Distinguished Lecturer Series and Colloquia Archive
Speakers 2009 - 2010
Barbara Liskov
Institute Professor at MIT
Associate Provost for Faculty Equity
The Power of Abstraction
May 17, 2010 - Host: YY Zhou
Jason Cong
Chancellor's Professor-Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles
Directorm Center for Domain-Specific Computing
Customizable Domain-Specific Computing
Mar 1, 2010 - Host: CK Cheng
Judea Pearl
Professor, Computer Science & Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Causes and Counterfactuals in the Empirical Sciences
Feb 24, 2010 - Host: Charles Elkan
Jiawei Han
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks By Exploring the Power of Links
Feb 22, 2010 - Host: Alin Deutsch
Alon Halevy
Google-Structured Data Management Research
Bringing (Web) Databases to the Masses
Feb 8, 2010 - Host: Yannis Papakonstantinou
Marc Snir
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UPCRC-Illinois and the Future or Multicore Computing
Feb 1, 2010 - Host: YY Zhou
Sanjeev Arora
Computer Science Department, Princeton University & Center for Computational Intractability
Computational complexity and information asymmetry in financial derivatives
Jan 25, 2009 - Host: Mohan Patu
Trishul Chilimbi
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Energy-Efficient Software and Hardware for Data Centers
Jan 2, 2009 - Host: Ranjit Jhala
Fred Chong
Director, Greenscale Center of Energy-Efficient Computing, University of California, Santa Barbara
Towards More Sustainable Computing
Oct 26, 2009 - Host: Ryan Kastner
Janak H. Patel
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CMOS Process Variations: A "Critical Operation Point" hypothesis
Oct 21, 2009 - Host: Rajesh Gupta
Speakers 2008 - 2009
John W. Lockwood
Associate Professor, Stanford University
Implementing Line-rate Services for Gigabit Networks with the NetFPGA
Feb 9, 2009 - Host: Ryan Kastner
Gerhard Fischer
Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Meta-Design and Social Creativity
Frameworks for Understanding and Fostering Cultures of Participation
Feb 2, 2009 - Host: Ryan Kastner
Alfred Spector
VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google
Research at Google
Jan 26, 2009 - Host: Keith Marzullo
Stephen Cooper
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Saint Joseph's University
Director its Center for Visualization
CProblem solving with Alice: Past, present and a brief peek into the future
Nov 17, 2008 - Host: Ryan Kastner
Speakers Prior to 2008
Brad Calder
Microsoft
Windows Azure - An Operating System for the Cloud
Dec 3, 2008 - Host: Ryan Kastner
Augustin Chaintreau
Thompson Research, Paris
Self Organization of Interfering 802.11 Wireless Access Networks
Jun 15, 2007 - Host: Geoff Voelker
Per Christensen
Pixar Animation Studios
Ray tracing of highly complex scenes
Jun 7, 2007 - Host: Henrik Wann Jensen
Garth Goodson
Network Applicance
An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives
May 16, 2007 - Host: Amin Vahdat
Larry Peterson
Princeton University
PlanetLab: Evolution vs Intelligent Design in Global Network Infrastructure
May 14, 2007 - Host: Alex Snoeren
Charanjit Jutla
IBM Watson
SHA and Average Case NP-Hardness
May 14, 2007 - Host: Daniele Micciancio
Marie Tahir
Director of the Technology Innovation Group
Intuit's Approach to Technology Innovation
May 14, 2007 - Host: Rick Ord
Doug Comer
Cisco Systems
Lessons Learned from the Internet Project
May 9, 2007 - Host: Amin Vahdat
Gyula Katona
Renyi Institute, Budapest
Forbidden Inclusion Patterns in Families of Subsets
May 3, 2007 - Host: Daniele Micciancio
Michael Freedman
Stanford
Apr 25, 2007 - Host: Alex Snoeren
Olga Sorkine
TU Berlin
Geometric Manipulation Using Differential Representations
Apr 23, 2007 - Host: Henrik Jensen
Shree Nayar
Columbia University
Apr 23, 2007
Hovav Shacham
Weizmann Institute of Science
Buffer Overflows and Group Signatures: Recent Results in Security and Cryptography
Apr 20, 2007 - Host: Stefan Savage
Atri Rudra
University of Washington
Error-correction with Information-theoretically Optimal Data Rate
Apr 16, 2007 - Host: Ron Graham & Russell Impagliazzo
Ryan Kastner
UC Santa Barbara
Apr 13, 2007 - Host: Alex Orailoglu
Kevin Murphy
University of British Columbia, Departments of Computer Science and Statistics
New Approaches to Learning the Structure of Directed Graphical Models
Apr 6, 2007
Julia Chuzhoy
Institute for Advanced Study
Apr 6, 2007 - Host: Russell Impagliazzo
Adrien Treuille
University of Washington
Apr 4, 2007 - Host: Matthias Zwicker
Eran Halperin
UC Berkeley
Mar 19, 2007 - Host: Vineet Bafna
Tapan S. Parikh
University of Washington
Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World
Mar 14, 2007 - Host: Bill Griswold
Xiaohui Xie
BroadInstitute, MIT
Interpreting the Human Genome: A Comparative Genomics Approach Spectral Algoritms and Representations
Mar 2, 2007
Richard Stallman
The GNU Project
The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
Feb 28, 2007
Darrell Long
UC Santa Cruz
Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File
Feb 26, 2007
Rich Pattis
Carnegie Mellon University
CS-1: Forwards and Backwards
Feb 5, 2007
Jayadev Misra
University of Texas at Austin
Structured and Concurrent Programming
Jan 26, 2007
Manindra Agrawal
Indian Institute of Technology
Determinant Versus Permanent
Jan 22, 2007
Tom Anderson
University of Washington
Do Incentives Build Robusteness in Distributed Systems?
