talks and events

Distinguished Speaker

Taking off the Blindfold: Visualizing Dynamic State
Bret Victor,
Thu Sep 27 15:30:00 EDT 2012

Explaining AdaBoost
Robert Schapire,
Wed Jul 25 15:30:00 EDT 2012

Bringing (Web) Databases to the Masses
Alon Halevy, Google
Wed Jun 27 15:30:00 EDT 2012

Beyond Jeopardy! The Future of DeepQA
David Ferrucci, IBM’s T.J. Watson’s Research Center
Wed May 30 15:30:00 EDT 2012

Mobilizing Health
Deborah Estrin, UCLA Computer Science Department, MobilizeLabs, Co-Founder Open mHealth
Wed May 09 15:30:00 EDT 2012

Convex Optimization: From Real-Time Embedded to Large-Scale Distributed
Stephen Boyd, Stanford University
Wed Nov 16 15:30:00 EST 2011

Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Michael Jordan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Wed Oct 05 13:40:00 EDT 2011

Algorithms, Graph Theory and the Solution of Laplacian Linear Equations
Dan Spielman, Yale
Wed Aug 24 15:30:00 EDT 2011

Distinguished Speaker: Hackers and Inventors
Pablos Holman, The Intellectual Ventures Lab
Mon Jul 25 15:30:00 EDT 2011

Why net neutrality is a bad idea
Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University and Wolfson College
Tue Jul 05 15:30:00 EDT 2011

Cybersecurity: What are the Right Questions?
Susan Landau, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Thu May 12 15:30:00 EDT 2011

Challenges and Rewards of Space Exploration
Cinzia Zuffada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wed Sep 15 15:30:00 EDT 2010

Sustainable Computing and Telecom Can Contribute to Limiting Global Climatic Disruption
Larry Smarr, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD; Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Wed Jul 28 15:30:00 EDT 2010

Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems
Bruce Maggs, Duke University
Mon Jul 12 15:30:00 EDT 2010

The Quantitative Analysis of User Behavior Online: Data, Models and Algorithms
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Labs
Wed May 19 10:59:00 EDT 2010

Frontiers in Research and Education in Computing: A View from the National Science Foundation
Jeanette Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation
Wed Jun 10 16:06:00 EDT 2009

Cognitive User Interfaces: An Engineering Approach
Steve Young, Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK
Thu May 07 16:12:00 EDT 2009

The Evolution of Internet Threats: A Case for Security in the Network Cloud
Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering
Wed Dec 10 13:32:00 EST 2008

We Need Assurance
Brian Snow, National Security Agency (NSA)
Wed Oct 15 12:59:00 EDT 2008

PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent
James Allen, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Wed Jul 16 13:40:00 EDT 2008

Recent Directions in Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Learning
Zoubin Ghahramani,
Mon Mar 24 13:44:00 EDT 2008