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CS Professor Cristina Conati, M.Sc. Students Shane Sims, Vanessa Putnam win Best Paper Award at IJCAI 2019 Workshop
Computer Science M.Sc. students Shane Sims and Vanessa Putnam, and Professor Cristina Conati won the best paper award at the IJCAI 2019 workshop on Humanizing AI held in Macau, China.
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Learning Interpretable Cascade Classifiers (Applications in Medicine) - Nataliya Sokolovska, Sorbonne University
Date:
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 | 10:00am - 11:30am
Location:
X836 - 2366 Main Mall, V6T1Z4 Host: Mark Schmidt
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UBC Science Early Career Invited Lecture by Ellen Vitercik (Carnegie Mellon University)
Date:
Thursday, November 21, 2019 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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Host: Kevin Leyton-Brown, UBC Computer Science
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This event's address: https://my.cs.ubc.ca/event/2019/11/ubc-science-early-career-in vited-lecture-ellen
DLS Talk by Barbara Liskov (MIT)
Date:
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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Host: Margo Seltzer
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This event's address: https://my.cs.ubc.ca/event/2019/11/dls-talk-barbara-liskov-mit -computer-science
Exploration, Exploitation, and a Little Bit of State - DLS Talk by Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Date:
Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
MacLeod Building (2356 Main Mall), Room 228 
Abstract:
Learning and decision-making problems often boil down to a balancing act between exploring new possibilities and exploiting the best known one. For more than fifty years, the multi-armed bandit problem has been the predominant theoretical model for investigating these issues.
Engineering a Scalable, Rigorous and Equitable K-12 CS Curriculum - DLS Talk by Emmanuel Schanzer (Bootstrap)
Date:
Thursday, October 17, 2019 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm 
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Computer Science Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair Margo Seltzer Receives USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
UBC Computer Science Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair Margo Seltzer is the recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame"). The award recognizes Professor Seltzer's research in experimental file and storage systems, her development of new storage paradigms, and her dedication to and steering of the USENIX community. Other than doing great work in many areas of computer systems, especially in file and storage systems and databases, Professor Seltzer is al
Blurring the Line between Structure and Learning for Adaptive Local Recognition - Evan Shelhamer (UC Berkeley)
Date:
Thursday, June 27, 2019 | 11:00am - 12:30pm
Location:
ICCSX836 Host: Mark Schmidt
Title: Blurring the Line between Structure and Learning for Ada ptive Local Recognition
CS Professor Ivan Beschastnikh Helps Launch Blockchain Training Program with the NSERC CREATE grant
UBC Computer Science Assistant Professor Ivan Beschastnikh is part of an inter-disciplinary, campus-wide Blockchain@UBC team that will launch Canada's first blockchain and distributed ledger technology training path for UBC graduate students. Under the leadership of Associate Professor Victoria Lemieux (iSchool), the team successfully received an NSERC CREATE grant to sponsor this effort.
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