Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-40

YING WU COLLEGE OF COMPUTING DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES

In Collaboration with

The Institute for Data Science

What is Data Science?

Jeffrey Ullman

Stanford University

Date:               Friday, Oct 14th

Time:               11:45 AM – 12:45 PM

Location:         GITC 1400, NJIT, 218 Central Ave, Newark, NJ 07102

Abstract: The term "data science" is heard frequently today.  But what does it really mean?  Arguably, it is an extension of database research to apply computational techniques in many areas of science and commerce.  We shall compare the notion of data science with some related terms: Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.  We shall then give two examples of important algorithms -- locality-sensitive hashing and approximate counting -- that are important in data science, yet are neither AI, ML, nor Statistics.

Bio: Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and his PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He has received the SIGMOD Contributions Award (1996), the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998), the Knuth Prize (2000), the SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award (2006), the IEEE von Neumann Medal (2010), the NEC C&C Foundation Prize (2017), and the ACM A.M. Turing Award (2020). He is the author of 16 books, including books on database systems, data mining, compilers, automata theory, and algorithms.

Pizza will be served at 11:30 AM

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NJIT Technology Innovation Translation and Acceleration (TITA) Seed Grant

Up to $75,000 per Seed Grants (Phases 1-3)

Full Call for Proposal Announcement

TITA External Advisory Board (EAB)

Stage-1: TITA 2-Page IDEA Concept Paper Submission: October 12, 2022

All Proposals and documents should be submitted with email attachment to tita-2022-group@njit.edu

The NJIT Technology Innovation Translation and Acceleration (TITA) Seed Grant program will enable faculty and students to successfully accelerate the translation of their innovation to enterprise development and business incubation. The TITA grant program will foster entrepreneurial pathways from research and innovation to business and value creation with the acquisition of intellectual property, market validation, and engagement of stakeholders towards commercialization. The TITA Seed Grants will increase awareness of the potential commercial benefits at earlier stages of the translation and market validation process and allow researchers and stakeholders to collaborate for entrepreneurial success. It will also help faculty to submit competitive translational research proposals to external grant funding opportunities.  

Eligibility

NJIT faculty members pursuing research addressing a significant unmet market need with an innovative potential solution of high impact are encouraged to apply for TITA seed grants. The following requirements must be met at the time of the initial Concept Paper submission (please see the Call for Proposal for complete information):

1. Proof of concept of research and innovation of high significance has been demonstrated in laboratory settings with the ongoing research work.
2. A provisional or non-provisional patent application is filed by NJIT or a patent has been awarded to NJIT on the proposed technology.

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Breakfast with Interim Provost Atam Dhawan

https://www.njit.edu/provost/breakfast-interim-provost

Informal breakfast sessions with small groups from the NJIT community is hosted by the Interim Provost each Tuesday from 8.30 AM to 10.00 AM at the University Club, Eberhardt Building. These breakfast meetings provide NJIT faculty, staff and students the opportunity to ask questions, give feedback, and engage with the Interim Provost on their experiences, concerns, expectations and needs. While it is open to all members of the community, seats are limited each week. If you are interested in participating in this informal discussion, please submit this form. The Office of the Provost will follow up with you to confirm the date of your breakfast session.

NSF: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1); Building Investigators' Capacity to Leverage Emerging Technologies to Improve STEM Education Research; Advanced Chip Engineering Design and Fabrication (ACED Fab)

NIH: BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01); Data Coordinating Center for the Network of Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NEXT - DCC) (U01); Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Phase 1 (P20)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MILITARY MEDICAL PHOTONICS PROGRAM; DOD Toxic Exposures, Investigator-Initiated Research Award

Department of Agriculture: Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department of Energy: Fiscal Year 2023 Distinguished Early Career Program; Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems (COOLERCHIPS); Research, Development, and Demonstration Funding Opportunity Announcement (FY 2022)

NASA: ROSES 2022: Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools

National Endowment of Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities; Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

State Department Confirms US-UK Tech Data Dialogue: Following the Biden administration’s revamped U.S.-EU privacy shield announced today, the State Department issued the launch of a similar initiative focusing on data transfer cooperation between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The U.S.-U.K. Comprehensive Dialogue on Technology and Data aims to use technology to enhance bilateral cooperation and security between both countries. It will take shape as an annual meeting featuring senior officials from both nations.  Some of the topics to be addressed in the forthcoming meetings include data protection and sharing, critical and emerging technologies, and developing a strong digital infrastructure. Artificial intelligence technologies and supply chain vulnerabilities are among the specific topics both governments will work to address. “The United States and the United Kingdom recognize the strategic importance of technology to our prosperity and security and to promoting and protecting our shared democratic values globally,” the press release states. 

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Army Climate Plan Relies on Technology That Doesn’t Exist Yet: The Defense Department could “build a fortress” with all of the reports it has released making statements on climate change without actually implementing anything, Army climate expert Sharon Burke said Thursday. The Army’s Climate Strategy Implementation Plan, released this week, aims to change that.  The implementation plan complements the service’s climate strategy plan, released in February, that called for electric vehicles, microgrids, and more. But it contained no cost estimates, either for the individual programs or the effort as a whole. (“The funding is going to be a moving target,” Paul Farnan, the Army’s principal deputy assistant secretary for installations, energy, and environment, said in February. “This is a strategy that lays out steps…a lot in the coming decade, and even some beyond the next decade.”). More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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White House Seeks Advice on Cyber Workforce Development: The White House-based Office of the National Cyber Director is looking for input on its forthcoming cybersecurity workforce, training and education strategy in a new request for information released Monday. Camille Stewart Gloster, deputy national cyber director for technology and ecosystem security, told FCW last month that the strategy will clarify roles among government actors, pinpoint metrics to measure the problem as well as how current efforts are working. It will look beyond the federal government's own cyber workforce to the country writ large. One focus appears to be increasing the diversity of the field in order to fill the gaping cyber workforce shortage of over 714,000, according to Cyberseek, a tracker backed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "While the cyber workforce deficit constitutes a near- and long-term threat to our national and economic security, it also represents a significant opportunity to employ a more diverse and inclusive workforce in good-paying jobs that offer strong career possibilities," wrote Stewart Gloster in an Oct. 3 blog post about the RFI. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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ARPA-H: High-risk, High-reward Health Research is the Mandate of New, Billion-dollar US Agency: A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has it’s first leader, as President Joe Biden announced Renee Wegrzyn as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, on Sept. 12, 2022. Since the announcement of the intention to establish ARPA-H two years ago, this new agency has sparked interest and questions within both academia and industry. I have been a director of innovation-driven health institutes for decades and have worked with many of the government agencies that fund science. I and many of my colleagues hope ARPA-H will become an agency that can quickly turn scientific discoveries into real-world advances to detect, prevent and treat diseases like cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. But questions still remain surrounding how it will work and what makes it different from other government-funded agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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