Summer Seminar Series Explores AI at UW-Madison
This webinar series aims to provide a platform for experts and visionaries in the field of AI to share their insights, research and experiences in the classroom, research lab and wider academic community. By delving into topics such as AI ethics, cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, automation, and human-machine collaboration, we hope to foster a deeper understanding of AI’s transformative potential and its implications for higher education. To learn more about the seminar series, including their webinar's schedule and Zoom access information, visit the event page.
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In the News
Joao Dorea, Assistant Professor of Animal and Dairy Sciences and a Data Science Institute Affiliate, received a $1 million grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to develop a computer vision system that will improve the health and welfare of cows on farms. Sharon Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences and also a DSI Affiliate, received an NSF CAREER award to work on new foundations for safe and long-term beneficial learning algorithms in the open world.
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ComBEE @ UW-Madison
Returning soon is ComBEE @ UW-Madison! ComBEE is a group of researchers at UW-Madison interested in computational biology in ecology and evolution. They focus on skill sharing between friends and colleagues, co-working on coding projects, and community building between people in their respective fields, organizations, and communities. Learn more at their website.
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ResearchDrive to Offer More No Cost Storage and Significantly Cheaper Rates
Beginning July 1, UW-Madison Information Technology will upgrade ResearchDrive storage by increasing no cost storage space and lowering paid rates for extra storage. Existing and future ResearchDrive users don't need to do anything to receive the new rates or increased storage; the department will adjust everything automatically.
Thanks to campus investment, eligible PIs (principal investigators) will receive as part of the upgrade:
- 25TB/PI no cost storage on ResearchDrive
- Reduce rates of $120/TB/year for additional storage
Additionally, this summer the department will add a faster flash storage layer to ResearchDrive to optimize performance!
New for Fall of 2023
In Fall 2023, UW-Madison Information Technology will introduce Research Object Storage, based on a local S3 cluster, which is useful for data archiving, big data analysis, instrumentation data, static web content, data target for backup software, enterprise applications, IoT data storage, and more. Each PI will be eligible for 50TB no cost ($60/TB/year additional storage).
The department will announce more information about the S3 protocol and the local Research Object Storage cluster will be coming out later as Fall approaches.
To learn more about these exciting data storage news, read the full news article from UW-Madison Information Technology.
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Next Generation Data Analysis Workshops Summer 2023
June - July, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., The Bioinformatics Resource Core (BRC) at the UW Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is offering heavily hands-on workshops on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis skills. To learn more about the summer workshops and to register, view the links in the following schedule:
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Have questions about anything data science-related? Come see the Data Science Hub facilitators at Coding Meetup on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-4:30 p.m. CT. To join Coding Meetup, join data-science-hubgroup.slack.com.
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SILO: Funny or Die AI: Is The New Yorker Caption Contest the Hill LLM's Want to Die On?
June 29, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Bob Mankoff, former cartoon editor of The New Yorker, creator of The New Yorker Caption Contest, and noted AI dilettante, will give a summer Silo lecture entitled "Funny or Die AI: Is The New Yorker Caption Contest the Hill LLM's Want to Die On?” at the Pyle Center in Room 213.
Mankoff is a co-author of “Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep. Humor “Understanding” Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest, a peer-reviewed paper nominated for an award at the ACL conference held in July. The paper would not have been possible without the data from The New Yorker Caption Dataset and the Next ML system.
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Throughput Computing 2023
July 10-14, registration for in-person attendance closes tomorrow, For the first time, the OSG Consortium, the HTCondor team, and the Center for High Throughput Computing will be hosting Throughput Computing 2023 (HTC 23) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Fluno Center. HTC 23 is a new event that joins together the annual OSG All-Hands Meeting and HTCondor Week.
HTC 23 gives OSPool or HTCondor users, contributors, and collaborators the chance to exchange ideas and experiences, to learn about the latest services and research, and to experience live demos. Current or potential consumers or providers of distributed high throughput computing and HTCondor users or administrators are welcome to attend. HPC 23 will include a keynote from Laura Cadonati, a professor from Georgia Tech’s School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, on the LIGO scientific collaboration. Leadership will discuss the current state and future plans for OSG services and HTCondor development. For more information about this event and to register, visit the Throughput Computing 2023 webpage. Virtual attendance registration remains open. In-person attendance registration closes June 15.
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2023 ADSA Annual Meeting
October 24-27, The Academic Data Science Association is hosting its annual meeting this October at the University of Texas at San Antonio. at the four-day event hear from special keynote speakers Dr. Dominique Duvall-Diop and Sebastian, attend full day conference sessions, and connect with other data science professionals in academia. Learn more and register at the conference website.
