NYC, Media and Technology: What’s Hot

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NYC, Media and Technology: What’s Hot

MARCH 24 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in N928

JUSTIN HENDRIX

NYC Media Lab

Founded in 2010, NYC Media Lab is dedicated to driving innovation and ultimately job growth in media and technology by facilitating collaboration between the City’s universities and its companies. Comprised of a consortium including New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York University, Columbia University, The New School, CUNY, and Pratt Institute, NYC Media Lab’s goals include generating research and development, knowledge transfer, and talent development across all of the City’s campuses. Justin will describe NYC Media Lab, its projects, and the curiosities of its member companies.

Justin Hendrix connects companies seeking to advance digital media technologies with university capabilities in order to drive collaborative innovation. Before joining NYC Media Lab, Hendrix was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist Group in the Americas, where he directed the Group’s innovation process, including prototyping, testing, and commercializing new digital media business concepts. Prior to this role, Hendrix directed brand marketing and communications and ran The Economist’s thought leadership events business in the Americas. He is a regular writer and speaker on media & innovation. Hendrix holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Brooklyn.

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March 24
Time:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States+ Google Map
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
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Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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Bio-inspired Computation Approach for Tumor Growth with Spatial Randomness Analysis of Kidney Cancer Xenograft Pathology Slides

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Bio-inspired Computation Approach for Tumor Growth with Spatial Randomness Analysis of Kidney Cancer Xenograft Pathology Slides

MARCH 10 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

AYDIN SARIBUDAK

Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, City University of New York

In our research, we analyze digitized images of Hematoxylin-Eosin (H&E) slides equipped with tumorous tissues from patient derived xenograft models to build our bio-inspired computation method, namely Personalized Relevance Parameterization of Spatial Randomness (PReP-SR). Applying spatial pattern analysis techniques of quadrat counts, kernel estimation and nearest neighbor functions to the images of the H&E samples, slide-specific features are extracted to examine the hypothesis that existence of dependency of nuclei positions possesses information of individual tumor characteristics. These features are then used as inputs to PReP-SR to compute tumor growth parameters for exponential-linear model. Differential evolution algorithms are developed for tumor growth parameter computations, where a candidate vector in a population consists of size selection indices for spatial evaluation and weight coefficients for spatial features and their correlations. Using leave-one-out-cross-validation method, we showed that, for a set of H&E slides from kidney cancer patient derived xenograft models, PReP-SR generates personalized model parameters with an average error rate of 13:58%. The promising results indicate that bio-inspired computation techniques may be useful to construct mathematical models with patient specific growth parameters in clinical systems.

Aydin Saribudak  received his Bachelor of Science degree, in 2005, from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. After his graduation, he worked as software developer and researcher in telecommunication field for more than 5 years. Aydin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the City College of the CUNY. His interests include biologically inspired computation algorithms, artificial intelligence, and their applications to personalized mathematical models for tumor growth and anti-cancer therapy.

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Date:
March 10
Time:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States+ Google Map
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
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Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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Slides for today’s talk on improving interface modularity in legacy Java software through automated refactoring

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Towards Improving Interface Modularity in Legacy Java Software Through Automated Refactoring

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Towards Improving Interface Modularity in Legacy Java Software Through Automated Refactoring

Raffi Khatchadourian

Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York

MARCH 3 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in N928

The skeletal implementation pattern is a software design pattern consisting of defining an abstract class that provides a partial interface implementation. However, since Java allows only single class inheritance, if implementers decide to extend a skeletal implementation, they will not be allowed to extend any other class. Also, discovering the skeletal implementation may require a global analysis.

Java 8 enhanced interfaces alleviate these problems by allowing interfaces to contain (default) method implementations, which implementers inherit. Java classes are then free to extend a different class, and a separate abstract class is no longer needed; developers considering implementing an interface need only examine the interface itself.

In this talk, I will argue that both these benefits improve software modularity, and I will discuss our ongoing work in developing an automated refactoring tool that would assist developers in taking advantage of the enhanced interface feature for their legacy Java software.

Raffi Khatchadourian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Systems Technology (CST) at New York City College of Technology (NYCCT) of the City University of New York (CUNY) and an Open Educational Resources (OER) Fellow for the Spring 2016 semester. His research is centered on techniques for automated software evolution, particularly those related to automated refactoring and source code recommendation systems. His goal is to ease the burden associated with correctly and efficiently evolving large and complex software by providing automated tools that can be easily used by developers.

