Distinguished Lecturer Series

Each year the Department of Computer Science invites prominent computer scientists to visit Texas A&M and speak about their research. This distinguished lecturer series is sponsored by academia and industry.

AWICS Distinguished Lecturer Series:

AWICS (Aggie Women in Computer Science) brings prominent women computer scientists to campus to speak about their research. The AWICS Distinguished Lecturer series was sponsored by Motorola from 1997-2000, and Microsoft sponsored an AWICS Distinguished Lecture in 2000.

Reception Invitation: Everyone is invited to attend an open reception for the guest speaker immediately following the lecture. The reception is hosted by the Computer Science Graduate Student Association.

2007-2008 Lectures

October 2007

1 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mark D. Hill, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Log-Based Transactional Memory

November 2007

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

February 2008

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 ...

March 2008

19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Siddhartha Chatterjee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
TM and the Art of Parallel Programming

April 2008

28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Multiprocessor Architectures for Speculative Multithreading

2006-2007 Lectures

September 2006

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

December 2006

4 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Michael T. Goodrich, University of California, Irvine
Efficiency and Security Issues for Distributed Data Structures

March 2007

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

2005-2006 Lectures

September 2005

13 Tue. 2:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kevin Cariker Raytheon Garland Division
IAP Series: Security Engineering Challenges

November 2005

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

March 2006

6 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Leah H. Jamieson Purdue University
AWICS Series: EPICS: Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service

April 2006

17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Combined Multipath Routing and Congestion Control: a Robust Internet Architecture

2004-2005 Lectures

September 2004

14 Tue. 1:30pm (Rm 302 HRBB)
Alfred Z. Spector IBM Research
IAP Series: Software and Systems Research at IBM

January 2005

19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics
Comparative Genomics Algorithms: From Genomics to Protein Folding and to Systems

February 2005

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

March 2005

28 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Prasun Dewan The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Architectures of Distributed Collaborative Applications

2003-2004 Lectures

October 2003

10 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David A. Patterson University of California at Berkeley
Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC)

February 2004

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

2002-2003 Lectures

20th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series:

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.

September 2002

23 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics
Shell Series: Inferring Gene Transcription Networks: The Davidson Model

April 2003

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

2001-2002 Lectures

October 2001

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

December 2001

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

January 2002

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

February 2002

15 Fri. 2:00pm (Rm 102 ZACH)
Bjarne Stroustrup AT&T Labs - Research
125th Anniversary Series in IT: Multiparadigm Programming in Standard C++

March 2002

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

2000-2001 Lectures

October 2000

2 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft Research
AWICS Series: Bringing Order to the Web and Beyond

November 2000

15 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Jessica Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
AWICS Series: CRAW/Lucent Speaker Animating with Simulation

February 2001

19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
David Padua University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shell Series: Compiler Technology and Scientific Computing

March 2001

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

April 2001

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

1999-2000 Lectures

January 2000

26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University
Shell Series: Machine Learning and Extracting Information from the Web

February 2000

4 Fri. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan
Shell Series: EMERALDS: A Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel

March 2000

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

April 2000

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

1998-1999 Lectures

January 1999

25 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Marc Snir IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Shell Series: Scalable Parallel Computers, Symmetric Multiprocessors and Clusters

February 1999

8 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Jean-Claude Latombe Stanford University
Shell Series: Randomized Path Planning: Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications

March 1999

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

June 1999

1 Tue. 10:30am (Rm 302 HRBB)
Giovanni De Micheli Stanford University
Shell Series: Dynamic Power Management

1997-1998 Lectures

July 1997

17 4:00pm (Rm 101 Richardson)
Vijaya Ramachandran University of Texas at Austin
Shell Series: A General Purpose Shared-Memory Model for Parallel Computation

October 1997

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

February 1998

19 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Bjarne Stroustrup AT&T Research
Shell Series: What is C++ and Why

March 1998

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

April 1998

13 Mon. 4:00pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Ken Kennedy Rice University 
Shell Series: The State of Programming Support Software for High Performance Computers