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In academic year 08-09, the Center for Statistical Computing
will sponsor a seminar and a lecture series on
non-professional
practices of data collection and analysis. It is
the second in a "series" of long-running events to understand
the use of computing for scientific advancement, for
advocacy and for cultural expression.
Join us!
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In July, Berkeley will host a workshop on computing in
the statistics curricula. Register.
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Quantum computing! Spring quarter, we'll host
a seminar to figure out what quantum computer
is and, in particular, how statistics (as a discipline)
will benefit if one ever gets built.
Join us.
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At the end of February, Georgia Tech hosted
the first
Computation + Journalism Symposium. I
gave a (way over time) talk on non-professional
practices of data collection and analysis.
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On Tuesday December 11, the Van Alen Institute will host a panel to discuss communication through distributed networks; here's an announcement. (For the record, I've never
been "In Conversation" -- big "I" and big "C" -- before.)
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SensorBase.org is live! It is a site
devoted to the collection and sharing of data from embedded sensing.
Wanna help? Drop me a line!
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The work from Statistics 260 (Site Specifics) was featured in
the premier issue of Architect Magazine.
Just a small blurb, but it means our network map has made it
into print! (Here is a direct link.)
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Ben Rubin and I have been awarded one of the 22 Media Arts Fellowships
for 2005; this program is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford
Foundation
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I have recently become a Co-PI of the Center for
Embedded Networked Sensing, an NSF Science and Technology Center
devoted to novel applications of computing, communications and sensing.
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Projects
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Ben Rubin and I have just completed a summer of work on an
art installation in the lobby of the new New York Times Building.
The piece is called Moveable Type; there was a nice
story in The Times, as well some coverage on NPR's On the Media.
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Mark H. Hansen
Associate Professor of Statistics
Co-PI, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Courtesy appointments in the Departments of
Desgin|Media Art
and Electrical Engineering, UCLA
8951 Mathematical Sciences Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: 310.206.8375
FAX: 310.206.5658
e-mail: cocteau@stat.ucla.edu
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Research
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I started my career at Bell Laboratories,
easily the best private research lab on the planet. Given that
background, my work tends to be grounded in applications. I
work with large, complex data, and recently have started dealing
with situations in which data flow continually, forming so-called data streams.
My work is necessarily collaborative, and draws on fields as diverse
as information theory, numerical analysis, computer science, and even media art.
[ CV(4/08) | Patents and Papers | Talks ]
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Teaching & Students
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Stat 260
Site specifics
Winter 2007
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Stat 101c, Spring 2008
Advanced Regression
MW 3:00-4:20, 9413 Boelter Hall
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Stat 202a, Fall 2007
Statistical Computing
T 2:00-5:20, 102 LaKretz
[ Fall 2006 Site | Fall 2005 Site | Fall 2004 Site ]
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Stat 237, Spring 2007
Database Aesthetics
Tues 9:00-12:30, 5061 Broad
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Stat 257, Winter 2007
Design, modeling and analysis
for embedded sensing
MW 3:00-4:20, 2042 Public Policy
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Stat 13, Winter 2006
Statistics for the Life and Health Sciences
MW 4:00-5:20, Haines A2
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In 2003, I became the Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in
the Department of Statistics; students should feel free to
drop by any time to talk about our graduate program
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I am currently serving on several
thesis/dissertation committees and
am eager to work with more students
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Spam poetry
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A new job, a new spam filter. While the setup at UCLA is effective,
I've had a few important emails banished to an inaccessible quarantine
area. Paranoid fool that I am, I decided to live life outside the
the protective cushion of the Department's spam filters. Mistake. But I did start
to appreciate a rhythm to my unsolicited email, a kind of poetry.
Here are a few patterns that I've found strangely poignant.
My troubling decline
[12 subject lines, VIC0D1N e-mails, 10/04]
how is my brother hurting
your son hurting
your mother hurting
pain is killing you
assist your brother in pain
assist your brother with his suffering
is his sister in pain treatment
are you in pain
your father needs to cope with the pain
is her father suffering
is my boyfriend hurting
how is my boyfriend hurting
Berlioz's uncle
[15 subject lines, "mo r t gage" ads, 11-12/04]
the splash of waves
by blue night-lights. Out
Thoughts raced, short, incoherent
window-sill with his hand,
up still more...
Well, who knows, who
sang out. His eyes
more. But I pity
the woman meanwhile, without
Drink! said the executioner
water-soaked cloth of his
that the professor was
right out of you!
You see, Poplavsky began
the next door bore
Spam Waugh
[Senders of pornographic spam, ads, 2/15-3/20/05]
Giggler C. Gilgamesh
Axiom M. Isolationism
Insinuations P. Ability
Strowe L. Transmuted
Archaeologist A. Machs
Punched O. Vilification
Sedatest Q. Sushing
Forced Q. Sadness
Unimpressive U. Counterfeited
Generalities S. Gnaw
Chastity J. Misleads
Insemination D. Solitaries
Fortyfying F. Shipwright
Muddiest E. Ladybird
Detected I. Pitchmen
Unknowable S. Easiness
Dixon D. Gurgles
Demand R. Tautly
Sourpuss I. Translator
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