Venu Govindaraju, UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and ICT Chair, has recently been selected for two renewal awards under Hewlett-Packard’s Innovation Research Program. The projects, “Multimodal Command-and-Control By Integrating Two-Handed Gestures and Speech” (Co-PI Jason Corso), and “Intelligent Processing of Hand-Annotated Documents” (Co-PI Srirangaraj Setlur), both involve breakthrough research in the area of immersive interaction. The grants, totaling approximately $250K, fund investigator and graduate student collaborative research with Hewlett-Packard.
Posted June 30, 2009 in ICT
Assistant Professor of CSE and ICT faculty member, Jason Corso, will receive the NSF CAREER award for computer vision research entitled “CAREER: Generalized Image Understanding with Probabilistic Ontologies and Dynamic Adaptive Graph Hierarchies.” Please join us in congratulating Professor Corso in this major accomplishment.
Posted June 10, 2009 in ICT
The Information and Computing Technology Strategic Initiative sponsored “ICT Day,” an event dedicated to academic pursuits related to this Strategic Strength. ICT Day featured lectures throughout the day by both UB faculty and several distinguished external speakers in the areas of Enabling Discovery and Smart Environments. A poster session open to student and faculty participants was also held.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 - 9:45 am: Breakfast in the Flag Room
9:45 - 10:00 am: Opening Remarks, Venu Govindaraju, Chair of the ICT Faculty Advisory Committee and Alex Cartwright, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
Session I
Chair: Bharat Jayaraman, Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
12:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch (meet and greet with the Provost) and Poster Session in the Flag Room
Session II
Chair: E. Bruce Pitman, UB Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Mathematics
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Reception in the Flag Room
Posted June 2, 2009 in ICT
Sponsored in part by the UB2020 Strategic Strengths and organized by the Information and Computing Technology (ICT) initiative, the purpose of the 2008 Fall Workshop was to promote and facilitate faculty-led, multi-disciplinary research projects related to information science, human-computer interaction, or computational science. An anticipated outcome of this workshop is to increase research, scholarship, and funding to these ICT-related areas.
The workshop was well attended, representing many UB departments such as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, the Center for Computational Research (CCR), Management Science and Systems, Mathematics, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Communication, and the Office of the Provost. ICT faculty members were fortunate in that a number of key individuals from the university attended the workshop, including: Rajan Batta, Associate Dean of Graduate Education; Alex Cartwright, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives; Bharat Jayaraman, Chair of Computer Science and Engineering; David Kofke, Chair of the Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Satish Tripathi, Provost.
The event was hosted and moderated by Venu Govindaraju, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the ICT initiative. In the morning, new faculty members hired under the auspices of ICT each provided a brief description of their academic and professional backgrounds and current research interests while displaying their individual ICT website faculty profile. This was followed by brief presentations by ICT faculty members, a discussion on the ICT website progress, and proposal coordination process.
Workshop Minutes (pdf)
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Posted January 23, 2009 in ICT
Jason Corso, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was recently awarded a grant from the DARPA Computer Science Study Group Program. This program aims to fund work in computer science that will revolutionize operations at the DoD rather than make incremental advances. The first phase of this award will provide $99,600 in funding to Corso’s work, which in this proposal focuses on innovative uses of automatic computer learning from video.
Short synopsis of the proposal:
“The main objective of this proposal is to understand how probabilistic ontologies of visual phenomena can be induced directly from video thereby revolutionizing our ability to rapidly learn a probabilistic low-to-high level domain model directly from data and use it to automatically infer a comprehensive yet parsimonious semantic description with quantitative underpinnings of video.”
Posted January 21, 2009 in ICT
