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Programming NVIDIA GPU’s with CUDA

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…

By admin, 4 yearsMay 15, 2018 ago
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Building a Data Product: Lessons learned @ Skyscanner

“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…

By admin, 4 yearsMay 10, 2018 ago
Papers We Love

[PWL] Expander graphs and applications

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…

By admin, 4 yearsApril 17, 2018 ago
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[ACM-T] We present ACM Talks: Where ideas are born!

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…

By admin, 4 yearsMarch 10, 2018 ago
Papers We Love

[PWL] Why the Greedy algorithm works?

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…

By admin, 4 yearsMarch 5, 2018 ago
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Women in Tech: The status of gender gap in science and technology

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…

By admin, 4 yearsMarch 1, 2018 ago
Papers We Love

[PWL] Searching with Dice: Skip lists and Randomized Binary Search Trees

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…

By admin, 4 yearsFebruary 28, 2018 ago
Papers We Love

[PWL] Data Streams as Random Permutations: the Distinct Element Problem

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…

By admin, 4 yearsJanuary 29, 2018 ago
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From Barcelona to Silicon Valley

The UPC ACM Student Chapter organizes a talk on Dec 20 at 12:45 in FIB. The talk will be given by Cristian Canton. Cristian canton is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, working as a researcher at Facebook, Menlo Park. He will talk about his vision an experience to encourage other Read more…

By admin, 4 yearsJanuary 25, 2018 ago
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