CS Colloquium — Spring 2012

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 19, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Crowd-Powered Systems
Speaker: Michael Bernstein, MIT CSAIL
Host: Rob Jacob
January 26, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Why linked lists and polymorphism actually matter in the real world
Speaker: Art Papas, Founder and CEO of Bullhorn
Host: Lenore Cowen
February 1, 2012
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Bug Parades, Zombies, and the BSIMM: A Decade of Software Security
Speaker: Gary McGraw, Cigital
Host: Ming Chow
February 2, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Hybrid User Interfaces for Augmented Reality
Speaker: Alex Olwal, MIT Media Lab
Host: Rob Jacob
February 9, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Write Optimization for Databases
Speaker: Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers, Founder and Chief Scientist of Tokutek
Host: Benjamin Hescott/Diane Souvaine
February 14, 2012
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Halligan 111A
Intel Career Fair
Speaker: Stacee Matrazzo, Intel Corporation
Host:
February 16, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
The Elusive Gene
Speaker: Brian Tjaden, Wellesley
Host: Lenore Cowen
March 1, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
The Uncanny Valley
Speaker: Karl MacDorman, Indiana University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 7, 2012
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Innovating for Society: Realizing the Promise and Potential of Computing
Speaker: Farnam Jahanian, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering National Science Foundation, University of Michigan
Host: Carla Brodley and Diane Souvaine
March 7, 2012
6:00-7:15p
Nelson Auditorium
Binary Static Analysis
Speaker: Chris Wysopal, Co-Founder and CTO of Veracode
Host: Ming Chow
March 15, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
****CANCELLED****
Speaker: Norman Ramsey, Tufts University
Host: Norman Ramsey
March 29, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Estimating Ambient Obscurance in Real-Time / Reimagining Textbooks in the Age of the Tablet
Speaker: Morgan McGuire, Williams College
Host: Remco Chang
April 5, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Combinatorics of RNA Secondary Structures and Related Problems
Speaker: Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University
Host: Ben Hescott
April 6, 2012
11:30a-12:30p
Halligan 127
Quals Research Talk: Pointing Performance of the Xbox 360 Controller, Wii Remote, And Mouse
Speaker: Dan Afergan, Tufts University
Host: Rob Jacob
April 12, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Tool-Chain Approach to Predictive Design of Biological Circuits
Speaker: Jake Beal, BBN
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 19, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Real-time, Interactive Machine Learning for Music Composition and Performance
Speaker: Rebecca Fiebrink, Princeton
Host: Remco Chang
April 26, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
196 Boston Ave
Distinguished Lecture: Domain-specific languages for heterogeneous computer platforms
Speaker: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford
Host: Remco Chang
May 8, 2012
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 106
Modeling Individual and Population traits from Clinical Temporal Data
Speaker: Suchi Saria, Harvard University
Host: Carla Brodley

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