Each year the Department of Computer Science and Engineering invites prominent computer scientists and computer engineers to visit Texas A&M and speak about their research. This distinguished lecturer series is sponsored by academia and industry.
Reception Invitation: Everyone is invited to attend an open reception for the guest speaker immediately preceding or following the lecture.
Dr. Richard M. Karp, UC Berkeley
8 Mon. 4:00pm (Room 1105, Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building)
Algorithms in Molecular Biology
9 Tues. 4:00pm (Room 2005, Emerging Technologies Building)
Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences
These lectures are jointly sponsored by the Maxson Lecture Series in the Department of Mathematics. The receptions on Monday and Tuesday are co-sponsored by the Institute for Applied Math and Computational Science and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, respectively.
28 Fri. 4:10pm (Geren Auditorium, Langford Architecture Center Building B)
Dr. Steve Swanson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
General Updates and Mission Details from NASA
21 Mon. Nov. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University
Taming Heterogeneous Parallelism with Domain Specific Languages
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Protecting Information Systems from Insider Threats - Concepts and Issues
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University
Bounding Rationality by Computational Complexity
2 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
Cyber-Physical Systems: A Convergence of Engineering and Computer Science
13 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Alexander A. Shvartsman, University of Connecticut
Distributed Cooperation and Adversity: Complexity Trade-Offs
3 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dilma Da Silva, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Memory Overcommitment for Cloud Environments
24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Xavier Leroy, The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)
The CompCert formally verified compiler
Video of Dr. Leroy's presentation can be found here.
23 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley
Power to the People: Robots and Representational Democracy
Video of Dr. Goldberg's presentation can be found here.
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina
Interactive Sound Rendering
Video of Dr. Manocha's presentation can be found here.
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Brian Marcus, University of British Columbia
Computing the Entropy of Two-dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
15 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
The new era in genomics: Opportunities and challenges for high performance computing
ECE Leaders and Innovators series
30 Tue. 3:55pm (Rm 103B Zachry)
Dr. Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin
Multi-core, Many-core, Mega-nonsense
31 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin
High Performance Microprocessors ten years from now: What are the problems? How do we solve them?
7 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Fran Allen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory
The Challenge of the Multicores
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Burton J. Smith Microsoft
Reinventing Computing
21 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland
Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
26 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos University of Minnesota
Camera Networks for Security Applications
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jim Larus Microsoft Research
Spending Moore's Dividend
25 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Peter Freeman Emeritus Dean and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, and (Former) Assistant Director, National Science Foundation
Science, Computational Science, and Computer Science
1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mark D. Hill, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Log-Based Transactional Memory
5 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jin-Yi Cai, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Developments in Holographic Algorithms
28 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. William A. Wulf, University of Virginia
Supporting U.S. Innovation and Prosperity in the 21st Century
18 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. John C. Hart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistive Technology for the Aesthetically Impaired
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Elaine Weyuker AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
If You Knew Where All the Bugs Were ...
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Siddhartha Chatterjee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
TM and the Art of Parallel Programming
28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Multiprocessor Architectures for Speculative Multithreading
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Bud Mishra, Courant Institute, NYU School of Medicine, & Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Dude, Where is my genome? Past, Present and Future of Genomics Technologies
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Manish Gupta, IBM
Massively Parallel Systems: Ready or Not, Here They Come
4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Michael T. Goodrich, University of California, Irvine
Efficiency and Security Issues for Distributed Data Structures
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB) (tentative)
Rosalind W. Picard, Director, Affective Computing Research Group; Co-Director, Things that Think Consortium, M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Emotional Intelligence Technology and the Death of Clippy
13 Tue. 2:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kevin Cariker Raytheon Garland Division
IAP Series: Security Engineering Challenges
7 Mon. 4:00pm (Langford Building B Auditorium)
Ruzena Bajcsy University of California, Berkeley
(Joint with Humanities Informatics Lecture Series)
Information Technology in Service to Humanities and Social Sciences
6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Leah H. Jamieson Purdue University
AWICS Series: EPICS: Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Combined Multipath Routing and Congestion Control: a Robust Internet Architecture
14 Tue. 1:30pm (Rm 302 HRBB)
Alfred Z. Spector IBM Research
IAP Series: Software and Systems Research at IBM
19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics
Comparative Genomics Algorithms: From Genomics to Protein Folding and to Systems
9 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Neil J.A. Sloane AT&T Research
From Packing Planes in 4-Space to Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Jarek Rossignac Georgia Tech
Compressing Surfaces, Volumes, and Animations
18 Fri. 2:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sharon L. Nunes
IBM
AWICS Series: Global Technology Outlook — Future Technology Directions and Implications for Innovation
28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prasun Dewan The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Architectures of Distributed Collaborative Applications
10 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David A. Patterson University of California at Berkeley
Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC)
5 Thu. 4:00pm (Rm 302 HRBB)
Michi Henning ZeroC, Inc.
