- Colloquia 2006 - 2007
Colloquia 2006 - 2007
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Sep 2006 | Graduate Student Orientation | Mindy Varkevisser, Brigham Young University | |
| 14 Sep 2006 | Flexible Machine Learning for Hard Language Problems | Hal Daume, University of Utah |    |
| 21 Sep 2006 | Simulation Physics: Simple Fantasies, Complex Realities | Gus Hart, Brigham Young University | |
| 28 Sep 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 5 Oct 2006 | No Colloquium | Ph.D. Student Reviews | |
| 12 Oct 2006 | UAV-Enabled Wilderness Search & Rescue | Michael Goodrich, Brigham Young University | |
| 18 Oct 2006 | Ruby: History, Philosophy & Application | Yukihiro Matsumoto, Netlab.jp |  |
| 19 Oct 2006 | TBA | Honored Alumni Speaker: Dallan Quass | |
| 26 Oct 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 2 Nov 2006 | Why Grad School? | Graduate Advisors | |
| 9 Nov 2006 | Estimating the mortality effects of air pollution using | Arden Pope, Brigham Young University |  |
| 16 Nov 2006 | Learning to Extract Proteins and their Interactions from Biomedical Text | Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin | |
| 23 Nov 2006 | No Colloquium | Thanksgiving | |
| 30 Nov 2006 | No Colloquium | Faculty Meeting | |
| 7 Dec 2006 | Automatic Geomorphic Mapping of Mars Using Pattern Recognition | Ricardo Vilalta, University of Houston | |
| 14 Dec 2006 | Unifying Logical and Statistical AI | Pedro Domingos | |
| 11 Jan 2007 | New Graduate Student Orientation | Graduate Coordinator/Assistant | |
| 18 Jan 2007 | Undergraduate Seminar | Representatives from Novell | |
| 25 Jan 2007 | Undergraduate Seminar - Omniture | Brett Error, EVP and CTO at Omniture | |
| 1 Feb 2007 | Scalable Recognition with a Vocabulary Tree and Using Galois Theory to Prove that Structure from Motion Algorithms are Optimal | David Nister, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky | |
| 8 Feb 2007 | Health Care Applications of Data Mining | Mollie Poynton PhD, APRN, College of Nursing, University of Utah | |
| 15 Feb 2007 | Analyzing Evolutionary Trees | Katherine St. John, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, City University of New York | |
| 22 Feb 2007 | Faculty Meeting | No Speaker | |
| 1 Mar 2007 | Which Supervised Learning Method Works Best for What? An Empirical Comparison of Learning Methods and Metrics++ | Rich Caruana, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University | |
| 8 Mar 2007 | Probability Collectives and Supervised Learning | David Wolpert, Intelligent Systems Division, Ames Research Center, NASA | |
| 15 Mar 2007 | Family History Technology Workshop | Keynote: Richard Nixon, Real Problems for Genealogists – Challenges for Technologists | |
| 22 Mar 2007 | Career Prospects for CS Students: What's Out There--David Meyers | David Meyers | |
| 29 Mar 2007 | Research Inspiration in the Palm of Your Hand | Dan R. Olsen Jr., Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University | |
| 5 Apr 2007 | No Colloquium | No Speaker |