Archived Events – Colloquia & Seminars
The listing of colloquia for the current year can be found here.
2011
September 8, 2011 – Admissions Center (11:30 AM)
Speaker:
Title/Abstract: CCIS Mondays
November 12, 2011 – 108 West Village G (10:00 AM)
Speaker:
Title/Abstract: Fall Open House for Undergraduates.
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2010
January 12, 2010 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Prasad Tetali, Georgia Tech
Title/Abstract: Markov Chain Mixing with Applications
January 21, 2010 – 366 WVH (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Katya Scheinberg, Columbia University
Title/Abstract: First-order methods with complexity bounds for optimization problems arising in statistical machine learning
February 10, 2010 – 366 West Village H (1:30 PM)
Speaker: William Regli, Drexel University
Title/Abstract: Lessons Learned in Creating a Secure Wireless Agent Testbed
February 16, 2010 – WVH 366 (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Timothy Bickmore
Title/Abstract: Towards Enabling Population-scale Physical Activity Measurement on
Common Mobile Phones (and other projects on the use of ubiquitous
sensing for health monitoring and intervention)
February 18, 2010 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Kay Connelly
Title/Abstract: A mobile health application for a chronically ill, low-literacy
population
April 5, 2010 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs Research
Title/Abstract: Programming Language Ideas Escape the Lab:
A Declarative Data Description Language for Managing Ad hoc Data
2009
January 13, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: David Lazer, Associate Professor of Public Policy/Director, Program on Networked Governance, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Life in the Network: The Coming Age of Computational Social Science
February 20, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Marty Vona, MIT
Title/Abstract: Virtual Articulations for Coordinated Motion in High-DoF Robots
February 26, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:45 AM)
Speaker: David Molnar, University of California, Berkeley
Title/Abstract: Theory Plus Practice in Computer Security : Radio Frequency Identification and Whitebox Fuzzing
February 27, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Lena Mamykina, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Designing Technologies for Reflection and Learning in Chronic Disease Management
March 9, 2009 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Title/Abstract: Modeling User Interactions in Web Search and Social Media
March 10, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Anand Panangadan, Saban Research Institute of the Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles
Title/Abstract: Resource Management using Adaptive Sensing for a Body Area Network
March 17, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Domagoj Babic, University of British Columbia
Title/Abstract: Scalable and Precise Extended Static Checking
March 19, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alan Mislove, Rice University
Title/Abstract: Leveraging Social Networks in Information Systems
March 25, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Moses Charikar, Princeton University
Title/Abstract: New Insights into Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization
April 1, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Jeffrey Bigham, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Improving Access for Blind Web Users
April 3, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Justin Zhan, Cylab Japan, Carnegie Mellon University
Title/Abstract: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining
April 14, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Andres Lagar-Cavilla, University of Toronto
Title/Abstract: Flexible Computing with Virtual Machines
April 15, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Michael J. Cafarella, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Extracting and Managing Structured Web Data
April 17, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: William Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title/Abstract: Detecting and Preventing Attacks Against Web Applications
April 22, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alvaro Cardenas, University of California, Berkeley
Title/Abstract: Statistical Models for Anomaly Detection
May 6, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
Title/Abstract: High Performance Computational Network Science: Epidemics in Social and Wireless Networks
May 8, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Title/Abstract: Bits vs. Trits
August 4, 2009 – 366 West Village H (1:05 PM)
Speaker: Bo Sheng, College of William and Mary
Title/Abstract: Efficient Data Acquisition in Pervasive Computing Environments
August 21, 2009 – WVH366 (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Adam Meyerson, UCLA
Title/Abstract: On the Price of Mediation
November 16, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Krishna Gummadi, Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany
Title/Abstract: Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation
November 20, 2009 – 366 West Village H (2:30 PM)
Speaker: Nathan Eagle, The Santa Fe Institute
Title/Abstract: Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems
November 23, 2009 – 440 Huntington Ave. 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Michael Macy - Cornell University
Title/Abstract: The Length of Weak Ties
December 11, 2009 – 366 West Village H (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Christopher King
Title/Abstract: Superadditivity of Quantum Channel Capacity via Random Matrix Methods
December 15, 2009 – 440 Huntingon Avenue 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Gopal Pandurangan
Title/Abstract: Walking Faster in a Distributed Network
December 16, 2009 – 440 Huntington Avenue, 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Sue Moon
Title/Abstract: Understanding Topological Mesoscale Features in Community Mining
2008
January 7, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies
Title/Abstract: Towards A Content-Oriented Internetwork
January 14, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
Title/Abstract: Combinatorial identities, and visualizing recursion
February 4, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Martin Fürer
