Events - Colloquia & Seminars
CCIS Colloquia
Summer 2008
May 9, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 noon)
Speaker: Shwetak Patel
Title/Abstract:
Bringing Sensing to the Masses: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
May 8, 2008 - 366 WVH (11:45 a.m.)
Speaker: Julie Kientz
Title/Abstract:
Decision Support through Embedded Capture for Everyday Health and Wellness
May 6, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Nitesh Chawla
Title/Abstract:
Learning in the presence of class imbalance
Spring 2008
April 28, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola
Title/Abstract:
Pseudorandomness
April 25, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.)
Speaker: K V Subrahmanyam
Title/Abstract:
An introduction to Geometric Complexity Theory
April 17, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Speaker: Daniel Golovin
Title/Abstract:
Uniquely Represented Data Structures with Applications to Privacy
April 16, 2008 - 366 WVH (4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
Speaker: Brendan Eich
Title/Abstract:
Securing the Open Web
April 11, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Yannis Smaragdakis
Title/Abstract: Program Generation and Programming Models for Distributed Computing
April 10, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Anthony Hornof
Title/Abstract: The Rich Information Potential of Eye Movements for Building
Psychological Theory and for Assisting in Human Expression.
March 31, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: S. Muthu Muthukrishnan
Title/Abstract: Sponsored Search Algorithmics
March 28, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Peter Desnoyers
Title/Abstract: Data Management for Streaming Systems
March 24, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Mirek Riedewald
Title/Abstract: Data Stream Processing
March 21, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Ben Vandiver
Title/Abstract: Beyond crash faults: Tolerating byzantine faults in
database systems
March 19, 2008 - 108 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson
Title/Abstract: WiFi on the Road - Real-World Performance and Applications
March 13, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Kyle Jamieson
Title/Abstract: A Shift from Packets to Symbols in Wireless Systems
March 12, 2008 - 366 WVH (11:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Bryan Ford
Title/Abstract: Intuitive Global Connectivity for Personal Mobile Devices
February 25, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Daniel Wigdor
Title/Abstract: Towards useful and usable multi-touch systems
February 14, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Petros Drineas
Title/Abstract: Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations and Applications to
Data Mining
February 11, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Vincent Danos
Title/Abstract: Rule-based modelling of cellular signalling
February 8, 2008 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Krzysztof Gajos
Title/Abstract: Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces
February 4, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Martin Fürer
Title/Abstract: Faster Integer Multiplication
January 14, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Erich Neuwirth (University of Vienna)
Title/Abstract: Combinatorial identities, and visualizing recursion
January 7, 2008 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Rajesh Krishnan (BBN Technologies)
Title/Abstract: Towards A Content-Oriented Internetwork
Fall 2007
December 10, 2007 - 164 WVH (3:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Guang Gong (Univ. of Waterloo)
Title/Abstract: Self-Organized Key Revocation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
December 10, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica Research in Barcelona)
Title/Abstract: On the Many Facets of Neighbor Selection for Overlay Networks
December 3, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Chris Darnell (GMO)
Title/Abstract: Portfolio optimization, stochastic dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning
November 26, 2007 - 366 WVH (5:00 - 6:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University)
Title/Abstract: Network Science: From the Web to the Cell
November 19, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Lenore Cowen (Tufts University)
Title/Abstract: Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction
October 24, 2007 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Greg Malewicz (Google)
Title/Abstract: MapReduce
October 18, 2007 - 366 WVH (4:00 p.m.)
Speaker: David Kempe (University of Southern California)
Title/Abstract: On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling (or: Power-law Degree Distributions in Regular Graphs)
October 2, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Wagen Jean-Frédéric (HES-SO, Fribourg, Switzerland)
Title/Abstract: Applied research at the Mobile Systems Group - HES-SO Fribourg Switzerland
October 1, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Damian DG Gessler
Title/Abstract: SSWAP: Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol
September 17, 2007 - 366 WVH (2:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Xin Liu
Title/Abstract: Cross Layer Design for Cooperative and Adversarial Wireless Networks
September 7, 2007 - 366 WVH (5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Stathis Zachos
Title/Abstract: Hierarchies of Complexity Classes
Summer 2007
June 7, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Kara Nance
Title/Abstract: Virtual Information Assurance
Spring 2007
May 21, 2007 - 366 WVH (4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Speaker: C. Pandu Rangan (IIT, Madras, India)
Title/Abstract: Perfectly reliable and secure message transmission in a synchronous network
May 7, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Vinodchandran Variyam (University of Nebraska)
Title/Abstract: On the Space Complexity of Directed Planar Reachability Problem
April 30, 2007 - 366 WVH (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Anupam Gupta (CMU)
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Notions of Dimension
April 18, 2007 - 366 WVH (11:40 a.m.)
