BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fuego CMS//iCal4j 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Qatar TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Asia/Qatar X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Qatar BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+032608 TZOFFSETTO:+0400 TZNAME:GST DTSTART:19191231T233352 RDATE: END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0400 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19720601T000000 RDATE: END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130529 SUMMARY:PETRAE TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141850Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Rhodes Island\, Greece DESCRIPTION:Dr. Halima Bensmail\, Senior Scientist of QCRI's Scientific C omputing team\, is an Invited speaker at the PETRAE\, giving a talk on “ Time course and Neural Representation of Memorability: faces and places: an alpha-sparse model for classifying memorability regions” \n\nFor mor e info on PETRAE please visit www.petrae.org COMMENT: \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130608 SUMMARY:International Conference of Computational Sciences TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141851Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Barcelona\, Spain DESCRIPTION:Dr. Halima Bensmail will present a talk about Metflex\; a new software developed by QCRI for simulating artificial H1NMR metabolites quantification COMMENT:For more about the conference visit the site.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130521T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130521T120000 SUMMARY:Going Big on Big Data TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141852Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Tornado Tower-10th Floor-Conference Room 1015 DESCRIPTION:Samuel Madden is a professor of Electrical Engineering and co mputer Science in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab oratory. In this talk he will give a bit of background about what big da ta is\, why industry is soexcited about it. and his own perspective on t hechallenging researchproblems is bring up he also describe a couple of "big data" research projects they have been doing COMMENT: \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130519T103000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130519T113000 SUMMARY:Exploring Challenges in Semantic Role Labeling TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141853Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Tornado Tower-10th Floor-Conference Room 1015 DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)sine2000. PhD in computer Science (UPC1999 awarded the UPC prize fo r doctoral dissertations in computer Science. In this talk he will overv iew the research he conducted in the last fourteen years in the field of natural language Processing (NLP). COMMENT: \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130516 SUMMARY:TEDxTraverseCity TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141854Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Traverse City\, Michigan\, USA DESCRIPTION:Dr. Patrick Meier\, Director of Social Innovation at QCRI\, s peaks at TEDx in Traverse City\, Michigan COMMENT:Dr. Patrick Meier\, Director of Social Innovation at QCRI is a fr equent guest speaker at TEDx events\, and is scheduled to present in the annual Traverse City event on May 15\, 2013. \; He will be speaking about Next Generation Humanitarian Technology. \; TEDxTraverseCity will "\;honor innovators who have passion\, curiosity\, creativity a nd adaptability to change the world with revolutionary ideas."\;
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130514 SUMMARY:WebQuality2013: 3rd Joint WICOW / AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141855Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Dr. Carlos Castillo\, Senior Scientist\, Social Computing at QCRI \, organizes a workshop on the sidelines of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference that will focus on the credibility and quality issues on the Web and in Social Media COMMENT:Signal or Noise? \; Credibility and Quality Issues on t he Web and Social Media< !--[if gte mso 9]>\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
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\nFinding relevant\, timely and trustworthy co ntent in a sea of seemingly irrelevant chatter is a challenging research issue. \; This workshop will focus on themes including the evaluati on of web information credibility\, and identifying and combating qualit atively extreme content and spam.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130513T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130513T170000 SUMMARY:Social News on the Web (SNOW) TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141856Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Rio de Janiero\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Dr. Carlos Castillo\, Senior Scientist of Social Computing at QCRI\, will give an invited talk at this event. COMMENT:
Dr. Castillo will be delivering a talk titled: \; Tr affic Prediction and Discovery of News via News Crowds at the First Workshop on Social News on the Web (SNOW). \; SNOW will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2 013) in Rio de Janiero.
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\nWe consi der the users who share a specific online news article on a social media platform. This group is the "\;news crowd"\; of the article\, a n analogy with the crowd of passers-by that gathers around any incident on a busy street. First\, we study both the volume and the diversity of the social media conversations of this crowd around the news item\, to p roduce improved predictions of its impact. Second\, we follow the crowd during several days in order to find out other news which may be related to the original one.
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\nThis talk is based on joint work wi th Mohammed El-Haddad (Al Jazeera)\, Mounia Lalmas and Janette Lehmann (Yahoo!)\, Jü\;rgen Pfeffer (CMU) and Matt S tempeck and Ethan Zuckerman (MIT Civic Media).
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\nFor mo re about Dr. Castillo as an invited speaker\, please click here.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130512T094000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130515T174000 SUMMARY:Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 20 13) TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141857Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Baden Baden\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Dr. Imran Muhammed\, of QCRI's Social Computing team\, will p resent two papers at ISCRAM. COMMENT:
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Dr. Imran Muhammed\, Post-doc researcher\, QCRI \;Social Co mputing\, will present two papers at this conference:
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·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Muhammad Imran\, Sha dy Elbassuoni\, Carlos Castillo\, Fernando Diaz and Patrick Meier. Extra cting Information Nuggets from Disaster-Related Messages in Social Media . \;ISCRAM-2013\, May 2013 [PD F]

