Cornell University

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Cornell University
David Killian 10/25/2005
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Cornell Tidbits

• Founded 1865
• 2,627 Faculty
• 13,625 Undergraduates, 5,903 Graduates
• Colors Carnelian and white
• Mascot Big Red Bear
• Yougest Ivy League, largestIvy League
  (enrollment)
• First major institution in eastern US to admit
  women(1870)

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CS Department Numbers

• Started in 1965
• 36 Full time faculty, 110 Ph.D., 100 M.Eng
• About 200 undergraduate graduates per year
• 2 Turing Awards Juris Hartmanis and John E.
  Hopcroft
• 3 National Academy of Engineering members
• Top 10 in various rankings
• Chaired by Charles F. Van Loan
• Total Expenditures, 2003-2005 15 million

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CS Research Areas

• Architecture - 4
• Artificial Intelligence 14
• Computational Biology - 8
• Databases and Digital Libraries - 3
• Language and Compilation - 9
• Graphics - 4
• Operating Systems, Networks, and Distributed
  Computing - 7
• Scientific and Parallel Computing - 4
• Security -
• Theory of Computing - 11

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Johannes GehrkeOverview

• Associate Professor Ph.D. CS Wisconsin-Madison
  1999
• 3 Ph.D. Students
• Advisor Raghu Ramakrishnan
• NSF Career Award, IBM Faculty Award, Arthur P.
  Sloan Fellowship
• Co-aurthored the textbook Database Management
  Systems
• Areas of Interest data mining, data stream
  processing, data privacy, and applications of
  database and data mining technology to the
  sciences

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Johannes GehrkeProjects

• HIMALAYA data mining project SECRET (Scalable
  Linear Regression Trees), MAFIA (Mining Maximal
  Frequent Itemsets), SPAM (Sequential Pattern
  Matching)
• Cougar Sensor Database System querying sensor
  networks
• Pepper Project DB structured as P2P system

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Jayavel Shanmugasundaram

• Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison 2001, Advisor Jeffrey
  Naughton
• 2 years IBM Almaden
• 5 Ph.D. students
• Research Internet data management, information
  retrieval, and query processing in emerging
  system architectures

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Jayavel Shanmugasundaram

• Quark Unifying Database and Information
  Retrieval Systems
• Pepper P2P Data management
• Hilda A High Level Language for Data-Driven Web
  Applications

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Claire Cardie

• Associate Professor
• Ph.D. Umass 1994 Advisor Wendy Lenhert
• Artificial Intelligence Group
• Research Natural Language Processing
• Noun phrase coreference
• Weakly supervised learning methods for NLP
• Opinion-oriented question-answering and
  summarization systems

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Rich Caruana

• Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. CMU 1997
• Advisors Tom Mitchell and Herb Simon
• Pre-Ph.D.Research Scientist GTE Philips Labs
• 1998-2000 Assistant Professor, UCLA
• 2000-2001 Research Faculty, CMU
• Research machine learning and data mining,
  medical decision making and bio-informatics,
  feature selection, missing values, inductive
  transfer (e.g., multitask learning), artificial
  neural networks, and memory-based learning

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Thorsten Joachims

• Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. 2001 University of Dortmund
• Advised by Katharina Morik
• Author, Learning to Classify Text using Support
  Vector Machines
• Machine Learning, Text Mining, Web Mining,
  Information Retrieval, Information Agents
• Related Projects Osmot Search Engine, Webwatcher

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Lillian Lee

• Associate Professor
• Ph.D. 1997 Harvard University
• Advisor Stuart M. Shieber
• Research NLP Distributional Similarity,
  Data-driven Methods for Natural-Language
  Generation, Information Retrieval and Sentiment
  Categorization, Segmentation, Parsing