CS Colloquium — Fall 2018

All seminars are open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 2:50 to 4:00 (refreshments at 2:50, talk begins at 3:00) in Halligan 111. (Directions)

September 6, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Human-in-the-Loop AI for Autonomous Problem Solving (or why humans ruin the best things)
Speaker: Kartik Talamadupula, IBM
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 11, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Deconstructing Internet Censorship and its Consequences
Speaker: Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Host: Fahad Dogar
September 13, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Knowledge Graph learning using Open Information Extraction
Speaker: Damir Cavar, Indiana University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 20, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Driving Exploratory Visualization through Perception & Cognition
Speaker: Danielle Albers Szafir, University of Colorado
Host: Remco Chang
September 27, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Bayesian Nonparametric Machine Learning for Discrete Random Structures
Speaker: Diana Cai, Princeton University
Host: Mike Hughes
October 4, 2018
Halligan 102
Online Algorithms for Extreme Clustering and Automated Integration of Crowdsourced Feedback
Speaker: Ari Kobren, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Host: Norman Ramsey
October 11, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Generating New Knowledge in Art History and Material Culture with Technology. Case Studies from the Field and the Classroom
Speaker: Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University
Host: Susan Landau
October 12, 2018
10:00 AM
Halligan 102
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Algorithms and Theory for Variational Inference in Two-level Non-conjugate Models
Speaker: Rishit Sheth
Host: Roni Khardon
October 18, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Developing Inclusive Digital Environments: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science
Speaker: Judy Brewer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, World Wide Web Consortium
Host: Susan Landau
October 25, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Data-driven approaches for uncovering functional variation in protein interactions
Speaker: Shilpa Nadimpalli Kobren, Harvard University
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 26, 2018
10:00 AM
Halligan 209
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Incremental and Memory-Limited Probabilistic Generative Models of Early Word Learning
Speaker: Sepideh Sadeghi
Host: Matthias Scheutz
November 6, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Data Science, Humanely
Speaker: Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona
Host: Remco Chang
November 8, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen
Speaker: Xing-Dong Yang, Dartmouth College
Host: Rob Jacob

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