Sentences with phrase «in computer science research»

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Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than men.
To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?
Research from the US Department of Commerce suggests that gender stereotypes may play a central role in the choice to pursue a career in computer science or other STEM related jobs.
Members hold undergraduate, master's, and PhD degrees in decision science, operations research engineering, mathematics, and computer science.
So says Yoshua Bengio, professor of computer science at the University of Montreal and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms.
Nationally, men make up more than 84 % of undergraduates majoring in computer science, according to the Computing Research Association.
Research is carried out in a number of faculties and departments including the Rotman School of Management, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Engineering.
The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth.
Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.
Mauny is a senior researcher at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.
Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson said the benchmark reports indicate that the three universities in the research corridor stand out as producers of high - demand talent — including engineers and experts in computer science.
This second allegation has been made by two cryptographers, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, performing paid research for the Citi Foundation.
Sysomos began as an advanced research project for content aggregation and analysis started by University of Toronto Computer Science faculty member Nick Koudas and graduate student Nilesh Bansal in 2005.
Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Assocomputer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Assocomputer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research AssoComputer Research Association.
Vannevar Bush, for example, a former president of MIT and director of the government's Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, published an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly which «offered an amazingly prescient view of the effect of science on the world economy and of computers in daily life.»
My husband returned to college about four years ago after serving in the Oregon National Guard and working for the Oregon Military Dept.. He received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science this year and works as a Research and Development Engineer.
In the future, I plan to get a masters in computer science and then do computer science research or work in the swanky tech industrIn the future, I plan to get a masters in computer science and then do computer science research or work in the swanky tech industrin computer science and then do computer science research or work in the swanky tech industrin the swanky tech industry.
She's an iatrogenic survivor whose prior career in computer science, research, and writing was lost as a result.
RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
In 2010, I earned my BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, where I was a research assistant with the Electronic Learning Communities laIn 2010, I earned my BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, where I was a research assistant with the Electronic Learning Communities lain Computer Science from Georgia Tech, where I was a research assistant with the Electronic Learning Communities lab.
Nearly two years after an IBM supercomputer named Watson stole the spotlight on Jeopardy! by beating two human champions, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy will become the first university in the world to receive its own version of Watson, to help further computer science research.
«Veil was motivated by all this research that was done previously in the security community that said, «Private - browsing modes are leaky — Here are 10 different ways that they leak,»» says Frank Wang, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper.
Eventually the brothers, who now are 30, pursued research careers in computer science.
Unwin doubts it, noting modern paleontology's methods: «Computers allow us to approach our research more like they do in astronomy and physics and other hard sciences.
Scholarship recipients are engineering or physical science students (e.g., students in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, computer science, or related fields) who intend to pursue research after completing their final degrees.
The research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation and reported October 11th in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, involved building a computer model to simulate the interaction between the two facets of a folded sheet, including how easily and how far the folds would bend and how much the flat planes would deform during movement.
«Containers are just now being studied as part of the cloud infrastructure, but our research indicates that how they function in the cloud is critical to developing and distributing future computer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of Engicomputer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of EngiComputer Science in the College of Engineering.
Especially in the life sciences, there is a need for people who know how a computer can help investigators set out a research strategy and avoid needless lab experiments.
Each of these uses intuitive assumptions of what a good image looks like, but these assumptions have to be hand - coded into the algorithms,» said Matthias Zwicker, the Reginald Allan Hahne Endowed E-Nnovate Professor in Computer Science at UMD and senior author of the research presentation.
There is good technology transfer between the university and biomedical research industries, and in some others, particularly computer science.
... Several big projects may not be funded immediately, including significant new research under the International Polar Year in 2007, the new research vessel conducting science in the Arctic, the new petascale computer, and several other large - ticket projects.»
that you don't have to completely «geek out» to reach this level,» says Stephen Scott, a senior research scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at ORNL who has been a RAMS mentor for nearly as long as the program.
RAMS provides up to two dozen students with an opportunity to develop research skills by involving them in projects in computer science, math, computational biology, information technology, and materials science.
They are active research areas, drawing on theory in information graphics, computer graphics, human - computer interaction and cognitive science.
The stimulus, for instance, will also aid in the renovation of the RIKEN SPring - 8 synchrotron, one of the top photon science research facilities in the world, and the construction of data links between Japan's universities and RIKEN's K supercomputer, the world's fastest computer in 2011 and still ranked fourth today.
Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.
The latest numbers from the Washington, D.C. - based Computing Research Association's annual Taulbee Survey, which tracks employment statistics for new Ph.D. computer scientists, show that last year fewer grads in the «Informatics: biomedical / other science» category took postdoc positions; instead, more took positions in industry, says survey director Stuart Zweben.
Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.
The study appeared in the April 14 print edition of Chemical Communications in the article «Visualizing Nanoparticle Mobility in Liquid at Atomic Resolution,» by Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.; Benjamin Jacobs, an applications scientist at Protochips; David Morgan, assistant manager of the Cryo - Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility at Indiana University Bloomington; Harshad Hegde, a computer scientist at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; and Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
Despite an apparent decline in opportunities for information technology professionals in recent years, the job market for computer science Ph.D. s remains strong, with an unemployment rate below 1 %, according to the latest Taulbee Survey from the Computing Research Association (CRA), which was released in May.
Although computer science is fundamental to cybersecurity research and practice, there is plenty of opportunity for scientists in other fields to apply their interests to cybersecurity issues — and no need to start over.
The Computing Research Association has for 30 years had an annual survey of the production and employment of Ph.D. s in computer science, called the Taulbee survey.
In November, he will start his own research group as an assistant professor in the computer science department at UC Los AngeleIn November, he will start his own research group as an assistant professor in the computer science department at UC Los Angelein the computer science department at UC Los Angeles.
«Last January, we launched a research study with the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, INRIA), together with the neighboring Pau University and various partners including the oil company, Totalresearch study with the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, INRIA), together with the neighboring Pau University and various partners including the oil company, TotalResearch in Computer Science and Control (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, INRIA), together with the neighboring Pau University and various partners including the oil company, Total.»
«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»
I spoke to him about the current state and the future promise of research careers in computer science.
In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research scientist, tested three different facial - recognition systems.
De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done.
Credit growing concerns about climate and computer advances that make it easier to fashion custom - shaped panels, says Sam Zelinka, head of building and fire sciences research at the Forest Products Laboratory, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Madison.
One project that aims to make this happen is by cinematography firm Technicolor and the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.
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