Written by Alexander Raginsky NAACL – HLT 2015: Call for Student Volunteers OTHER STUDENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM NAACL-HLT 2015 We seek a limited number of student volunteers for the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technology. Volunteers are assigned one full day’s work. The work will be divided, probably into
Written by Alexander Raginsky Dear colleague(s), I would be grateful if you could please kindly forward the message below to (undergraduate) student mailing lists and/or associations at your site (computer science and/or linguistics and related disciplines). If you would even be willing to print out and display a small poster, it would be fabulous — you can download it
Written by Alexander Raginsky Robots are doing more of the work in warehouses and factories than ever before, but there are still things humans do better. At Amazon’s massive warehouse facilities, human hands are still the ones picking up and packaging the items you order, but maybe not for long. An upcoming robotics competition run by Amazon’s Kiva Systems
Written by Alexander Raginsky 26.03.15 – EPFL spin-off Lemoptix SA has just been acquired by Intel, the US microprocessor giant. The value of the acquisition has not been made public. Lemoptix has developed a miniature projection system used in many applications, including virtual-reality glasses. Lemoptix, a 40-employee company, has just been acquired by Intel Corporation for an undisclosed sum.
Written by Alexander Raginsky AUSTIN, Texas, Apr. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Austin-based Risk and Compliance management Software Company 360factors developed a software solution that is cloud-based, simple and cost-effective to meet the compliance needs of small and medium-sized banks. Once considered cost prohibitive and restricted to large banks, 360factors makes this innovative technology available to small and mid-sized banks
Written by Alexander Raginsky Summer School in Corpus Linguistics: Tools and Applications This event will cover the latest developments in corpus tools and corpus applications through an intensive programme of interactive sessions to be run by leading figures in the field. It will provide participants with in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge methods and techniques for undertaking advanced research. trent_students_466x335 Summer
Written by Alexander Raginsky From 2nd to 5th of September 2015, the TU Dortmund University and LIAAD-INESC TEC will organize a Summer School on Data Sciences for Big Data – Resource Aware Data Mining. The School will be hosted at Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto and is collocated with ECMLPKDD 2015 – European Conference on Machine Learning and
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This time, we would like to present you a post written by one of our regular visitor, Irina Popova. She is searching for a new career challenge after her recent graduation from the University of Stuttgart and would like to share one of her first real-world work experiences.
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are now open for bookings at Early Bird rates for Knowledge Organization – Making a difference. ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 13/14 July 2015, London Details, fees, and a great draft programme are available at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference Registration at:
Written by Alexander Raginsky CALL FOR NAACL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS TO the 2015 Jelinek Summer School in Speech and Language Technology CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR NAACL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS TO the 2015 Jelinek Summer School in Speech and Language Technology Summer School Dates: June 22 (M) – July 2 (Thurs), 2015 Location: Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Washington Seattle,
