Meaning: Mentorship is a lifetime commitment that can span generations of students, and no matter how detached you are supposed to be, it's only human to feel the weight of that responsibility.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: Whether it's soldiers, scientists, or programmers, always bring more professionals than the competition.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: As the old master said, experience should fear the strength of youth, but so should it temper it. Also, in research, there comes a time when instinct is your best guide.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Poll #1308557 Computer Equipment Shopping Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

I buy computer equipment:

Does someone compel you to upgrade?

If so, who?

Does someone buy or give you SOME of your computer hardware or software?

Does someone buy or give you MOST of your computer hardware or software?

If so, who?

When do you regularly shop for computer equipment or software?

When do you MOST OFTEN shop for computer equipment or software?

Do you tend to computer buy hardware and software together?

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Banazir

Meaning: The recalcitrant student must be dealt with firmly, but always fairly and with calm and patience.

Also, as triestine's mother noted, all Chinese people can fly.

Edit, 23:15 CST Thu 04 Dec 2008 - The above is the English-dubbed version, featuring voice actors that aren't quite the equals of Chow Yun-Fat and Zhang Ziyi. I've used it mainly for comprehensibility. The English-subbed Chinese original is better, IMO, but it omits the "three moves" part of the scene.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: Sometimes your best writing is done when people are trying to interfere with you.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: A good educator opens his students' minds to new ideas and pushes them to do things they haven't done before.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis Center (MIAS) is concerned with researching technologies for extracting and tracking interesting events and entities from multimodal information sources. A further goal is to support intelligence analysis by facilitating the formulation and evaluation of hypotheses regarding these events and entities. Research directions include:

• Developing fundamental theories, computational models, algorithms, and tools for information access and synthesis


• Enabling intelligence analysts to access a variety of data formats, transforming raw data into useful and understandable information


• Integrating these technologies with existing resources

Another mission of the MIAS Center is to develop diverse human resources for the scientific research, educational, and governmental workforce communities through education and outreach. This goal is exemplified by the Data Science Summer Institute which develops lecture materials, tutorials, and research projects for information sciences.

The dssi_mias program is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science.

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Banazir

Meaning: When representing your group, it's important to be firm, but leave room for that win-win situation.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: This is how semesters and academic years often begin. As long as this is not how they end, I'm happy.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir