Talks of interest at the University of Maryland

[Jimmy Lin <ji...@umd.edu>]

Dear Hadoop fans,

The Cloud Computing Center at the University of Maryland is excited to 
be hosting a number of guests over the next few weeks, who will be 
talking about large-data processing and other issues of interest.  All 
talks are open to the public, so for those of you in the DC area, please 
drop by!  Details are available at ccc.umiacs.umd.edu

Best,
Jimmy

Challenges of Cloud Scale Natural Language Processing
W 2/17 Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University)

Similarity-aware Query Processing and Optimization
M 2/22 Yasin Silva (Purdue University)

Large-Context Models for Large-Scale Machine Translation
W 2/24 John DeNero (University of California, Berkeley)

Inference and Validation of Probabilistic Models of Language in the Cloud
F 2/26 Jordan Boyd-Graber (University of Maryland)

Models of Computation and Realization Challenges in the Cloud
M 3/01 Grzegorz Malewicz (Google, Inc.)