Jan 12, 2007
Krithi Ramamritham
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Tamin the Dynamics of Distributed Data
Dec 11, 2006
Daniel Huttenlocher
Cornell University
Learning and Recognizing Visual Object Categories Without Detecting Features
Oct 20, 2006
Trevor Darrell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visual Recognition and Tracking for Perceptive Interfaces
Oct 11, 2006
Dan Gusfield
University of California, Davis
Adventures in Combinatorial Haplotyping
Oct 9, 2006
Bob Conn
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Venture Capital Today - A View of a Former Academic
Mar 13, 2006
Dawson Engler
Stanford University
EXE: A System for Automatically Generating Inputs of Death & Experience with Commercializing a Static Bug Finding Tool
Mar 6, 2006
Ion Stoica
U.C. Berkeley, Computer Science Division
On Securing Application-Controlled Forwarding Infrastructures
Feb 27, 2006
Somesh Jha
University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Computer Science
Towards Behavior-based Malware Detection
Feb 13, 2006
Dr. Robert McCartney
University of Connecticut
Categorizing Student Software Designs: How do graduating students design software?
Feb 6, 2006
Ben Shneiderman
University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science
The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
Jan 30, 2006
Bernard Moret
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Computer Science
Jan 23, 2006
Paul Maglio
IBM Almaden Research Center
Services Sciences, Management, and Engineering
Jan 9, 2006
Serge Belongie
University of California, San Diego
Nov 21, 2005
Galen Hunt
Microsoft Research
An Overview of the Singularity Project
Nov 14, 2005
Bradley Calder
University of California, San Diego
Deterministic Replay Debugging and Simulation
Oct 31, 2005
Alin Deutsch
University of California, San Diego
Verification of Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications
Oct 24, 2005
Krste Asanovic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transactors and the RAMP project
Oct 10, 2005 and Oct 17, 2005 - Host: Dean Tullsen
Garth Gibson
Panasas, Inc.
Storage Aggregation for Performance and Availability
Mar 7, 2005 - Host: Walt Burkhard
John Sangiovanni
Microsoft Mobility
Feb 28, 2005 - Host: Bill Griswold
Ken Kennedy
Rice University
Generation of High-Performance Domain-Specific Languages from Component Libraries
Feb 14, 2005 - Host: Andrew Chien
Laurette Bradley
Verizon
Industrial Information Technology Matters
Jan 31, 2005 - Host: Mohan Paturi
Frans Kaashoek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-to-Peer Computing Research: A Fad?
Jan 24, 2005 - Host: Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage
University of California, San Diego - Computer Science Engineering
Internet Outbreaks: Epidemiology and Defenses
Jan 10, 2005 - Host: Mihir Bellare
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
University of California, Berkeley
The Art and Science of Electronic Design
Dec 8, 2004 - Host: Rajesh Gupta
R. Ravi
Carnegie Melon University - Tepper School of Business
Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Integer Programs
Dec 6, 2004 - Host: Vineet Bafna
Alon Orlitsky
University of California, San Diego
Information Theory and Probability Estimation: From Shannon to Shakespeare via Laplace, Good, Turing, Hardy, Ramanujan, and Fisher
Nov 29, 2004 - Host: Pavel Pevzner
Dan Boneh
Stanford University
A New Life for Group Signatures
Nov 22, 2004 - Host: Mihir Bellare
Silvio Micali
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How To Reach Correlated Equilibrium
Nov 15, 2004 - Host: Daniele Micciancio
Urs Hoelzle
Google: A Computer Scientist's Playground
Nov 8, 2004 - Host: Stefan Savage
Padhraic Smyth
University of California, Irvine
Nov 1, 2004 - Host: Sanjoy Dasgupta
Stefan Leue
University of Konstanz, Germany
Directed Explicit-State Model Checking
Nov 1, 2004 - Host: Ingolf Krueger
Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computation for Human Networks, or, How to Get a Date, Get a Job, and Get a Raise
Nov 25, 2004 - Host: Gary Cottrell
Alex Vardy
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Old Problems and New Results in Coding Theory
Nov 18, 2004 - Host: Pavel Pevzner
Henrik Wann Jensen
Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Digital Human Cloning
Oct 11, 2004 - Host: Mihir Bellare
Larry Smarr
University of California, San Diego, CalIT2
The OptIPuter: From the Grid to the LambdaGrid
Oct 4, 2004 - Host: Andrew Chien
Eric Brewer
University of California, Berkeley
The Case for Technology Research for Developing Regions
Sept 24, 2004 - Host: Amin Vahdat
Steve Wolfman
University of Washington
Not Listening: Interaction, Technology, and Education
Jan 28, 2004 - Host: Paul Kube
Phil Bernstein
Microsoft Research
Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation
Jan 26, 2004 - Host: Alin Deutsch
Pierre Baldi
University of California, Irvine
Machine Learning Methods for Computational Proteomics and Beyond
Jan 22, 2004 - Host: Pavel Pevzner
Moshe Vardi
Rice Univsersity
And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth
Jan 21, 2004 - Host: Victor Vianu
Michael Jordan
University of California, Berkeley
Graphical models, kernel methods and statistical learning algorithms
Jan 14, 2004 - Host: Gary Cottrell
Geoff Kuenning
Harvey Mudd College
The Disk is Dead! Long Live the Disk!
