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thank you very much unless i'm jim letters and the
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dean of a school of computer communication sciences
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uh i and few words start with before we move on to the major uh part of the program
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so i'm just remind everybody that um
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after me uh we will have to talks this morning and then we will have
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uh something new this year which we're trying out for the
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first time which is i'm sure is a very short
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presentations by uh students from the i and c. faculty
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you'll be given an opportunity to see a good cross section of the research and the school and
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then um to vote uh on the presentation so that we can select the best ones
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and finally we'll have lunch and present the words and the final talk will
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be after lunch so that we can get all three talks in today
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um let me take this opportunity to say a little bit
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not only bought software but about the school so
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most of you probably have heard of the school uh we're forty two
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actually seem to be forty three and maybe forty four uh professors
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uh we have been over two hundred p. h. d. students um
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and around that thousand uh undergraduate and masters students in
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three areas we have computer science communication sciences
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yeah and the the new one is actually did a science we just started
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a master's program last fall in data science which is not not a very strong start that's quite a bit
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of interest uh of last year and in the act class that will be starting in the fall
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very strong program with some new classes thought especially in terms of data science and
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it's uh it's obviously a extra credibly important an incredibly hot area uh
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in terms of industry and we're very happy that we could get this
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program going and um get so many students interest to quickly
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uh we have one new faculty member i don't think guard camille is here
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i think she's out of town today but uh we just started to
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last wow i and uh she's a faculty member in the area of
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security and privacy and it's been doing a lot of very innovative
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a research in terms of building more secure
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um technical solutions to protecting your privacy
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obviously that doesn't need any justification or explanation these days
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we also have had a number of our words this is the time here where i
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get to get up in front of a friendly audience and brag about uh
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the great things that are factored in students have accomplished um
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two of our faculty members were recognise with the
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a. c. m. and i. triple the files which are the highest level in these two professional societies
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we've also had a number of words um a nanny admit kelly was so when it is a foreign
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member of the american academy of arts and sciences quite an a rare and high on or
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here don't on board a fellow of the international side of learning says sciences and so
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begins to stop that raymond bomber no word for her work and computational photography um
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we also have gotten some prestigious researcher words too far new junior
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faculty members uh bob west wanna google research faculty award
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and michael corporate law for one and the r. c. starting graham both
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of them sort of competitive a highly prestigious uh funding words
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um and then we've had a number of the papers that we produced or reproduced
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quite a few papers i won't go through all of them um when um
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unusual or sort of up to very distinctive on us
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so carmel there's a paper on privacy protection
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actually won an award from india and c. n. i.
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l. which is the french privacy protection agency
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uh they gave her work a a sort of special
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recognition in terms of the technical accomplishments and
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and um another recent award is um
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brian form john p. or blows a word for a distinguished paper
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at i. tripoli symposium on security privacy the open conference
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and it's a number for students have one uh
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there is a graduate fellowships including p.
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h. d. fellowship so uh from a google m. i. b. m. or car
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and and excellence award for the p. h. t. that uh whatever students published a couple years back
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finally i mean mention a couple of the new things sort of gotten
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started so does centre for digital trust to see for d. t.
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is a new centre that we launched last fall which is i'm
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getting off to a strong start the spring um we have
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basically said that one of the major problems facing
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us as a society and industry as a whole is this issue that
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trust and the online world has been diminished it used
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to be that you believed what you saw
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on line you could do transactions online it was uh so the extension of the physical world
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i think everybody realises today that's not the situation that uh
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there's a lot of things out there that aren't
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particularly attractive but are particularly conducive to um
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conducting all business and societal and interactions online and so the c. four d. t.
