TTI-C News
TTI-C's Dr. Steve Smale is scheduled to give the plenary talk at the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing on September 26, 2008. The lecture will be titled "Geometry of Data."
Dr. Stephen Smale was quoted in an article about the Rome Maths Festival
Ms. Sawa Okuno is a TTI (Japan) student who studied at TTI-C for Fall Quarter 2007. An article about her experiences was printed in the Feb. 26, 2008 edition of the Chunichi Newspaper (of Central Japan).
Original Article
"One on One Talk With Worldwide Professors- Studied Abroad at TTI-C"
By: Sawa Okuno
In the article, Ms. Okuno explains her goals of studying Computer Vision at a higher level, and getting the opportunity to study abroad. She explains her determination to succeed in leaning science and English, and how TTI-C's Dr. David McAllester assisted her in this.
Dr. Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell University, gave a talk on January 29 about Team Cornell's participation the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. This talk presented some of the key technologies, results from the semi-finals and finals, and plans for future research using the vehicle.
Pedro Felzenszwalb (University of Chicago), Deva Ramanan and David McAllester (of TTI-C) recently did very well in the 2007 PASCAL visual object recognition challenge.
This is an international competition to build computer systems that find objects in images. For the 2007 challenge there were twenty kinds of objects to be found. There were 20 different competitions corresponding to the twenty types of objects. TTI-C and the University of Chicago came in first in six categories and first or second in 14 of the 20 possible categories. This was the first time that TTI-C and the University of Chicago entered this competition and the results will help to establish TTI-C in the area of computer vision. The results should be posted on line in the next few weeks.
Jinbo Xu is the recipient of an award funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), collaborative research with Dr. Tobin Sosnick (University of Chicago). The award is for just under $200,000 and covers three years. The grant is titled "High Accuracy Protein Structure Homology Modeling".
Sham Kakade (TTI-C), Alina Beygelzimer (Watson), and John Langford (Yahoo! Research) were recipients of the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (at IBM research) titled "Cover Trees for Nearest Neighbor" as part of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning.
Lance Fortnow (TTI-C adjunct professor) is starting a new journal - "ACM Transactions on Computation Theory".