CPSC 681: Graduate Seminar
This open seminar is normally held on Monday and/or Wednesday
from 4:10 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. in Room 124 HRBB.
Students registering for the seminar can find the requirements
to receive credit
here.
Spring 2008, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
30 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Robert A. Metzger
Convey Computer Corporation
Experiments in the Automatic Generation of Subject Indices for Books
February
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Vivek Sarkar
Rice University
Programming Challenges for Petascale and Multicore Parallel Systems
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. John C. Hart
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Hart's presentation
Assistive Technology for the Aesthetically Impaired
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Elaine Weyuker
AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Weyuker's presentation
If You Knew Where All the Bugs Were ...
March
5 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Sylvain Pion
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Siddhartha Chatterjee
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Chatterjee's presentation
TM and the Art of Parallel Programming
24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Robin R. Murphy
The University of South Florida
They REALLY Are Coming For You: How Rescue Robots Can Save Lives, Boost the Economy, and Change the Way We Think About Autonomy
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ramesh V. Peri
Intel
Tools and Techniques for Performance Analysis on Intel Processors
31 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
Concepts and Generic Programming in C++0x
April
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Arch Robison
Intel Corporation
Automatic Grainsize Determination and Cache Affinity in TBB
9 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Calin Cascaval
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
The Art of Parallel Programming: from Algorithms to Systems
21 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Barbara Chapman
The University of Houston
OpenMP: Beyond 3.0
28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Josep Torrellas
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Torrellas' presentation
Multiprocessor Architectures for Speculative Multithreading
Fall 2007, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
August
27 Mon. 4:10-6:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation I: Overview of Department Resources & Contacts,
Honor Code, and Student Organizations
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS (but not other CSPC 681 students)
29 Wed. 4:10-6:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II:
Current Grad & Faculty Panels, Poster Session, & PIZZA!
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS and CPSC 681 STUDENTS
September
5 Wed. 4:10-5:25pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Tiffani Williams
Texas A&M University
Large-Scale Analysis of Collections of Evolutionary Trees
12 Wed. 4:10-5:25pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Radu Stoleru
Texas A&M University
Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Approach
17 Mon. 4:10-5:25pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Economy-based Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
24 Mon. 4:10-5:25pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Alfredo Weitzenfeld
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Biologically-Inspired Robotics: Learning from Nature
26 Wed. 4:10-5:25pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. A. Frank van der Stappen
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Geometric Algorithms in Automated Manufacturing
October
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Mark D. Hill
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: 3:30 p.m. (Rm 301 HRBB)
Log-Based Transactional Memory
10 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Yingwei Yu
Seismic Micro-Technology, Inc.
An Automated Method for Estimating Missing Well Log Zones Using Neural Networks
17 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jianer Chen, Yang Liu, and Songjian Lu
Texas A&M University
Breaking the Deadlock!
24 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Andruid Kerne
Texas A&M University
Creative and Expressive Systems: Frameworks, Methods, Results
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. James Caverlee
Texas A&M University
Spam 2.0: Challenges and (Some) Solutions for Web-Based Open Systems
November
5 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jin-Yi Cai
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Cai's presentation
Developments in Holographic Algorithms
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Surendar Chandra
University of Notre Dame
Mobile Collaboration Applications
28 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. William A. Wulf
University of Virginia
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Open Reception: immediately following Dr. Wulf's presentation
Supporting U.S. Innovation and Prosperity in the 21st Century
Spring 2007, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
17 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bud Mishra
Courant Institute, NYU School of Medicine, & Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Intelligently Deciphering Unintelligible Designs: Algorithmic Algebraic
Model Checking in Systems Biology
24 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
Representing C++ Directly, Completely and Efficiently
31 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. John Keyser
Texas A&M University
Interactive Physically-Based Simulation
February
05 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jose Moreira IBM, TJ Watson
Scale-up x Scale-out: A Case Study using Commercial Applications
12 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
University of Illinois at Chicago
A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks
14 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Henri-Pierre Charles
PRiSM, University of Versailles
MPEG4 AVC ILP extraction using dynamic compiler
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger
Texas A&M University
Automatic Parallelization with Hybrid Analysis
March
05 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Clay Williams
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
A Language and Environment for Composing Useful Use Cases
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Rosaline W. Picard
MIT
CS Distinguished Lecture
Emotional Intelligence Technology and the Death of Clippy
21 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Peng Ning
NC State University
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks
28 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ravi Iyer
Intel
Quality of Service in Datacenter-on-a-Chip Architectures
April
02 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Cristian Constantinescu
AMD
Reliability Challenges in Microprocessor Design
09 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dilma da Silva
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Specialized Execution Environments: A Path to Innovation in Systems Software
18 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Keshav K. Pingali
University of Texas at Austin
Optimistic Data-parallel Abstractions for Irregular Programs
20 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Nancy A. Lynch
MIT Canceled
CS Distinguished Lecturer
Virtual Node Abstraction Layers for Programming Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Fall 2006, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
August
28 Mon. 4:10-6:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation I: Overview of Department Resources & Contacts,
Honor Code, and Student Organizations
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS (but not other CSPC 681 students)
30 Wed. 4:10-6:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II:
Current Grad & Faculty Panels, Poster Session, & PIZZA!
