Prospective Bridge Student Information Session
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Zoom
The CSMS Bridge Program is designed for people who are interested in acquiring new knowledge and skills to build futures in technology. We are exploring new interdisciplinary frontiers in a world where computer science is increasingly critical to fields such as medicine, business, journalism, social science, and the humanities. Please join us for our upcoming information session to help you decide if Bridge is the right fit for you.
Register for the Prospective Bridge Student Info Session (2025 Cohort) here: https://apply.engineering.columbia.edu/register/CS-Bridge-Program
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Coffee and Questions
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
CSB 452
CS Advising, CS@CU
All Computer Science UG and MS students are welcome to attend our monthly Coffee and Questions event to speak with members of the CS Advising team, network with peers, and meet with special guests. Please bring your laptop to the CS Lounge to convene and connect with us; light refreshments provided!
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Modeling
11:40 AM to 12:40 PM
CSB 451 CS Auditorium
Hanna Hajishirzi, University of Washington
Abstract:
Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both AI research and commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have become closed off, gated behind proprietary interfaces, with important details of their training data, architectures, and development undisclosed. Given the significance of these details in scientifically studying these models, including their biases and potential risks, I argue that it is essential for the research community to have access to powerful, truly open LMs. In this talk, I present our OLMo project aimed at building strong language models and making them fully accessible to researchers along with open-source code for data, training, and inference. I describe our efforts in building language modeling from scratch, expanding their scope to make them applicable and useful for real-world applications, and investigating a new generation of LMs that address fundamental challenges inherent in current models.
Bio:
Hanna Hajishirzi is the Torode Family Associate Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and a Senior Director of NLP at AI2.
Her current research delves into various domains within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a particular emphasis on accelerating the science of language modeling, broadening their scope, and enhancing their applicability and usefulness for human lives. She has published over 140 scientific articles in prestigious journals and conferences across ML, AI, NLP, and Computer Vision. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Intel Rising Star Award, Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, Academic Achievement UIUC Alumni Award, and Innovator of the Year Award by GeekWire. The work from her lab has been nominated for or has received best paper awards at various conferences and has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers.
Product Engineering Career Fair | Social Networking Hour
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Faculty House
Join us for an exciting Career Fair featuring employers recruiting for various positions in product engineering, followed by a refreshing social networking hour. This event offers a unique opportunity to connect with hiring employers and alumni, both in professional and social settings. Following the fair, enjoy a refreshing networking hour (21+) to connect further with employers, alumni and students over career insights - allowing students the opportunity to craft their marketability and develop/showcase their professional brand.
Registration link will be available via email, VMock.
*Event Audience: Current Graduate CS Students (MS & PhD), Bridge Students
Coffee and Questions
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
CSB 452
CS Advising, CS@CU
All Computer Science UG and MS students are welcome to attend our monthly Coffee and Questions event to speak with members of the CS Advising team, network with peers, and meet with special guests. Please bring your laptop to the CS Lounge to convene and connect with us; light refreshments provided!
Coffee and Questions
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
CSB 452
CS Advising, CS@CU
All Computer Science UG and MS students are welcome to attend our monthly Coffee and Questions event to speak with members of the CS Advising team, network with peers, and meet with special guests. Please bring your laptop to the CS Lounge to convene and connect with us; light refreshments provided!
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