Year: 2017

General Interest / HPC / News / Research

U-M fosters thriving artificial intelligence and machine learning research

Research using machine learning and artificial intelligence — tools that allow computers to learn about and predict outcomes from massive datasets — has been booming at the University of Michigan. The potential societal benefits being explored on campus are numerous, from on-demand transportation systems to self-driving vehicles to individualized medical treatments to improved battery capabilities. ...

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Video available from MIDAS Research Forum

Video is now available from the MIDAS Research Forum held Dec. 1 in the Michigan League at http://myumi.ch/6vA3V The forum featured U-M students and faculty showcasing their data science research; a workshop on how to work with industry; presentations from student groups; and a summary of the data science consulting and infrastructure services available to the ...

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Yottabyte Research Cloud able to accept HIPAA-aligned data

Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) is pleased to announce that the Yottabyte Research Cloud (YBRC) computing platform is now HIPAA-compliant. This means that YBRC and its associated services can accept restricted data, enabling secure data analysis on Windows and Linux virtual desktops as well as secure hosting of databases and data ingestion. The ...

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ARC Director Sharon Broude Geva re-elected vice-chair of Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing

Sharon Broude Geva, the Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, has been re-elected vice-chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). Founded in 1989, CASC advocates for the use of advanced computing technology to accelerate scientific discovery for national competitiveness, global security, and economic success. The organization’s members represent 84 institutions ...

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U-M wraps up successful SC17 conference

Several University of Michigan researchers and professional IT staff attended the Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver from Nov. 12-17, participating in a number of different ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. U-M participation included: Matt McLean, a Big Data systems administrator with ARC-TS, served as a panelist at a session titled “The ARM Software ...

Educational / News

New Data Science Course – Winter 2018

Computational Data Science (EECS 598 / BIOINF 505) A new graduate course that provides an in-depth introduction to computational methods in data science for identifying, fitting, extracting and making sense of patterns in large data sets is now enrolling students for Winter 2018. Lectures will typically begin with an introduction of a core data science ...

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U-M students make strong showing at Michigan Datathon

University of Michigan students won first and third places in the Michigan Datathon held Nov. 4, 2017 in the Michigan Union and hosted by Citadel LLC, Correlation One, and the U-M Statistics Department. 1st-place winning team from the University of Michigan: Ruofei (Brad) Zhao, Statistics Ph.D. student Zheng Gao, Statistics Ph.D. student You Wu, Master’s in ...

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MDST kicks off data challenge with NFL’s Baltimore Ravens

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MDST – NFL Free Agency Value Prediction Competition Kick-Off – Nov. 9, 6pm

In this competition, student teams at the University of Michigan will use historical free agent data to predict the value of new contracts signed in the 2018 free agency period. These predictions will be evaluated against the actual contracts as they are signed. This competition is organized by the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST), in ...