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS. Counts as CPSC 681 seminar for CPSC 681 students.
September
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bud Mishra
Courant Institute, NYU School of Medicine, & Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
CS Distinguished Lecture
Dude, Where is my genome? Past, Present and Future of Genomics Technologies
13 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis
Texas A&M University
Concepts: A Structured Approach to Generic Programming
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jinxiang Chai
Texas A&M University
Interative Control for Realistic Character Animation
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Manish Gupta
IBM
CS Distinguished Lecture
Massively Parallel Systems: Ready or Not, Here They Come
October
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Scott Schaefer
Texas A&M University
Intuitive Methods for 3D Shape Deformation
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Valentina Salapura
IBM
Optimizing System Architecture with a Holistic Design Approach
in the Blue Gene Supercomputer
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Tracy Hammond
Texas A&M University
Using Human Perception to Automatically Generate Sketch Recognition Systems
November
1 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Pen-Chung Yew
University of Minnesota
A Compiler Framework to Support Speculative Multi-Core Processors for General-Purpose Applications
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Heather Hinton
IBM
Research in Development: Identity Management & Federation Techniques
13 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
C++0x: Directions and Status
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jaspal Subhlok
University of Houston
Performance Skeletons: Predicting Performance in an Unpredictable World
29 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ronnie Ward
Texas A&M University
Cognitive Conflict Management in a Dynamical Agent
December
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Michael T. Goodrich
University of California, Irvine
CS Distinguished Lecture
Look College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
Efficiency and Security Issues for Distributed Data Structures
Spring 2006, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
18 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Faith Fich
University of Toronto
How Difficult is it to Take a Snapshot?
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Michael Langston
University of Tennessee
Scalable Algorithms and Implementations, with
Application to the Analysis of Gene Co-Expression Data
February
1 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Michael Gschwind
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Exploiting application parallelism with the Cell Broadband Engine
heterogeneous chip-multiprocessor
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Clay Williams
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Archetest: A Tool for Model-Based Test Generation
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
Texas A&M University
Learning about the Outside World, Trapped within Your Brain
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Du Li
Texas A&M University
Collaborative Systems: Some Experiences and Lessons
March
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Leah Jamieson
Purdue University
CS Distinguished Lecture
EPICS: Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dezhen Song
Texas A&M University
Robot Cameras for Rediscovery of Ivory Billed Woodpecker
April
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Xiliang Liu
City University of New York
Bandwidth Estimation Using End-to-End Packet-Train Probing: Stochastic Foundation
10 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Nancy Amato
Randomized Motion Planning:
From Intelligent CAD to Computer Animation to Protein Folding
12 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Arch D. Robison
Intel
A C++ Library for Multi-Core Programming, or Why Threads Are a Bad Way to Thread a Program
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Don Towsley
University of Massachusetts Amherst
CS Distinguished Lecture
Combined Multipath Routing and Congestion Control: a Robust Internet Architecture
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Eun Jung Kim
Texas A&M University
Secure Cluster Design
May
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jaakko Jarvi
Texas A&M University
Associated Types and Constraint Propagation --
Improving Object-Oriented Generics
Fall 2005, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
August
29 Mon. 4:00-5:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation I: Overview of Department Resources & Contacts,
Honor Code, and Student Organizations
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS (but not other CSPC 681 students)
31 Wed. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II:
Current Grad & Faculty Panels, Poster Session, & PIZZA!
