Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Surveillance and Social Situational Awareness
CEPSR 750 New York CityThis talk will describe a variety of methods that have been developed for the purposes of understanding group level social behaviors using stand-off video surveillance methods. Three main topics are […]
Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Peter Marx, General Electric
Schapiro Building Room 750 530 West 120th Street, New York City, United StatesPeter Marx, Vice President, Advanced Projects, GE Digital Adjunct Professor, USC TITLE: How the New Availability of Urban and Industrial Data are Impacting Our World from Public Safety to Jet Engines This talk discusses how newly available data from cities and industry, from sensing and activities, and from transactions and services are driving change across […]
Improving Health-Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Reinforcement Learning
Davis Auditorium Schapiro, New York City, United StatesReinforcement learning offers a powerful paradigm for automatically discovering and optimizing sequential treatments for chronic and life-threatening diseases. In particular, we will focus on how data collected in multi-stage sequential trials can be used to automatically generate treatment strategies that are tailored to patient characteristics and time-dependent outcomes. We will also examine promising methods to […]
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Inaugural Alexandria LaunchLabs 100K Prize
On June 13th, 2017, Alexandria LaunchLabs will celebrate its grand opening by awarding $100,000 to its top member company. All Alexandria LaunchLabs applicants, including current LaunchLabs member companies, are eligible to win. Applicants […]
May Riverside Chat: The Promise and Future of Synthetic Biology
Davis Auditorium Schapiro, New York City, United StatesRSVP HERE Hear about the promise and future of synthetic biology from two of New York City's leaders. Co-hosted by Columbia Engineering and Columbia Technology Ventures Nancy J Kelley was the founding executive director of the New York Genome Center, helping to raise $110 million and brought together 11 of the city's universities and institutions. […]
Big Data Management and Security: Executive Education
Carleton Commons, Mudd 500 W. 120th , New York, NY, United StatesColumbia University is proud to present Big Data Management And Security, offered by Columbia Engineering Executive Education, led by Columbia professors and big data experts Eugene Wu and Suman Jana. Every year, hundreds of millions of sensitive records are compromised, and companies spend billions mitigating and responding to breaches. This course provides a hands-on introduction […]
Columbia’s 6th Annual FinTech, DFS & Payments Summit
ABOUT COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’S FINTECH, DFS & PAYMENTS SUMMIT This 6th annual Summit looks at disruptive effects & implementation of emerging & mobile payments, digital financial services, blockchain & cryptocurrencies in developing & developed worlds. It’s the only high-impact event bringing together a high-level group of international speakers that cover the payments and blockchain technology […]
APPLICATION DEADLINE: NBCUniversal Social Hack
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NBCUNIVERSAL, PRESENTED BY NYC MEDIA LAB Developers, designers and data scientists are invited to apply their skills to help prototype solutions for real-world problems at the NBCUniversal Social […]
Strtupboost: June Investor Night
Mercy College Campus 66 W. 35th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesPitch, Make Connections with, and Get Valuable Feedback from 10 Investors who are looking for early stage investments (Seed to Series A). You have 10 Min to make it happen:1 min Set Up/BreakDown; 6 min Demo/Presentation; 3 min Q&A with VCs. A startup "Presenter" ticket gets you admission for up to two team members and […]
Hasso Plattner Institute Housewarming – Sharing Knowledge, Creating Visions
The housewarming event of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is in partnership with SAP Next-Gen, an innovation community that looks to connect companies, startups, partners and universities. Richard Witten of Columbia Entrepreneurship, Professor Larry Leifer of Standford University, and Jennifer Morgan, SAP Executive Board Member & President, will speak to the innovation landscape. The HPI is Germany’s university excellence […]