University Guest Lectures

by IBM Academic Ambassadors

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Quantum Safe Crypto

What if people from the future suddenly arrived with advanced technology that could read all your data — including the encrypted stuff? Is there anything you could do now to prepare for such a scenario? Is this just a sci-fi …

Topics

Security & Privacy

Lecture language

English

“Adversarial AI - Lying Chatbots, Deep Fakes and more …”

The presentation will focus on adversarial AI and its threats to chatbots, such as corpus poisoning and deep fakes. These attacks can manipulate data and spread misinformation, potentially harming users. The talk will also explore potential solutions to these threats …

Topics

Security & Privacy

Lecture language

English

Securing Everything - An Introduction to Zero Trust

Who can you trust? If you are following a strict zero trust philosophy, the answer is no one and nothing. Is this achievable? Is it practical? Does it even make business sense? Can any vendor or tool provide zero trust? …

Topics

Security & Privacy

Lecture language

English

The Random Path to Career Success

What makes some people successful? What is one of the critical ingredients of a great career? And what can we do about it?

In this lecture we will be leveraging insights about what constitutes a main driver of success in a …


Overview of the Current Cyber Threat Landscape

In this lecture we will be looking at IBM Security's own Threat Intelligence unit, X-Force, the emerging and active threats targeting industries worldwide as well as primary tactics and entry points for threat actors, as observed within the last 12 …


Enable & Empower Universities/Educational Institutes with IBM's Academic Iniaitive Program

Provide overview of IBM's Academic Initiative program and enable university with step by step enablement & activation with SSO/University SSO integration process. Please look at California State University example
e.g. https://www.csun.edu/it/ibm-cloud-services-csun


IBM Cloud Capability Overview

IBM Cloud Capability Overview includes IBM Cloud Portal DEMO/Catalog review and deep dive walk with IaaS, PaaS, Watson AI, Blockchain, PowerVS, SAP, DB, IoT, MFA etc..


Cross Roads of Machine Learning and Data Science

Perhaps a better way to think of AI is that of prediction machines. To gain insights from what it is that you don't know that you don't know. Watson Studio and AutoAI is designed to take the coding off your …


How Artificial Intelligence (AI) May Improve Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future.

Learning …

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AI ApplicationHealthcareMedical

Lecture language

English

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it's Role in Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future. …

Topics

AI ApplicationHealthcareMedical

Lecture language

English

The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Improving Healthcare

Healthcare data are growing at an exponential rate, and technologies in the workplace are advancing rapidly. This session will address how artificial intelligence is making an impact in healthcare today and how emerging technologies may be applied in the future. …

Topics

AI ApplicationHealthcareMedical

Lecture language

English

Clinical 3D Printing in Healthcare - A Clinician's Perspective

Abstract:

The rise of advanced 3D cross-sectional imaging such as CT scans has allowed unprecedented volumetric imaging of the internal structures of the body. At the same time the rise of extremely high-performance additive manufacturing technologies, of which 3D printers are …


Natural Language Processing in Healthcare - A Clinician's Perspective

Abstract:

Healthcare data is heavily stored in narrative form of unstructured text. Unlike non-medical text, the language used in healthcare is often extremely complex, filled with complex negation, hypotheticals, and jargon, but at the same time using this data requires high-precision …


The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Imaging

With more images to manage, sites to connect, and people sharing data, enterprise imaging is critical to patient care. Learn about the role of AI and its application in Medical Imaging. This session will focus on the role of AI …


IBM Global University Programs with a Focus on Healthcare

Healthcare is transforming and emerging technology is playing a significant role. Learn about the resources that IBM Global University Programs offers to medical, nursing, pharmacy, and public healthcare schools and really any student who is interested in healthcare.