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS and CPSC 681 STUDENTS
September
7 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Tiffani Williams
Texas A&M University
New Techniques for Building Large-Scale Evolutionary Trees
14 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ismael Lopez
CIATEQ (Center for Advanced Technologies), Mexico
Knowledge Acquisition and Learning for Industrial Robots
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Shay Kutten
Technion, Israel
Locality of Fault Tolerance
21 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kathleen Dollard
Gendotnet
(AWICS Seminar and Joint with .NET Users Group)
Generics in the Real World
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang
Texas A&M University
Location-based and Location-free Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
October
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
University of Houston
Interacting with Human Physiology
10 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Texas A&M University
Pattern recognition for chemical sensor arrays
with neuromorphic models of the olfactory system
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Rida Bazzi
Arizona State University
On the Establishment of Distinct Identities in Overlay Networks
24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bradley Jensen
Microsoft
Developing Mobile Applications in the .NET Compact Framework
November
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Santiago Marco
University of Barcelona
Multi Curve Resolution and trilinear methods applied to low cost chemical sensing:
options for blind source separation and drift correction
7 Mon. 4:00pm (Langford Building B Auditorium)
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy
University of California, Berkeley
CS Distinguished Lecture
(Joint with
Humanities Informatics Lecture Series)
Information Technology in Service to Humanities and Social Sciences
9 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Injong Rhee
North Carolina State University
Z-MAC: Hybrid MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Timothy Darr
21st Century Technologies, Inc.
Combining Game-Theoretic Techniques and Social Network Analysis for Asymmetric Threat Detection
21 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Perakath Benjamin
Knowledge Based Sysstems, Inc.
Methods and Tools for Knowledge-Based Applications
30 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Scott Pike
Texas A&M University
How (not) to Crash a Dinner Party
Spring 2005, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics
CS Distinguished Lecture
Comparative Genomics Algorithms: From Genomics to Protein Folding and to Systems
A reception for Dr. Istrail, including refreshments, will be held in Room 301 HRBB 45 minutes before the lecture.
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Shlomi Dolev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Self Stabilization Theory and Practice
31 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Duncan M. "Hank" Walker
Texas A&M University
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia
February
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
CSGSA Panel
Texas A&M University
How to be a Successful Grad Student
7 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Geoffrey Hunter
York University
From Turing Machines
To Programming Languages: The Implications of Theory for System Design
9 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Neil J.A. Sloane AT&T Labs-Research
CS Distinguished Lecture
From Packing Planes in 4-Space to Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
A reception for Dr. Sloane, including refreshments, will be held in Room 301 HRBB 45 minutes before the lecture.
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jarek Rossignac Georgia Institute of Technology
CS Distinguished Lecture
Compressing Surfaces, Volumes, and Animations
A reception for Dr. Rossignac, including refreshments, will be held in Room 301 HRBB 45 minutes before the lecture.
23 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
Abstraction and
the C++ Machine Model
March
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Joseph (JM) Landsberg
Texas A&M University
Geometry and the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication
CPSC 681 Notice for Weeks of March 7 and 14: NO SEMINARS THESE WEEKS
28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Prasun Dewan , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CS Distinguished Lecture
Architectures of Distributed Collaborative Applications
A reception for Dr. Dewan, including refreshments, will be held in Room 301 HRBB 45 minutes before the lecture.
