The College of Computing will conduct tours of its Computing labs and classrooms on Saturday, March 28, 2020, from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. in Rekhi Hall. Tours will begin in Room 201. Refreshments will be served. The tours are offered in conjunction with Preview Day, also March 28, hosted by the Admissions Office. The event . . .
Intel has invited Michigan Tech students and faculty to join a 4-hour online workshop on Monday, March 2, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. EST. Intel will demonstrate a computer vision workflow using the OpenVINO toolkits, including support for deep learning algorithms that help accelerate Smart Video applications. The workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to . . .
This event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule sometime in the future. The College of Computing is pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Frank Vahid. Vahid’s talk, “Teaching lower-division CS/CE: Our improvement experiences and research results for physical and online courses,” relates the story of University of California Riverside (UCR) successful efforts to . . .
Sangyoon Han, assistant professor, Biomedical Engineering, is seeking applications for a funded research assistant position from computationally-keen graduate students who can program. Dr. Han’s research is in Computational Mechanobiology. “We are seeking candidates with outstanding programming capability who are knowledgeable in particle tracking, inverse problem, vector field operation, machine learning, and deep learning. Masters and Ph.D. . . .
Tim Havens, associate dean for research, College of Computing, was quoted in the story “Artificial intelligence (AI) vs. natural language processing (NLP): What are the differences?” published February 26, 2020, in the online publication, The Enterprisers Project. With AI, computers can learn to accomplish a task without ever being explicitly programmed to do so, says Timothy . . .
The Capture the Flag competition at this year’s Winter Wonderhack, held the weekend of February 21-23, was incredibly successful, with a total of 35 students competing on 15 different teams. The three top teams finished with 100% completion after 10+ hours of hard work, and the fourth place team was close behind with only two . . .