Frost Science Students Tour the Data Center and Viz…
On Thursday July 25th, 2019, CCS hosted a field trip of middle schoolers from the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Read more “Frost Science Students Tour the Data Center and Viz Lab”
Enrico Capobianco Receives 2 Grants for Disease Research
Congratulations to Enrico Capobianco, PhD, Lead Senior Bioinformatics Scientist for CCS’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, on receiving grants from NIH and NSF. Read more “Enrico Capobianco Receives 2 Grants for Disease Research”
Smart Cities Competition Winners featured on Vyond
CCS is proud to announce that the winning team’s video for the inaugural Smart Cities Miami Design Your Coral Gables Competition has been featured on the Vyond animation program’s website. Kudos to “The Laboratory of Everyday Things -N.O.T.” Team! Read more “Smart Cities Competition Winners featured on Vyond”
Data Intersections: Conversations on Ethics 2/13/2020
Data Intersections is an annual symposium featuring speakers from the fields of data science, statistics, data journalism, and the digital humanities. The 2020 session theme is “Conversations About the Ethics of Data, Technology, and Design”.
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Data Mining & SSI Present Paper at CVPR
Mitsunori Ogihara (Director) and Gang Ren (Postdoctoral Associate) of Big Data Analytics and Data Mining program, and Daniel Messinger, Program Director of Social Systems Informatics, presented an interdisciplinary paper (TITLE: “Categorical Timeline Allocation and Alignment for Diagnostic Head Movement Tracking Feature Analysis”) together at the workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics (FGAHI) at CVPR 2019 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, part of IEEE CVF) 2019, on June 16-21, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Read more “Data Mining & SSI Present Paper at CVPR”
LAND Affordable Housing Shortage Tool
Sandwiched between two national parks, Miami-Dade County has a shortage of developable land, an intractable problem that puts affordable housing out of the reach of low- and moderate-income residents who already spend more than 70% of their income on housing and transportation. Or so the thinking goes. Read more “LAND Affordable Housing Shortage Tool”
Miami Affordability Project version 2 Launched
A minimum-wage worker would have to hold three full-time jobs to afford an average market-rate apartment in Miami, a city with the nation’s highest share of severely cost-burdened renters—individuals and families who spend at least 50 percent of their income on housing. With Miami remaining one of the least affordable cities in the world, the UM Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) unveiled its new Miami Housing Solutions Lab to help address Miami’s affordable housing shortage. Read more “Miami Affordability Project version 2 Launched”
Smart Cities Competition at eMerge Americas
The University of Miami and the City of Coral Gables are hosting a competition aimed at helping the City be smarter, more sustainable, and more efficient. Read more “Smart Cities Competition at eMerge Americas”
N.O.T. Team Wins 2019 Smart Cities Miami Competition
The final presentations for the inaugural Design Your Coral Gables: Smart City Solutions Competition were held at eMerge Americas on Monday, April 29, 2019. The event was led by Joel Zysman, Director, CCS Advanced Computing, and Raimundo Rodulfo, Director, IT for the City of Coral Gables. Read more “N.O.T. Team Wins 2019 Smart Cities Miami Competition”
Urbetica Signs School of Architecture Gift Agreement
University of Miami’s School of Architecture (SoA), and donor, Urbetica, signed a gift agreement on May 30, 2019, at El Colegio Nacional in Mexico City. (El Colegio Nacional is a Mexican honorary academy with a strictly limited membership, created in 1943 by presidential decree in order to bring together the country’s foremost artists and scientists, who are periodically invited to deliver lectures and seminars in their respective area of specialty.) This gift will provide initial funding to support research on smart city design and planning, extending the work done by SoA’s Responsive Architecture and Design Lab (RAD Lab), in partnership with IDSC’s Center for Computational Science on Zenciti, a planned smart city in the Yucatán peninsula near Merida, Mexico. Read more “Urbetica Signs School of Architecture Gift Agreement”