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["Horn, Eric Bailey" <erichorn AT illinois.edu>]

The 2012 Data Sciences Summer Institute concludes tomorrow with our final project presentations. You’re invited to attend as the students demonstrate their research projects centered on searching for and displaying information about public events:

 

Friday, June 29, 9am-12pm in 2405 Siebel Center

·         Recognizing and Following “Hot” Events in Twitter

·         Detecting Events and Analyzing Sentiment via News and Social Media

 

Come see what our students can do with the data mining, information extraction, machine learning and computer vision tools they’ve learned from UIUC CS professors Dan Roth, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, David Forsyth and Cinda Heeren.

 

Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI):

The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a 6-week long program in Data Science areas for graduate and undergraduate students from around the country.  This summer program (May 20 – June 30, 2012) consists of an intensive class in the mathematical foundations of Data Sciences, tutorials on advanced Data Science topics and collaborative research projects.  The DSSI weaves together mathematical foundations, applications, and research.

 

The mission of the Data Sciences Summer Institute is to develop diverse human resources to enhance the scientific research, education, and government workforce in Data Science disciplines.  This program is funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence – Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) at the UIUC’s Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis (MIAS) Center, and by a grant from Yahoo!

 

For more information about the Data Sciences Summer Institute, please see our website at: http://mias.illinois.edu/DSSI2012 or contact Eric Horn at DSSI-cs AT illinois.edu, 217-333-0871.