Raffi received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Ohio State University and his BS degree in Computer Science from Monmouth University in New Jersey. Prior to joining City Tech, he was a Software Engineer at Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California, where he worked on Digital Rights Management (DRM) for iTunes, iBooks, and the App store. He also developed distributed software that tested various features of iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

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Date:
March 3
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
Email:
Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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Two Projects in Text Data Mining and Natural Language Processing

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Two Projects in Text Data Mining and Natural Language Processing

ELENA FILATOVA

Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York

FEBRUARY 25 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in N928

In this presentation I will describe two projects I am working on: Automatic Sarcasm Detection and Information Assymetries in Multilingual Wikipedia.

Sarcasm detection: Humans are good at identifying sarcasm in text and speech. Can we teach a computer to identify sarcasm? Is it possible to point out the parts of the review that make it sarcastic? To answer these questions I use a corpus of sarcastic and regular Amazon product reviews. I analyze the sentiment flow of these reviews and demonstrate that classification features based on sentiment flow can be used to reliably classify documents into sarcastic and non-sarcastic.

Multilingual Wikipedia: Wikipedia is currently used as THE source of information without doubting the quality of this information. However, the Wikipedia articles corresponding to the same entry (person, location, event, etc.) written in different languages have substantial differences regarding what information is included in these articles. I discuss the nature of information assymetries in Multilingual Wikipedia and outline my plan for using information assymetries for automatic extension of Wikipedia articles.

Bio: Dr. Filatova is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Technology department at CUNY CityTech since Fall 2015. Prior to that she was a faculty member at the Forhdam CIS department. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2008

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Date:
February 25
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States+ Google Map
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
Email:
Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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Slides for Authorea Talk by Alberto Pepe

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Slides for Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea now available.

 

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

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

ALBERTO PEPE

Authorea

FEBRUARY 11 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

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.

Alberto Pepe is the co-founder of Authorea. He recently finished a Postdoctorate in Astrophysics at Harvard University. During his postdoctorate, Alberto was also a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Alberto is the author of 30 publications in the fields of Information Science, Data Science, Computational Social Science, and Astrophysics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles with a dissertation on scientific collaboration networks which was awarded with the Best Dissertation Award by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Prior to starting his Ph.D., Alberto worked in the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked on data repository software and also promoted Open Access among particle physicists. Alberto holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Astrophysics, both from University College London, U.K. Alberto was born and raised in the wine-making town of Manduria, in Puglia, Southern Italy.

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Date:
February 11
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States+ Google Map
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
Email:
Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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Slides from Cloud Computing Talk

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Cloud and Cloud Computing – Behind the Hype

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Cloud and Cloud Computing – Behind the Hype

Spencer Lin, Heriberto Martinez, Kasim Mothana, Christian Ozoria, and Dr. Tatiana Malyuta

Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York

December 17 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in N928

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.

Talks
Dr. T. Malyuta Cloud: a different business model and a new computing paradigm
H. Martinez and S. Lin The role of virtualization on the Cloud
K. Mothana and C. Ozoria The Google’s Big Table and Cloud data technologies

About the Presenters

  • Spenser Lin focuses on networking, security, and databases. Currently he is working for a Cisco partner as a network engineer.
  • Heriberto Martines focuses on networking, security, and databases. Currently he is working as a Department of Education computer service technician providing remote assistance and technical support to all schools and central offices throughout Brooklyn.
  • Kasim Mothana focuses on networking and security and works as a field support representative for a defense contractor. He holds the following certifications: Security+, CEH (Certified ethical hacker), CISSP (Certified information systems security professional), CCDP (Cisco certified design professional), and CCNP (Cisco certified networking professional).
  • Christian Ozoria focuses on networking, security, and databases. Currently he is working as a network technician for DGA Security Systems.
  • Dr. T. Malyuta received her master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and her PhD in Computer Science from the State University, Lviv, Ukraine. Professor Malyuta has over twenty five years experience in programming and database design, design of the Cloud data stores, and data integration. Her research interests are data models, data design, database technologies, Cloud data stores, and ontologies. She has been teaching at Computer Systems Technology Department of the NYCCT since 2000.

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Date:
December 17
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States+ Google Map
Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
Email:
Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

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