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Summer SILO Series
Thursdays, Join the Systems Information Learning Optimization (SILO) group every Thursday at the Memorial Union at 3:00 p.m. for guest speakers. Previous topics include Partial Optimality in Cubic Correlation Clustering and Challenges and Progress towards Socially Responsible NLP. Both virtual and in-person options available. For more information visit the SILO website and mailing list.
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Join the ML+X Leadership Team
The ML+X community is seeking additional members to join its leadership team! Members of the leadership team will have the opportunity to help grow and sustain a lively and engaged machine learning (ML) community of practice, ensuring that practitioners across campus have ample opportunities to discuss modeling challenges, learn from one another, and support each other’s work. Anyone who is passionate about ML and communal learning (including students!) is welcome to join the leadership team — no minimum experience in ML is required. If interested, please fill out this Calendly poll to join the next leadership team meeting the week of July 10-14. Please email endemann@wisc.edu for additional information.
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Summer ML+X Opportunities
ML+X is typically on hiatus for most events during the summer, but there are a few events that may be of interest.
- July summer social: If you're around Madison this summer, ML+X love to have you join them at their upcoming July social/networking event! If interested, please fill out this Google form to select (1) your preferred venue and (2) your preferred date.
- Member-submitted events: As a community of practice, ML+X relies on members like you to bring practitioners valuable opportunities to learn from one another! Have a paper you want to discuss? Have a demo you'd like to give? Want to run a lunch social or a mini workshop? Reach out and community leaders can help organize, advertise, facilitate, and/or host your event within the ML+X community! For all member-submitted event queries, please email ml-community-leaders@g-groups.wisc.edu.
- Slack: Finally, just a reminder that ML+X has a Slack channel available as a resource for all members. If you're ever struggling through any sort of ML-related problem this summer or just want to say hi to your fellow community members, feel free to shoot them a message there! To join the channel, first join the Data Science Hub slack group. Then, find the channel #ml-community.
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Madison's Geek Lunch
July 18, 11:45 a.m., Geek Lunch is an engaging conversation with your geekiest friends, where the topic bounces around depending on whatever anyone wants to contribute. All are welcome regardless of where you lie on any imaginary geek scale. Think "The Algonquin Round Table" with an emphasis on tech. Learn more at its meetup page.
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Madison Area Software Developers Meetup
July 19, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., At the Madison Area Software Developers Meetup, come and share your experiences as a software developer in the Madison area! They strive to keep developers informed about the constantly changing technologies necessary to succeed and innovate. They are committed to lifelong learning, bridging the education gap between college and industry, and networking within the Madison area. Learn more at its meetup page.
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The Carpentries is seeking new members to bring additional diversity and expertise into its instructional community. Among other benefits, members have opportunities to advance their technical and teaching skills by attending computational workshops and participating in an optional instructor training program. Join the google group if interested in learning more!
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Solis-Lemus Lab Hourly
Do you love R Shiny apps? Come work at the Solis-Lemus lab over the summer as a paid student hourly to create an R Shiny app to visualize biological networks. Requirements include proficiency in R and Shiny apps, as well as some knowledge of data visualization techniques. To submit an application, email solislemus@wisc.edu with your CV and some examples of Shiny apps you have developed.
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AutoML Competition
Phase 1 Ends July 10, Are you interested in making machine learning more adaptable to the real world? Consider participating in the 2023 AutoML Cup, a research competition where teams or individuals create novel machine learning methods that perform well on diverse tasks. For instance, last year’s submissions were trained to perform gait analysis, solve fluid dynamics problems and more! The competition is open to anyone (though at least a basic knowledge of machine learning is recommended) and will run in three phases from June 6th to September 5th. The highest-performing submission will be awarded exciting hardware. For further information, please visit the event webpage.
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Data Engineer
Due June 30, The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study at UW-Madison is seeking a candidate with a Bachelor's degree, a strong interest in metadata, preferably knowledgeable about DDI standards and frameworks, and with Colectica experience as a plus. The position largely consists of contributing to a research agenda set by a lead researcher by creating automated processes for preparing and analyzing data at scale. Daily tasks would include preparing data sets; quality assurance; using technologies such as MS Windows, UNIX, HTML, XML, and Python; and collaborating with others. For more information and to apply, visit the Data Engineer position description.
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DATA VISUALIZATION OF THE WEEK
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Reposted from the Data Is Plural Newsletter
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