Title/Abstract: Faster Integer Multiplication
February 8, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Krzysztof Gajos, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces
February 11, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Vincent Danos
Title/Abstract: Rule-based modelling of cellular signalling [Joint work with Jerome Feret, Walter Fontana, Russell Harmer, and Jean Krivine]
February 14, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Petros Drineas
Title/Abstract: Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations and Applications to Data Mining
February 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto and Mitsubishi Labs
Title/Abstract: Towards useful and usable multi-touch systems
March 12, 2008 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Bryan Ford, MIT
Title/Abstract: Intuitive Global Connectivity for Personal Mobile Devices
March 13, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Kyle Jamieson, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Title/Abstract: A Shift from Packets to Symbols in Wireless Systems
March 19, 2008 – 108 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson
Title/Abstract: WiFi on the Road : Real-World Performance and Applications
March 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Ben Vandiver
Title/Abstract: Beyond crash faults: Tolerating byzantine faults in database systems
March 24, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Mirek Riedewald
Title/Abstract: Scalable Data Stream Processing
March 28, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Peter Desnoyers, UMass Computer Science
Title/Abstract: Data Management for Streaming Systems
March 31, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: S. Muthu Muthukrishnan
Title/Abstract: Sponsored Search Algorithmics
April 10, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Anthony Hornof, University of Oregon
Title/Abstract: The Rich Information Potential of Eye Movements for Building Psychological Theory and for Assisting in Human Expression.
April 11, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Yannis Smaragdakis
Title/Abstract: Program Generation and Programming Models for Distributed Computing
April 16, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:30 PM)
Speaker: Brendan Eich, Mozilla Corp.
Title/Abstract: Securing the Open Web
April 17, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Daniel Golovin
Title/Abstract: Uniquely Represented Data Structures with Applications to Privacy
April 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: K V Subrahmanyam
Title/Abstract: An introduction to Geometric Complexity Theory
April 28, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola
Title/Abstract: Pseudorandomness
May 6, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Nitesh Chawla
Title/Abstract: Learning in the presence of class imbalance
May 8, 2008 – 366 WVH (11:45 AM)
Speaker: Julie Kientz, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Decision Support through Embedded Capture for Everyday Health and Wellness
May 9, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Shwetak Patel, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Bringing Sensing to the Masses: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
August 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research, Barcelona
Title/Abstract: Delay Tolerant Bulk Data Transfers on the Internet or how to book some terabytes on “red-eye” bandwidth
September 15, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Engin Kirda, EURECOM, France
Title/Abstract: Dynamic Malware Analysis
October 9, 2008 – 20 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Edward Felten, Princeton University, US
Title/Abstract: Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity
October 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Brent Heeringa, Williams College
Title/Abstract: Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees
November 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew University & Microsoft Research
Title/Abstract: Edge-isoperimetry and Influences
December 12, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: Benjamin Rossman, MIT
Title/Abstract: The Constant-Depth Complexity of k-Clique
2007
January 10, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Brian Milch, MIT
Title/Abstract: Probabilistic Models with Unknown Objects
February 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sergey Yekhanin, MIT
Title/Abstract: New Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes
February 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 PM)
Speaker: Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland
Title/Abstract: Social Networks on the Web: Analysis, Applications, and Interaction
March 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 PM)
Speaker: Atilla Eryilmaz, MIT
Title/Abstract: Opportunities and Challenges in Networking: A Unifying Approach
March 19, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 PM)
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions
March 30, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Panagiotis Manolios, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Verifying System-Level Properties of Hardware at the Register Transfer Level
April 2, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
Title/Abstract: Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks
April 9, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Chien-Chung Hwang, Dartmoth University
Title/Abstract: Cheating Strategies in the Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates Problems
April 18, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:40 AM)
Speaker: Ben Liang, The University of Toronto
Title/Abstract: Distributed Persistent Data Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 30, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Anupam Gupta, CMU
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Notions of Dimension
May 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Vinodchandran Variyam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title/Abstract: On the Space Complexity of Directed Planar Reachability Problem
May 21, 2007 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: C.Pandu Rangan, IIT, Madras, India
Title/Abstract: On Perfectly reliable and secure message transmission in a synchronous network.