Speaker: Ben Liang (The University of Toronto)
Title/Abstract:
Distributed Persistent Data Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 9, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Chien-Chung Hwang
Title/Abstract:
Cheating Strategies in the Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates Problems
April 6, 2007 - 366 WVH (10:00 a.m.)
Speaker: MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
Title/Abstract:
Graph Algorithms for Wireless Network Design: Fault-Tolerance and Coverage
April 2, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Ravi Kumar (Yahoo!)
Title/Abstract: Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks
March 30, 2007 - 366 WVH (11:00 a.m.)
Speaker:
Panagiotis Manolios
Title/Abstract: Verifying System-Level Properties of Hardware at the Register Transfer Level
March 19, 2007 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions
March 12, 2007 - 366 WVH (11:00 a.m.)
Speaker: Atilla Eryilmaz (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Opportunities and Challenges in Networking: A Unifying Approach
February 12, 2007 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Jennifer Golbeck
Title/Abstract: Social Networks on the Web: Analysis, Applications, and Interaction
February 12, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Sergey Yekhanin (MIT)
Title/Abstract: New Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes
January 10, 2007 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Brian Milch (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Probabilistic Models with Unknown Objects
Fall 2006
December 13, 2006 - 110 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Xi Chen (Tsinghua University)
Title/Abstract: On the Computation and Approximation of Two-Player Nash Equilibria
December 6, 2006 - 110 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Testing Global Properties of Distributions
November 29, 2006 - 110 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Elliot Anshelevich (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Title/Abstract: Strategic Network Formation
November 17, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Devavrat Shah (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Message-Passing Algorithms for Network Scheduling
November 6, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Scott MacKenzie (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Title/Abstract: Text Entry Using a Small Number of Buttons
Summer 2006
August 3, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Ron Metoyer (Oregon State University)
Title/Abstract: Data-Driven Motion Generation
Spring 2006
May 2, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson (University of California, Riverside)
Title/Abstract: Scalability and Security in Self-Organizing Wireless Networks
May 1, 2006 - 366 WVH (11:00 a.m.)
Speaker: Olin Shivers (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Title/Abstract: What Lambda Calculus has to Offer Network-Protocol Implementors
April 28, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Sanjit Chatterjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Title/Abstract: Generalization of the Selective-ID Security Model for HIBE Protocols
April 27, 2006 - 110 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Martin (University of Texas at Austin)
Title/Abstract: Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Beyond
April 21, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Dan Cosley (University of Minnesota)
Title/Abstract: Helping hands: Design for member-maintained online communities
April 14, 2006 - 366 WVH (11:00 a.m.)
Speaker: Peter Pietzuch (Harvard University)
Title/Abstract: Stream-Based Overlay Networks: Querying Internet Stream Data
April 13, 2006 - 110 WVH (3:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Tushar Saxena (Verizon Communications)
Title/Abstract: The FiOS Digital Home
April 10, 2006 - 366 WVH (10:30 a.m.)
Speaker: Greg Plaxton (University of Texas at Austin)
Title/Abstract: Optimal Cover Time for a Graph-Based Coupon Collector Process
March 31, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (TTI, Chicago and TIFR, Mumbai)
Title/Abstract: Generating correlated random variables with minimum transmission
March 24, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Ryan Lilien
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Challenges and Biological Results in Computational and Systems Biology
March 23, 2006 - 110 WVH (3:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Andrea Grimes
Title/Abstract: Human Centered Computing for a Technologically Mediated World
March 13, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Bill Scherer (University of Rochester )
Title/Abstract: Synchronization and Concurrency in User-level Software Systems
March 2, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Darren Gergle (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title/Abstract: The Value of Shared Visual Information for Collaborative Task Performance
March 1, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University)
Title/Abstract: Algorithms and Data Structures for Flash Memories
Feb. 23, 2006 - 110 WVH (3:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Prof. Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Title/Abstract: Designed to Effectively Frustrate:
Technical Copyright Protection and the Agency of Users
Feb. 17, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Morgan McGuire (Brown University)
Title/Abstract: Separating Foreground from Background in Video, and Other Applications
of a Single-axis, Multi-sensor Camera
Feb. 10, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova (Harvard University)
Title/Abstract: Operating System Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors
Jan. 30, 2006 - 366 WVH (12:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Karan Singh (University of Toronto)
Title/Abstract: Psychorealism: A Fresh Perspective
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