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Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction — Supporting Workplace Detachment and Reattachment with Conversational Intelligence

Please note: This seminar has been cancelled.

Alex C. Williams, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence — Evaluating the Psychological Plausibility of Word2vec and GloVe Distributional Semantic Models

Ivana Kajić, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems — Math Information Retrieval using a Text Search Engine

Dallas Fraser, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Combining text and mathematics when searching in a corpus with extensive mathematical notation remains an open problem. Recent results for math information retrieval systems on the math and text retrieval task at NTCIR-12, for example, show room for improvement, even though formula retrieval appears to be fairly successful.

Friday, April 27, 2018 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Networks and Distributed Systems — Role of Thermostats — Beyond Control and Feedback

Milan Jain, PhD Scholar in Computer Science
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Michael Cormier wins the Murray Martin Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student

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We live in a world increasingly dependent on the Internet for information retrieval, social interaction and general leisure. A growing number of Internet users with cognitive or visual impairments need assistive technology to make information accessible to them, but visually complex web pages can be difficult to navigate for assistive technology.

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Does the echo chamber influence strategic voting and electoral outcomes?

When an election is held we often employ a peculiar kind of logic. As we mull over the candidates we may have a top choice, but if we think our preferred candidate isn’t going to win we might vote for our second choice. Or maybe we cast a ballot for our second choice because we want to make sure that a frontrunner who doesn’t represent our view loses.

Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:30 am - 8:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Requirements Engineering by Evolutionary Prototyping: A Case for Using Prototypes to Develop Quality Software

Andrew Pham, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Modern software development workflows are considerably agile, meaning that the work is broken up into individual stories or pieces that are divvied up among the engineers on a team. Each developer is responsible for a certain number of units of work per two-week sprint and must also manage the backlog to make sure that pending features are correctly prioritized, delegated, and removed if necessary.