You must be registered before we can finalize your Spring 2010 teaching assistant appointment so if you know you will be a TA in Spring 2010 (or hope to be) please pre-register.
CS 395T Topics in Information Retrieval and Web Search
Unique: 54486
Instructor: Matt Lease
F 100-400 UTA 1.504
(This event is free and open to the public.)
"The Internet and the Obama Administration - So Far"
Dr. Gary Chapman, LBJ School
Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 6:30pm / Get there early! Networking reception starts at 5:45pm
AT&T Conference Center Amphitheater (Room 204) / 1900 University Ave.
SEE BELOW for more information
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If you wish to walk in a graduation ceremony in December then it will be the CoNS ceremony.
Regalia: The Co-op opened their graduation dept. (regalia, etc.) on October 7th for Fall 2009 graduates. See the graduation link at the bottom of their web site http://www.coop-bookstore.com/# for more information.
PH.D’s - We hope you will also choose to return and participate in the May 2010 CS department PhD hooding ceremony.
The graduate school has a number of requirements for graduation. Please see this web site http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdn/deadlines/doc_fall.html
Keep in mind the 12th and 14 semester of employment information: Information is under graduation timetable at this link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/academics/graduate/phd_program/advising/
https://utdirect.utexas.edu/registrar/exam_schedule.WBX. Always check with the course instructor for more information regarding requirements for your class.
http://z.cs.utexas.edu/thyme/thyme-1.3/index.php?calendar=Graduate%20Student%20Talks
Current Masters students applying for Ph.D. program – CS application process has specific requirements. Contact Katherine Utz in the graduate office about this. The department application opened Oct. 15.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/gsi/aspects/view_sessions.php
https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html
The National Physical Science Consortium is now accepting applications for the Graduate Fellowhips in the Physical Sciences. More information at www.npsc.org. The application deadline is November 5, 2009.
http://www.nsfsi.org/ Deadline December 8.
http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/prize-nominations/prize-nominations.html. Due by November 30, 2009.
Symantec is now accepting applicants for their 2010 Symantec Fellowship. This is a multiple award, one-year fellowship for graduate students pursuing innovative research related to information security, storage and availability. It provides a $20,000 stipend, plus tuition and fees and is distinguished by an opportunity to work along-side our leading researchers. The application deadline is December 12th 2009. http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/college/fellowship.jsp
https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/career_resources.html
American Association of University Women for 2010/2011, http://www.main.org/aauw/fellowship.html
These are the 3 related web sites:
The IE Pre-Grad School Internship Program http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/,
The IE Dissertation ListServ and Resources WEB https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html,
The IE Job/Career Resources WEB https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/career_resources.html
(CMC 2010), April 12-14, 2010, Shenzhen, China
http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2010
http://world-research-institute.org/conferences/CMC/2010
Call for Papers & Expo
Announced by Secretary Chu as part of the Recovery Act Funding – see http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF/information.html for more information. This is an excellent opportunity for currently enrolled first or second year graduate students.
CS 395T/INF 385T Topics in Information Retrieval and Web Search
Unique: 54486
Instructor: Matt Lease
F 100-400 UTA 1.504
In an Information Age promising instant access to seemingly limitless information, achieving this promise in practice requires effective automation for managing our vast and ever-growing information repositories. Information Retrieval (IR) is the study of methods for capturing, representing, storing, organizing, and retrieving unstructured or loosely structured digital information. While such information was once restricted to electronic documents, today's landscape of digital content is incredibly rich and diverse, including Web pages, news articles, books, transcribed speech, email, blogs (and micro-blogs), images, and video. The rise of the Web as a massive, global repository and distribution network has earned Web search engines and other Web technologies particular importance in organizing and finding information today.
This seminar course will provide a broad introduction to topics in IR via first-hand reading of published research articles. Weekly responsibilities will center on reading, summarizing, and discussing these articles. Over the course of the semester, students will also take turns presenting the articles and leading class discussion. The course will culminate in a final project in which students perform novel research, individually or in groups, investigating a topic of their choosing in greater depth. Projects may include: writing a survey of existing research on a particular topic, conducting a user study examining human factors in deploying IR systems, implementing a new search algorithm or interface, or performing a novel analysis of existing IR systems.
Prior knowledge of IR is not required but will certainly be useful. All interested and motivated students are invited to attend, and the breadth of readings and personalized final project are intended to serve the needs of those with particular interest in the field as well as non-specialists interested in gaining broader exposure and understanding of IR methods and systems.
(This event is free and open to the public.)
"The Internet and the Obama Administration - So Far"
Dr. Gary Chapman, LBJ School
Dr. Gary Chapman is a senior lecturer at the LBJ School at The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches classes and conducts research on Internet policy, telecommunications and technology policy, and how the Internet revolution shapes organizations. He is also associate director of the University's Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute. He has written numerous articles on technology and society for a wide variety of publications including the New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Technology Review, Communications of the ACM, and many others.
From 1995-2001, Chapman was an internationally syndicated columnist on technology for the Los Angeles Times, and his column, called "Digital Nation," was carried in more than 200 newspapers and on Web sites. Chapman was also a technology columnist for Texas Monthly magazine and an editorial columnist for the Austin American Statesman.
In early 2000, Chapman was named one of the "25 Most Powerful Texans in High Tech" by Texas Monthly. In 1999, the Austin American Statesman named him one of its "Ten to Watch." Chapman has also served as chairman of the selection committee for the Turing Award, the world's highest award in computer science.
Chapman earned his B.A. from Occidental College and attended Stanford University's Political Science Ph.D. program.
WHAT: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 6:30pm / Get there early! Networking reception starts at 5:45pm
WHERE: AT&T Conference Center Amphitheater (Room 204) / 1900 University Ave.
PARKING: Paid parking in the AT&T garage ($10) / Free parking in the state lots across MLK or on the street
RSVP: http://mailcenter.newmediagateway.com/utexas/main/index.php?p=surveysystem.respond.intro&survey_id=9
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