Data Mining Seminar
Instructor : Jeff Phillips
Spring 2012 | Thursday 11:30 pm - 12:30 pm
Location : MEB 3490 (FLUX Conference Room)
Catalog number: CS 7941 01


Description:
This semester the Data Group meeting will be run as the Data Mining Seminar. Enrolled students will hear and present cutting edge research in data mining, databases, and algorithms. This can be taken for 1-3 credits, depending on how many presentations you will give.
Schedule:
Date Topic Speaker
Thur 1.12 (Travel Day - No Class)
Thur 1.19 Organizational Meeting + report on Shonan | Large-Scale Distributed Computing 2012 Suresh
Thur 1.26 report on SoDA12 Jeff Phillips
Thur 2.02 Building Certificates for Data to Aid Metaclustering Decisions Parasaran Raman
Thur 2.09 An Interactive Approach for Filtering Out Junk Images From Keyword-Based Google Search Results Hoa Nguyen
Thur 2.16 On Interactive Proofs Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Thur 2.23 Google Information Session (WEB Eccles Board Room, 11:30-1pm)
Thur 3.01 Review of Scaling algorithms for approximate and exact maximum weight matching
Thur 3.08 Multiple Kernel Learning with Expert Advice John Moeller
Thur 3.15 (Spring Break - No Class)
Thur 3.22 Efficient Parallel kNN Joins for Large Data in MapReduce Jeff Jestes
Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for SPARQL Wangchao Le
Thur 3.29 Efficient Threshold Monitoring for Distributed Probabilistic Data Mingwang Tang
What is "ColumbuScout"? !!! Cody Hansen
Thur 4.05 Reduced Fluid Simulation using Sparse Matrices Dan Gerszewski
Thur 4.12 Fast Clustering using MapReduce Samira Daruki
Scalable K-Means++ Chenxu Ding
Thur 4.19 No Free Lunch in Data Privacy Ashwin Machanavajjhala
Thur 4.26 Scalable Feature Representation Schemes for Machine Learning on Natural Language Alex Clemmer
Feed Following: The Big Data Challenge in Social Applications Swetha Machanavajhala