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Prof. Chiang and Prof. Zheng awarded NSERC CRD
Pleased that our project A Data-Driven Platform for Multimodal Positioning and Tracking in
Indoor Environments is awarded an NSERC CRD.
Prof. Chiang awarded NSERC Engage with VerticalScope
Pleased that our collaborative project with VerticalScope on Contextual Named Entity Linking is awarded an NSERC Engage grant.
Our demo on data cleaning with OFDs is accepted into EDBT ’18
Looking forward to presenting our system FastOFD at EDBT’18 in Vienna!
Z.Zheng, M. Alipour Langouri, Z. Qu, I. Currie, F.Chiang, L. Golab, J. Szlichta
FastOFD: Contextual Data Cleaning with Ontology Functional Dependencies
Congratulations to Yu who came in 2nd place at the McMaster.AI poster competition.
Congratulations to Yu who finished in 2nd place at the graduate student poster competition
for his poster “Quantifying Duplicates with Semantic Disambiguation”.
Shahan Khatchadourian from Consensys will give a talk on the Blockchain Ethereum model
On Tues Nov 21st at 2:30pm.
Further details available here.
We will have a round-table discussion with Shahan at 4:00pm.
Dr. C. Mohan, IBM Fellow will give a talk “New Era in Distributed Computing with Blockchains and Databases”
Dr. C. Mohan, IBM, ACM, and IEEE Fellow, will give a talk “New Era in Distributed Computing with Blockchains and Databases” on Sept 22nd at 1:00pm in ABB 136.
Zheng Zheng receives International Excellence Award for 2017/2018
Congratulations to Zheng on being selected for an international excellence scholarship award for the 2017/2018 year!