Summer tech talks series - IEEE Computer Society

A special series of summertime online tech talks will be happening on Thursday evenings beginning July 13.

These talks are sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Chapter of the IEEE Northwest Florida Section, co-sponsored by several other IEEE-CS groups (including Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society). All talks are free and open to the public. For each talk you plan to attend, please register on the IEEE link.

The talks are all scheduled for 7:30pm EDT on Thursday evenings (that's 6:30pm Central Time for our Northwest Florida friends). The talks are part of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program - a program sponsored by IEEE.

• July 13, 7:30 pm EDT - Distilling AI: The Hitchhiker's Guide (Dr. Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies)
  • A talk showing examples using AI and Machine Learning for Data Analytics.
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/363999
    Zoom: zoom link
• July 20, 7:30 pm EDT - Security challenges and opportunities at the Intersection of Architecture and ML/AI (Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Univ. of California - Riverside)
  • Machine learning systems are vulnerable to new attacks including adversarial attacks, membership inference attacks, and model extraction attacks. The talk shows examples of these attacks and potential defenses.
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364001
    Zoom: zoom link
• July 27, 7:30 pm EDT - Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics (David A. Bader, NJIT)
  • Examples of applications of data science in social sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364003
    Zoom: zoom link
• August 3, 7:30 pm EDT - Why Software Fails and Why AI Cannot Help (David A. Fisher, Reasoning Technology LLC)
  • A discussion of the limitations of modern computing technology. Computers were supposed to expand on the capabilities of human deductive reasoning, but they are mostly used for routine tasks.
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364005
    Zoom: zoom link
• August 10, 7:30 pm EDT - Trust and Privacy Vulnerabilities of Today's Online Social Networks (Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University)
  • In social media, there has been an increase in the number of malicious attacks to mislead normal users' decision-making process by providing carefully crafted false information. How can we address the security, trust, and privacy issues in online social networks?
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364004
    Zoom: zoom link
• August 17, 7:30 pm EDT - The Generations of Computing and the Coming Data Age (David Alan Grier, George Washington University)
  • Computer technology has seen the mainframe generation of the Fifties, the Software/PC Generation of the 70s, and the Internet/Mobile Generation of the 90s. We are clearly nearing the end of the 90s cycle and need to start asking what follows.
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364007
    Zoom: zoom link
• August 24 -- NO TALK
• August 31, 7:30 pm EDT - The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR (Jon Peddie)
  • How do we make believable 3D images?
    Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364008
    Zoom: zoom link

A big "thank you" to Michael Viron and the Northwest Florida IEEE Computer Society Chapter for organizing these sessions!