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CSAIL Colloquium Title: Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling Speaker: Robert Schapire, Princeton University Date: Thursday, May 1 2008 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Location: 32-G449(Patil) Modeling the geographic distribution of a plant or animal species is a critical problem in conservation biology: to save a threatened species, one first needs to know where it prefers to live, and what its requirements are for survival. From a machine-learning perspective, this is an especially challenging problem in which the learner is presented with no negative examples and often only a tiny number of positive examples more >>
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11:30am-12:45 pm Systems Biomedicine and the Multi-Node Drug Target (Bioinformatics Seminar, Joseph Lehár) Wed 30	CSAIL Professor coaches MIT team to gold medal in "Battle of the Brains Martin Rinard, a CSAIL professor, coached MIT’s team in the 32nd annual International Collegiate Programming Contest to a second place gold medal. The competition, sponsored by IBM, involved solving eleven computer programming problems in less than five hours. In order to win a place in the finals, the MIT team first competed against 6,700 teams from universities around the world in the regional competition this fall. For more information, see: MIT News article, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest CSAIL Professor wins award CSAIL professor Erik Demaine won the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize. The Prize, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology, is endowed by Japanese entrepreneur Koh Katayanagi and honors promising young researchers in the computer science field. For more information see: Katayanagi Prize