In This Issue:
- Announcing Women in Tech Week 2018
- Manocha named AAAI Fellow
- AI-Fooling Glasses Could Be Good Enough to Trick Facial Recognition at Airports
- When AI Supplies the Sound in Video Clips, Humans Can't Tell the Difference
- Pearl Hacks brings women coders to Chapel Hill for fifth year
- IEEE TryCybSI Partners on Why Active Learning is Key for Mastering Cybersecurity
- Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
- Department News
Announcing Women in Tech Week 2018
The department and the Women in Computer Science Club are hosting the second annual Women in Tech Week, beginning March 5. The week will include a social media initiative, a wall of support, and four talks related to security.
Manocha named AAAI Fellow
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence named Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor Dinesh Manocha to its 2018 Fellows for his significant, susustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.
AI-Fooling Glasses Could Be Good Enough to Trick Facial Recognition at Airports
Professor Michael Reiter, in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed adversarial glasses that can be worn to thwart facial recognition algorithms.
When AI Supplies the Sound in Video Clips, Humans Can’t Tell the Difference
Technology Review profiled a project by doctoral student Yipin Zhou and collaborators at Adobe Research to train a machine learning algorithm to generate realistic soundtracks for video clips.
Pearl Hacks brings women coders to Chapel Hill for fifth year
Pearl Hacks 2018 assembled young women from across the United States and Canada for a weekend hackathon aimed at providing a welcoming environment to women interested in computer science. If you would like to have your company sponsor and/or participate, email hello@pearlhacks.com.
View photos from Pearl Hacks 2018 on Facebook
IEEE TryCybSI Partners on Why Active Learning is Key for Mastering Cybersecurity
In an IEEE Cybersecurity article, Professor Fabian Monrose answered questions about active learning and a classroom game that he developed with the help of Research Engineer Jan Werner.
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Six TCSDLS lectures have been scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year. Each lecture will be hosted or broadcast live at 4 p.m. in 011 Sitterson Hall. Refreshments will be served.
For lecture abstracts, speaker bios, and venue information, visit cs.unc.edu/tcsdls.
Visual Reconstruction and Image-Based Rendering
Speaker: Richard Szeliski, Facebook Research
Host: Duke (Xiaobai Sun)
Monday, March 26, 2018
Broadcast live in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Polina Golland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: UNC (Marc Niethammer)
Monday, April 9, 2018
Hosted in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Chris Manning, Stanford University
Host: UNC (Mohit Bansal)
Monday, 16 April, 2018
Hosted in SN011
4 p.m.
Department News
Visit the department website to learn about other accomplishments and updates from department personnel and alumni.
Alumni, don't forget to visit our alumni page!
There, you will find news and updates from your fellow alumni, job listings specifically targeting UNC CS alumni, upcoming alumni events in Chapel Hill or around the country, and other ways to stay connected.
