Past Events

San Jose’s Office of Civic Innovation and Digital Strategy is a two-year old startup charged with transforming the delivery of city services and making the city as innovative as the community they serve. Speakers will share stories that cover the highs and lows of the use of data to improve service delivery, including transforming their hiring process, redesigning their campaign to reduce illegal dumping, creating algorithms to improve their inspection program, and more. Speakers: Erica Garaffo, Data Analytics Lead |…

Abstract The gut microbiota is a mediator of pathogen colonization and persistence in the host. Alterations in the abundance of healthy gut flora affect pathogen colonization and pathogen-associated immune responses. Campylobacter jejuni, a leading cause of bacterial diarrheal illness and acute peripheral neuropathy, stimulates more severe inflammatory responses in murine models with antibiotic depleted or humanized microbiota compared to those with normal murine microbiota. Furthering of our understanding of the microbiotas role in disease is dependent upon a combination of…

NSF Cloud Chameleon Chameleon is a large-scale testbed, funded by the NSF, that provides a platform for the computer science research community to explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating…

The iRODS team has had the pleasure of having a student intern this summer, Aleksander Mieczkowski. Alek has completed his project and will be presenting it to the team next Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 at 12:00 noon, EDT. We would like to invite you to join us via Zoom if you are interested in hearing this presentation. Description: This presentation will demonstrate presenting iRODS over the NFS4 protocol on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. Alongside a description on the inner workings…

Supervised Machine Learning: Still the Most Important Machine Learning Technique with Keith McCormick, Senior Consultant and Trainer @ The Modeling Agency Abstract Regression, decision trees, neural networks – along with many other supervised learning techniques - provide powerful predictive insights. New users of these established techniques are often impressed with how easy it all seems to be since automated model-building software is widely available. However, proper data preparation and human input is still necessary to get optimal results. We will…

Jason Coposky and Terrell Russell of the iRODS Consortium will kick off our evening with an Automated Ingest and Sync Policy Example. About the presentation: This talk covers the newly published synchronization policy example from the iRODS Consortium. The demo will use the Python Rule Engine Plugin and the Automated Ingest Framework to monitor a data source for new or changed files and then keeps those changes up-to-date in the iRODS Vault and catalog. With only three configuration variables, this…

Visual Trumpery - A Talk by Alberto Cairo Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami and author of The Functional Art and The Truthful Art, brings his Visual Trumpery lecture tour to the NCSU Libraries. The very title of this talk, Visual Trumpery, is an example of its content. It is intended to trigger your ideological defenses and trick you into believing what is not so. The English word “trumpery” means worthless nonsense, something that is showy and deceitful at the same time. Trumpery…