UMass Amherst: Department of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series

2007-2008
Wednesday October 17, 2007	Tim Wu Professor, School of Law Columbia University "Network Neutrality: Competition, Innovation, and Nondiscriminatory Access" The Sidney Topol Distinguished Lecture Series Note: Prof. Wu's lecture will be held at 3:00 p.m; reception at 2:30 p.m.
Friday October 19, 2007	Nicholas Pippenger Professor, Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College "Spider-Web Networks" Note: Dr. Pippenger's lecture will be held in the ECSC II Building Auditorium, Room 119.
Wednesday October 31, 2007	Hari Balakrishnan Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Increasing Throughput by Increasing Concurrency (and Interference) in Wireless Networks"
Wednesday November 14, 2007	Andrew Moore Director of Google Pittsburgh Google, Inc. "Algorithms for Understanding the Sky"
Wednesday March 26, 2008	Frank Kelly Professor, Mathematics of Systems, University of Cambridge "Models of Network Routing and Congestion Control "
Wednesday April 23, 2008	Shree Nayar T.C. Chang Professor, Computer Science Department Columbia University "Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image"
Wednesday April 30, 2008	John A. Stankovic BP America Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Virginia "Wireless Sensor Networks: Global Scale Environmental Monitoring from Arctic to Zebras " Note: Dr. Stankovic's lecture will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union Bldg.
2006-2007
Thursday September 21, 2006	Peter A. Freeman Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE); and Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology "The Future Internet: Can we get there from here?" The Sidney Topol Distinguished Lecture Series Note: Dr. Freeman's lecture will be held at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday October 11, 2006	Barbara Ryder Professor of Computer Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey "Helping Programmers Debug Code Using Semantic Change Impact Analysis"
Wednesday October 18, 2006	Thomas S. Huang William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Image Processing: Interconnections"
Wednesday November 1, 2006	Martha E. Pollack Professor and Associate Chair for Computer Science & Engineering University of Michigan "Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future"
Wednesday February 21, 2007	Philip A. Bernstein Principal Researcher, Database Group Microsoft Research "Model Management: A Schema Mapping Infrastructure for Data Integration"
Wednesday April 4, 2007	Ronald L. Rivest Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Security of Voting Systems "
Wednesday May 2, 2007	Greg Morrisett Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science Harvard University "Static Extended Checking: Cyclone and Ynot"
2005-2006
Wednesday October 5, 2005	Maurice Herlihy Professor of Computer Science Brown University "Algebraic Topology and Distributed Computing"
Wednesday October 12, 2005	Michael Arbib University Professor, Fletcher Jones Chair and Professor in Computer Science, and Professor of Biological Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California "Embodying Neurolinguistics"
Thursday April 6, 2006	P. Anandan Managing Director Microsoft Research India "Microsoft Research India: The First Year"
2004-2005
Wednesday September 22, 2004	Eva Tardos Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University "Network Games and the Price of Anarchy or Stability"
Wednesday October 6, 2004	Vinton G. Cerf Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy, MCI and Chairman of the Board, ICANN "Convergence And Control In An Internet World" The Sidney Topol Distinguished Lecture Series Note: Dr. Cerf's lecture will be held in the ECSC II Building Auditorium, Room 119 at 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday October 13, 2004	Joseph Hellerstein Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley "Querying and Routing: Data-Centric Forays into Networking"
Wednesday October 27, 2004	Peter Norvig Director of Search Quality, Google "Web Search as a Computational Challenge" Note: Dr. Norvig's lecture has been moved to the ECSC II Building Auditorium (new engineering building next to our building), Room 119 at 4:00 p.m. Refreshments will still be in the Computer Science Building 1st floor atrium at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday May 26, 2005	Tuomas Sandholm Associate Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and Director, Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces Lab. "Automated Mechanism Design"
2003-2004
Wednesday September 10, 2003	Henry Baird Palo Alto Research Center "Image Understanding and Web Security"
Wednesday November 12, 2003	Michael Jordan University of California, Berkeley "Graphical models, kernel methods and statistical learning algorithms"
Wednesday November 19, 2003	Pierre DeVries Chief of Technology Incubation, Microsoft Corporation "Of Pennies And Packets: Politics And Business In A World Of Seamless Communications" The Sidney Topol Distinguished Lecture Series [DeVries Lecture begins at 3:30 p.m.; refreshments at 3:00 p.m.]

All lectures will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Computer Science Building (140 Governors Drive), Room 150/151. Refreshments will be served at 3:40 p.m.

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