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is building technology in partnership with a number of companies and nonprofit organisations
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try to produce a more secure foundation for a digital trust online
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so if you're just that i'd be happy to talk more about it later and i think you'll be hearing more about it in the next couple years
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uh we've also had a number of outreach activities that have been very successful so
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we've been running a the summer e. p. f. l. program which brings in
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um second and third year undergraduates from all over the world
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to spend a three week three months in a lab at a
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i. n. c. to give the undergraduates and exposure to research
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so it's been growing every year we have well over
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a thousand applications we take about fifty students
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a summer a search extremely competitive extremely difficult to get in students we get are fantastic
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students and they go on to research careers many of them actually
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come to um u. t. f. hours are graduate students
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we also have created a number of new
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channels together our research results up
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not just the traditional one of publishing papers which is sore and earlier words
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so we've created a set of bias um one data out
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which are short online videos of various sorts either
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ah one of the faculty members of visitors being interviewed
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about a particular topic of direction uh expertise that's as that abides
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or so the short video segments on particular technical topic which is
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uh no one d. that he's a proven extremely popular in
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terms of getting out technical information less than the movie
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you know that one dealers are typically about five minutes
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so you can basically going get the answer to a technical question without looking it up on the border would keep eating yeah
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and see one of our professors describe it as they would have done it in the class so we can
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using the new media as a way of both hoping
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the the general public to find out more about computer science but also as
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a way of getting a u. p. f. l. and i and see
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uh out there and encourage everybody to take a look at some of the interviews on data bytes
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are uh actually fascinating people talking about what they care about most and certainly recommend that
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um then let me turn to the topic of today software
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so why the feature of software oh well this is an area where i've worked in um
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i i know of our speakers quite well i work with them in the past so
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what i was thinking about this there was one quote that came to mind so let me put it up there
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so i don't know how many of you read um charles dickens tale of two
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cities this is the opening line of it so let me read it
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uh to you it was the best of times it was the worst of
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times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness
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it was the applicable leaf it was the object of incredible acreage you lose trendy little sorry
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i was covered that it was the season of light was a season of darkness
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spring of hope it was the winter of despair read everything before us we have nothing before
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so we're going direct to have and we're all going to wreck the other way
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so this is i think pretty good summary of where we are in terms of
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software these days ah let me let me take a slider to do explain
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so ah mark and jason had came up with the line that software is eating the
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world and i think that's actually true if you look at sort of um
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any feel to it is being revolutionised by the application of software
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by the application of techniques that come out of computer science
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and it's really changing the way in which the economy works social and political relationships occur
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interpersonal relationships the way science is done with business is done um you know
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i don't think any of you need to look for the then the
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computer that you have in your pocket which is far more powerful than
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the computers that we used to do research a decade ago
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and everybody carries around and it's a personal device and enables
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all sorts of unseen uh interactions in transactions that
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but we're just impossible that a decade ago when the i. phone was introduced
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i would also argue that software has a field of interest as
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of commercial field is evolving much faster than any other field
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it used to be that you could point to hardware we could talk about things like moore's law and say you know
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processors are improving much faster they are improving much faster anymore but i would
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say the state of the art in terms of programming is improving
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things that ten years ago were a challenging for startup company really the major company to do
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we can give to students as course projects now because the software has
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made sure the tools of of all the infrastructure is the yeah
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and so the amount of effort is much more manageable for a student in a project course
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and i think sometimes this gets lost the rate of evolution and the sophistication of the software
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and i also would point out the software i think it's creating it's own successor um
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i think the techniques of machine learning where instead of programming you actually learn
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any build the system around a learned response as opposed to programme response
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is going to change the way which computing is done changing from very deterministic world which is the
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world that we're all familiar with which is what i think are speakers will talk primarily about
