying them to reduce building energy and water consumption while improving indoor environment quality. The SBS Lab is funded by various agencies, including National Science Foundation (NSF); U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE); U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dr. Zuo is currently working on three important grant projects. Read more “2 NSF Grants for Wangda Zuo’s Smart Cities Research”