Fusion Fest: Marrying Methods to Solve Real-world Problems

October 11, 2014
Auditorium, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Bing Bai, NEC Labs America, Inc., bb.bingbai at gmail.com

Carole Kantor, New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers (ret), cjkkantor at gmail.com

Keith Taggart, SPEC Innovations, keith.taggart at specinnovations.com

Ying Sun, University of Buffalo, sun3 at buffalo.edu

Sponsored by DIMACS and the School of Communication and Information.

Slides:

• Library Information Sciences
  • An early study of user frustration in a library
    Tefko Saracevic, ACM/SIGIR Salton Award Winner

  • Using Cross-evaluation to evaluate interactive QA systems
    Ying Sun, University at Buffalo

  • Marrying Neuro-cognitive Methods and Information Science
    Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin

  • From Searching to Research
    Michael Lesk, Fellow, NAE, Rutgers University

• Mathematical Sciences
  • How to Fuse Independent Sensors Fast? (Nuclear Detection)
    Endre Boros, Director RUTCOR, Rutgers University

  • Maximum Entropy Retrieval Using Iterative Proportional Fitting
    Jung Jin Lee, Chair-elect IASC, Songsil University (Korea)

  • LLFOM: A Nonlinear Hemodynamic Response Model
    Bing Bai, NEC Labs America

  • Sequential Selection of Projects
    Kemal Gursoy, Rutgers University

  • Sparsity-Eager SVM for Audio Classification
    Ali Shokoufandeh, Drexel University

  • Paired Experiments and Interleaving for Retrieval Evaluation
    Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University

• Homeland Security Sciences
  • My Collaborations with Paul Kantor: From the Paper Neither of Us Can Access to Fish
    Fred Roberts, Rutgers University

  • Fusion and Confusion in Electronic Discovery for the Law
    David D. Lewis, AAAS Fellow, David D. Lewis Consulting

  • Information Filtering for arXiv.org: Bandits, Exploration vs. Exploitation, and the Cold Start Problem
    Peter Frazier, Cornell University

  • Working Outside One's Domain of Understanding
    Ophir Frieder, Fellow of IEEE, Georgetown University

• Natural Language Processing Science
  • Human Language Technology: Where are we going and where have we been (since 2003)?
    Kenneth Church, IBM Fellow and Past President ACL

  • El Avion con Fusion
    Doug Oard, Gemstone Fellow, University of Maryland

  • Making Sense of Unstructured Data
    Dan Roth, ACM Fellow, University of Illinois

• WWW - The World Wide World
  • Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion
    Roscoe White, Fellow APS, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • From Pilotage to GPS: We have come a long way in finding our way
    Peter Rafle, Raritan Valley Flight School

  • Systems Engineering and Near Term Commercial Space Infrastructure
    Keith Taggart, SPEC Innovations

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