Discovering events in Twitter using topic modelling

On 14 /12, a seminar was held in the computer department on discovering events in Twitter using modelling. The seminar was conducted by Dr. Hiba Jabbar, who explained the significance of Twitter as an academic research platform due to its importance in social media sites. She also discussed a system that discovers events from the textual analysis of tweets depending on the principle of topic modelling. She further revealed the challenges of the topic and how to solve them scientifically.

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Odometry during object transport: a study with physical robots

Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhannad Haidar Muhammad, a teacher in the Department of Computer Science / College of Computer Science and Information Technology, conducted an online seminar on his paper entitled “Odometry during object transport: a study with physical robots”. The study is concerned with locating robots that work collectively to transport large objects. The researcher developed a sensor that calculates the distance that the robot travels depending on comparing images of the surface the robot is walking on. Through a comparative study, the researcher found out that…

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Seminar at Information Technology Department

A seminar about the IT teams’ tasks in the enterprise environment has been held at the IT department. The seminar was presented by the lecturer Saif Ali Abed on the 7th of December 2020. The seminar included a review of the IT teams common tasks beside a review of the technical and administrative challenges that IT teams face in medium and enterprise. The seminar aimed to raise the awareness of the need to modernize and update IT curriculum in order to fulfill the local job market requirements…

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