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Immigration Course (IC)
 August 20-September 14, 2001



Important Note for New Students:
 All events shaded in blue are mandatory for new students. Please wear your nametags at all times for admission to SCS and LTI IC events.

Important Dates


Special IC Events
  • GSA Happy Hour will be held on Friday, August 24th in Skibo Coffeehouse, UC, from 5-7p.m.
  • "Living in Pittsburgh" talk by Scott Fahlman on Monday, August 27th, 7p.m., 5409 Wean Hall. (TALK POSTPONED. NEW DATE: Friday, Sept. 21, 3p.m.)
  • 3rd Annual SCS Graduate Women's Welcome Potluck will be held on Wednesday, August 29, 2001, 7p.m.
  • The LTI Picnic will be held on Sunday, September 9th from 12-4p.m. at the Camp David Lawrence pavilion in Schenley park. All members of LTI are invited to attend.
  • The Pretty Good Race will be held September 14th starting at 4:30p.m. in Schenley Park. The Pretty Good Race TG will immediately follow the race.

Please check out the SCS Joint IC page for a complete listing of the SCS Joint IC research talks and events.


LTI IC Welcome Reception
 Monday, August 20th, 4:30-6:30pm
Newell Simon Hall atrium

(All LTI faculty, staff and students are invited to attend)

Tuesday, August 21

Time
Event
Location
8:30am Breakfast 1507 NSH
9:00

Welcome to SCS
(Jim Morris, Dean of SCS)

 7500 Wean
9:15 Overview of SCS Joint IC (Jeannette Wing) 7500 Wean
9:30 Unit Introductions
(CALD, CSD, HCII, ISRI, LTI, Robotics)		 7500 Wean
10:30 Break  
10:45

SCS Environment

 7500 Wean
  * Career Centers (Kevin Collins)  
  * Ergonomonics, Keys, Offices, etc. (Jim Skees)  
  * SCS Computing Environment (Clauss Strauch)  
  * Libraries (Missy Harvey)  
12:15pm Lunch (all units) 1507 NSH
2:00 LTI Academic Programs (Bob Frederking) 3305 NSH
3:00 LTI Support Staff Introductions (Radha Rao & Tracie Stivison) 3305 NSH
3:15 LTI Administrative Issues (Chris Koch) 3305 NSH
4:00 "What is Research?" (Alex Waibel) 3305 NSH

Wednesday, August 22

Time
Event
Location
8:30am Breakfast 1507 NSH
CALD Overview
9:00 Visualization of Massive Data (Bill Eddy) 1305 NSH
9:30 Tom Mitchell 1305 NSH
10:00 Break  
10:30 Massive Datasets (Andrew Moore) 1305 NSH
11:00 Latanya Sweeney 1305 NSH
11:30 Alan Montgomery 1305 NSH
12:15pm Lunch 1507 NSH
LTI Overview
1:45 LTI Overview (Jaime Carbonell, Director) 1305 NSH
2:15 Machine Translation (Bob Frederking) 1305 NSH
2:45 Speech Recognition 1305 NSH
3:15 Break  
3:30 Computer Assisted Language Learning (Maxine Eskenazi) 1305 NSH
4:00 Information Retrieval (Jamie Callan) 1305 NSH
4:30 Text Mining & Summarization (Jaime Carbonell) 1305 NSH

Thursday, August 23

Time
Event
Location
8:30am Breakfast 1507 NSH
HCII Overview
9:00 HCII Overview 1305 NSH
9:30 Bob Kraut 1305 NSH
10:00 Bonnie John 1305 NSH
10:30 Jodi Forlizzi 1305 NSH
11:00 Scott Hudson 1305 NSH
11:30 Dan Boyarski 1305 NSH
12:15pm

LTI Department Lunch with Introductions
Current staff and students welcome!

 4513 NSH
Robotics Overview
1:45 Yoky Matsuoka 1305 NSH
2:15 Steve Smith 1305 NSH
2:45 Martial Herbert 1305 NSH
3:15 Break  
3:30 Andrew Moore 1305 NSH
4:00 Dave Touretzky 1305 NSH

Friday, August 24
Time
Event
Location
8:30am Breakfast 1507 NSH
ISRI Overview
9:00 Eric Nyberg 1305 NSH
9:30 Dan Siewiorek 1305 NSH
10:00 Software Evolution; CMU West (Bill Scherlis) 1305 NSH
10:30 Mary Shaw 1305 NSH
11:00 Richard Florida 1305 NSH
11:30 Norman Sadeh 1305 NSH
12:15pm Lunch with HCII 1507 NSH
2:00 Student, Faculty & Staff pictures SCS Lounge
4th Fl. Wean hall
4:00 Speech Recognition 3305 NSH
4:30 Speech Translation 3305 NSH

LTI IC Research Talks:

This is a series of talks about faculty research interests, scheduled on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the first several weeks of the semester.

Attendence for all research talks is mandatory for new students.

All talks will be held in 3305 NSH:

Week 1
Date Time Research Talk Presentor(s)
Fri, Aug 24 4:00p Speech Recognition Alex Waibel
Fri, Aug 24 4:30p Speech Translation

Bob Frederking
Alon Lavie
Lori Levin
Alex Waibel
Week 2
Date Time Research Talk Presentor(s)
Tues, Aug 28 4:30p Information Retrieval in a Networked World Jamie Callan
Tues, Aug 28 5:00p Statistical Natural Language Processing John Lafferty
Thurs, Aug 30 4:30p KANT Machine Translation Teruko Mitamura
Eric Nyberg
Thurs, Aug 30 5:00p Statistical Learning for Text Mining and Classification Yiming Yang
Fri, Aug 31 1:30p Natural Language Modeling Roni Rosenfeld
Fri, Aug 31 2:00p Human-Machine Speech Interface Design Roni Rosenfeld
Week 3
Tues, Sept 4 4:30p LISTEN: Using Speech Recognition to Help Children Learn to Read Jack Mostow
Tues, Sept 4 5:00p Listen Demo Jack Mostow
Thurs, Sept 6 4:30p Integrated Information Management & Information Validation Teruko Mitamura
Eric Nyberg
Thurs, Sept 6 5:00p The Informedia Project: Research in Multimedia Information Retrieval Alex Hauptmann
Fri, Sept 7 1:30p    
Fri, Sept 7 2:00p    
Week 4
Tues, Sept 11 4:30p Quick MT for Minority Languages: Tongues, NICE and LingWear Bob Frederking
Alon Lavie
Lori Levin
Tues, Sept 11 5:00p Research Issues in Speech Synthesis Alan Black
Thurs, Sept 13 4:30p Research in Dialog Systems Alex Rudnicky
Thurs, Sept 13 5:00p Information Extraction from the Web Andrew McCallum
Fri, Sept 14 1:30p Universal Library Michael Shamos
Fri, Sept 14 2:00p Fluency: A Foreign Language Pronunciation Trainer Maxine Eskenazi


Please email Chris Koch at ckoch@cs.cmu.edu if you have any questions about the LTI IC.


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