Interview with Troy Duster, New York University

Joan H . Fujimura , Troy Duster and Ramya Rajagopalan Matters of Consequence

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New York University School of Medicine.

Although much has been written about implementing mission-based management tools to help facilitate managing the primary academic missions at academic medical centers, there is surprisingly little written on standardized methodologies to align financial support across the academic and clinical missions. However, professional fee reimbursement has not kept pace with costs, and this, combined wit...

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Petri nets are a well established modelling technique for analyzing parallel systems. When coupled with an event-driven operating system, Petri nets can provide an effective means for integrating and controlling the functions of distributed robotic applications. Recent work has shown that Petri net graphs can also serve as remarkably intuitive operator interfaces. In this paper the advantages f...

Public Access in New York City: An Interview with Theadora Sklover

New York University 2011 System for KBP Slot Filling

The NYU Knowledge Base Population (KBP) slot filling system for 2011 was built upon the system for 2010. The primary addition was a set of classifiers trained using distant supervision. A secondary addition involved a slot-specific passage retrieval system combined with name-type-based answer selection -in effect, a simple QA system. In the three sections that follow, we review the 2010 baselin...