Gephi Hands on workshop
Building 504, room 5Network Analysis סדנא יישומית לניתוח רשתות יועבר ע"י מר עוזי חרוש עבודה בסדנאות תעשה על המחשבים האישיים של המשתתפים. :לנוכח אופיין המיוחד הסדנאות מוגבלות ל30 משתתפים, נא הקדימו והירשמו. http://dsi.biu.ac.il/events/hands_on_tutorial_registration-feb-2018 :מומלץ לצפות בסרטון הבא לפני הסדנא מכון מדע הנתונים: הדגמת שימוש בכלי ניתוח "ידידותיים" - ניתוח רשתות, פרופ' ראובן כהן
Elastic Search & Kibana Hands on workshop
Building 504, room 5Computer Aided Text Analysis סדנא יישומית ל ניתוח ממוחשב של טקסט יועבר ע"י ד"ר יהונתן שלר :מומלץ לצפות בסרטון הבא לפני הסדנא מכון מדע הנתונים: הדגמת שימוש בכלי ניתוח "ידודותיים" - ניתוח ממוחשב של טקסט, ד"ר יהונתן שלר DSI - Text Analysis - Elastic2 :קישור למצגת :dashboardקישור ל http://dsi.biu.ac.il/kibana-tutorial-13-3-18 עבודה בסדנאות תעשה ... Read more
Big Data in Science and Faith
המכון הגבוה לתורה, בר-אילןAlgorithms and Nature Law without Law Automation, Responsibility and Identity Different Scales - From the Nano to the Cosmological
Distilling Relevant Information to Support Human-Human and Human-Agent Collaboration (Ofra Amir, DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Ofra Amir (Faculty, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology). Distilling relevant information to support human-human and human-agent collaboration Abstract: One of today's biggest challenges is the heightened complexity and information overload stemming from increasingly interacting systems, consisting of both humans and machines. In this talk, I will describe work that aims to address this challenge in ... Read more
Synthesis and Cloning Human Voices (Eliya Nachmani, DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Mar 22nd, Thu 10:00 , Eliya Nachmani. Tel-Aviv University / Facebook AI Research (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Synthesis and Cloning Human Voices Abstract: Text to speech (TTS) is able to transform text to speech. In this talk we present a new neural TTS for voices that are sampled in the wild. ... Read more
יום פתוח לתארים מתקדמים באוניברסיטת בר אילן ביום חמישי, ו’ בניסן, 22 במרץ 2018 ב-20:00-16:00
מתחם הפקולטה להנדסהבואו ליום הפתוח לתארים מתקדמים באוניברסיטת בר אילן, שיתקיים ביום חמישי, ו' בניסן, 22 במרץ 2018 ב-20:00-16:00 במתחם הפקולטה להנדסה נציגי מכון מדעי הנתונים יהיו במקום כדי לפגוש אתכם, לתת לכם מידע על מסלולי הלימודים ולהשיב לכל שאלה. לרשותכם מערך היסע פנימי (שאטל) סובב קמפוס :לפרטים ראו https://www1.biu.ac.il/openDay2018
Data Science Platform
חדר ישיבות גולן, משרדי מטריקסThe Role of Minimal Complexity Functions in Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Mappings (Tomer Galanti, DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Tomer Galanti (PhD Student, Tel Aviv University) The Role of Minimal Complexity Functions in Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Mappings Abstract: We discuss the feasibility of the following learning problem: given unmatched samples from two domains and nothing else, learn a mapping between the two, which preserves semantics. Due to the lack of paired samples and without ... Read more
High-Order Attention Models for Visual Question Answering (Idan Schwartz, DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Apr 26th, Thu 10:00 , Idan Schwartz (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. High-Order Attention Models for Visual Question Answering Abstract: The quest for algorithms that enable cognitive abilities is an important part of machine learning. A common trait in many recently investigated cognitive-like tasks is ... Read more
Challenges in social advertisement networks
Building 216 room 201Special Applied math seminar - Thursday, Apr. 26, at 14:00, in the Math Department seminar room. This week's seminar will host a special guest from StartApp - a Mobile Technology Company *** May be of interest to the the broader data-oriented public *** Dr. Shlomi Beer StartApp Challenges in social advertisement networks Social networks have been ... Read more
Talking to your Virtual Assistant about anything by Jonathan Berant (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building 901, Room 101On Thursday, May 3rd, we are hosting Jonathan Berant from TAU. Title: Talking to your Virtual Assistant about anything When: May 3rd, Thu 10:15. Light refreshments at 10:00. Where: Gonda Building 901, Room 101 Abstract: Conversational interfaces and virtual assistants are now part of our lives due to services such as Amazon Alexa, Google Voice, Microsoft Cortana, etc. Thus, translating natural language queries and commands ... Read more
