[Colloq] [ECE Faculty] ECE Distinguished Speaker Series Seminar: Prof. José M. F. Moura - Friday March 14 at 4 PM - Room 378 at 140 The Fenway

[Bekerian, Nicole]

Dear All,

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series Committee would like to invite you to a seminar of the series by José M. F. Moura, Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.  He will be presenting on Friday, March 14th at 4:00 PM in 378 at 140 The Fenway.  Please share this information with any faculty, students and post docs who might be interested in attending.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Date: Friday, March 14th

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM  reception to follow

Location: Room 378 at 140 The Fenway

Distinguished Speaker: Prof. José M. F. Moura from Carnegie Mellon University

Seminar Title: The Data Deluge - the End of Theory?

Abstract:
Mine is a parody on the (provocative) title of Chris Anderson's 06.23.08 piece "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Science Method Obsolete." Data (big), computers (cloud), storage (vast), bandwidth (massive) and Google (or the likes) will find the correlations that will save the day. No (need for) causation. May be; or we might still try to explain it. Data is big, but, more importantly, comes in all sorts of ways and from many different sources - social, physical, biological, molecular, to name a few. However, if we do capture the relations among data through (arbitrary) graphs (and this in itself is a big if), we can recapture the "big data" challenge in the very familiar setting of everyone's beloved DSP. This talk will overview our progress so far extending to signals and data defined on graphs traditional signal processing concepts including shifting, frequency, filtering, convolution, spectral representation, filters frequency response, linear transforms like the discrete Fourier transform. We illustrate with data drawn from social networks and the World Wide Web.

Biography:
José M. F. Moura is a visiting Professor at CUSP, NYU (2013-14). He is the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with interests in statistical signal processing (SP) and distributed SP on graphs. He was an IEEE Board Director (2012-2013), he was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), and was Editor in Chief for the Transactions on SP. Moura received several awards including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Society Award for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in SP. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Created and sponsored by the Northeastern University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the ECE Distinguished Speaker Series is designed to bring to campus highly accomplished technical leaders in academia or industry who will address a wide variety of topics of interest to our community. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and industry friends.

Additional information can be found online at: http://www.ece.neu.edu/events/speakers.html<http://www.ece.neu.edu/ece/index.php/quick-links/ece-lecture-series->

Thank you very much for your support,

With best wishes,

DSS committee members
Edmund Yeh
Mark Neidre
Matteo Rinaldi

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