- Colloquia 2008 - 2009
Colloquia 2008 - 2009
The Computer Science Department sponsors a colloquium and seminar 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 presentations.
Recordings and slides are often provided for the benefit of those who cannot attend, requested by members of the CS Alumni Association.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep 2008 | What is in Common between Evolving Web Clickstreams, Hot Plasma Loops on the Solar Corona, and Contraband Exchange on... | Olfa Nasraoui | |
| 18 Sep 2008 | Graph Identification | Lise Getoor | |
| 25 Sep 2008 | Computational Finance in Investment Management | John Lafare | |
| 9 Oct 2008 | How Epidemiology Got under My Skin and Now I’m Trying to Prevent the Worst Disease You’ve Never Heard Of |
Michael J. Cannon |   |
| 16 Oct 2008 | Why You Should Go To Graduate School | Chris Monson | |
| 30 Oct 2008 | Cutting Edge Genealogy Tool Development | Kevin Ward, Tim Cross, & Gordon Clarke | |
| 6 Nov 2008 | Social Robots and Human Social Development | Brian Scassellati | |
| 13 Nov 2008 | Web 2.0, the Global Village, and the Code of Fair Information Practices | Michael QuinnDean of the College of Science and Engineering, Seattle University |  |
| 20 Nov 2008 | Computing for Socio-Economic Development | Kentaro ToyamaAssistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, Bangalore | |
| 4 Dec 2008 | "A Day in the Life of Video Game Development" (Things You Didn't Know You Wanted To Know About Making Games) | Rob NelsonDirector of Technology, Avalanche Software, Disney Interactive Studios | |
| 11 Dec 2008 | Bargteil: Physics Based Animation; Hall: Autotuning in the Multi-core Era | Adam W. Bargteil | |
| 15 Jan 2009 | Using Nonparametric Bayesian Models to Learn Dynamical Systems | David WingatePostdoctoral research associate, Computational Cognitive Science Group, MIT | |
| 22 Jan 2009 | Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations | Terry FongDirector of the Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center | |
| 29 Jan 2009 | Proposing a New Design-Science Model-Checking Methodology for the Assurance of Electronic Commerce Processes |
Bonnie Anderson | |
| 5 Feb 2009 | Computer Vision in the Study of Art |
David Stork | |
| 12 Feb 2009 | Introduction to Computational Biology: Whole Genome Algorithms and the Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks | Quinn Snell & Mark Clement | |
| 19 Feb 2009 | The MSR ESL Assistant: Detecting and Correcting Non-native Errors in English |
Michael Gamon | |
| 26 Feb 2009 | It's Turtles All the Way Up: Self-Extensible Programming Languages in PLT Scheme |
Matthew Flatt | |
| 5 Mar 2009 | Transfer Learning Via Advice Taking | Jude Shavlik | |
| 12 Mar 2009 | Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural Language Understanding | Dan Roth | |
| 19 Mar 2009 | Shaping the Dynamics of Modern Infrastructure and Autonomous-Agent Networks using Limited Resources | Sandip Roy | |
| 9 Apr 2009 | Capstone Demo Day | --- |