I’ll be on a panel discussion about teaching and course design at Virginia Tech 29 August 2016, 11:00-14:00, Torgersen 1100:

Feel free to pop in any time — it’s going to be an open panel format so you can move from one discussion to another.

Yaling Yang and I will be representing Electrical and …

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• machine learning
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• probability
• software engineering
• pattern recognition
• knowledge discovery
• computer engineering
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• data engineering
• artificial intelligence
• visualization

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