http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/index.htmlDepartment of Computer Science and Engg. Seminar Seriesenseminars@cse.nd.eduCopyright 2006 Computer Science and Engg, University of Notre Dame2006-12-15T08:30:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:00:20 -0400seminars@cse.nd.eduPh.D. Thesis2006-12-15T08:30:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/f89455127c6c69541ce7f77a0028259a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/f89455127c6c69541ce7f77a0028259a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-12-08T12:00:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/c84908014d92ef604cc41afcfa3664d3-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/c84908014d92ef604cc41afcfa3664d3-17.html#unique-entry-id-17seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-11-30T15:00:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8884f40c19acb90c7addc18a27ef4ac6-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8884f40c19acb90c7addc18a27ef4ac6-16.html#unique-entry-id-16seminars@cse.nd.eduPh.D. Thesis2006-11-30T10:00:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0905b9d5efc18a62c6c3b8eaf5fa0420-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0905b9d5efc18a62c6c3b8eaf5fa0420-15.html#unique-entry-id-15seminars@cse.nd.eduPh.D. Thesis2006-11-17T15:00:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/13716400d700d7b4ba809a2eaf56a261-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/13716400d700d7b4ba809a2eaf56a261-14.html#unique-entry-id-14seminars@cse.nd.eduEdison Series2006-11-16T15:30:30-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8b6bb2e4d770b514d429b95314d2b0af-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8b6bb2e4d770b514d429b95314d2b0af-13.html#unique-entry-id-13seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-11-09T11:22:50-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/1505a817036e04f6ebc6d5f84e67a63b-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/1505a817036e04f6ebc6d5f84e67a63b-12.html#unique-entry-id-12Abstract On basis of our prior knowledge and observations, Bayesian learning is capable of adapting to the characteristics of realistic data, judging the uncertainty of predictions and discovering the structural knowledge.... Although correlation between instances is often modeled via a kernel function using input attributes of the instances, relational knowledge, as a typical data resource in many Bioinformatics and data mining problems, can further reveal additional pairwise correlations between variables of interest.... degree in inertial navigation systems from the 3rd Research Academy of the China Aerospace Cooperation, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Control Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, in 2003.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduIBM Lecture Series2006-11-02T15:30:00-05:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0cf4a7da6b5392589b3b49c2663503e0-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0cf4a7da6b5392589b3b49c2663503e0-3.html#unique-entry-id-3seminars@cse.nd.eduFall 20062006-10-26T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/ce314f25f64b28b852681c196ca06f6b-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/ce314f25f64b28b852681c196ca06f6b-11.html#unique-entry-id-11seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-10-19T15:30:30-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/bf93913393226923b3b8528c5cbe7214-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/bf93913393226923b3b8528c5cbe7214-10.html#unique-entry-id-10Bio Dr. Nitesh Chawla is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Nitesh's core research in machine learning and data mining focuses on cost/distribution sensitive learning, massively parallel and distributed data mining, semi-supervised learning, and learning in networks.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-10-13T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/b0f82d9e3642b6a2b916c7d524a3eb37-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/b0f82d9e3642b6a2b916c7d524a3eb37-9.html#unique-entry-id-9Bio Jay has nearly thirty years of technical marketing, business development and sales experience in the IT industry. Over the past eight years he has concentrated on the high performance computing market working for two HPC-focused companies as well as consulting on IT in life sciences research prior to joining AMD.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-10-09T15:30:30-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8cd040b5741a93f03dc7382cc643c233-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8cd040b5741a93f03dc7382cc643c233-8.html#unique-entry-id-8Abstract The success of the human genome project is in no small part due to computer programs, called assemblers, that were used to reconstruct the three billion letters representing our genetic make-up from the small pieces of DNA (usually shorter than one thousand letters) produced by automated sequencing machines.... At TIGR Dr. Pop developed an expertise in genome sequence assembly and was actively involved in many genome projects, including several organisms of great importance to human health, such as Bacillus anthracis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Trypanosoma cruzi.... Currently, Dr. Pop is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland and is affiliated with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-10-05T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/aac403cafa11ef5d56adabaa8025c3d5-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/aac403cafa11ef5d56adabaa8025c3d5-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Bio Dr. Shang-Hua Teng is currently a full professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University and also a senior research scientist at Akamai Technologies Inc. He taught as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics of MIT and in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Minnesota and UIUC.... Dr. Teng received a B.S. degree in computer science and a B.A. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985, an M.S. degree in computer science from University of Southern California (USC) in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1991.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduEdison Series2006-09-29T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0c1dac3029daa066a83fa720f0d74cf8-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/0c1dac3029daa066a83fa720f0d74cf8-1.html#unique-entry-id-1seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-09-26T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8c347cb3b639faf8f2050474efec5062-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/8c347cb3b639faf8f2050474efec5062-7.html#unique-entry-id-7Abstract Complex problems in computational science, such as simulating gravitational waveforms from black hole coalescence or providing accurate and timely forecasts for severe weather events motivate a range of research areas in computer science.... Before moving to LSU in 2003, Gabrielle was the lead of the computer science area of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI) in Potsdam, Germany where she researched and developed techniques for high performance and grid computing.... At LSU, Gabrielle is involved in a number of large, collaborative projects involving computer science, scientific computing and the computational sciences, in diverse fields including petroleum engineering, coastal modeling, computational fluid dynamics, numerical relativity, computational chemistry and computational biology.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-09-21T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/d53de78f778fdb7dac6ce1c175bd9e70-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/d53de78f778fdb7dac6ce1c175bd9e70-6.html#unique-entry-id-6seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-09-07T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/711a579ef3a528fdc1ed51ad26f6bba3-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/711a579ef3a528fdc1ed51ad26f6bba3-5.html#unique-entry-id-5seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-08-31T15:30:00-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/965d43c24f30f84ebd0472d2d0b4e178-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/965d43c24f30f84ebd0472d2d0b4e178-0.html#unique-entry-id-0Abstract An interesting model for building large-scale distributed systems is a cooperative one in which nodes are expected to contribute resources in exchange for using the supported services.... There are a number of systems issues that need to be addressed in this context: from the effects of high population transiency, given the strong interdependencies among participant nodes; to resource management in very heterogeneous and highly dynamic environments, to monitoring, testing and debugging in this chaotic setting.... I will then discuss the problem of sustainable scalability across systems and applications and introduce our newest project in which we are exploring techniques for inferring and exploiting network measurements performed by commercial content distribution networks (CDNs), such as Akamai, with the goal of locating and utilizing quality Internet paths without performing extensive path probing or monitoring.]]>seminars@cse.nd.eduColloquium2006-08-24T15:30:20-04:00http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/960edabe360873f744789786059ad7b8-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.cse.nd.edu/seminars/ay2006/page0/files/960edabe360873f744789786059ad7b8-4.html#unique-entry-id-4