June 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Kara Nance,
Title/Abstract: Virtual Information Assurance
September 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (5:00 PM)
Speaker: Stathis Zachos,
Title/Abstract: Hierarchies of Complexity Classes
September 17, 2007 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Xin Liu
Title/Abstract: Cross Layer Design for Cooperative and Adversarial Wireless Networks(PhD Thesis Defense)
October 1, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Damian DG Gessler
Title/Abstract: SSWAP: Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol
October 2, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Wagen Jean-Frédéric
Title/Abstract: Applied research at the Mobile Systems Group (HES-SO Fribourg Switzerland)
October 18, 2007 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: David Kempe
Title/Abstract: On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling (or: Power-law Degree Distributions in Regular Graphs)
October 24, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Greg Malewicz
Title/Abstract: MapReduce
November 19, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Lenore Cowen
Title/Abstract: Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction
November 26, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Title/Abstract: Network Science: From the Web to the Cell
December 3, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Chris Darnell (GMO)
Title/Abstract: Portfolio optimization, stochastic dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning
December 10, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research
Title/Abstract: On the Many Facets of Neighbor Selection for Overlay Networks
December 10, 2007 – 164 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
Title/Abstract: Self-Organized Key Revocation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
2006
January 30, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Karan Singh (University of Toronto)
Title/Abstract: Psychorealism: A Fresh Perspective
February 10, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova (Harvard University)
Title/Abstract: Operating System Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors
February 17, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Morgan McGuire (Brown University)
Title/Abstract: Separating Foreground from Background in Video, and Other Applications of a Single-axis, Multi-sensor Camera
February 23, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Prof. Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Title/Abstract: Designed to Effectively Frustrate: ����Technical Copyright Protection and the Agency of Users
March 1, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University)
Title/Abstract: Algorithms and Data Structures for Flash Memories
March 2, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Darren Gergle (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title/Abstract: The Value of Shared Visual Information for Collaborative Task Performance
March 13, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Bill Scherer (University of Rochester)
Title/Abstract: Synchronization and Concurrency in User-level Software Systems
March 23, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Andrea Grimes
Title/Abstract: Human Centered Computing for a Technologically Mediated World
March 24, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ryan Lilien
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Challenges and Biological Results in Computational and Systems Biology
March 31, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Title/Abstract: Generating correlated random variables with minimum transmission
April 10, 2006 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Greg Plaxton, University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: Optimal Cover Time for a Graph-Based Coupon Collector Process
April 13, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Tushar Saxena, Verizon Communications
Title/Abstract: The FiOS Digital Home
April 14, 2006 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Peter Pietzuch, Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Stream-Based Overlay Networks: Querying Internet Stream Data
April 21, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Dan Cosley, GroupLens Research Project, University of Minnesota
Title/Abstract: Helping hands: Design for member-maintained online communities
April 26, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sofya Raskhodnikova, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title/Abstract: Sublinear Algorithms for String Compressibility and the Distribution Support Size
April 27, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Martin, University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Beyond
April 28, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sanjit Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Title/Abstract: Generalization of the Selective-ID Security Model for HIBE Protocols
May 1, 2006 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Olin Shivers, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: What Lambda Calculus has to Offer Network-Protocol Implementors
