FAZLI CAN,Professor

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Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.  You may also visit my Miami University home page.

Ph.D.: Computer Engineering, METU (thesis abstract, thesis)

Office Information

Engineering A Building, Room No. EA431.

Office Hours (Fall Semester 2011): Wednesday 10:40-11:30, Thursday 10:40-11:30, or by appointment.

Looking for Graduate/Undergraduate Students for the Bilkent Information Retrieval Group

If you are good at four core practices of computer science (programming, systems thinking, modeling, and innovation*) you may be the right person for our research group (learn more and even more). If you "can dream," "can do," and "can write" then you are the right person for our group. If you are interested in, please send me an email.

Recent Course Program

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '11
CS351, Data Organization and Management

CS491/492 Senior Projects
BILTRACKER: News Tracking
bunchit: Clustered Search Engine
ollaa:Verb-based Social Network (for smart phones)

Previous Course Program

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '11
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems
CS492, Senior Design Project I, Vak'a Nüvîs: New Event Detection and Topic Tracking Based on Suffix Tree Concept by Kerim Karaca, Mustafa Battal, Mustafa Zengin, and Salim Sarımurat.

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '10
CS351, Data Organization and Management

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '10
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems
CS492, Senior Design Project II, HavadiSec: by Turgut Isik, Oguz Kaya, Harun Ozden, Abdullah H. Sahin. Received Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department Best Senior Project prize in 2010.

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '09
CS351, Data Organization and Management

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '09
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '08
CS351, Data Organization and Management

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '08
CS112, Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (Class Pictures, to be published)
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems (Class Pictures, to be published)
CS492, Senior Design Project II, Topic: Automatic Summarization of Multi-document Texts by Ahmet Bugdayci, Cem Aksoy, Ibrahim Uysal, Tunay Gur. Received Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department Best Senior Project prize in 2008.

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '07
CS351, Data Organization and Management Class Pictures

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '07
CS101, Algorithms and Programming I (Quizzes, Lecture Notes, Class Pictures)
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems Class Pictures
CS590-C690, Research Topics (graduate student seminars), coordinated with Dr. Tolga Capin & Dr. Markus Schaal.

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '06
CS351, Data Organization and Management Class Pictures

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '06
CS533, Information Retrieval Systems
CS492, Senior Design Project II, Topic: Information Retrieval on Turkish Texts by Erman Balcik, Cihan Kaynak, H. Cagdas Ocalan, Onur M. Vursavas, co-supervised with Dr. Seyit Kocberber. Received Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department Best Senior Project prize in 2006.
CS590-C690, Research Topics (graduate student seminars), coordinated with Dr. Selim Aksoy & Dr. Ugur Gudukbay

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall '05
CS351, Data Organization and Management
CS491, Senior Design Project Project I, one group on Turkish IR, co-supervised with Dr. Seyit Kocberber

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring '02
CS101, Algorithms and Programming I

Professional Activities

Recent Presentations:
I am a keynote speaker of 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2011, June 22-24, Istanbul Turkey. The title of my presentation: Mobile information retrieval: Memex on the move - Nothing can be more surprising than life.

"New event detection and tracking in a multi-resource web environment." Michigan State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fall 2008 CSE Colloquium Series, August, 29, 2008. (Invited presentation, Host: Dr. Joyce Chai.)

I was an invited speaker and on the program committee of ISCIS 2007, Twenty-second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences , 7-9 November, 2007, Ankara, Turkey. The title of my presentation: New event detection and tracking: Test collection construction, algorithms, and evaluation.

Committee Work:
I am on the program committee of The 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies, AIRS 2011, 18-20 December 2011, Dubai UAI.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2011, Nineteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 24-28 October 2011, Glasgow, UK.

I am on the program committee of PAN 2011 LAB, Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 19-22 September 2011, Amsterdam.

I am on the program committee of 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval ICTIR 2011, 12-14 September 2011, Italy.

I am on the program committee of ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference, 24-28 July 2011, Beijing, China.

I am a on the program committee of 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2011, 22-24 June 2011, Istanbul Turkey.

I am on the program committee of IEA/AIE 2011 Special Session, Incremental clustering and novelty detection techniques and their application to intelligent analysis of time varying information, 28 June - 1 July 2011, Syracuse University, NY, USA.

I was on the program committee of PAN 2010 LAB, Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 20-23 September 2010, Padua, Italy.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2010, Nineteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 26-30 October 2010, Toronto, Canada.

I was the Publicity Chair (team member: Dr. Sengor Altingovde) and on the program committee of ACM SIGIR 2010 Conference, 18-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.

