• Improving Health-Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Reinforcement Learning

    Davis Auditorium Schapiro, New York City, United States

    Reinforcement 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 […]

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    May Riverside Chat: The Promise and Future of Synthetic Biology

    Davis Auditorium Schapiro, New York City, United States

    RSVP 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.  […]

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    Big Data Management and Security: Executive Education

    Carleton Commons, Mudd 500 W. 120th , New York, NY, United States

    Columbia 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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    Strtupboost: June Investor Night

    Mercy College Campus 66 W. 35th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Pitch, 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 […]

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    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 […]

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    NBCUniversal Social Hack Awards

    On Friday June 23,  the hackathon will officially kick off with developer, designer and data scientist attendees from across NYC’s university campuses and beyond. Teams will assemble themselves and introduce their concept to the audience on Friday evening with the goal of working on their concepts ideas all day on Saturday June 24. On June […]

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