Applications are due on October 15, 2018 UPE and the ACM wish to encourage academic excellence for students in the computing and information disciplines. UPE initiated this award with ACM I order to raise the importance of academic achievement and professional commitment to ACM student members who are about to enter Read more…
The aim of this talk is to provide students with an overview on how to develop applications that leverage NVIDIA GPUs as general-purpose accelerators by means of an introduction to the CUDA programming model and environment. You can find the slides here. Speaker: Antonio Peña Date: 23rd May, 12:00 PM Location: Read more…
“The fastest growing job during the last 5 years has been Data Scientist, with a 6.5x growth.” – according to Linkedin. Data is becoming more and more important every day. And together with the growing importance of data comes a new challenge: Creating Data Products. After being a product manager Read more…
Oriol serra, chair of the Departament de Matemàtiques at UPC, will talk about Expander graphs and its applications. Slides of the presentation here. Expanding graphs grew up in the context of communication networks. The notion of expansion is related to the growth of neighborhoods of sets in graphs and it Read more…
Thanks to all who came to the MN4 visit! Hope to see you all in future events! Let’s make the UPC ACM Student Chapter something worth being part of! UPC ACM Student Chapter is organizing a visit to the MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer the 21st of March. Hosted by Barcelona Read more…
Have you ever been talking with a friend about computer science and suddenly have a great idea? Have you ever been networking in a meetup a learned things you didn’t even know that exited? Has small talk lead you to solve a seemingly impossible bug? For all of you who Read more…
Thank you all for coming, see you in next PWL @ UPC! Find the slides of the presentation here. In this month Papers We Love brings Argimiro Arratia who will peresent the paper Matroids and the greedy algorithm J. Edmonds (1971). Argimiro Arratia is currently a professor of UPC Read more…
The UPC ACM Student Chapter organizes a talk and a roundtable about gender imbalance in STEM. The unprecented strike for gender equality the last 8th of March showed a reality that many choose to ignore. UPC ACM believes that more actions, talks, and discussions are needed if we want to Read more…
Papers we love Barcelona is back and we already have a list of amazing talks for the next months. The events will alternate between noon at the University and evenings at some company to be sure that everyone can attend and bridge t he gap between academia and the industry. Read more…
Cardinality estimation has a wide range of applications from databases to network systems. The problem has been studied since the 80’s and many algorithms have been proposed: Adaptive Sampling, HyperLogLog or Recorinality to say some of them. In this talk we will discuss why cardinality estimation is an important problem, Read more…