Skip navigation
Brigham Young University
Login
Computer Science

Computer Science

Colloquia 2004 - 2005

The Computer Science Department sponsors a colloquium series during the Fall and Winter semesters on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. in 1170 TMCB. Please check the calendar below for specific dates and speakers and also note when there are no colloquiums.

Recordings and slides are often provided for the benefit of those who cannot attend, requested by members of the CS Alumni Association.

DateTitleSpeakerFiles
2 Sep 2004Graduate Student Orientation

Mindy Varkevisser, Brigham Young University

9 Sep 2004Human Robot Interaction

Mike Goodrich, Brigham Young University

16 Sep 2004New Results in Memory-Efficient Graph Search

Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University

23 Sep 2004GPU-Based Scientific Visualization

Claudio Silva, University of Utah

30 Sep 2004No Colloquium

Faculty Meeting

7 Oct 2004No Colloquium

Black Thursday

14 Oct 2004Empirical Data and Brownian Motion: Finding Structure in Randomness

Honored Alumni Lecture: Michael René Kosorok

21 Oct 2004Why Attend Graduate School?

Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University

28 Oct 2004No Colloquium

Faculty Meeting

4 Nov 2004Building a Markov random field for super resolution

Marshall Tappen, MIT

11 Nov 2004Multi-Agent Planning

Geoff Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University

18 Nov 2004What Do You Want---Semantic Understanding?

David W. Embley, Brigham Young University

25 Nov 2004No Colloquium

Thanksgiving

2 Dec 2004An Asynchronous Circuit Model of the Lambda Virus

Chris J. Myers, University of Utah

9 Dec 2004Using Machine Learning and Brain Imaging to Study Cognitive Processes

Tom M. Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University

13 Jan 2005Graduate Student Orientation

Mindy Varkevisser, Brigham Young University

20 Jan 2005Research Direction and Trust Negotiation

Kent Seammons, Brigham Young Universitye

27 Jan 2005No Colloquium

Faculty Meeting

3 Feb 2005Nvidia's Graphics Hardware and Some Uses of It

Dave McAllister

10 Feb 2005Length-Limited Data Transformation and Compression

Joshua Senecal, Doctoral Candidate, University of California

17 Feb 2005Towards Real-Life Reinforcement Learning

Michael Littman, Director of the Rutgers Laboratory for Real Life-Reinforcement Learning

17 Feb 2005No Colloquium

Faculty Meeting

3 Mar 2005Bioinformatic approaches to DNA sequence analysis

Keith A. Crandall, Keith Crandall, Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University

10 Mar 2005Model-Based Code Generation: Moving Finally from Utopia to an Affordable Dream?

Oscar Pastor, Head of the Computation and Information Systems Department at Valencia University of Technology

14 Mar 2005Classification and Learning with Networked Data

Foster Provost, Associate Professor of Information Systems, New York University

17 Mar 2005Linguistic Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing

Eric Ringger, Researcher in the NLP group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington

24 Mar 2005Family History Technology Workshop

N/A

31 Mar 2005No Colloquium

Ph.D. Progress Reviews

7 Apr 2005Probability in a Certain World

Dennis Tolley, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University

eStore