AWSome day
Building 216, room 252סדנא טכנית להיכרות עם שירותי הענן של AWS נקבעה ל- 6 למאי. הסדנא תתקיים באגף התקשוב (בניין 216) בכיתת ההדרכה 252. הארוע מאורגן ע"יי נועם נודלמן ממרכז המחשבים. סדר היום של הסדנא: 09:45-10:00 – קבלת פנים 10:00-10:45 – היכרות עם AWS 10:45-12:00 – הסבר לגבי שירותים בסיסיים של AWS (VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, IAM) 12:00-13:00 – תרגול ראשון ... Read more
Law & Big Data
Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200 Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200Bar-Ilan University The Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel Workshop on Law & Big Data May 14-15, 2018 Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200 http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Law-Big-Data-conf-final.pdf Law & Big Data conf final
1st French-Israeli Workshop on Cheminformatics
the Seminar Room of the Department of Chemistry (Building 211), Bar-Ilan University. Ramat-Gan, Israel.Learning Common Sense: a Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research by Oren Etzioni (IEEE student workshop)
Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Engineering, Hall 02** Note: This event is canceled! ** Title of talk: Learning Common Sense: a Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research Speaker: Prof. Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Abstract: In a world where Google, Facebook, and others possess massive proprietary data sets, and unprecedented computational power---how is a graduate student to make a dent in ... Read more
DSI Dinner – May 24 2018
Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50The Bar-Ilan Data Science institute (DSI) is glad to invite you to its bi-annual dinner event. The event is open to all BIU researchers interested in data science including faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. When: May 24th, 17:45 -- 20:30 Where: Nanotechnology Triplex, Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50 Schedule: 17:45 Gathering ... Read more
DIY Classification & Dear Data Scientist, Label Data or Die (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building (Building 6), entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Petakh Tiqwa, IsraelA News, Economics and AI meetup 18:00-18:30 gathering + pizza 18:30-19:00 "DIY Classification" by Ehud Azikri and Lior Weintraub 19:00-20:15 "Dear Data Scientist, Label Data or Die" by Tal Perry see meetup page for full details: http://meetu.ps/e/Fhrpb/1b3Yc/f
On the Expressive Power of ConvNets and RNNs as a Function of their Architecture by Or Sharir (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.May 31st, Thu 10:00 , Or Sharir (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. On the Expressive Power of ConvNets and RNNs as a Function of their Architecture Abstract: The driving force behind convolutional and recurrent networks — two of the most successful deep learning architectures to date ... Read more
Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare by Uri Shalit (Technion) – DSI Learning Club
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 7th, Thu 10:00 , Uri Shalit (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Faculty). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare Abstract: The proliferation of data collection in the health, commercial, and economic spheres, brings with it opportunities for extracting new knowledge ... Read more
Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors by Zachary Chase Lipton (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 11th, Mon. 11:00 , Zachary Chase Lipton (webpage). Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors Abstract: Faced with distribution shift between training and test set, we wish to detect and quantify the shift, and to correct our classifiers without test set ... Read more
The Intel AI Lab – Learning Club Talk by Yinyin Liu (TBD)
Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel AIPG will be visiting biu on June 13 and will be able to give a talk about the Intel AI Lab. Possible times are 10-11, 11-12 or 12-13. Please let us know what works for you by filling the following doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/ty6rep3r7ybptffa Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel ... Read more
A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works by Eran Malach (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 14th, Thu 10:00 , Eran Malach (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works Abstract: We describe a layer-by-layer algorithm for training deep convolutional networks, where each step involves gradient updates for a two layer network followed by ... Read more
Embedding-based Term Sets & Dynamic Ontologies (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building (Building 6), entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Petakh Tiqwa, IsraelA News, Economics and AI meetup 18:00-18:15 gathering + pizza 18:15-19:00: SetExpander: End-to-end Term Set Expansion based on Multi-Context Term Embeddings * by Moshe Wasserblat * 19:00-20:00: Sluglines -- a Dynamic News Ontology * by Shai Hertz * see meetup page for full details: https://www.meetup.com/News-Economics-and-AI/events/252556709/
AI Satellite Resolution
building 505, room 201שיפור רזולוציה של טמפרטורת הקרקע מלוויין בעזרת כלים ואלגוריתמים מתחום למידת מכונה http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ai-satellite_resolution.pdf ai-satellite_resolution
“The missing elements in NLP” by Prof. Yoav Goldberg from Bar-Ilan (Amazon Research Day, Haifa)
Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Pinkhas ve-Avraham Rutenberg St 2, Haifa, IsraelDetails & Registration: https://ard.amazon-ml.com/haifa/ PAssword: HaifaARD
Data Science Environmental Applications – Government and Academia workshop
Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50כנס יישומים סביבתיים של מדעי הנתונים 23.10.18 (ארוע עבר) :תכנית הכנס 1 2 3 ניסיון dsi_gov_env_event_program מושב פתיחה ד"ר חיים כץ. אגף איכות מים, רשות המים פרופ' עידו דגן ראש המכון למדעי הנתונים, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן מבוא למדעי הנתונים – הפקת תובנות ושיפור תהליכי עבודה בהתבסס על מאגרי נתונים ממשלתיים ד"ר אורן גליקמן מנהל המכון למדעי הנתונים, ... Read more
News, Economics and AI meetup — Latest Research by the Bar-Ilan NLP Lab. (slides available)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Details This meeting will feature the BIU NLP Lab. Lab leaders Ido Dagan and Yoav Goldberg will tell us about current developments in their work. Some more bits of recent research will be introduced by Lab's senior grad students. Agenda: 18:00-18:20: gathering + pizzas 18:20-18:50: Prof. Ido Dagan: Extracting and Exploring Open Textual Knowledge (slides) 18:50-19:00: ... Read more
כנס יישום מדיניות בעידן הביג דאטה
הכנסת, ירושליםConf Program Video of Lecture by Prof. Ido Dagan & Prof. Oren Perez ("עידו דגן ואורן פרז 'פיקוח, רגולציה ויישום מדיניות בעידן הביג דאטה: נקודת מבט רב-תחומית'') Lecture by Dr. Ariel Rosenfeld ("בינה מלאכותית מבוססת נתונים למען מלחמה בתאונות הדרכים "ד"ר אריאל רוזנפלד, המחלקה לניהול, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן)
כשתורת הגרפים פגשה משוואות דיפרנציאליות הרצאה ראשונה בסדרה מה עושים עם זה
חדר הסמינריונים מספר 201, בניין 216ד"ר ברוך ברזל כמה אנשים דרושים כדי להחליף נורה? התשובה הרצינית אומרת שדרושים עשרות אלפים. החל מהמוכר בחנות מוצרי החשמל, דרך נהגת המשאית שהובילה את המנורות, יצרני הזכוכית, חרשי המתכת, כורי הנחושת... אם כן, החלפת מנורה, הזמנת כוס בירה, גלישה באינטרנט - כמעט כל פעולה שאנו עושים - היא תוצאה של שיתוף פעולה של המוני ... Read more
DSI Learning Club – Ohad Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science (Faculty)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Nov. 11th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Ohad Shamir (webpage). Weizmann Institute of Science. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Optimization Landscape of Neural Networks: Where Do the Local Minima Hide? Abstract: Training neural networks is a highly non-convex optimization problem, which is often successfully solved in practice, but the reasons for this are poorly understood. ... Read more
1st Japan-Israel Machine-learning and AI Workshop
Details on conference website. https://polarified.wixsite.com/jiml2018
