CS Colloquium — Spring 2010

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 21, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Promoting Creativity in People: Suggestions from Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Janet Kolodner
Host:
January 27, 2010
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Halligan 127
Platform-Based Design: From Cruise Control to Cancer Killer
Speaker: Doug Densmore, Research Fellow, Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Ctr
Host: Soha Hassoun
January 28, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Lower Bounds for Simplex Emptiness and Related Problems
Speaker: Mashhood Ishaque, Tufts University
Host:
February 11, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Combining Static and Dynamic Typing in Ruby
Speaker: Jeff Foster, University of Maryland, Harvard University (sabbatical)
Host:
February 12, 2010
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Halligan 111A
Self-applicable probabilistic inference without interpretive overhead
Speaker: Chung-chieh Shan, Rutgers University
Host: Norman Ramsey
February 25, 2010
3pm - 4pm
Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall
Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy
Speaker: Dr. Robert Metcalfe
Host: School of Engineering Dean's Office
February 26, 2010
1:30pm-2:30pm
Halligan 111B
Measurement-based Modeling for Computer Graphics
Speaker: Pieter Peers, Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), USC
Host: Roni Khardon
March 2, 2010
3-4:15p
Halligan 111B
Physical Simulations for Modeling and Animation
Speaker: Martin Wicke
Host: Roni Khardon
March 3, 2010
3:20p-4:30p
Halligan 108
Interactive Simulation of Goal-Driven Behavior
Speaker: Marco da Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Roni Khardon
March 4, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Asking the Right Questions: New Query Types for Active Learning
Speaker: Burr Settles, Carnegie Mellon University
Host:
March 8, 2010
12n-1:15p
Halligan 111A
Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random: Design Automation for
Speaker: Marc Riedel, ECE, University of Minnesota
Host: Soha Hassoun
March 10, 2010
Talk 4:00-5:00p; Refreshments 3:45p
H106
Reconstruction and Analysis of Dynamic Shapes
Speaker: Daniel Vlasic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Roni Khardon
March 11, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
CANCELED
Speaker: Jonh Dias, Tufts University
Host:
March 16, 2010
10:45a-11:45a; refreshments at 10:30a
Halligan 111A
Data Exploration, Analysis, and Representation: Integration through Visual Analytics
Speaker: Remco Chang
Host: Roni Khardon
March 18, 2010
10:45a-11:45a; refreshments at 10:30a
Halligan 111A
Rich Photography on a Budget
Speaker: Sam Hasinoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Roni Khardon
April 1, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Programming Language Ideas Escape the Lab: A Declarative Data Description Language for Managing Ad hoc Data
Speaker: Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs Research
Host: Carla Brodley
April 6, 2010
10:30a-12n
Halligan 111a
Research Talk: Concept Map Based Integration of Archaeological Data
Speaker: Rashmi Singhal
Host:
April 8, 2010
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Halligan 127
Master's Thesis Defense: Byte-code Transformation for Incremental State Saving in Optimistic Discrete Event Simulation
Speaker: Adam Lewis, Tufts University, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Host: Sam Guyer
April 8, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Human-Centered Software Engineering for Safety-Critical Applications
Speaker: Larry Constantine, University of Madeira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
Host:
April 14, 2010
1:30pm-2:30pm
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Anomaly Detection with Relevance Feedback
Speaker: Saeed Majidi
Host:
April 15, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Building Reusable Compilers
Speaker: John Dias, Tufts University
Host:
April 16, 2010
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Halligan 111A
Research Talk: Measuring Cognitive Learning in HCI using fNIRS
Speaker: Francine Lalooses, Tufts University
Host:
April 20, 2010
12n-1:30p
Halligan 127
Reasearch Talk: WTFrustration: Towards Measuring Frustration in the User Interface
Speaker: Evan Peck, Tufts University
Host: Robert Jacob
April 22, 2010
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Bright lights and blind spots: this engineer's (mis) education
Speaker: Chris Swan, Tufts University
Host:
April 22, 2010
11:30a
Halligan 111b
Learning to Build, Building to Learn: Robotic Programming in Early Childhood
Speaker: Jordan Crouser
Host: Robert Jacob
April 23, 2010
10:30-11:45am
Halligan 106
Data Visualization in Cheminformatics
Speaker: Simon Xi, Senior Principal Scientist, Computational Sciences CoE, Pfizer
Host: Sara Su
April 29, 2010
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Preventing the next software catastrophe
Speaker: Daniel Jackson, MIT
Host:
May 6, 2010
10:00am
Halligan 111a
PhD Defense: Augmented Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models for the Detection of Remote Protein Homologs
Speaker: Anoop Kumar, Tufts University
Host:
May 7, 2010
11am - 12pm
Halligan 111B
Ensemble predictions of Protein Structures
Speaker: Jérôme Waldispühl, McGill University
Host: Lenore Cowen
May 17, 2010
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Halligan 111
Pacer: Proportional Detection of Data Races
Speaker: Michael D. Bond, The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Sam Guyer
May 20, 2010
10a-12n
Halligan 111a
PhD Defense: Computational Approaches for Biological Data Analysis
Speaker: Xintao Wei, Tufts University
Host: Donna Slonim
May 28, 2010
10:30 am
Halligan 111A
PhD Defense: Towards Adaptive User Interfaces using Real Time fNIRS
Speaker: Audrey Girouard
Host: Robert Jacob

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