Events, Colloquia & Seminars

CCIS Colloquia

2009

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

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 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

August 21, 2009 – WVH366 (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Adam Meyerson, UCLA
Title/Abstract: On the Price of Mediation

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

May 8, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Title/Abstract: Bits vs. Trits

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

April 22, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alvaro Cardenas, University of California, Berkeley
Title/Abstract: Statistical Models for Anomaly Detection

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 15, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Michael J. Cafarella, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Extracting and Managing Structured Web Data

April 14, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Andres Lagar-Cavilla, University of Toronto
Title/Abstract: Flexible Computing with Virtual Machines

April 3, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Justin Zhan, Cylab Japan, Carnegie Mellon University
Title/Abstract: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining

April 1, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Jeffrey Bigham, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Improving Access for Blind Web Users

March 25, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Moses Charikar, Princeton University
Title/Abstract: New Insights into Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization

March 19, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alan Mislove, Rice University
Title/Abstract: Leveraging Social Networks in Information Systems

March 17, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Domagoj Babic, University of British Columbia
Title/Abstract: Scalable and Precise Extended Static Checking

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 9, 2009 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Title/Abstract: Modeling User Interactions in Web Search and Social Media

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

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 20, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Marty Vona, MIT
Title/Abstract: Virtual Articulations for Coordinated Motion in High-DoF Robots

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

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