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Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

CANCELLED • Seminar • Scientific Computation — Learning Under Uncertainty: Jumping Out of the Traditional Stochastic Optimization Framework

Please note: This seminar has been cancelled

Niao He, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Computer Graphics • Behind the Scenes Look at Development for VFX & Gaming Industry

Mark Elendt and Jeff Lait are two Academy Award winning developers at SideFX who have a long history in the industry. They will be discussing the unique challenges involved in developing 3D tools for artists and what it’s like to be a software developer in this very exciting industry.

Privacy, Infrastructures, Policy speakers
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Speaker videos now available from Privacy, Infrastructures, Policy

Media, government, and industry commonly frame security and privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other. 

Privacy, Infrastructures, Policy brought together researchers with international speakers from journalism, national security, academia and the corporate world to challenge these misconceptions. A central thread of each of the talks is the design, implementation, and benefits of privacy-enhancing social and technological infrastructures.

Professor Ming Li holding  An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications. 
Friday, February 28, 2020

Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi's textbook on Kolmogorov complexity receives a 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award

University Professor Ming Li, the Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics, and his colleague Professor Paul Vitányi at Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica in the Netherlands have received one of seven 2020 McGuffey Longevity Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association for An Introduction to Kolmogorov Compl