May 2, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson, University of California, Riverside
Title/Abstract: Scalability and Security in Self-Organizing Wireless Networks
August 3, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ron Metoyer, Oregon State University
Title/Abstract: Data-Driven Motion Generation
November 6, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Scott MacKenzie, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada
Title/Abstract: Text Entry Using a Small Number of Buttons
November 17, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Devavrat Shah, Department of EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: Message-Passing Algorithms for Network Scheduling
November 29, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Elliot Anshelevich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title/Abstract: Strategic Network Formation
December 6, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
Title/Abstract: Testing Global Properties of Distributions
December 13, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Xi Chen, Tsinghua University
Title/Abstract: On the Computation and Approximation of Two-Player Nash Equilibria
2005
January 7, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Shubu Mukherjee, Intel
Title/Abstract: Computing Architectural Vulnerability Factors
January 12, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Simson Garfinkel, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Title/Abstract: Used Disk Drives
January 28, 2005 – 366 West Village H (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Winslow Burleson, MIT Media Lab
Title/Abstract: Affective Computing: transforming the relationships between products, environments, and user experience.
January 31, 2005 – 366 West Village H (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Patrick Widener, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Dynamic Differential Data Protection in High-Performance Middleware
February 7, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Tandy Warnow, The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard, The University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: New techniques for large-scale phylogeny
February 22, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Eli Tilevich, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Enhancing Programs Behind the Scenes
March 7, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Carlos Jensen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Challenges and Directions in Privacy-Aware Design
March 8, 2005 – NEU Dodge Hall 450 (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Kevin Sullivan, (University of Virginia), Mario Sudholt, (INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes), Daniel Jackson, (MIT), Robert Filman, (NASA Ames Research Center)
Title/Abstract: Brown-Northeastern Aspects Day
March 15, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg, MIT
Title/Abstract: Adaptive Algorithms for Price-Setting and Overlay Routing
March 18, 2005 – 164 WVH (3:15 PM)
Speaker: April Rasala Lehman, MIT
Title/Abstract: Network Capacity
March 21, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Patrick Eugster, SUN Microsystems, Switzerland
Title/Abstract: Abstractions and Algorithms for Pervasive Programming
March 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Vicky Weissman, Cornell University
Title/Abstract: Reasoning about Security Policies
March 28, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Riccardo Pucella, Cornell University
Title/Abstract: Reasoning about Security
April 4, 2005 – (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Tian He, University of Virginia
Title/Abstract: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy Efficient Surveillance
April 8, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Alberto Cerpa (UCLA)
Title/Abstract: Low-Power Wireless Links Properties: ����Modeling and Applications in Sensor Networks
April 11, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:45 AM)
Speaker: Brian Demsky (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Data Structure Repair
April 13, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Tim Bickmore (Boston University School of Medicine)
Title/Abstract: Relational Agents: Effecting Change through Human-Computer Relationships
April 14, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Hridesh Rajan (University of Virginia)
Title/Abstract: Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design
April 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Guanling Chen (Dartmouth University)
Title/Abstract: Wireless LAN: Measurement and Analysis
April 29, 2005 – 206 Egan Center (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Fernando C. Colon Osorio and Zachi Klopman (WPI System Security Research Laboratory)
Title/Abstract: "And you thought you were safe after SLAMMER, not so, Swarms not Zombies present the greatest risk to Our National Internet Infrastructure"
May 5, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Howard Karloff (AT&T Labs Research)
Title/Abstract: Optimization and Approximation at AT Labs and Beyond
May 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Neeraj Sangal (Lattix Inc.)
