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(See the email stream below.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>If you’re interested in attending, please contact Diana Antova, the director of Data Services in Student Information Systems and Technology in Student Affairs at UCSB (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu">Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matthew</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Diana Antova [mailto:Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2015 3:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'mturk@cs.ucsb.edu'<br><b>Cc:</b> Ann Crawford<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: FW: Machine Learning and SIS&T at UCSB<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Mathew,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please find more information about the visit below. Let me know if you have interested students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Diana<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Alex Tellez [<a href="mailto:alex@h2o.ai">mailto:alex@h2o.ai</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2015 2:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> Diana Antova<br><b>Cc:</b> Ann Crawford; Amy Wang<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: Machine Learning and SIS&T at UCSB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Diana - <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In short, we will be demo-ing the product, giving some examples to peop<span style='color:#1F497D'>le </span>about what our product can do and then introducing the data science fair. The whole talk should take about 1 hour and then we'll open it up for questions later.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We can provide pizza as well for dinner. I have reattached the data science fair competition flier which you are free to forward on to others.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Alex<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Diana Antova <<a href="mailto:Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Alex,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We contacted professors in our Computer Science department and one of them is asking for more details about the meetup. Will you be demoing the product, talk about this science fair? Let us know what you are planning for this visit.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Diana</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Matthew Turk [mailto:<a href="mailto:mturk@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">mturk@cs.ucsb.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Diana Antova<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Machine Learning and SIS&T at UCSB</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>Diana,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>Thanks for the info regarding H2O. Although I am not available on the dates you mentioned, I’d like to better understand what the presentation will be about – is it about the science fair (which I assume H2O is running and sponsoring), about their product, or both?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> Matthew Turk</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Diana Antova [<a href="mailto:Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">mailto:Diana.Antova@sa.ucsb.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:su@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">su@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:holl@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">holl@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:petzold@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">petzold@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:ambuj@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">ambuj@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:mturk@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">mturk@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:xyan@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">xyan@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'; '<a href="mailto:ravenben@cs.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">ravenben@cs.ucsb.edu</a>'<br><b>Cc:</b> Ann Crawford; Adam Sottosanti<br><b>Subject:</b> Machine Learning and SIS&T at UCSB</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am the director of Data Services in Student Information Systems and Technology in Student Affairs at UCSB and we are exploring machine learning and predictive analysis to help with the analysis of student data. We connected with H2O, </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://docs.h2o.ai/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>http://docs.h2o.ai/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> at the Strata Hadoop Data conference in San Jose this year. They have a machine learning product and are starting a college initiative, encouraging students to develop their own machine learning applications.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Some members of their team will be at USC on April 8 to introduce the data science fair to students to showcase their machine learning application at the H2O world conference in September. They have offered to come to UCSB to present on April 6, 7 or 9.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We saw on your web site about the work you are doing in this area and wanted to connect with you to see if there is interest. You can see forms attached for applying to the science fair.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please let us know if you or any of your students would be interested in attending a presentation on April 6, 7, or 9 and we will coordinate it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Diana</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Diana Antova</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Director, Data Services and Business Systems Support</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>SIS&T, University of California, Santa Barbara</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="tel:%28805%29%20451-3369" target="_blank">(805) 451-3369</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Amy Wang [<a href="mailto:a@h2o.ai" target="_blank">mailto:a@h2o.ai</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 05, 2015 4:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ann Crawford; Kam Kunimoto; Logan D Franken; Adam Sottosanti; Diana Antova; Mike Nesbit<br><b>Cc:</b> Alex Tellez<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Southern California Meetups with H2O</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>As Alex mentioned in our call this afternoon, we are starting a college initiative, encouraging students to develop their own machine learning applications and I have attached the flyers and application form for this initiative. Alex will holding Meetups in Southern California the week of April 5th at USC and UCLA and we just wanted to let you know about these events.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Our Meetups are usually presentation-based, followed by a Q & A session.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks for your time this afternoon!<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Amy Wang<br>Marketing Operations<br>H2O.ai<br><a href="tel:%28408%29%20402-2608" target="_blank">(408) 402-2608</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>