Learning objectives:
After …

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HealthcareInnovationStrategy

Lecture language

English

Towards clinical relevance: Predictive modeling applied to brain imaging

The application of machine learning methods to the increasingly larger observational studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders provides the opportunity of generating individualized assessments for people with a given condition, while also enabling the detection of brain correlates of disease. …


Cybersecurity Operations Law & Policy

This lecture introduces law students to legal aspects of US government cyberspace operations by examining international law and norms and US law and policy. Full spectrum cyberspace operations are conducted by multiple disciplines, each with their own and sometime overlapping …

Topics

LawSecurity & Privacy

Lecture language

English

Cybersecurity Law & Policy

This lecture introduces law students to legal aspects of US government cyberspace operations by examining international law and norms and US law and policy. Full spectrum cyberspace operations are conducted by multiple disciplines, each with their own and sometime overlapping …

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LawSecurity & Privacy

Lecture language

English

The Smart Electric Power Grid - Internet of Things for the World's Largest Machine

According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the electric power grid is the largest machine. The increased reliability on electric power for digital life, as well as transportation, has been driving smart grid for the last 15 years. …


The Two Transformations Driving Cybersecurity Forward Today

Cybersecurity has become one of the most pressing topics for every business today, and it is crucial to understand the two transformations that entities must drive to support core security requirements. This lecture details these two transformations - first, the …


COBOL Structure and File Handling

Webinar link : https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/cobol/videos/lets-talk-syntax-cobol-structure-and-file-handling

This is part of the COBOL Friday series. See the IBM Z Global Student Hub ibm.biz/studenthub and developer.ibm/com/cobol for other related content

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Mainframes / z Systems

Lecture language

EnglishItalian

z101 Overview

Introduction to Mainframe hardware.

Link to Webex recording :
https://ibm.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/ibm/recording/play/ba5f66587ede4182b889e375b3eabe1b

The recording of this and other webinars can be found on the IBM Z Global Student Hub ibm.biz/studenthub

Topics

Mainframes / z Systems

Lecture language

English

Patenting 101

This is a Patenting 101 presentation that introduces the patenting process to the university students.

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/126565748

Content is:

*) What is a patent?

*) Value of a patent

*) US PTO patent filing process

*) Tips to facilitate the patenting

*) Additional resources

Topics

Other

Lecture language

EnglishHindi

Blockchain for Business Beyond Bitcoin

“What internet did with information, blockchain will do the same with transactions”. Blockchain is a transformational technology for businesses as it drives re-imagination of processes and business models in a distributed and decentralized manner. Many business executives either do not …


Hello, literally, World : An Introduction to Enterprise Computing

Enterprise Computing is a complex discipline geared towards high availability, extreme scaling, and world-class performance. In this lecture, I will cover what sets Enterprise Computing apart, what a programmer needs to keep in mind when crafting a solution that's going …

Topics

Mainframes / z Systems

Lecture language

English

Don't believe everything your sensor tells you

A principle paradigm these days is that data from Internet of Things devices feeds in to Data Science which then leads to insights via AI. This talk explains the relationship between the physical world we live in, the Things, and …


Data Virtualization

Easily, confidently access any amount of data, from anywhere. Covered heterogeneous, ubiquitous data, challenges bringing it together in dynamic environments, applicability to analytics and data science, data warehousing (as insufficient), an overview of IBM Data Virtualization, querying hybrid sources with …


Use Mural to Facilitate a Remote Design Thinking Workshop: Dominque DuBois, Amber Atkins, Emery Ford, Jill Dhillon

Please join this online interactive workshop recording to learn how to successfully run client workshops using Mural. Client engagement kick off sessions, client workshops, client Design Thinking sessions...all can be facilitated virtually, progressing client engagements forward.

Topics

Design Thinking

Lecture language

EnglishSpanish

Intellectual Property Considerations

This lecture discusses intellectual property considerations relevant for university students. It covers:
- What is intellectual property (IP)?
- Why is IP valuable?
- IP & open software: not at war
- Tips for pursuing patent protection

Topics

Other

Lecture language

English

Anomaly detection and statistical machine learning

This talk covers an overview of how statistical machine learning has been successfully applied to challenging anomaly detection problems involving noisy sensor signals in real customer use-cases including the oil & petroleum, automotive, semiconductor, maritime, the cement industries.