Tamir Hazan, Technion . “Direct Optimization through argmax for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder” (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Nov. 25th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Tamir Hazan (webpage). Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Direct Optimization through argmax for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder Abstract: Reparameterization of variational auto-encoders is an ehttps://sites.google.com/view/biu-learning-clubffective method for reducing the variance of their gradient estimates. However, when the latent variables are discrete, a reparameterization ... Read more
“Automated text classification and its applications for detecting truths and lies” by Dr. Jonathan Schler
901 (brain center), room 102Invited talk, as part of "Language of lies: recent advances in research and future prospects" Workshop
Djame Seddah – Analysis of “noisy” textual social media data in Hebrew and French
Building 408, room #8תשתיות לניתוח טקסטים רועשים (נגיד מטוויטר) בעברית ובצרפתית
Aryeh Kontorovich – Ben-Gurion University (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Aryeh Kontorovich (webpage). Ben-Gurion University.
S.O.U.N.D. Workshop 2018 on Automatic Methods for Analyzing and Predicting Social Structure from Diverse Auditory Data Sets (Day I)
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (building 901), Bar-Ilan UniversitySOUND program 09:00 – 09:30 Opening remarks: ■ Miriam Faust, Rector, Bar-Ilan University, Israel ■ Merav Galili, Vice President for Development, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Measuring social interaction in speech (Moderator: Sharon Gannot) ■ Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, Enabling Behavioral Machine Intelligence from Speech, Language and beyond ... Read more
S.O.U.N.D. Workshop 2018 on Automatic Methods for Analyzing and Predicting Social Structure from Diverse Auditory Data Sets (Day II)
The Weisfeld Hall, Feldman building (301), Bar-Ilan UniversitySOUND program 09:00 – 09:30 Gathering (Coffee) 09:30 – 10:30 Session 4: Applying speech analysis methods to study human social interaction (Moderator: Ilanit Gordon) ■ Michael J Tanana, University of Utah, USA, Learning how to be a better listener. From a Bot. ■ Brian Baucom, University of Utah , USA, Vocally encoded emotional arousal in ... Read more
Deep Entities and Convolutional Sentiments (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building, entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa#1 Entity extraction by deep learning - from research to production * by Hila Zarosim and Noam Rotem * The Non-English Languages Team at TMS (Refinitiv’s Text Metadata Services) has recently released a deep-learning-based component for tagging people names in French news documents. The model, Tensorflow-based, was trained by Python code, while the final destination ... Read more
Relational Private Law and Network Theory
Building 504 (Economic Studies), Conferences Room, Ground FloorRelational Private Law and Network Theory Conveners: Lisa Bernstein, Oren Perez & Benjamin Shmueli Wednesday, January 2, 2019, Building 504 (Economic Studies), Conferences Room, Ground Floor 14:00 Session II: Private Governance and Network Theory Chair: Prof. Arie Reich, Bar-Ilan University Prof. Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University, Global Networked Authority Prof. Lisa Bernstein, University of Chicago, Contract Governance in Small World ... Read more
Data Science for Legislation Studies (Methodological Workshop) talk by Oren Glickman
The Benin Faculty of Law building 306, Hall 200, 2nd floorBar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, The Israeli Association of Legislation and The Israel Science Foundation International Workshop Rearranging the Arrangements Law: Comparative, Multidisciplinary, Empirical and Normative Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Slides)
Roy Bar-Haim, IBM Debating Technologies group — DSI Learning Club Talk
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Dec. 30th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Roy Bar-Haim (webpage). Debating Technologies group, IBM Research AI - Haifa. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101.