I was on the program committee of ISCIS 2010, Twentyfifth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 22-24 September 2010, The Royal Society, London.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2009, Eighteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2-6 November 2009, Hong Kong, China.

I was on the program committee of SEPLN'09 Workshop PAN, Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 8-10 September 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.

I was on the program committee of ISCIS 2009, Twentyfourth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 14-16 September 2009, METU Northern Cyprus Campus.

I was on the program committee of MCIS 2009, 4th Mediterranean Conference on Conference on Information Systems, 25-27 September 2009, Athens, Greece.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2008, Seventeenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 26-30 October, 2008, Napa Valley, California.

I was on the program committee of INFOSCALE 2008, Third International ICST Confernce on Scalable Information Systems, 4-6 June 2008, Vico Equense, Italy.

I was on the program committee of ECAI '08 Workshop PAN, Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 21-22 July 2008, Patras, Greece.

I was on the program committee of ISCIS 2008, Twentythird International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 27-29 October 2008, Istanbul, Turkey.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2007, Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 6-10 November 2007, Lisboa, Portugal.

I was on the program committee of Değişen Dünyada Bilgi Yönetimi Sempozyumu 2007 , Hacettepe University, 24-26 October 2007, Ankara, Turkey.

I was an invited speaker and on the program committee of ADVIS 2006, Fourth Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, 18-20 October 2006, Izmir, Turkey.

I was on the program committee of ACM CIKM 2006, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 6-11 November 2006, Arlington, VA, USA.

Recent Research Agenda & Award


Projects funded by Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK):

Principal investigator, "Front-page news selection in news portals and chronologic news summarization." (Haber portallarında ön sayfa için haber seçimi ve kronolojik haber özetleme) Project No. 111E030, (Investigator Dr. Seyit Kocberber), October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2013. info.

Investigator "Visual and textual analysis and retrieval of Ottoman texts ." (Osmanlı metinlerinin görsel ve yazısal analizi ve erişimi) Project No. 109E006, (Principal investigator Dr. Pinar Duygulu Sahin, Investigator: Dr. Mehmet Kalpakli), September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2012. (blog, project web site)

Principal investigator, "Novelty detection in topic tracking for Turkish and its application to a large-scale news portal." (Türkçe konu izlemede yenilik bulma ve büyük-ölçekli bir haber portalına uygulanması) Project No. 108E074, (Investigator Dr. Seyit Kocberber), October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2010. abstract. blog/readings .

Principal investigator, "Instant new event detection and tracking and retrospective event clustering in Turkish news using Web resources." Project No. 106E014, (Investigator Dr. Seyit Kocberber), July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2008, ($77,442; June 19, 2006). abstract.

Co-founder of the Bilkent Information Retrieval Group.

The recipient of Miami University Researcher of the Year Award, 1998, by Sigma Xi. ( lecture)

Selected Publications

Upcoming Book Chapter
Patton, J. M., Can, F. "Determining translation invariant characteristics of James Joyce's Dubliners." In Oakes, M. P., Ji, M. (Ed.) Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies. John Benjamins Publishing Company (to appear in April 2012).

For an incomplete list of publications see
Bibliography Server on Database Systems & Logic Programming or bibFinder.

Google Scholar citations

Pointers

"Do only what only you can do." Edsger W. Dijkstra

"You can become a Pasteur: Innovation is Our Work" or CACM IT Profession Columns by Peter J. Denning

Great Principles of Computing by Peter J. Denning & Craig Martell

Advice for Researchers and Students by Michael Ernst

Recycling of Computer Concepts by Andrew S. Tanenbaum***

COBOL programming for IBM 360 during my sophmore year in my PhD Advisor Prof. Esen Ozkarahan's class.

"For things to remain the same, everything must change." Tancredi

On movie making "I do it because I like it and it's a wonderful way to spend your life." by Sidney Lumet

Time management by Randy Pausch

Address for Correspondence

Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06800, Turkey.  

Office Telephone: +90 (312) 290-2613

Fax:: +90 (312) 266-4047

Dept. Secretary: +90 (312) 290-1218

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Date of last update: December 15, 2011    Click for Ankara, Turkey Forecast Click for East Lansing, Michigan Forecast
* Photograph is by Hasan Koksal, July 6, 2006.
** Denning, P. J, McGettrick, A. "Recentering computer science." Comm. of the ACM. Vol. 48, No. 11, 2005, pp. 15-19.
*** Tanenbaum, A. S., Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, NJ, 2001.

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