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Upcoming Events:
This Week:
- Lockeed Martin Winter Information Session
- 2012 Visitor Seminar: Polar Codes for Data Storage
- 2013 Winter Seminar: Algorithms for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.
- Project Hello World: Java and Game Programming
Upcoming Events:
- Winter General Meeting #3: Valentine Social
Opportunities:
- The Aerospace Corporation: Summer Internships and Part-time Employment
- IEEE Computer Society/Moverio Contest
- Asteroid Research Group IT Opportunity:
This Week:
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Lockheed Martin Information Session (Week 5)*
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Date:
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Monday, February 4th
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Location:
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Boelter Penthouse (BH 8500)
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Time:
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6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Description:
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Interested in working for one of the largest defense, aerospace and advance technology company in the world? Lockheed Martin, the company behind C-130 Hercules, the Mars Odyssey and more, will be hosting an information session on Tuesday of Fifth Week.
At the information session, Lockheed representatives will be introducing the company, its mission and its people. In addition, the company is currently looking for college students and graduates in all areas of engineering, math, and physics. So remember to bring your resume.
*Co-sponsored by UCLA IEEE
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2012 Visitor Seminar: Polar Codes for Data Storage
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Date:
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Monday, February 4th
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Location:
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Maxwell Room, Engineering IV 57-124
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Time:
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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Description:
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Polar codes are a new class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of memoryless channels with low complexity encoding and decoding algorithms. In this work, we survey the literature and investigate the suitability of polar codes to data storage applications focusing on error-correction performance and throughput. We show that polar codes meet the criteria for such applications and highlight the work required before practical data storage systems can utilize these codes.
The visiting speaker is Warren J. Gros of McGill University, Canada. He received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University. His research interests are in the design and implementation of signal processing systems and custom computer architectures.
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2012 Winter Seminar Series: Algorithms for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
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Date:
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Monday, February 4th
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Location:
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Maxwell Room, Engineering IV 57-124
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Time:
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1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Description:
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The large-scale gathering and storage of personal data is raising new questions about the regulation of privacy. On the technology side, there has been a flurry of recent work on new models for privacy risk and protection. One such model is differential privacy, which quantifies the risk to an individual's data being included in a database. Differentially private algorithms introduce noise into their computations to limit this risk, allowing the output to be released publicly. I will describe new algorithms for differentially private machine learning tasks such as learning a classifier and principle components analysis (PCA). I will describe how guaranteeing privacy affects the performance of these algorithms, the results on real data sets, and some exciting future directions.
The speaker, Anand Sarwate, is a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located on the University of Chicago campus. Prior to that he was a postdoc in the Information Theory and Applications Center (ITA) at UC San Diego. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2008, and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2002. He is broadly interested in statistical algorithms applied to problems in distributed systems, signal processing, communications, and privacy and security.
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Project Hello World:
Java and Game Programming
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Date:
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Wednesday, February
6th
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Location:
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Maxwell Room,
Engineering IV 57-124
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Time:
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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Description:
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Want to learn Java and get into the world of game programming?
Project Hello World is a 3-part workshop to get students familiar with Java
and the Slick2D Java game engine. This course is targeted to students who
have already taken CS 31. CS 32 is recommended, but not necessary. We will be
meeting on Wednesdays
in the Maxwell room (57-124, in Engineering Building IV). The first workshop
is on February 6th, from 6-7pm.
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Upcoming Events:
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Winter General Meeting #3: Valentine Day Mixer
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Date:
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Wednesday, February 13th
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Location:
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Rice Room, Boelter Hall 6764
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Time:
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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Description:
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Come to the Valentine GM and mix with your fellow engineers. Enjoy speed friending (not dating) and other Valentine activities while meeting other engineers. Free food and candies will also be available.
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Opportunities:
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The Aerospace Corporation: Summer Intern and Part-time
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Description:
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The Aerospace Corporation is also looking for potential undergrad and grad summer internships and part-time employment at Aerospace while attending UCLA. You must be a US citizen.
Required qualifications are listed below:
· A B.S. degree in EE or related field
· Minimum of a MS degree and/or two years of experience since BS degree in the prototyping of digital communication systems and/or algorithms is required for MTS.
· Prior hand’s on laboratory experience is essential.
· Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary.
· US Citizenship required.
Preferred qualifications are listed below:
· Graduate degree related to design of communication and/or GPS signal processing hardware is preferred.
· Proficiency in Xilinx Foundation, Matlab, Python and/or Modelsim is preferred.
· Prior design experience in of VHDL and C/C++ is preferred.
· Analog or RF design experience is a plus.
· Experience implementing communication algorithms using embedded software, multi-threaded programming, DSP,FPGA, ADCs, DACs and/or ASICs is desired.
· A theoretical understanding and practical experience with modern communication and digital signal processing techniques is highly desirable.
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Contact:
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IEEE Computer Society/Moverio Contest
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Description:
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IEEE CS Society is hosting a competition via video reply and is asking participants to pitch them the “next generation” application ideas for Moverio BT-100, an Android based high resolution see-through display with Wi-Fi connectivity. More information on Moverio BT-100 can be found here. The contest entry date starts on January 1st 2013 and ends on April 30th, 2013. Official rules of the contest can be found here. One grand prize of $8,000 and 3 honorable Mention Prizes of $2,000/each will be given. All winners will also be given a Moverio BT-100 unit.
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Contact:
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For individuals interested in this opportunity, post your video reply on Youtube and submit your official contest entry form here.
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Asteroid Research Group IT Opportunity:
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Description:
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Associate Professor Jean-Luc Margot of the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences is looking for a CS (or equivalent) undergraduate student to improve his research group’s asteroid database. Qualifications are as follow:
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Contact:
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For individuals interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to Professor Margot at the following address: jlm@astro.ucla.edu
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Hope to see you soon,
UCLA IEEE
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