Title/Abstract: Dependency Models to Manage Software Architecture
July 11, 2005 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: John Day
Title/Abstract: A Primer on Naming and Addressing
September 29, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio (WPI System Security Research Laboratory)
Title/Abstract: An Initial Analysis and Presentation of Malware Exhibiting Swarm-Like Behavior
October 11, 2005 – 10 Behrakis (3:25 PM)
Speaker: Scott Berkun
Title/Abstract: Why Software Sucks and What to Do About It
October 19, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Dr Eynat Rafalin (Tufts University)
Title/Abstract: Algorithms and Analysis of Depth Functions using Computational Geometry
November 2, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Xinping Zhu (ECE Northeastern University)
Title/Abstract: Design and Simulation of Multi-core System-on-Chips
November 2, 2005 – 366 WVH (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Andrew Bernat (Executive Director, Computing Research Association)
Title/Abstract: What's Going On With Federal Funding for Computing Research and Words from My Sponsor
November 10, 2005 – (Reception 4:00 p.m.) - 10 Behrakis Health Sciences Center (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Earl P. Steinberg, MD, MPP (Resolution Health Inc.)
Title/Abstract: "Use of Health Insurance Claims Data to Improve Quality and ��Reduce Cost of Health Care"
November 16, 2005 – 108 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: P Krishna (Reva Systems)
Title/Abstract: RFID Network Infrastructure
November 29, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Mohammad Mahdian (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
Title/Abstract: Random popular matchings
December 7, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL/MIT)
Title/Abstract: What is "hard" in distributed computing?
December 14, 2005 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Dr. Rama Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. (Chief Scientist, Oracle Retail and Vice President, Analytics)
Title/Abstract: Math and the Merchant: The Application of Econometrics, Machine Learning and Optimization Technologies to Retail Decision-Making
2004
January 13, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Boaz Patt-Shamir, HP Laboratories &, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Title/Abstract: Effective Collaboration Without Trust in Peer-to-Peer Systems
February 4, 2004 – 135 Shillman Hall (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Paul Nikolich, IEEE
Title/Abstract: An Overview of the IEEE-SA Project 802: LAN/MAN Standards Committee
February 25, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:30 PM)
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
Title/Abstract: Research at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
March 23, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Leon Peshkin, Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Reinforcement Learning by Policy Search
April 7, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ram Ramanathan, BBN Technologies
Title/Abstract: Ad Hoc Networking with Directional Antennas
April 14, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Homer Pien, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology, Managing Director, Center for Biomarkers in Imaging, Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Title/Abstract: Biological Computing Challenges
April 20, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Michael A. Bender, SUNY Stony Brook & MIT
Title/Abstract: Cache-Oblivious Searching
April 20, 2004 – 149 cullinane (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Michael A. Bender
Title/Abstract: Cache-Oblivious Data Structures
August 25, 2004 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: T. S. Jayram, IBM Almaden Research Center
Title/Abstract: Massive Data Set Computations - Algorithms and Complexity
October 1, 2004 – 366 West Village H (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Title/Abstract: Adversary Immune Communication Algorithms in Ad Hoc Networks
October 13, 2004 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Madhu Sudan, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: List Decoding of Error-correcting Codes
October 22, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Muriel Medard, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: Towards a Random and Distributed Operation of Multicast Networks
October 27, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Hari Balakrishnan, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: The Cricket Indoor Location System
November 3, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Gary Miller, CS, CMU
Title/Abstract: TUMBLE a software package for the simulation of soft tissues in 2D
November 19, 2004 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers Univ
Title/Abstract: Data Stream Algorithms and Applications
December 2, 2004 – 200 Richards Hall (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title/Abstract: Building Blocks for Engineering QoS Expectations over Best-Effort Networks
The listing of colloquia for the current year can be found here.