This talk …


Recent advances in machine learning for industrial sensor data

Sensor data analytics is one of the major application fields of data mining and machine learning. Typically taking real-valued time-series data from physical sensors as the input, its problem setting includes a variety of tasks depending on the application domain, …


Pandemic? How to make right decision during crisis using modeling approach?

The open source platform: Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM: https://www.eclipse.org/stem/) is designed to help scientists, public health officials and modeler create and use spatial and temporal models of emerging infectious diseases. These models can aid in understanding and potentially preventing the …


A Gentle Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)

The talk provides a gentle introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP). It explains how NLP relates to Text-mining and other areas of AI, such as Machine Learning, Chatbots, etc. The talk covers the basic building blocks of NLP. It discusses …


A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning

This talk provides a broad high-level introduction to Machine Learning and its place in the larger domain of AI. It covers the key definitions, terminology, and types of techniques used in machine-learning. It provides examples of applications of these techniques. …


Reinventing Corporate Social Responsibility for the Digital Economy

Emerging trends bring new expectations from consumers, governments , investors, and employees for the companies with whom they choose to align. Many of these requirements include expectations about companies’ business model alignment with social responsibility initiatives. IBM is reinventing its …


Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction- Model Implementation and Applications

The presentation provides an overview of the importance of mesosccale and local weather modeling and prediction. It provides details on IBM's Deep Thunder weather prediction model as well as the community model which is incorporates. Case study examples are provided …

Topics

OtherWeather and Climate

Lecture language

English

The Jefferson Project at Lake George

The Jefferson Project is collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George focused on developing a detailed understanding of the overall ecology of Lake George, including the interactions of the physical, chemical, and biological environment in …


Introducing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

This introductory-level talk will explore what Artificial Intelligence and Big Data means, where AI came from, what makes a system cognitive, why it is important, who uses it, and how to try it out. Attend this session to learn how …

Topics

AI / Automation

Lecture language

EnglishPortugueseSpanish

Rethinking Weather: The Resilience Imperative and the Power of Data

In a time of increasing weather chaos, weather data is empowering companies, saving ecosystems, protecting communities, engaging consumers, and informing investors to build a more resilient world.

In this presentation, Paul discusses how companies / governments are leveraging AI, weather data …


Global Trade Made Easy: Enabling the Intelligent Supply Chain

The world has changed significantly in the last 20 years. The methods we use today to manage global trade are no longer meeting the needs of empowered consumer. Retail supply chains are under immense pressure from the shift of power …


Convergence of Physical and Digital: A case for change

The retail apocalypse is upon us, retail is dead, everybody is closing their stores! Or are they? There are real forces at work that require the development of a culture of change for retail. Despite the clickbait that we are …


Creating an End-to-End Identity Management Architecture

One of the most important aspects of IT security is identity management. Controlling who has access to what, when and where is harder than ever as traditional perimeter boundaries soften and employee turnover increases. Single sign-on, LDAP, meta-directories, virtual directories, …

Topics

Security & Privacy

Lecture language

English

Secure Thinking

Designing a system involves thinking about how it should work, but in order to design defenses for that system you must first envision how it might fail. In order to do this you have get inside the head of the …

Topics

Security & Privacy

Lecture language

English

Hacking Everything - The Dark Side of the Internet of Things

With the Internet of Things (IoT), essentially everything becomes a computer. We know that computers can be hacked. This means that everything can be hacked including cars, home appliances, medical devices and more. This session will give examples of IoT …

Topics

IoTSecurity & Privacy

Lecture language

English

Quantum 101

No clue what a qubit is? Not sure how to get started in the field of quantum? Learn the basics and see the potential for the future of quantum computing through IBM Q.

Topics

Quantum

Lecture language

English