CS Colloquium — Fall 2008

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 .

September 4, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Automating & Customizing the Web With Keyword Programming
Speaker: Rob Miller, MIT
Host: Rob Jacob
September 11, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Linear Logic and the Complexity of Control Flow Analysis
Speaker: Harry Mairson, Brandeis University
Host: Anselm Blumer
September 18, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Bayesian models of human learning and reasoning
Speaker: Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Host: Roni Khardon
September 25, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Advancing Biomedical Research Through Computational Analysis of Genomic Data
Speaker: Donna Slonim, Tufts University
Host:
October 2, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Reinforcement learning for distributed cooperative control
Speaker: Paulina Varshavskaya , MIT
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 9, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Preliminary Report on the Project Darkstar Anthropological Expedition into the World of Massively Scaled On-Line Games and Virtual Worlds
Speaker: Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems Labs
Host: Norman Ramsey
October 13, 2008
12n-1:00p
Halligan 106
Adobe Research Talk
Speaker: Mira Dontcheva (Adobe), Wilmot Li (Adobe), and Joel Brandt (Stanford), Adobe
Host: Sara Su
October 16, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies
Speaker: Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Diane Souvaine
October 23, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
POSTPONED: Epidemics in Technological and Social Networks: The Downside of Six Degrees of Separation
Speaker: Jennifer Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England Lab
Host: Diane Souvaine
October 27, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111A
TBA
Speaker: Mohamed Zahran
Host: Carla Brodley
October 30, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Coqa: Concurrent Objects with Quantized Atomicity
Speaker: Scott Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 6, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
OEM Software: the problems of success
Speaker: Terry Moore, MCCI
Host: Norman Ramsey
November 13, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Design Language for Interactive Systems
Speaker: Alexandre Francois, Tufts University
Host:
November 13, 2008
11am - 12:15pm
Halligan 111
TISCH COLLEGE COLLOQUIUM: Complexity of the Future and Governance
Speaker: Johannes Meier, Bertelsmann Foundation
Host: Tisch College
November 13, 2008
11:00a - 12:15p
Rabb Room, Filene Hall
Tisch College Colloquium: "Complexity of the Future and Governance"
Speaker: Johannes Meier, Executive Board, Bertelsmann Foundation
Host:
November 18, 2008
3:30-4:30 pm
Center for Engineering Outreach
A System for High-Volume Acquisition and Matching of Fresco Fragments: Reassembling Theran Wall Paintings
Speaker: Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University
Host: Chris Rogers
November 20, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Visual Tracking of Large Numbers of Bats
Speaker: Margrit Betke, Boston University
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 21, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Dept of Physics Colloquium: Simple Cyberinfrastructure
Speaker: Saul Youssef , Boston University
Host: Austin Napier
December 4, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Tracing Global-Scale Information Flow using Internet Chain-Letter Data
Speaker: David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College
Host: Lenore Cowen

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