Algorithmic Trading

N906 300 Jay St., Room N906, Brooklyn, NY, United States

This session will introduce Algorithmic Trading and explore the different ways it is employed by market participants, to enhance their performance using technology. It will identify the participants, the different approaches to algorithmic trading and their advantages, and will also explore the risks that are introduced as a result of these practices.

Big Data Challenges and Solutions

N906 300 Jay St., Room N906, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Speaker: Ashwin Satyanarayana Big data is set to offer tremendous insight. But with terabytes and petabytes of data pouring in to organizations today, traditional architectures and infrastructures are not up to the challenge. This begs the question: How do you … Continue reading

Minimum Energy Consumption for Rate Monotonic Algorithm in a Hard Real-Time Environment

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

We will discuss the problem of determination of the minimum energy consumption for rate monotonic algorithm in a hard real-time environment. The solution is obtained by Lagrange Multiplier method. Because of its iterative nature, a computer algorithm is developed.

Test Dependencies and the Future of Build Acceleration

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

With the proliferation of testing culture, many developers are facing new challenges. As projects are getting started, the focus may be on developing enough tests to maintain confidence that the code is correct. However, as developers write more and more tests, performance and repeatability become growing concerns for test suites. In our study of large open source software, we found that running tests took on average 41% of the total time needed to build each project - over 90% in those that took the longest to build. Unfortunately, typical techniques for accelerating test suites from literature (like running only a subset of tests, or running them in parallel) can’t be applied in practice safely, since tests may depend on each other. These dependencies are very hard to find and detect, posing a serious challenge to test and build acceleration. In this talk, I will present my recent research in automatically detecting and isolating these dependencies, enabling for significant, safe and sound build acceleration of up to 16x.

Static Analysis and Verification of C Programs

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Static Analysis and Verification of C Programs by Subash Shankar, Hunter College, City University of New York. Recent years have seen the emergence of several static analysis techniques for reasoning about programs. This talk presents several major classes of techniques and tools that implement these techniques. Part of the presentation will be a demonstration of the tools.

How We Use Functional Programming to Find the Bad Guys

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

In this talk, Richard Minerich will discuss the research activities of Bayard Rock and its approaches to build tools to find the “bad guys”.

Pharmacology Powered by Computational Analysis: Predicting Cardiotoxicity of Chemotherapeutics

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Cardiotoxicity is unfortunately a common side effect of many modern chemotherapeutic agents. The mechanisms that underlie these detrimental effects on heart muscle, however, remain unclear. The Drug Toxicity Signature Generation Center at ISMMS aims to address this unresolved issue by providing a bridge between molecular changes in cells and the prediction of pathophysiological effects. I will discuss ongoing work in which we use next-generation sequencing to quantify changes in gene expression that occur in cardiac myocytes after they are treated with potentially toxic chemotherapeutic agents. I will focus in particular on the computational pipeline we are developing that integrates sophisticated sequence alignment, statistical and network analysis, and dynamical mathematical models to develop novel predictions about the mechanisms underlying drug-induced cardiotoxicity.

The Modern, Responsive Web Site

N922A 300 Jay St., Room N922A, Brooklyn, NY, United States

More and more use is being made of cell phones for web exploration at the expense of conventional desk and laptop PCs. The modern web has to accommodate all these many screen sizes from High definition PC screens through iPads to miniature cell phone and maybe even smaller? This presentation will give many outward examples of valid of web sites and discuss internal coding techniques.

Cloud and Cloud Computing – Behind the Hype

N928 300 Jay St., Room N928, Brooklyn, NY, United States

In recent years, we have seen an overwhelming number of TV commercials that promise that the Cloud can help with many problems, including some family issues. What stands behind the terms "Cloud" and "Cloud Computing," and what we can actually expect from this phenomenon? A group of students of the Computer Systems Technology department and Dr. T. Malyuta, whom has been working with the Cloud technologies since its early days, will provide an overview of the business and technological aspects of the Cloud.

Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea

N928 300 Jay St., Room N928, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Most tools that scientists use for the preparation of scholarly manuscripts, such as Microsoft Word and LaTeX, function offline and do not account for the born-digital nature of research objects. Also, most authoring tools in use today are not designed for collaboration, and, as scientific collaborations grow in size, research transparency and the attribution of scholarly credit are at stake. In this talk, I will show how the Authorea platform allows scientists to collaboratively write rich data-driven manuscripts on the web--articles that would natively offer readers a dynamic, interactive experience with an article’s full text, images, data, and code--paving the road to increased data sharing, data reuse, research reproducibility, and Open Science.