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to our world that this much more statistical which is much closer to the actual
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physical world or things are quite this deterministic as the world in a computer
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so all this seems great revolutionary exciting reasons why you should come and
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uh the students and i can see into research in this area
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but the other side of that is that it's a
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software wonderful ah yes it has problems and uh
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i think they are rather prototype put up there is move fast and break things
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which is obviously a from the header face but was the slogan of face but
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probably not their slogan anymore i don't think i for the for the past couple years so
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yeah the the consequences of the softer revolution are all positive you know you
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only have to look at the newspapers these days to sort of see
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a privacy violations you could see 'em influencing
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of elections and various other things
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are very much in the news and a lot of bad
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things that have occurred because of exactly the same devices
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and the same software that has made us so much
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happier in other dimensions of our life so you
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know yeah isn't not a a positives have fully positive
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improvement and it's not uh fully negative group
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the other one which is i think more the focus of today and the larger
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picture issues is that software is still not perfect and maybe never be perfect
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it's for the buck said his security flaws their new things to read about every
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day in the newspaper in terms of security um when i started uh uh
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work in this area two decades ago with actually that these two uh two four speakers
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it seem like it was possible that we would actually makes a significant improvement
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by using the tools in terms of reducing the number of flaws
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i think we made a quite an impact in terms of improving software quality i think you
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see fewer bugs and he sees blue screens and failures and used to two decades ago
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but i don't think we've gotten that far in terms of the actual security flaws so i'll
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all of this is motivation for why we invited um some of the
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top people in our field to come and give talks and um
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i think that what they'll talk about in terms of verified
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saw for the ability to actually demonstrate that software doesn't
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contains laws that it does which are supposed to do and there are some examples out there that you can actually
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see nontrivial systems that have been verified and a list too
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the ability to do a machine learning at perhaps
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what we place programming with uh other techniques
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the ability to do research in terms of new technologies like got a
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c. four d. t. is probably based on what chain which as
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quite a bit of problems as well so we have three accents because today
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uh i kept reno was one of our faculty members annoying and see
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recently no who is at amazon and eric meyer who is that face but
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so i will just turn the program over to them and thank you

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Conference Program

Welcome address
Andreas Mortensen, Vice President for Research, EPFL
June 7, 2018 · 9:49 a.m.
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Introduction
Jim Larus, Dean of IC School, EPFL
June 7, 2018 · 10 a.m.
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The Young Software Engineer’s Guide to Using Formal Methods
K. Rustan M. Leino, Amazon
June 7, 2018 · 10:16 a.m.
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Safely Disrupting Computer Networks with Software
Katerina Argyraki, EPFL
June 7, 2018 · 11:25 a.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 2: Gamified Rehabilitation with Tangible Robots
Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, EPFL (CHILI)
June 7, 2018 · 12:15 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 3: kickoff.ai
Lucas Maystre, Victor Kristof, EPFL (LCA)
June 7, 2018 · 12:19 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 4: Neural Network Guided Expression Transformation
Romain Edelmann, EPFL (LARA)
June 7, 2018 · 12:22 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 5: CleanM
Stella Giannakopoulo, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 12:25 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 6: Understanding Cities through Data
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 12:27 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 7: Datagrowth and application trends
Matthias Olma, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 12:31 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 8: Point Cloud, a new source of knowledge
Mirjana Pavlovic, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 12:34 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 9: To Click or not to Click?
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 12:37 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 10: RaaSS Reliability as a Software Service
Maaz Mohiuddlin, LCA2, IC-EPFL
June 7, 2018 · 12:40 p.m.
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Short IC Research Presentation 11: Adversarial Machine Learning in Byzantium
El Mahdi El Mhamdi, EPFL (LPD)
June 7, 2018 · 12:43 p.m.
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20s pitch 1: Cost and Energy Efficient Data Management
Utku Sirin, (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:20 p.m.
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20s pitch 5: Unified, High Performance Data Cleaning
Stella Giannakopoulo, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:21 p.m.
20s pitch 4: Neural Network Guided Expression Transformation
Romain Edelmann, EPFL (LARA)
June 7, 2018 · 2:21 p.m.
20s pitch 2: Gamification of Rehabilitation
Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, EPFL (CHILI)
June 7, 2018 · 2:21 p.m.
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20s pitch 6: Interactive Exploration of Urban Data with GPUs
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:22 p.m.
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20s pitch 7: Interactive Data Exploration
Matthias Olma, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:22 p.m.
20s pitch 8: Efficient Point Cloud Processing
Mirjana Pavlovic, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:23 p.m.
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20s pitch 9: To Click or not to Click?
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, EPFL (DIAS)
June 7, 2018 · 2:24 p.m.
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20s pitch 10: RaaSS Reliability as a Software Service
Maaz Mohiuddlin, LCA2, IC-EPFL
June 7, 2018 · 2:24 p.m.
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20s pitch 11: Adversarial Machine Learning in Byzantium
El Mahdi El Mhamdi, EPFL (LPD)
June 7, 2018 · 2:24 p.m.
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Machine Learning: Alchemy for the Modern Computer Scientist
Erik Meijer, Facebook
June 7, 2018 · 2:29 p.m.
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