A New Approach to Object-Oriented Middleware
9 Mon. 2:00pm (Rm 302 HRBB)
Devika Subramanian Rice University
AWICS Series: Statistical Machine Learning and Its Applications in Science and Engineering
18 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Gene H. Golub Stanford University
Shape from Moments
2003 is an anniversary year for the Department of Computer Science. In celebration of 20 years as a department and 40 years of graduate degrees awarded within the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, our department invites eminent computer scientists to share in the celebration.
23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics
Shell Series: Inferring Gene Transcription Networks: The Davidson Model
2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Alexander Stepanov
20th Anniversary: Greatest Common Measure: The Last 2500 Years
7 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Keshav Pingali Cornell University
20th Anniversary: Intelligent Software Systems
22 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado at Boulder
Shell Series: Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities
5 Wed 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Gabby Silberman IBM Center for Advanced Studies, IBM TJ Watson
Shell Series: Deep Blue: IBM's Massively Parallel Chess Machine
14 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Avi Silberschatz Bell Laboratories
125th Anniversary Series in IT: Next-Generation Information Networking
23 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Alan Borning University of Washington
Shell Series: UrbanSim: Integrated Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling
30 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kimon Valvanis Technical University of Crete
Evolutionary Algorithm Based Off-line / On-line Path Planner for UAV Navigation
15 Fri. 2:00pm (Rm 102 ZACH)
Bjarne Stroustrup AT&T Labs - Research
125th Anniversary Series in IT: Multiparadigm Programming in Standard C++
25 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Cynthia Dwork Microsoft Research
125th Anniversary Series in IT: On Fighting Two Varieties of Spam
27 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
George Varghese UC San Diego
Shell Series: Detecting Traffic Patterns at High Speeds in Routers
2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft Research
AWICS Series: Bringing Order to the Web and Beyond
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Jessica Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
AWICS Series: CRAW/Lucent Speaker Animating with Simulation
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David Padua University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shell Series: Compiler Technology and Scientific Computing
22 Thu. 10:00am (Rm 124 HRBB)
Barry Boehm University of Southern California
Shell Series: Developing and Integrating Software/System Product, Process,Property, and Success Models
11 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
PAlexander Lotov Russian Academy of Sciences, Computing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University
Shell Series: Visualization of Multiple-criterion Decision Problems and Search for Efficient Decisions
30 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Valerie Taylor Northwestern University
AWICS Series: Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Analyzing and Modeling the Performance of Parallel and Distributed Applications
26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University
Shell Series: Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web
4 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan
Shell Series: EMERALDS: A Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel
20 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Xerox PARC
AWICS Series: Outrageous Ideas from Ordinary People: Inspiring Great Research by Looking Outside the Box
22 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Ian H. Witten University of Waikato
Shell Series: Browsing Around a Digital Library
17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Charles Perkins Nokia Research Laboratories
Shell Series: IPv6 wireless telephony with Mobile IP
28 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Hans Zima University of Vienna
Shell Series: Macroservers
25 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Marc Snir IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Shell Series: Scalable Parallel Computers, Symmetric Multiprocessors and Clusters
8 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Jean-Claude Latombe Stanford University
Shell Series: Randomized Path Planning: Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications
8 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David Waltz NEC Research Institute
Shell Series: AI Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
10 Wed. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Francine Berman UC San Diego
AWICS Series: Achieving Application Performance on the Computational Grid
31 Wed. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Steven Feiner Columbia University
Shell Series: Wearing it Out: First Steps Toward Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
1 Tue. 10:30am (Rm 302 HRBB)
Giovanni De Micheli Stanford University
Shell Series: Dynamic Power Management
17 4:00pm (Rm 101 Richardson)
Vijaya Ramachandran University of Texas at Austin
Shell Series: A General Purpose Shared-Memory Model for Parallel Computation
8 Wed. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Maria Klawe University of British Columbia
AWICS Series: Interface and Navigation Issues in Designing Educational Software
15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
John Canny UC Berkeley
Shell Series: 3DDI: 3D Direct Interaction
19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Bjarne Stroustrup AT&T Research
Shell Series: What is C++ and Why
9 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Greg Astfalk Hewlett-Packard
Shell Series: Scaling up to Very Large Parallel Systems
25 Wed. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Ruzena Bajcsy University of Pennsylvania
Shell Series: Smart Cooperative Agents
13 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Ken Kennedy Rice University
Shell Series: The State of Programming Support Software for High Performance Computers
