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.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2005 | Graduate Student Orientation | Mindy Varkevisser, Brigham Young University | |
| 15 Sep 2005 | A Behavioral Approach to Worm Detection | Dan Ellis, Senior Information Security Scientist, MITRE | |
| 22 Sep 2005 | CS Career Planning Seminar | Debi Blickfeldt, Lloyd Hawkins | |
| 23 Sep 2005 | Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach | Ken De Jong, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director of the Krasnow Institute at George Mason University | |
| 29 Sep 2005 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 6 Oct 2005 | No Colloquium | Ph.D. Reviews | |
| 13 Oct 2005 | Beyond CSI: Exciting Applications of Forensic DNA | John Butler | |
| 20 Oct 2005 | Why Attend Graduate School? | PhD Recruiting Committee | |
| 27 Oct 2005 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 3 Nov 2005 | TaskTracker and CALO: Intelligent Assistants for the Desktop | Thomas Dietterich, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University | |
| 9 Nov 2005 | Teaching Programming both Broadly and Deeply or Network-Transparent Distributed Programming in Mozart | Peter Van Roy, Professor of Computing Science, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium | |
| 17 Nov 2005 | Automatic Pattern Analysis: Towards A Unified Foundation | Nello Cristianini, Associate Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis | |
| 24 Nov 2005 | No Colloquium | Thanksgiving | |
| 1 Dec 2005 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 8 Dec 2005 | Microarray Data Mining - Dealing with the Challenges | Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, President of KDnuggets | |
| 12 Jan 2006 | Graduate Student Orientation | Mindy Varkevisser, Brigham Young University | |
| 19 Jan 2006 | Active Learning for Hidden Markov Models | Brigham Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 26 Jan 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 2 Feb 2006 | Experience and Future Directions in Model-Driven Development with Component-based Product-Line Architectures | John Hatcliff | |
| 9 Feb 2006 | The Essential Particle Swarm | Jim Kennedy, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
| 16 Feb 2006 | Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce | Ronny Kohavi, Microsoft | |
| 23 Feb 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 2 Mar 2006 | Strategic Capacity Planning for the Semiconductor Industry: Current Industrial Practice and New Directions | Robin Roundy, Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University | |
| 9 Mar 2006 | AI in the Middle: Mediating between Author and Reader | Peter Norvig, Director of Machine Learning, Search Quality and Research, Google | |
| 16 Mar 2006 | Probabilistic Inference for Unsupervised Discovery of Natural Language Structure | Teg Grenager | |
| 23 Mar 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 30 Mar 2006 | No Colloquium | Ph.D. Reviews | |
| 6 Apr 2006 | Communication Channels in Loops: Limitations and Opportunities | Nicola Elia, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University | |
| 13 Apr 2006 | Real-Time Photorealistic Computer Graphics | Parris Egbert, Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University |