Monday, November 12, 2007

Invitation: Third Philippine-Swiss Information Technology School

Note: This invitation was sent to me (for dissemination) by my colleague, Dr. Caslon Chua, Dean, College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University-Manila.
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INVITATION:

Third Philippine-Swiss Information Technology School

Dates : January 7 – 11, 2008
Venue: Iskolar ng Bayan Building, UP Baguio,
Governor Pack Road
Baguio City, Philippines

Course Lecturers:

  • Prof. Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich
  • Dr. Thomas Hofmann, Google Research, Zurich
  • Prof. J. Nievergelt, ETH Zurich
  • Peter Orbanz, ETH Zurich

We would like to invite your university to send representatives to our post–graduate short course lecture series in Computer Science.The purpose of this lecture series is to further the professional education of research students and instructors of Computer Scienceat universities in the Philippines .

This year's post–graduate school program will cover basic data structures, probability andoptimization, machine learning, and information search andretrieval. The 5-day course is structured to include both lectures and hands-on exercises and is to be conducted at University of the Philippines-Baguio .

The first day is dedicated to a summary of basic concepts as background knowledge to the rest of the course.

The remaining four days are dedicated to Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, with extensive laboratory work.

The lecture series is open to qualified candidates from any university in the Philippines . Faculty members and/or graduate students from Computer Science departments with a solid backgroundin machine learning, and information search and retrieval are invited to apply.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Doctoral School.

Sincerely,

Caslon Chua, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Computer Studies
De La Salle University
E-mail: chuacl@dlsu.edu.ph
Tel : (02) 536-02-76
Fax : (02) 536-02-78

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