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Computer Science Colloquium Series
November 2009
November
19
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November
12
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Kavita Bala, Cornell
Maxwell Dworkin G125
When is a rendered image good enough? Perceptually-Based Realistic Rendering
November
5
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Ben Livshits, Microsoft
Maxwell Dworkin G125
Improving the Performance and Security of AJAX Web Applications
October 2009
October
29
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October
22
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October
15
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October
8
End Date
Jack Stankovic, Univ. of Virginia
Maxwell Dworkin G125
Dust to Doctors: Wireless Sensor Networks for Home Medical Care
October
1
End Date
September 2009
September
24
End Date
Michael Backes, Saarland University
Maxwell Dworkin G125
Automated Design and Verification of Security Protocols based on
Zero-Knowledge Proofs
September
17
End Date
April 2009
April
30
End Date
Jennifer Tour Chayes - Microsoft Research New England
60 Oxford St., Rm. 330
JOINT CS/IIC
NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION TO 60 OXFORD ST., RM. 330
"Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks"
Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks have become increasing appropriate...
April
23
End Date
Prof. Johannes Gehrke - Cornell University
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
What Can Database Systems Do For Computer Games?
Databases have the stigma of an association with (boring) enterprise data management. The area of database research, however, has developed a wide...
April
16
End Date
Prof. Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
"Being There"
Being at disasters is the apotheosis of field robotics; hardware and software must work with real people under challenging temporal and environmental conditions. We have shifted over...
April
9
End Date
Andy Wilson - Microsoft
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
What started as a modest incubation effort has grown into the Surface Computing group at Microsoft. Surface, its first product, is but one example of an exciting new category of form factors and user...
April
2
End Date
Prof. Victor Zue - MIT
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
"Talking with Computers"
Speech is one of the most natural ways for humans to communicate. Therefore it is not surprising that pundits and Hollywood producers have been predicting for decades that...
March 2009
March
18
End Date
David Pogue, New York Times
Maxwell Dworkin G-115
JOINT CS/IIC
Note change of day (Wednesday) and location (MD G-115)
"Web 2.0 Reality Check"
What do YouTube, MySpace, eBay, and Craigslist have in common? They're all part of "Web 2.0," in which a...
March
12
End Date
Professor Shalom Lappin - King's College London
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
Restricting Distributions for Computational Language Learning
Joint work with Alex Clark of Royal
Holloway College, London
Classical computational learning models like Gold's (1967)...
March
5
End Date
Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan - Univ. of Toronto
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
"Facile interaction with Displays all over the place"
As computing increasingly veers away from the desktop to more mobile and “everywhere” usage scenarios, the user interface must evolve...
February 2009
February
26
End Date
S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Google Research
60 Oxford St., Rm. 330
JOINT CS/IIC
NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION
Title: Internet Ad Auctions: Algorithms, Economics and Directions
For over 5 years, internet companies have been selling ads via auctions and have enabled a...
February
19
End Date
Mobile Phones and Multicores
MD G-125
"Mobiel Phones and Multicores: Programming Nightmare or Architectural Renaissance," Prof. Arvind, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
February
12
End Date
Dr. David Bacon, IBM Research and Harvard University
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
Liquid Metal: Eliminating the Boundary between Hardware and Software
This talk will present Liquid Metal, an end-to-end system from language design to co-execution on hardware and software. The goal...
February
5
End Date
CS Colloquium: David Brooks
Maxwell Dworkin G125
Computer Design in the Nanometer Scale Era: Challenges and Solutions
David Brooks
Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Technology scaling has enabled tremendous growth in the computing industry...
December 2008
December
11
End Date
Prof. Seth Teller of MIT presents "Development of a Self-Driving Car"
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
In May 2006 we formed a team to compete in DARPA's 2006-2007 "Urban Challenge," the goal of which was to develop a passenger vehicle capable of safe, robust autonomous driving in city traffic. Over...
December
4
End Date
Prof. Michael Kearns of the University of Pennsylvania
Maxwell Dworkin G-125
"Collective Behavior and Machine Learning"
I will begin by describing an ongoing and extensive series of human subject experiments, conducted at Penn, in collective decision-making and...