2017 – 2018 Distinguished Lecture Series - Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica

2017 – 2018 Distinguished Lecture Series

Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am
International Conference Hall at Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Academic Sinica

Topics:	Social Physics: Toward A Computational Understanding of Society
Speaker:	Professor Alex Pentland MIT, UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Research Areas:	Social Physics Computational Social Science Honest Signals Network and Complexity Science Wearable Computing

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Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	Machine Learning Revisited
Speaker:	Professor Eugene Wong University of California at Berkeley and Academia Sinica
Research Areas:	Communications & Networking (COMNET)

Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	A Random Walk of Network Science Research: Sub-modularity, Large Graphs Computation and File System Support
Speaker:	Professor John C.S. Lui Choh-Ming Li Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Areas:	Network Science Future Internet Architectures Machine Learning and Stochastic Modeling Network Economics Network/System Security Large Scale Storage Systems