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Program Overview: MBA/MSE overview (in Japanese)
 
Plan of Study: MSIA/MSE   Concentration: Harmony of MT and IT
  • Short/Long term objectives (MSIA)
  • Statement of Purpose (MSE)
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    Graduate: August, Lucky 2001   Interests: Projects / Papers

    1. Studio Projects at School of Computer Science (SCS) / Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
         Applying SEI approaches:
    • Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Team/Personal Software Process (TSP/PSP)
    • Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)
    • Survivability Network Analysis (SNA) from CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC)
    • Software Risk Evaluation (SRE)
          My personal mentor: Len Bass / SEI, the author of Software Architecture in Practice
    2. Entrepreneur ship originally at Business School (GSIA)
     Project: CarnegieExchange
     Entrepreneurs: CMU entrepreneurs
    • Since May '00, I have worked with my classmate, Atila Omer (CMU/MBA class of 2001), who originally came up with this idea and whom I met at GSIA on the day of our on-campus admission interview in November '98 after over 20 hour trip from Japan. Ver. 1.0 released on Oct. '00
    • Since Dec. '00, ver 2.0 is under development as one of MSE Studio projects because my Studio team unfortunately or fortunately lost the first client in November and I could bring CarnegieExchange as our new Studio project with approvals of other team members and instructors. 
    • Atila and I graduated from GSIA in May '01 but still working at CMU ^^;
    3. Robot projects at Robotics Institute (RI), the supporter of Super bowl, NASA and more
     The winning sumobot (desc.in Japanese) of Sumo wrestling robot competition at Intro. to Mobile Robotics class in 2001.       My partner and main contributor: 
           Chief Mechanic, Masataka Oka  (CMU/MSE Dec., 2001)
     My soccer team for TeamBots / Robot World Cup (RoboCup)
         1. Performance: 13.57 vs 1 (against BasicTeam) 
         2. My strategy (description of my team)
         3. Simulation environment (TeamBots 2.0 + Java 1.2)
         4. Commands to compile and run at ~/teams directory

        Hyper-YuzoTeam beating all Teambots 2.0 sample teams
          Performance: 36 vs 1 (against BasicTeam with seed 1) 
    4. Natural Language Processing advised by Language Technology Institute (LTI) inventing
     Information Retrieval (IR) and Extraction (IE) Technology       Combined with real software engineering development (practices):       On RedHat Linux powered by Apache Web Server and Jakarta projects :
              Servlet/JSP engine (Tomcat), Framework (Turbine) and Template (Velocity) 
              applying Model-View-Controller (MVC) model for the parallel development with HCI
     Jamie Callan (CMU/LTI, CALD Prof.) inspired my interest on NLP with some advice
         His recommended books in IR world:
                 1) Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
                 2) Modern Information Retrieval
         and a recommended paper based upon my research focus
                 3) A Mutually Beneficial Integration of Data Mining and Information Extraction (Texas)

     Rosie Jones  (CMU/LTI Ph.D.) gave me significant insights on research
        "Learning Dictionaries for Information Extraction by Multi-level Bootstrapping" by Rosie led 
         me to her. The co-writer of the Rosie's paper as well as a former colleague of Jamie during
        UMass, Ellen Riloff (Utah/CS Prof.), opened the door to a self-learning dictionary for me by
         "A Corpus-Based Approach for Building Semantic Lexicons".

     Several proceedings of the National Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI press) from 
     American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) were also valuable. The most of these 
     papers are available at ResearchIndex with a collection of others (NLP and Machine Learing)
     including Feature Engineering for Text Classfication.
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