April
11 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Frank Shipman
Texas A&M University
Hyper-Hitchcock: Authoring Interactive Videos and Generating Interactive Summaries followed by
Writing a Good Computer Science Paper, Thesis or Dissertation
20 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mike Kistler
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Cell Processor
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
Texas A&M University
Lifetime-Based Node
Failure and Stochastic Resilience of Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Networks
Fall 2004, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
August
30 Mon. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation I
Staff; CSGSA and Other Student Organizations
Introducing department staff and student organizations
Students find out whom to contact and where to find answers to questions.
September
1 Wed. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II
Graduate student and Faculty panels
Presentations followed by question and answer sessions
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dezhen Song
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Network Human with Robot: Scalable Algorithms and Systems for Collaborative Teleoperation
13 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Scott Pike
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
How (not) to Crash a Dinner Party
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jaakko Järvi
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
A Comparative Study of Language Support for Generic Programming
27 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Integrating Sample-driven and Pattern-driven Approaches in Motif Finding
October
11 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Rabi Mahapatra
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Exploiting Slacks in Distributed Embedded Systems
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Vivek Sarin
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Preconditioning with Support Graphs
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Toward a standard representation of C++ in C++
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Du Li
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Recent Progress in Group Editors
November
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jianer Chen
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Easier Problems can be Extremely Hard
8 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Frank Shipman
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Emergence and Evolution of Spatial Hypertext and the Visual Knowledge Builder
10 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Wei Zhao
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Effectiveness of Traffic Camouflaging in Internet
15 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
Binding Problem of the Second Kind: Can the Brain Confuse Its Inputs with Its Outputs?
22 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Andreas Klappenecker
Texas A&M Engineering Computer Science
New Tales of the Mean King
29 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Deepa Kundur
Texas A&M Electrical Engineering
Multimedia Security: Techniques and Challenges
Spring 2004, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
February
4 Wed. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bruce McCormick
Texas A&M University
Charting the Networks of the Whole Mouse Brain: A Progress Report
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jianer Chen
Texas A&M University
New Results on Computational Lower Bounds
18 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Gene H. Golub
Stanford University
CS Distinguished Lecture
Shape from Moments
25 Wed. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Du Li
Texas A&M University
Ensuring
Consistency in Group Editors
March
1 Mon. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Steve Liu and
Mr. Yong Xiong
Texas A&M University
Modeling of
Discontinuous Congestion Control Protocols and Their Design
8 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
Programming, Language
and Libraries
CPSC 681 Notice for Week of March 15: NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
22 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Valerie E. Taylor
Texas A&M University
Grids: Analyzing the
Performance of Applications
29 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB) Canceled
Dr. Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev
TBD
April
7 Wed. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Richard Furuta
Texas A&M University
Humanities Informatics: The
Texas A&M University Initiative
12 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Riccardo Bettati
Texas A&M University
Watch your Timing! A Biased
View on Security in the Post-Encryption Era
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Andruid Kerne
Texas A&M University
Mixed-Initiative
Information Composition
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
Texas A&M University
Routing in Structured
P2P Networks: Diameter-Degree Tradeoffs
May
3 Mon. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Texas A&M University
Pattern Recognition
for Chemosensor Arrays with the KIII Model
Fall 2003, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
September
3 Wed. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation I
Staff; CSGSA and Other Student Organizations
Introducing department staff and student organizations.
Students will find out who to contact and where to find the answers to questions.
8 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II
Faculty; Research Opportunities
Introducing faculty members and their core/multidisciplinary
research area.
Research opportunities will be discussed. After the faculty introductions, we'll
have refreshments and a poster session where new students can meet current graduate students.
