[CS] Fwd: Register for Data Science Career Mixer, October 13, 4-8pm

[Jack Zhao]

Is it only open to people who have projects in hand? The registration
seemed to require a title for poster.

J.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:29 PM, ethan meyers <ethan.meyers at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Five-College Data Science faculty friends,
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> The UMass Amherst Center for Data Science will hold its second annual
> Career Mixer on the evening of Thursday October 13.  I hope many of you
> will consider attending, and will also consider recommending selected
> MS/PhD and outstanding BS students to register and participate.
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> Faculty should register here:  https://goo.gl/forms/xmS1UevWTzet7X5t2
> Students should register here: https://goo.gl/forms/BjMsDFCd7OcdVAqY2
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> For more details, visit this page: https://ds.cs.umass.edu/CareerMixer2016
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> Student registration closes on *MONDAY October 3rd*, and students will be
> required to prepare and submit posters (following guidance that we will
> provide) by *FRIDAY October 7th*.
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> Last year we had 10 companies, over 70 students presenting research
> posters, a standing dinner, lots of great technical conversation, and many
> examples of successful company-student matches for internships and
> employment.  It is a great chance for faculty to learn about the research
> of many of our grad students.  In addition, attending can be a source of
> funding:  some companies decided to fund PhD student academic-year RAships
> after seeing their posters and talking with faculty at the event.
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> Confirmed attendees this year include:
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>    - Amazon (Cambridge MA, creators of Amazon Echo)
>    - BAE (Burlington MA)
>    - Google (Cambridge MA, in particular computer vision and ML groups)
>    - IBM (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, cognitive computing, NLP and
>    reasoning)
>    - Lexalytics (NLP startup with offices in Amherst)
>    - MIT Lincoln Labs (Lexington MA)
>    - MassMutual (Triangle Street, Amherst, Data Labs)
>    - McKesson Health (Hadley, MA)
>    - Meta.com <http://meta.com> (scientific research literature startup)
>    - Microsoft (Cambridge MA research lab)
>    - MITRE (Bedford MA)
>    - Oracle Labs (Burlington MA)
>    - Pratt & Whitney (logistics for manufacturing and maintenance)
>    - Twitter Cortex (Cambridge MA, deep learning group)
>    - UMass faculty and students from statistics, biostatistics,
>    engineering, social sciences and elsewhere
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> Additional possible attendees this year also include:
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>    - MathWorks (creators of MatLab, with interest in computer vision,
>    deep learning)
>    - Thomson Reuters
>    - State Street
>    - Fidelity
>    - Pearson
>    - Nature Conservancy
>    - iRobot
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> Best regards,
> /Brant
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> *Brant A. Cheikes*
> Executive Director
> Center for Data Science
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> 140 Governors Drive
> Computer Science Building, Room 228
> bcheikes at umass.edu
> ds.cs.umass.edu
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> (C) 617-694-8180
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