יום חשיפה למדע הנתונים לחברי סגל בפקולטה למדעי הרוח
מטרות האירוע בשנים האחרונות יותר ויותר מאגרי נתונים רלוונטיים למחקר במדעי הרוח עוברים דיגיטציה והופכים להיות נגישים למחקר כמותי בקנה מידה גדול. במקביל התפתחו שיטות מחקר חישוביות לניתוח מאגרים דיגיטליים. מטרת האירוע היא לחשוף את חברי הסגל בתחומי מדעי הרוח לשיטות מחקר עדכניות המבוססות על ניתוח נתונים ממוחשב. מטרה נוספת היא לחשוף את חברי הסגל ... Read more
NEW WAY OF THINKING IN DATA SCIENCE: The Symbolic Data Analysis Paradigm for Big and Complex Data.
Building 206 – Nanotechnology Complex; Room C-50Registration: MaorT@most.gov.il (Name, Institution, department, position email and mobile number requested). ----- In all domains of human activity, we are more and more faced with the problem of understanding and extracting knowledge from standard, big and complex data, often multi-sources (with mixture of numerical, textual, image, social networks data). Data Science, considered as a science ... Read more
Hacking Deep Learning 2
Auditorium C50, Nanotechnology Building (bldg. 206), Bar-Ilan UniversityHacking_Deep_Learning_2 Speakers Battista Biggio, University of Cagliari Tamir Hazan, The Technion Morten Dahl, Dropout Labs Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science Adrià Gascón, The Alan Turing Institute Registration Registration fee is 150 ILS for the entire day and includes lunch and refreshments. For any question/request regarding registration, please contact us at: cyber.center@biu.ac.il Please register by ... Read more
כנס בינלאומי במדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים
building 404, room 201כנס בינלאומי במדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים באוניברסיטת בר אילן בין ה10-13 בפברואר להרשמה חינם
Bar-Ilan Workshop on Technological Tools for Manuscript Research
Bar-Ilan University, Building 404, computer lab, Room no. 201 at the 2nd floor.We are excited to invite researchers, students, practitioners, librarians, and all interested in Digital Humanities to the International Conference on Technological Tools for Manuscript Research that will take place in Bar-Ilan University on 10-13/02/2019. Free registration is required - refreshments and lunch are included for registered participants, places are limited! To register: registration To the program: https://is.biu.ac.il/digital-humanities-conference19 ... Read more
New Capabilities in Unsupervised Image to Image Translation by Sagie Benaim, TAU (DSI Learning Club talk)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Feb. 24th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Sagie Benaim (webpage). Tel-Aviv University (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. New Capabilities in Unsupervised Image to Image Translation Abstract: In Unsupervised Image to Image Translation, we are given an unmatched set of images from domain A and domain B, and our task is to generate, given ... Read more
Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – NVIDIA DLI full day workshop
building 604, room 202The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University invite you to attend a hands-on deep learning workshop on 25-02-2019 from 09:00-17:00 at room 202 Building 604, exclusively for verifiable academic students, staff, and researchers. NVIDIA DLI offers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and researchers looking to solve challenging ... Read more
Big Data and the Right to Political Participation by Dr. Michal Saliternik
חדר סגל, בניין 306הרצאה בנושא Big Data and the Right to Political Participation שנכתב ע"י ד"ר מיכל סליטרניק, סמינר המחלקתי של הפקולטה למשפטים: יום ג' 12.3.19 בין השעות 14:00-15:30 בחדר סגל, בניין 306.
Close-set Companies and Corpus-wide Claims (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices - Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Oren Building, entrance level floor - Petakh Tiqwa, ilDetails #1 Close Set Extraction: Discovering Companies We Know * by Rani Shlivinski * Slides: Closed Set Extracyion for Meetup - March 2019 #2 Project Debater and Corpus-wide Claim Detection * by Shai Gretz * Project Debater is the first AI system developed to compete in a full-live debate with a human debater. The project, ... Read more