17 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bruce McCormick, Texas
A&M University
The Turing Test Revisited: Brain vs. Computer
24 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. John Keyser, Texas
A&M University
Simulating the Real World in Real Time: Interactive Physically-Based
Modeling
October
1 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Andreas Klappenecker
Texas A&M University
Better
Sustaining Denial of Service Attacks
10 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. David A. Patterson University
of California, Berkeley
CS Distinguished Lecture
Recovery
Oriented Computing (ROC)
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup Texas A&M
University
Generic Programming in C++
22 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe Texas A&M
University
Autonomous Semantics in Natural and Artifical Agents
29 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Frank Shipman
Texas A&M University
Hyper-Hitchcock -- Authoring Interactive Videos and Generating
Interactive Summaries
November
5 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Steve Liu Texas A&M
University
On
the Evidence-Based Resource Management in Distributed Computing Systems
CPSC 681 Notice for Week of November 10: TWO SEMINARS THIS WEEK
10 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kumiyo Nakaoji and
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
University of Tokyo
Knowledge Interaction
Design for Creative Knowledge Work
14 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
P. R. Kumar University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Electrical Engineering Distinguished Speaker Seminar presented as CPSC 681
From Wireless and Sensor
Networks to Convergence: Protocols and Architecture
CPSC 681 Notice for Week of November 17: NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Eun Jung Kim, Texas
A&M University
Fault
Tolerant Routing in Energy-Efficient Cluster Interconnects
December
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Du Li, Texas
A&M University
EFG:
A Component-based Approach to Groupware Engineering
Spring 2003, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
February
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Vivek Sarin
Texas A&M University
Multipole-Based
Hierarchical Techniques and Their Applications
12 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dirk Helbing
Dresden University of Technology
Traffic
Simulation and Route Choice Behavior
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jennifer Welch
Texas A&M University
Random Walk for Self-Stabilizing
Group Communication in Ad-Hoc Networks
March
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Samuel P. Midkiff
Purdue University
The Pensieve Project: Compiling for Multiple Memory Models
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Marc Najork
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
High-Performance Web Crawling
24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dimitrios S. Nicolopoulos
The College of William & Mary
Building
Adaptive Programs with Local Sensing of Execution Conditions
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Stefan Szeider
University of Toronto
Parameterized SAT: Solving the Satisfiability Problem
by the Slice
April
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Alexander Stepanov Adobe Systems, Inc.
CS Distinguished Lecture
20th Anniversary:
Greatest Common Measure: The Last 2500 Years
7 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr.
Keshav Pingali Cornell University
CS Distinguished Lecture
20th Anniversary:
Intelligent
Software Systems
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mike Perez Compaq Computer Corporation (VP of Engineering and General Manager, retired)
Leadership Roles for Today's High-Tech Engineers
Fall 2002, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
September
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Orientation II
Faculty, Research Opportunities, and PIZZA!
At this meeting, we'll introduce the faculty and their research to the students.
Research opportunities will be discussed. After the faculty introductions, we'll
have a pizza & poster session where new students can meet current graduate students.
18 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Andreas Klappenecker
Texas A&M University
Challenges in Quantum Computing
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Sorin Istrail Celera
Genomics
CS Distinguished Lecture
Shell Series:
Inferring Gene Transcription Networks: The Davidson Model
October
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University and AT&T Labs - Research
Standard-Library Exception Safety
9 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
Texas A&M University
Adaptive Scalable Internet Streaming
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. A.L. Narasimha Reddy
Texas A&M University
Network Elements Based on Partial State
21 Mon. / 23 Wed.
The Graduate Seminar will not meet the week of October 21, 2002. The
seminar is normally held on Monday and/or Wednesday from 4:10-5:25pm
in Room 124 HRBB.
30 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ricardo
Gutierrez-Osuna
Texas A&M University
A Self-organizing Model of Chemotopic Convergence for Olfactory Coding
November
06 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr.
Charles Lefurgy
IBM Austin Research Lab
Title: Super-Dense
Servers: An Energy-efficient Approach to Large-scale Server Clusters
13 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Chengzheng Sun
Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia)
Title: Internet-based
Collaborative Computing and the REDUCE Project
20 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Orran Krieger
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Title: The
K42 Research Operating System
25 Mon. / 27 Wed.
Happy Thanksgiving! The Graduate Seminar will not meet the week of November 25, 2002. The
seminar is normally held on Monday and/or Wednesday from 4:10-5:25pm
in Room 124 HRBB.
December
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr.
