This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we exploit variation from the staggered rollout of CS...

Chapter 1. Deep Renovation: Definitions, Drivers and Barriers -- Chapter 2. Embedded Sensors, Ubiquitous Connectivity and Tracking -- Chapter 3. Building Information Modelling -- Chapter 4. Building Performance Simulation -- Chapter 5. Big Data and analytics in the context of deep renovation...

Various business problems are of interest to both data mining and marketing academic communities, such as market segmentation, direct marketing, targeted marketing, personalization/customization, cross selling and discovering customer lifetime value. Yet, these two disciplines have very...

Over the last decade there has been growing interest in pool-based active learning techniques, where instead of receiving an i.i.d. sample from a pool of unlabeled data, a learner may take an active role in selecting examples from the pool. Queries to an oracle (a human annotator in most...