Bringing models to life

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Bringing Autonomic Services To Life

LUCIANO BARESI Politecnico di Milano ROBERTO CASCELLA Università Degli Studi di Trento PETER DEUSSEN Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems ANTONIO DI FERDINANDO AND RICARDO LENT Imperial College London SANDRA HASELOFF AND NERMIN BRGULJA Universität Kassel ANTONIO MANZALINI AND CORRADO MOISO Telecom Italia FABRICE SAFFRE British Telecommunications and FRANCO ZAMBONELLI Università d...

Bringing Evo Devo to Life

T he essential path of adaptive evolution is that genetic variation among individuals is translated by the process of development into phenotypic variability, which is then screened by natural selection for any design changes that enhance survival and reproductive success. In Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll shows how the central black box of development that maps phenotypes onto geno...

Bringing Active Learning to Life

Active learning has been applied to different NLP tasks, with the aim of limiting the amount of time and cost for human annotation. Most studies on active learning have only simulated the annotation scenario, using prelabelled gold standard data. We present the first active learning experiment for Word Sense Disambiguation with human annotators in a realistic environment, using fine-grained sen...

ICT bringing mathematics to life and life to mathematics

Many countries are seeking ways of encouraging more secondary school students to specialize in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The talk will include examples of ICT-based activities used in some current school based projects to help make mathematics more exciting, relevant and challenging to young learners. These include the use of digital images and video clips to stim...