ADSC Events and Short Courses

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Upcoming events and short courses:

MIAS (Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis) Data Sciences Short Course, a 1-week course to be held 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., January 4-8, 2010 and again in January 2011 and January 2012. In 2010, the course will be led by Kevin Chang and Jiawei Han of Illinois. 2 major topic areas will be covered:

• Large-Scale Mining and Integration: Data-Aware Search over the Web (Kevin Chang): Information abounds on the Internet, in both structured and unstructured forms, over both the "surface Web" of statically linked pages and the "deep Web" of dynamically queried contents. As current search engines are limited by finding only pages by keywords, how can we access the sheer scale of data on the Web, efficiently and effectively? This tutorial will study the principles and techniques, as recent research and industry actively work towards enabling data-aware search for large-scale data mining and integration. We will take a system-driven approach to motivate from actual application scenarios, identify key issues, and develop insights and techniques in the context of concrete system objectives.
• Data Mining: New Research Developments and Advanced Applications (Jiawei Han): This course will introduce the basic concepts of data mining and then focus on new research developments and advanced applications. It will covers the following topics: (1) An overview of data mining concepts, techniques, and applications; (2) Social and information network analysis: on the power of link mining; (3) Mining spatiotemporal, geographical, and moving object data; (4) Mining data streams, time sequences, and sensor network data; (5) Applications and social impacts of data mining: recommendation, ranking, and privacy; and (6) Research frontiers of data mining.

Apply here to attend this course. Applications must be submitted by December 24, 2009. Successful applicants will be asked to pay a registration fee of S$125 (non-students) or S$95 (students), which will cover lunch and two tea breaks per day for all five days of the course. Registration limit is 50 people. If more people apply than can be accepted, the instructors will give preference to those who will use the course material in their future work.

Kevin Chang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (and an M.S. in Computer Science) from Stanford University in 2001, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. His research focuses on Web-scale information integration and data retrieval: 1) information integration: dynamic integration of myriad Web sources, and 2) data retrieval: ad hoc retrieval of  structured data for Web-based databases.

Jiawei Han is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He has been working on research in data mining, data warehousing, stream data mining, spatiotemporal and multimedia data mining, information network analysis, text and Web mining, and software bug mining, with over 400 conference and journal publications. He has chaired or served in over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops and also served or is serving on the editorial boards for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. He is currently the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). Jiawei has received IBM Faculty Awards, the Outstanding Contribution Award at the International Conference on Data Mining (2002), an ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2004), and an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2005). He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. His book Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Morgan Kaufmann) has been used worldwide as a textbook.

HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference, Apr. 15-17, 2010. Details to be announced.

Multicore Programming Short Course, June 14-18, 2010. Presenters will be Marc Snir, David Padua, and Danny Dig of Illinois, Clay Breshears of Intel, and others to be determined. The program will provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of multicore programming, offer hands-on experience with the use of multicore languages and libraries, and introduce emerging research topics. Upon completion, participants will be familiar with available tools, languages, and libraries that can be used to develop parallel programs and the pros and cons of those utilities, and will be better equipped to choose the programming environment that best matches their application needs. Details to be announced.

Parallel @ Illinois is coming to Singapore on June 18, 2010! Illinois researchers Marc Snir, David Padua, Danny Dig, Josep Torrellas, and Sanjay Kale will present the latest in parallel computing research at Illinois. Details forthcoming.

Past events and short courses:

Alumni Tour of ADSC, November 7, 2009, 12:00-2:00. Alumni took a tour of the ADSC facility, used our videoconferencing facility to hear a welcoming speech from Ilesanmi Adesida (Dean of the College of Engineering at Illinois) and have a discussion with him about ADSC, heard welcoming remarks from Chip Zukoski (Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council at A*STAR), heard from ADSC Director Marianne Winslett about ADSC status and plans, and enjoyed refreshments.

Participants in the teleconference between Illinois and ADSC in Singapore, Nov. 7, 2009.

Research Opportunities at NUS, Singapore, and Beyond, November 6, 2009, 11:30-2:00, School of Computing, COM1, Level 2, Room 6 (Seminar Room 1) National University of Singapore.

Seminar on Research Opportunities in NTU, Singapore, and Beyond, October 5, 2009, 1:30-4:30 p.m., NTU

Research Opportunities for Students at ADSC, NUS ECE, October 2, 2009

Opportunities for Graduate Students at ADSC, SMU, September 29, 2009