CS Colloquium — Spring 2005

Seminars are held weekly on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm in Joyce Cummings Center 270 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. To receive email notification of events and/or Zoom information, please subscribe to the CS colloquium announcements at .

January 17, 2005
11am - 12pm
Halligan 111
Monday colloquium: Algorithmic Cooling of Spins -- A Novel Polarization Method
Speaker: Tal Mor, The Technion, Israel
Host: Roni Khardon
January 26, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
JOINT ECE/CS Colloquium: Gathering Data from a Sensor Network: Spatio-Temporal Sampling Rates and Energy Efficiency
Speaker: Ed Coyle, Purdue University
Host: Carla Brodley
February 2, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Building a Bloom Filter with Fewer Hash Functions
Speaker: Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University
Host: Anselm Blumer
February 8, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Unifying Aspect-Oriented and Object-Oriented Language Design
Speaker: Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 16, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
TaxaMiner: An Experimental Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping
Speaker: Vipul Kashyap, Partners Heath Care Systems R&D
Host: Donna Slonim
March 2, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 108
Quantifying and Improving Garbage Collection Performance
Speaker: Matt Hertz, U Mass
Host: Carla Brodley
March 9, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Tool for Dynamic Instrumentation of Programs Running on Intel(r)
Speaker: Kim Hazelwood and Robert Muth, Intel Corporation
Host: Paul Drongowski
March 15, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 108
Physical Computing: Hand, Body, and Room Sized Interaction
Speaker: Ken Camarata, Carnegie Mellon
Host: Robert Jacob
March 16, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 108
Make Better Design Decisions As You Code
Speaker: Vibha Sazawal, U. Washington-Seattle
Host: Carla Brodley
March 28, 2005
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Halligan 108
Energy-Efficient Wireless Networking for Embedded
Speaker: Curt Schurgers, UCSD
Host: Carla Brodley
March 30, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Using Compilers to Automatically Improve Software Quality and Performance
Speaker: Sam Guyer, UT-Austin
Host: Carla Brodley
April 6, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Optimization and Approximation at AT&T Labs and Beyond
Speaker: Howard Karloff, AT&T Research
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 7, 2005
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Eaton 206
Building Privacy-Aware Applications
Speaker: JC Cannon, Manager of Privacy Technologies at Microsoft
Host: Ming Chow
April 13, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Computer Vision Techniques for Analysis of Human Gesture
Speaker: Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
Host: R. Jacob & D. Souvaine
April 20, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 108
SYMMETRY-DETECTION AND BREAKING FOR BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY
Speaker: Fadi A Aloul, American University of Sharjah
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 21, 2005
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Halligan 111
Automatically Getting Information out of Images
Speaker: Dr. Mark Grabb, Visualization and Computer Vision Lab General Electric Global Research
Host: Tufts IEEE and ACM
April 27, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 108
Computational Methods for the Analysis and Generation of Musical Rhythm Timelines
Speaker: Godfried Toussaint, McGill University
Host: Diane Souvaine
May 4, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Using Program Visualization to Teach Introductory (Object-Oriented) Programming
Speaker: Steve Cooper, Saint Joseph's University
Host: Kris Powers

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