Jan 12, 2004 - Host: Geoff Voelker
Phil Klein
Brown University
Multiple -source shortest paths in planar graphs allowing negative lengths in O(n log n) time
Jan 5, 2004 - Host: Daniele Micciancio
Peter Schroder
California Institute of Technology
Digital Geometry Processing
Dec 8, 2003 - Host: Henrik Jensen
Ross Starr
UCSD Department of Economics
Why is There Money? Endogenous Derivation of 'Money' as the Most Liquid Asset: A Class of Examples
Nov 3, 2003 - Host: Mohan Paturi
Richard Kaufmann
Hewlett-Packard
Interconnects for High Performance Computing
Oct 6, 2003 - Host: Stefan Savage
Aravind Joshi
University of Pennsylvania
Starting with Complex Primitives Pays Off: Complicate Locally, Simplify Globally
Jun 12, 2003 - Host: Gary Cottrell
Stephen Cook
University of Toronto
Relating Complexity Classes and Propositional Proof Systems
Jun 12, 2003 - Host: Mohan Paturi
Rich Friedrich
Director, Internet Systems and Storage Laboratory, HP Laboratories
Towards planetary scale computing: next generation internet computing
Jun 2, 2003 - Host: Andrew Chien
Don Likeness
Treyarch Corporation
Programming Video Games
May 16, 2003 - Host: Mohan Paturi
Richard Karp
University of California, Berkeley
Clock Synchronization in Sensornets
May 13, 2003 - Host: George Varghese
Richard Karp
University of California, Berkeley
Algorithmic Tools for Breaking the Cis-Regulation Code
May 12, 2003 - Host: Pavel Pevzner
Jan J. Koenderink
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands and Buys Ballot Laboratory
Image Processing Done Right
Mar 31, 2003 - Host: Henrik Jensen
Steve Sullivan
Industrial Light and Magic
Computer Vision and the Art of Special Effects
Mar 10, 2003 - Host: David Kriegman
Paul Dourish
University of California, Irvine
The Experience of Computation: Recent Research
Mar 3, 2003 - Host: Joseph Goguen
Michael Wellman
University of Michigan
Lessons from a Trading Agent Competition
Feb 24, 2003 - Host: Sanjoy Dasgupta
Jitendra Malik
University of California, Berkeley
Recognizing Objects and Actions in Images and Video
Feb 10, 2003 - Host: Henrik Jensen
David Culler
University of California, Berkeley and Intel Research
Networking the Physical World - Systems Challenges in Vast Networks of Tiny Embedded Devices
Feb 4, 2003 - Host: Andrew Chien
Mike Dahlin
University of Texas at Austin
Massive Replication for WAN Services
Feb 3, 2003 - Host: Geoff Voelker
David Tennenhouse
Intel Corporation
Proactive Computing: A Progress Report
Jan 27, 2003 - Host: Mohan Paturi
William J. Dally
Stanford University
Stream Architecture: Matching VLSI Capabilities to Application Demands
Jan 13, 2003 - Host: Andrew Chien
Ramesh Govindan
University of Southern California International Computer Science Institute
Internet Topology Modeling: Past, Present and Future
Dec 2, 2002 - Host: Geoff Voelker
International Computer Science Institute DHTs: An Academic Fairy Tale (with a happy ending) Nov 25, 2002 - Host: Stefan Savage Princeton University High-Tech Wildlife: Power-Aware Computing Biocomplexity and the Princeton ZebraNet Project Nov 22, 2002 - Host: Jeanne Ferrante Stanford University Why is Graphics Hardware So Fast? Nov 18, 2002 - Host: Serge Belongie Duke University Automating Server Utilities Nov 4, 2002 - Host: Geoff Voelker University of California, San Diego Repeated Communication: Buy One Get One Free Oct 28, 2002 - Host: Serge Belongie University of California, Los Angeles Sensor Network Research: Emerging Challenges Oct 21, 2002 - Host: Geoff Voelker Microsoft Research Boxwood & Koh-i-Noor: Two Distributed Storage Systems Oct 14, 2002 - Host: Geoff VoelkerMargaret Martonosi
Pat Hanrahan
Jeff Chase
Alon Orlitsky
Deborah Estrin
Chandu Thekkath
