Announcements

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Seminar: From Gossip to distributed optimization (and back again), Thursday May 23rd, 11am.

Speaker: Jérémie Jakubowicz, Télécom SudParis - Institut Mines-Télécom, Evry, France.

Consensus  using  Gossip algorithms and distributed optimization. Read more

Directions to XRCE


Tuesday 14 May 2013

2013 IPI Conference & Expo; Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.

May 19 - 22, 2013

Plenary presentation,  Dan Mitchel, Peer Ghent and Onno Zoeter : The LA ExpressPark project: design, implementation, and initial results


Tuesday 14 May 2013

Computer vision research across the Xerox Innovation Group

Together with Xerox researchers from around the word we create technology to make everyday interaction with visual content simple and effective. We apply our joint skills in computer vision across a wide swath of industries.


Tuesday 07 May 2013

The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 13th-17th May 2013

In preparation of the conference, by Matthias Gallé , Jean-Michel Renders and Eric Karstens:
SNOW 2013 – First Workshop on Social News on the Web @ WWW ’13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

Who Broke the News? An Analysis on First Reports of Events


Tuesday 07 May 2013

The University of Edinburgh, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Edinburgh, UK

May 7th, 2013
Guillaume Bouchard , Machine Learning for Services (MLS) research group, will give a seminar: Convex methods for multi-view learning, link prediction and collective matrix factorization
"Many applications involve multiple interlinked data sources, but existing approach to handle them are often based on latent factor models which are difficult to learn. At the same time, recent advances in convex analysis, mainly based on the nuclear norm (relaxation of the matrix rank) and sparse structured approximations, have shown great theoretical and practical performances to handle very large matrix factorization problems with non-Gaussian noise and missing data. In this talk, we will show how multiple matrices can be jointly factorized using a convex formulation of the problem."


Monday 22 April 2013

Seminar: Enterprise crowdsourcing as an alternative to traditional outsourcing, G. La Vecchia. April 26th 3pm.

Gioacchino La Vecchia , Founder at CrowdEngineering , Prato, Italy.

Abstract: Crowdsourcing  has become well known for open contexts and other internet centric initiatives where a multitude of users compete to perform an activity. These well known models lack of process control...More


Monday 22 April 2013

Seminar: Faster decoding for machine translation and lattices, K. Heafield, Univ. Edinburgh, April 26th 11am.

Kenneth Heafield  is a research associate at the University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Abstract: Machine translation, speech recognition, and spelling correction share the common sub-problem of ... More


Monday 22 April 2013

AISTATS. 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics; Scottsdale, AZ, USA

29. April, 2013 - 1. May, 2013

AISTATS  is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and related areas.

Convex Collective Matrix Factorization,  Guillaume Bouchard , Xerox Research Centre Europe; Dawei Yin, Lehigh University; Shengbo Guo.


Monday 22 April 2013

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Paris, France

27 April 2013 - 2 May 2013

 

Game mechanisms for production environments , Stefania Castellani , Ben Hanrahan, Tommaso Colombino , Antonietta Grasso.

Promoting Sustainable Print Behavior: A case study.  Jutta Willamowski , Yves Hoppenot , Antonietta Grasso. 

Form Digitization in BPO: From Outsourcing to Crowdsourcing?  Jacki O’NeillShourya Roy , Antonietta Grasso , David Martin .

A Timeline Visualization for Multi-Team Collaborative Planning , L. Batrinca (FBK, IT), M. Khan, D. Billman, B. Aydemir, G. Convertino

Jacki O’Neill  chair, sub-committee on “Understanding People: Theory, Concepts, Methods”  Dave Martin , committee.


Friday 19 April 2013

Seminar: "Overview of the "Mobilité Chair" research program on sustainable mobility"; Friday, April 19th, 2013

at 02:00 PM in Everest
Speaker: Catherine Morency , professor at Polytechnique Montréal , Montréal, QC, Canada: In 2010, the Mobilité industrial Chair at Polytechnique Montréal on sustainable mobility started its research activities to assist planners and decision makers in the assessment of the sustainability levels of transport strategies, plans and policies. Four industrial partners are actively supporting this research group: the City of Montreal, the Quebec ministry of transportation, the transportation metropolitan agency and the Montreal transit authority. Read more...