News
9/15/2008
MIAS/AIIS Seminar Series
Click here for the 2008-09 MIAS/AIIS Seminar Series
8/27/2008
2008-09 DHS Brown Bag Talks Announced!
Click here for the 2008-09 MIAS Center Brown Bag talks!
5/21/2008
DSSI 2008 Projects
2008 Summer Research Projects Wiki
12/7/2007
MIAS In The News
See http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/535369/
2/15/2008
Data Science Summer Institute Applications Open
The 2008 Data Science Summer Institute (DSSI) is accepting applications! The DSSI is a component of the MIAS program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science.
Acceptance into the DSSI may include a monthly stipend of $1,200 for undergraduate students and $1,800 for graduate students. In addition, free room-and-board will be provided to selected students. Apply here!
DSSI students will be heavily immersed in a Foundations component, a Tutorials component, and a Research project.
The DSSI is scheduled to begin on Monday, May 19 and end on Friday, July 11, 2008. More details will be posted on the Education page in the near future.
All qualified students with a strong interest in data science are encouraged to apply. Click here to go to the application form.
11/20/2007
2008 MIAS Data Science Summer Institute Application Process to Open Soon!
The 2008 Data Science Summer Institute (DSSI) will soon be accepting applications! The DSSI is a component of the MIAS program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science.
Acceptance into the DSSI may include a monthly stipend of $1,200 for undergraduate students and $1,800 for graduate students. In addition, free room-and-board will be provided to selected students.
DSSI students will be heavily immersed in a Foundations component, a Tutorials component, and a Research project.
The DSSI is tentatively scheduled for an eight-week period between May and early July, 2008. The application process is planned to commence in December, 2007. Please watch this location for further details!
8/1/2007
2007 DSSI ends
We would like to thank everyone who participated in this year's program. A summary of the 2007 Data Sciences Summer Institute, including tutorials and speaker slides, can be found here. For more information about the summer school, see the Education page. Information about the 2008 Summer Institute will be available approximately in December 2007.
7/10/2007
Speaker Series: Anhai Doan
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) Speaker Series announces:
Guest: Anhai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Computer Sciences, http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/
Date/Place/Time: 7/10, Siebel 3405, 1-2:30p
Dr. Doan's talk is open to the public.
Title: The Cimple Project on Community Information Management
See the Speaker Series page for more details.
7/9/2007
Speaker Series: Patrick Pantel
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) Speaker Series announces:
Guest: Patrick Pantel, Information Sciences Institute, USC, http://www.isi.edu/~pantel/
Date/Time/Place: 7/9, 1-4p, Siebel 3405
Dr. Pantel will give a 3 hour talk and tutorial which is open to the public:
Title: Lexical semantics and large-scale similarity modeling
See the Speaker Series page for more details.
7/2/2007
Speaker Series: Tina Eliassi-Rad
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) Speaker Series announces:
Guest: Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/people/eliassi-rad/)
Date/Time/Place: Friday, July 6, 2007, 1-2:30p, in Siebel 3405.
Dr. Eliassi-Rad will give a talk entitled: Leveraging Network Structure to Infer Missing Values in Relational Data
See the Speaker Series page for more details.
7/2/2007
Speaker Series: Dan Roth
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) Speaker Series announces:
Guest: MIAS Director, Professor Dan Roth, UIUC Department of Computer Science
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, July 5, 2007, 1-2:30p, in Siebel 3405.
Dr. Roth will give a talk entitled: Global Learning with Constraints
See the Speaker Series page for more details.
6/21/2007
Speaker Series: Deva Ramanan
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis Data Sciences Summer Institute is hosting Deva Ramanan (a collaborator and former student of David Forsyth) as part of its Summer Speaker Series.
His talk, "Training a Computer to See People," will be offered in Siebel 2405, 4:15-5:45p, Monday, June 25.
For more information on Deva and his work, please see: http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~ramanan/
If you would like to schedule a meeting with Deva on Tuesday, 6/26, please send email to: heeren@cs.uiuc.edu.
6/14/2007
Speaker Series: Josef Ruppenhofer
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) Speaker Series announces:
Guest: Josef Ruppenhofer, University of Pittsburgh, http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~josefr/
Dr. Ruppenhofer will give a talk and a related tutorial, both of which are open to the public.
Title: Manual and Automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
6/14, 10a-12p, Siebel 2405, Research Talk
6/14, 1-2p, Siebel 2405, Tutorial
For more details, see the Speaker Series page.
6/8/2007
MIAS Data Sciences Summer Institute: New CS Summer Program Prepares Future Leaders in Data Science Field
At the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, a new program is not only researching the technologies needed to extract information from varied sources of information, but preparing future leaders in the field to make breakthrough contributions as well. Read the full article here.
6/6/2007
Speaker Series: Ed Hovy
Schedule for Ed Hovy:
6/7, 1-4pm, Siebel 2405 -- Automated Text Summarization as a Variant of Info Extraction
6/8, 9am, Siebel 2405 -- The 3 Futures of NLP
6/8, 10:30am, Siebel 2405 -- New Developments in Information Extraction
5/17/2007
DSSI begins
We would like to welcome our students to the 2007 Data Sciences Summer Institute. Information about this summer program can be found on the Education page, and details regarding the 2008 Data Sciences Summer Institute will be available approximately in November 2007.
7/25/2006
Department of Homeland Security establishes center at Illinois
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was awarded a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Read about it on the university website or the DHS website.
3/20/2007
DSSI Applications are open
The application form for the Data Sciences Summer Institute is now online. See the Education page for more information.