Hermann Härtig
Dresden University of Technology
Title: Security
Architectures Revisited
Spring 2002, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
14 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Avi Silberschatz Lucent Bell Laboratories
CS Distinguished Lecture
Next-Generation Information Networking
23 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Alan Borning CS Dept, University of Washington
CS Distinguished Lecture
UrbanSim: Integrated Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling
30 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Kimon Valavanis Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
CS Distinguished Lecture
Evolutionary Algorithm Based Off-line / On-line Path Planner for UAV Navigation
February
11 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Frank Shipman Texas A&M University
How to Write a Research Paper, Thesis, or Dissertation: Scholarly Writing as Storytelling
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Bob Metzger Hewlett-Packard
1 Million Monkeys Banging on Keyboards - Is there any theory behind GUI testing?
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Anne Condon UBC
DNA Computing on Surfaces
March
20 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Boleslaw Szymanski Rochester Polytechnic Institute
Genesis: A Distributed Data Collection and Simulation System for Network Management and Protection
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Cynthia Dwork Microsoft Research
On Fighting Two Varieties of Spam
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. George Varghese UC San Diego
Detecting Traffic Patterns at High Speeds in Routers
April
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Vladimir Filkov SUNY at Stony Brook
Computational Understanding of Gene Regulation: From Gene Expression to Gene Networks
10 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
John Keyser Texas A&M University
Physically-based Modeling of Fire and Clouds
15 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sing-Hoi Sze University of California, San Diego
Combinatorial Approaches to Finding Motifs in DNA Sequences
Fall 2001, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
August
27 Mon. 4:30pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Graduate Advisor and Key Departmental Staff CS Dept, TAMU
Grad Orientation I: Key Departmental Rules & Regulations
29 Wed. 4:20pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Bart Childs (Grad Advisor) CS Dept, TAMU
Grad Orientation I: Continued
September
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
CS Faculty CS Dept, TAMU
Grad Orientation II: Faculty and Research Opportunities
12 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Vivek Sarin CS Dept, TAMU
Parasitic Extraction of VLSI Circuits
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Rabi Mahapatra CS Dept, TAMU
Hardware-Software Codesign: Issues and Challenges
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Devika Subramanian CS Dept, Rice University
Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments and Dynamic Network Routing Algorithms
October
1 Mon 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Yoonsuck Choe CS Dept, TAMU
Visual Perceptual Grouping in a Self-Organizing Map of Spiking Neurons
10 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Du Li CS Dept, TAMU
Demonstrational Customization of a Shared Whiteboard to Support User-Defined Semantic Relationships among Objects
15 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Frank Shipman CS Dept, TAMU
Emergence and Evolution of Spatial Hypertext and the Visual Knowledge Builder
22 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Gerhard Fischer CS Dept, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
CS Distinguished Lecture
Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities
29 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Peter Druschel CS Dept, Rice University
Scalable peer-to-peer substrates: A new foundation for distributed applications
November
7 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Nancy Amato CS Dept, TAMU
Randomized Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Protein Folding
12 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Chekib Akrout IBM Austin
Bringing Supercomputing to Everyday Life
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Jennifer Welch CS Dept, TAMU
Distributed Token Circulation on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Risto Miikkulainen CS Dept, UT Austin
Solving Sequential Decision Tasks with Neuroevolution
28 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Doug Burger CS Dept, UT Austin
A Microprocessor Design for 2014
Spring 2001, CPSC 681 Graduate Seminars
January
22 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Department Head CS, TAMU
Graduate Student Forum
29 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Jianer Chen CS, TAMU>
Routing in hypercube networks with a constant fraction of faulty nodes
February
7 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB
Prof. Nitin Vaidya CS, TAMU
How to read, write, present papers
12 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Robert Metzger Hewlett-Packard
The Use of XML in System Software
14 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Neil Pundit Sandia National Lab
Cplant(tm): World's Largest Linux Cluster
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. David Padua CS Dept, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CS Distinguished Lecture
Compiler Technology and Scientific Computing
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Nitin Vaidya CS, TAMU
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
March
7 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mark Bernstein Eastgate Systems
Where are the hypertexts, again?
