by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
Shuo Xiang, a data scientist at Pinterest, will deliver a seminar titled “Data Engineering on Spark.” Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 1 p.m. Location: Henderson Room, Michigan League Abstract: We are collecting and processing vast amount of data nowadays and we have...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are pleased to announce a one day Big Data workshop, to be held April 7, 2015.This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark. Please bring your laptop to work on the exercises. Access accounts will be...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 17, 2015 | Educational, Events
Algorithmic adaptations to use next-generation computers closer to their potential are underway throughout scientific computing. Instead of squeezing out flops – the traditional goal of algorithmic optimality, which served as a reasonable proxy for all associated...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 16, 2015 | Educational, Events
Many people bandy about the notion of “parallelism,” saying such things as, “This optimization makes my application more parallel,” with only a hazy intuition about what they’re actually saying. Others cite Amdahl’s Law, which provides bounds on speedup due to...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 15, 2015 | Educational, Events, Funding Opportunities
Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive six-week fellowship that prepares masters, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM + social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is supported by sponsorships from dozens of employers across multiple...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 5, 2015 | Educational, Events
Dr. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present a talk titled “Emotion Technology, Wearables, and Surprises,” at 4:30 p.m. on March 23 in the Beyster Buidling on...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2015 | Educational, Events
The U-M Department of Biostatistics is holding the Undergraduate Summer Institute in Biostatistics from June 1 – 26, 2015. The theme is “Transformational Analytical Learning in the Era of Big Data,” and applications are being accepted through March...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 11, 2015 | Educational, Events
U-M is hosting a telecast of an upcoming training workshop on MPI programming sponsored by XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The two-day MPI workshop will be held March 4-5, 2015. The U-M...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 11, 2015 | Educational, Events
Mario Juric is a Washington Research Foundation Data Science Professor of Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington, and a Senior Data Science Fellow of the University of Washington eScience Institute. He is also theData Management...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 10, 2015 | Educational, Events
The Science of Cyberinfrastructure: Research, Experience, Applications and Models (SCREAM-15) conference in Portland, Oregon, July 16 is seeking submissions for papers. The deadline is Feb. 23. Visit the conference’s call for papers page for more details. Topics...