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·\; \; \; \;  \; \; \; \; \; Soudip Roy Chowdhury\, Muhammad Imran\, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar\, Sihem Amer-Yahia and Carlos Castillo. Tweet4act: Using Incident -Specific Profiles for Classifying Crisis-Related Messages. \; ISCRAM-2013\, May 2013 [PDF]

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\nISCRAM is the acronym for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management\, and has been first used fo r the first international ISCRAM Workshop in Brussels in 2004. \; Fr om 2004 to 2009\, the ISCRAM Community expanded into a globally active community of researchers\, academics\, practitioners\, policy makers wit h an interest in this new area. \;\n

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The ISCRAM Associat ion's primary mission is to foster a community dedicated to pro moting research and development\, exchange of knowledge and deployment of information systems for crisis management\, including the s ocial\, technical and practical aspects of all information and communic ation systems used or to be used in all phases of management of emergen cies\, disasters and crises.

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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130508T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130508T160000 SUMMARY:Score Distributions in Information Retrieval TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141858Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Tornado Tower\, 10th Floor\, Conference Room 1015 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Avi Arampatzis\, graduate from the Computer Engineering a nd Informations Department of the University of Patras\, Greece. He will review the history of modeling score distribution and experimental evid ence\, and discuss conditions which valid binary mixture models should s atisfy. COMMENT:[ppm:alt id=818] \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130501T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130501T180000 SUMMARY:Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Multimedia Systems TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141859Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Qatar University\, room E113 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mohamed Hefeeda\, Principal Scientist\, QCRI Distributed Systems\, delivers a talk at the Computer Science and Engineering colleg e at Qatar University. COMMENT:Abstract: \;
\nIn recent years\, mobile devices have become powe rful in terms of computing power\, memory\, screen size\, and screen qua lity. This provides an improved experience for viewing multimedia conten t and has resulted in substantial demand for mobile multimedia services. However\, providing high-quality multimedia services to numerous mobile users faces many challenges\, including scarce and variable wireless ba ndwidth and limited battery lifetime of mobile devices. In this talk\, I will describe the main research problems in mobile multimedia and the v arious approaches to address them. \; Then\, I will focus on the joi nt problem of bandwidth and energy optimization and present an efficient and optimal solution for it. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130430T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130430T203000 SUMMARY:Meeting of the Minds TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141900Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar\, Doha DESCRIPTION:QCRI's Principal Scientist\, Stephan Vogel\, is a judge at Ca rnegie Mellon's annual Meeting of the Minds research competition. COMMENT:For more information about CMU's Meeting of the Minds\, visit the site.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130503 SUMMARY:MIT NeuroImage and System Biology workshop TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141901Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Boston\, Massachusetts\, USA DESCRIPTION:Dr. Halima Bensmail is an invited speaker at this workshop. COMMENT:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130425T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130425T190000 SUMMARY:QHackathon TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141902Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Katara\, Doha\, Qatar DESCRIPTION:QCRI participates in the first ever QHackathon\, of the MIT E nterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition. COMMENT:Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid\, Executive Director of QCRI will judge the final competition on April 25. \; Dr. Ihab Ilyas\, Principal Scienti st of QCRI's Data Analytics team\, will be a mentor for contestants.&nbs p\;
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130522T141850Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130422T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Qatar:20130422T170000 SUMMARY:The Future of Cyber Warfare TZID:Asia/Qatar UID:20130522T141903Z-uidGen@ganymede.local LOCATION:Tornado Tower\, 5th Floor\, West Bay\, Doha DESCRIPTION:QCRI hosts a talk by experts Mr. Eric Winsborrow and Dr. Crai g Schultz of ZanttZ\, Inc on the History and Future of Cyber Warfare. COMMENT:The talk is held as part of QCRI&rsquo\;s plans to launch a cyber security research program.
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Mr. Winsborrow and Dr. S chultz will discuss the progression of malware from its original days to the current nation-state sponsored advanced techniques\, and distinguis h the categories of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) from basic crimin al attacks to cyber warfare to military weapons.
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Date:  \; \; \; \; \;  \; \; Monday\, 22 April 2013
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Time &nbs p\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; 4pm (doors open at 3:30pm)
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Venue:  \; \; \; 5th floor\, Tornado Tower\, West Bay
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Mr. Winsborrow currently serves as the President and CEO of ZanttZ\, and has played a part in shaping the i ndustry as an executive at heavyweights such as McAfee\, Symantec\, and Cisco. \;Dr. Schultz is ZanttZ&rsquo\;s VP of Security Research\, an d is a leading authority on methodologies\, models and applications to d etect\, identify\, assess and counter existing and emerging illicit thre ats.
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ZanttZ is a privately-held c ompany developing stealth cyber security technology solutions.
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