12 Mon. NO SEMINAR, SPRING BREAK
21 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Tom Ioerger, Jianwen Yin, Mike Miller CS, TAMU
Modeling Teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems: The CAST Architecture
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jose Moreira IBM, TJ Watson
Blue Gene: A Massively Parallel System
28 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Andreas Klappenecker CS, TAMU
Quantum Algorithms
April
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
HyunYoung Lee CS, TAMU
Applications of Probabilistic Quorums to Iterative Algorithms
9 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Walter Daugherity CS, TAMU
Public-Key Cryptography Meets Quantum Computing
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Alexander V. Lotov Russian Academy of Sciences
CS Distinguished Lecture
Visualization of Multiple-criterion Decision Problems and Search for Efficient Decisions
16 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Alfredo Sanchez Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico
Digital Libraries are not Libraries
30 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Valerie Taylor ECE Dept, Northwestern University
AWICS Distinguished Lecture: Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Analyzing and Modeling the Performance of
Parallel and Distributed Applications
Fall 2000 CPSC 681 Seminars
September
6 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. John Keyser CS Dept, TAMU
Joint with AI & Robotics Seminar
Exact Boundary Evaluation of Curved Solids
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Du Li CS Dept, TAMU
CSCW: Research Issues and Perspectives
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mke Wu CS Dept, TAMU
Software Project Plan Tracking Intelligent Agent
October
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Susan T. Dumais Microsoft Research
AWICS Distinguished Lecturer
Bringing Order to the Web and Beyond
9 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Michel Kouadio CS Dept, TAMU
Network Intrusion Detection: Who is Breaking into Computer Systems?
16 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David B. Johnson CS Dept, Rice University
The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Eric Schoen Technical Advisor, Austin Technology Center Schlumberger
Smart Cards and Wireless Data Transmission
November
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Jessica Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
AWICS Distinguished Lecturer
Animating with Simulation
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Partha Dasgupta Arizona State University
Computing Communities
27 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Hoh In CS Dept, TAMU
Transforming Legacy Energy Management System (EMS) Modules into
Reusable Components: A Case Study
December
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Walter C. Daugherity CS Dept, TAMU
Public-Key Cryptography Meets Quantum Computing: Why Secret Agencies
are Quaking in their Boots
Spring 2000 CPSC 681 Seminars
January
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Tom Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University
Shell Distinguished Lecturer
Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web
31 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
John R. "Buck" Surdu CS Dept, TAMU
Connecting Simulations to the Operational Environment
February
4 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Kang G. Shin University of Michigan
Shell Distinguished Lecturer
EMERALDS: A Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel
7 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Hoh In CS Dept, TAMU
On the Tool Integration and Visualization Support in Plug-n-Analyze
(An Integrated Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Framework)
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mark Lease CS Dept, TAMU and Scott & White, Temple
PARIS --- A System for Scheduling and Coordinating Surgical Resources
For a Large Hospital
21 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Curtis Hite Val-Tech
The Competitive Advantage of Software Engineering Processes
28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Hank Walker CS Dept, TAMU
Fault Diagnosis Using Electrical Test and Physical Design Information
March
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Walter Daugherity CS Dept, TAMU
Public-Key Cryptography Meets Quantum Computing:
Why Secret Agencies are Quaking in Their Boots
13 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
SPRING BREAK
NO SEMINAR
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Xerox PARC
AWICS Distinguished Lecturer
Outrageous Ideas from Ordinary People:
Inspiring Great Research by Looking Outside the Box
22 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Ian H. Witten University of Waikato
Shell Distinguished Lecturer
Browsing around a Digital Library
29 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Gouchol Pok CS Dept, TAMU
Texture Analysis by a Hybrid Scheme
April
3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Nitin Vaidya CS Dept., TAMU
How to Read, Write and Present Papers
10 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Bruce McCormick CS Dept, TAMU
TBD
12 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof Andre Goliac EE Dept, Ecole Nationale Superieure Telecommunications
(ENST), France
Joint TAMU/ENST MS Degree Programs
17 Mon. 4:10pm
(Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Charles Perkins Nokia Research Laboratories
Shell Distinguished Lecturer
IPv6 wireless telephony with Mobile IP
28 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prof. Hans Zima University of Vienna
Shell Distinguished Lecturer
Macroservers
