“Diversifying Amazon Recommendations” 2/17/17
Dr. Houssam Nassif, machine learning scientist from amazon.com, will be presenting two recently published papers. Read more ““Diversifying Amazon Recommendations” 2/17/17”
News
Biltmore Hotel to be Born Again in 3D
An interdisciplinary approach at CCS is using drones and mapping to view historic buildings in 3D. The 26-story tower of the historic Biltmore Hotel (pictured above) rises majestically into the sky over Coral Gables. Visible for miles, it’s an icon, a landmark on the National Historic Register, and a lush and ornate example of classic Spanish colonial influences in Mediterranean Revival architectural style.
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Mapping Informal Cities mixes Activism and Architecture
Children play soccer barefoot on a dirt field, and when they aren’t imitating the flamboyant striking and passing skills of their country’s greatest footballers, they roam neighborhood streets, playing other games or sometimes just looking for something to eat. If not for the efforts of a woman named Julia, many of them would go hungry. A 50-something community elder with an energetic spirit, Julia helps keep their bellies full, working with a group of other women to prepare meals that feed as many as 100 kids a day. Read more “Mapping Informal Cities mixes Activism and Architecture”
Notification: Pegasus Upgrades & Maintenance 12/16-19
IDSC storage systems are scheduled for maintenance from Friday, December 16, 2016 through Monday, December 19, 2016. During this time we will be completing the installation of additional storage controllers. CCS systems and services will be unavailable for this duration, including: Read more “Notification: Pegasus Upgrades & Maintenance 12/16-19”
IDSC presents poster at Breast Cancer Symposium
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (December 6-10, 2016) is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease, to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers involved in breast cancer in medical, surgical, gynecologic, and radiation oncology, as well as to other appropriate health care professionals. Read more “IDSC presents poster at Breast Cancer Symposium”
Using Data Ensembles Seminar 11/30/2016
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”
Talk with Will Grisham of iNeuro 1/6/2017
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”
BIG DATA Lunch & Learn Thursday 12/01/2016
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”
Ge-Cheng Zha receives DARPA Award for Aviation Transports
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”
MICROSOFT profile of Visualization Director Alberto Cairo
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”