Come and enjoy a lazy Friday afternoon with us over burgers, chips, and pop! Your CSSS Executives will be grilling tasty food and it’s yours to enjoy for a very nominal price.
Sirloin/Vegetarian Burgers: $2
Chips: $0.50
Pop: $0.50
Also, if you’re there between 12 and 1, be sure to say hi to our Research In Motion Campus Ambassador, Ryan Daley. He’ll have free ice cream!
Google, together with the Focus on Women in Computer Science (FoWCS) committee, is hosting a luncheon for women in Computer Science at UBC and you’re invited!
Shauna Eggers, Software Engineer at Google, will give a TechTalk about
Google News Personalization with additional time
for mingling and Q&A.
Talk Abstract:
Several approaches to collaborative filtering have been studied but seldom have the studies been reported for large (several millions of users and items) and dynamic (the underlying item set is continually changing) settings. In this talk I’ll describe our approach to collaborative filtering for generating personalized recommendations for users of Google News. Our approach is content agnostic and consequently domain independent, making it easily adaptable for other applications and languages with minimal effort. This talk will describe our algorithms and system setup in detail, and report results of running the recommendations engine on Google News.
About Shauna Eggers:
Shauna Eggers has been a software engineer at Google, Inc. since 2007, after attending the University of Washington for an M.A. in Computational Linguistics, and the University of Arizona for a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Linguistics. At Arizona, she was a researcher in the MIS Artificial Intelligence lab, working on NLP applications for bioinformatics. At Google, she enjoys playing with an even larger and juicier dataset, working on NLP applications for AdWords.
Who’s invited: All Women in Computer Science
What: TechTalk on Google News Personalization, and networking with women engineers at Google
Come out and enjoy some $1 Burgers, and social atmosphere at this 19+ event. A great opportunity to hang out with old friends and make new ones in the Faculty of Science! Get a chance to meet some of your previous, current or upcoming professors and get to know them better!
The Department of Computer Science invites you to celebrate the renaming of the undergraduate learning centre to the Demco Learning Centre in honour of Mr. John C. Demco.
As a member of the Department’s Techical Staff, Mr. Demco was instrumental in establishing both the ‘dot-ca’ domain name for Canada, and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority.
Please RSVP to Michele Ng if you will be attending.
