April 2021 - Gradstudents - mailman.cs.vt.edu

Graduating this semester? Order your regalia now
by Roxanne Paul 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Dear CS graduate students, For those of you graduating this spring, if you plan to attend one of the Commencement ceremonies, please go ahead and order your regalia now. Blacksburg students can purchase their regalia at the University Bookstore or the Volume Two Bookstore. NCR students should order online by April 16 to avoid extra costs after that date: Virginia Tech (herffjones.com) <https://colleges.herffjones.com/college/vt/> More information about Commencement ceremonies may be found at Virginia Tech Commencement 2021 | Virginia Tech (vt.edu) <https://vt.edu/commencement.html> . Roxanne Nersesian Paul Administrative & Program Specialist Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering Northern Virginia Center 7054 Haycock Road, Room 312A Falls Church, VA 22043 703-538-8370 roxpaul(a)vt.edu

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CS Grad Council Coffee Hour
by Alex Hicks 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi all, On behalf of the CS Graduate Council, I would like to invite you to join our Coffee Hour this week on Thursday (4/1) at 6:00pm. We will be hosting this event in the Discord server that you can join here. We will be using the Coffee Hour channel in the Grad Council section. If you have any difficulties joining the Discord, feel free to reach out. It may be a little late for coffee but feel free to join and chat with your fellow students about research, music, or anything else. Hope to see you there! Alex Hicks Computer Science PhD Student Pratt Fellow - Virginia Tech New Horizons Graduate Scholar E // awh4kc(a)vt.edu P // (540) 336-1860

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CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS
by Julia Costello 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS From: Bowles, Marisa <mailto:marisa.bowles@bofa.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:35 PM Subject: You're invited 4/7 - Bank of America Virtual Technology Recruitment Workshop Bank of America invites you to join us virtually April 7th 5-6 PM EST for our Technology Recruitment Best Practices & Workshop Event. Students interested in careers in technology at Carnegie Mellon, Georgia State, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech are invited to connect with our Global Technology recruitment team to learn about the business, gather tips and resources for successful career planning and walk through how best to engage with Bank of America throughout the recruiting process. At Bank of America, we help build your dreams around you. Let us help create a career on your own terms, because in your dreams every detail matters. REGISTER HERE <http://bit.ly/BofA_Workshop> <https://campus.bankofamerica.com/> campus.bankofamerica.com connect with us: <https://www.facebook.com/BankofAmerica> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/bank-of-america> <https://twitter.com/BofA_Careers> Bank of America N.A. Member FDIC C 2020 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved. This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message.

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CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS
by Julia Costello 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS Current opportunities with employers are listed below. View other positions in <https://career.vt.edu/job-search/Handshake.html> Handshake. OPPORTUNITY 1 REGISTER TODAY! CS Ambassadors host Heather Barton, <https://willowtreeapps.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0caCBhCIARIsAGAfuMwjf8Jtb5v16sgVI Xk-nfvHKMoL3BkJGzsp-HyNZ_V4pZsSNAUt4a8aAqUnEALw_wcB> WillowTree, Inc., at a Leadership Skills Presentation on Friday, April 2, 2:00-2:50pm EST. Learn the skills and leadership qualities that companies find the most important and how to navigate tough job interview questions. Register via this <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8AKt9r-nOiwsbOkwwyRJ5zmIMBL87z5b RoDDsYnSorkhIVA/viewform?usp=sf_link> Google Form. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event. OPPORTUNITY 2 <https://www.oliver.space/> Oliver Space, a silicon valley based startup and Virginia Tech Chemical Engineering Department is actively looking to grow thier engineering team. Open positions: <https://jobs.lever.co/oliverspace> https://jobs.lever.co/oliverspace. Contact David Guckian with questions: <mailto:guckian2@vt.edu> guckian2(a)vt.edu. View <https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source/cs-source-events.html> CS|Source for upcoming events, a list of companies, resources, and more. Julia Costello Strategic Partnership Coordinator Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science 2202 Kraft Drive | Blacksburg, VA 24060 540.250.6121 | <mailto:juliapc7@cs.vt.edu> juliapc7(a)cs.vt.edu CS|Source Website: <https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcs.vt.edu %2Fcs-source.html&data=04%7C01%7Cgcaufman%40peraton.com%7C274bbb94bdea4a9c7b 0408d8e8aaee69%7C1c6258462b0a448383dde024820875b3%7C0%7C0%7C6375151681480464 16%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1ha WwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=VBHHIabAuZqQzfNpOVOGp0RpKf9LGzMs7qY3UNy3pm0%3 D&reserved=0> https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source.html

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Re: [Gradstudents] Kaggle competition for the search and discovery of dataset references in scientific publications - LAUNCHED!
by Cliff Shaffer 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Might be of interest. On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:32 PM Kautz, Henry A <hkautz(a)nsf.gov> wrote: > Hi, I am forwarding to IIS_NEWS a notice about a new Kaggle competition > that “challenges data scientists to help show how publicly funded data and > evidence are used to serve science and society” and which could be of > interest to the IIS community. Please note that this is not an NSF > activity – any questions about it should be directed to the organizers Mike > Stebbins and Julia Lane. > > > > Henry Kautz > > Division Director, Information & Intelligent Systems (CISE/IIS) > > National Science Foundation > > > > To unsubscribe to the IIS newsletter, send an email to > listserv(a)listserv.nsf.gov with no subject and the body of the message: > > Unsubscribe IIS_NEWS > > To subscribe, make the body: > > Subscribe IIS_NEWS Your_First_Name Your_Last_Name > > > > > > The Coleridge Initiative <https://coleridgeinitiative.org/> is delighted > to announce the launch of a major Kaggle competition – Show US the data > <https://www.kaggle.com/c/coleridgeinitiative-show-us-the-data/> - that > challenges data scientists to help show how publicly funded data and > evidence are used to serve science and society. Data, evidence, and > science are critical if government is to effectively combat pandemics, > manage climate change and reduce coastal inundation, support the > development of a diverse and innovative STEM workforce, fight Alzheimer’s > disease, reduce child hunger and increase food production, maintain > biodiversity, and address many other challenges. Yet much of the > information about the data necessary to inform evidence and science is > locked inside publications. This work can tie evidence to action - If > data scientists can find how datasets are referenced in publications > quickly, and at scale, the government can catalog answers to our most > pressing questions for immediate application to the world’s critical issues. > > > > Previous competitions <https://study.sagepub.com/richcontext> have shown > that it is possible for machine learning and natural language processing to > be put to work to find the hidden-in-plain-sight data citations. Now teams > of Machine Learning and Natural Language processing experts will compete > for $90,000 in prizes. There will be seven prizes > <https://www.kaggle.com/c/coleridgeinitiative-show-us-the-data/overview/priz…> > awarded for the teams that have the most precise methods of finding > datasets in over 20,000 publications - the first place prize is worth > $30,000; second place $20,000; third place $15,000. > > > > But beyond the prizes, the team’s work will help governments leverage > their data as a strategic asset – and show the value of data produced with > Federal funding. The Foundations for Evidence- based Policymaking Act > <https://www.cio.gov/policies-and-priorities/evidence-based-policymaking/> > requires the federal government to modernize its data management practices > and produce data inventories. This effort will provide agencies with an > open and transparent way to do so – to assess how data are being used and > provide a scientific basis for evidence based decision making. > > > > The competition is now live at > https://www.kaggle.com/c/coleridgeinitiative-show-us-the-data ! The > final submission deadline is June 22, 2021. > > > > - Mike Stebbins and Julia Lane > > > > ######################################################################## -- Dr. Cliff Shaffer Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer

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