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Sports
High School Football
11-07-09 - Hoosac Valley beats Drury.
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Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2
Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0 |
Election
Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here. |
Daily Digest
This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700. |
What's Playing
The popular anime character "Astro Boy" searches for acceptance on the big screen.
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ObituariesSales FliersBazaarsNov. 7:
VNA & Hospice, Community Room, North Adams
North Adams Elks
10-4; Nov. 8, 9-2
Crafters, Chinese auction, bake sale
For vendor information, Melanie at 413-743-5562.
Nov. 14
Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747
Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.
Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
Planning a bazaar this season? Submit information to info@iberkshires.com to have it listed here. |
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Williams Computer Science Professor Awarded $200,063 NSF Grant03:23PM / Monday, November 24, 2008
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Brent Heeringa, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant in the amount $200,063 for his work on "Models and Methods for Information Organization."
Heeringa's research focuses on three specific problems related to human-friendly organization of Internet information: optimal and approximation algorithms for information organization, dynamic models of information organization, and new models for categorical data. These are briefly explained below.
Heeringa will develop new optimal and approximation algorithms to organize hierarchical data like directory structures and websites. Hierarchical data is organized into a tree-like structure, where each data item has a single "parent" and zero or more distinct "children." Additionally, the optimal and approximation algorithms work on highly-constrained hierarchies. Heeringa's project includes a new optimization criterion called deliberation cost that characterizes a search path in terms of the number of choices along a path, as opposed to just the length of a search path.
Dynamic models of information organization define new models in dynamic, real-time settings, crucial for dealing with trends in data. Maintaining certain properties of the data, such as optimal search cost and constraint satisfaction, are also being investigated.
New models for categorical data are crucial to organizing and presenting information for human search, given the prominence of tagged data available on the Internet.
"A central goal when organizing and presenting information is creating a system where the desired information is quick and easy to find," said Heeringa. "Extending this criterion to human traversable organizations means arranging data so that the organizational structure is intuitive and the search is efficient." Heeringa will offer a new tutorial at Williams College on advanced algorithms, in addition to incorporating this research into his other computer science courses.
Heeringa, who has taught at the college since 2006, is teaching Theory of Computation this fall. He has also taught courses on Algorithm Design and Analysis and Digital Communication and Computation.
His work has been published in the International Journal on Intelligent Data Analysis, and other peer-review conferences, the most recent being Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Heeringa received his B.A. from University of Minnesota-Morris in 1999 and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2006. His dissertation, titled "Improving Access to Organized Information," introduced new models for making information in hierarchical organizations more accessible to users. Heeringa received the Chancellor's Award, Allen W. Edson Award, and Scholar of the College distinction from the University of Minnesota-Morris. |
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