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  • 2002-3 Computer Science Colloquium Series (Fridays, 4pm) 

  • 2002-3 Visiting Lecturers (Mondays, Wednesdays, 12:30pm)

  • 2002-3 Joint CS/ECE Seminar, Cog. Sci. Seminars (Various)

Open lectures that everyone is welcome to attend--1890 Maple Avenue, 3rd Floor unless noted.

                        For NWU CS Faculty: How To Invite a Speaker

 

Who? About? From? When? Date Time Where? Host Prof.
Week
1		25-Sep-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Bharat Bhargava Intruder Identification in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Purdue University

27-Sep-2002 Fri

 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm. 381 Chris Riesbeck
Thomas Stricker Distributed Datamining in PC Clusters ETH ZurichWeek
2		30-Sep-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm   Peter Dinda
02-Oct-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
05-Oct-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Week
3		07-Oct-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
David Lee   Bell Labs 09-Oct-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm    
Walter Willinger Separating wheat from chaff: On Internet modeling and model validation Bell Labs 10-Oct-2002 Thu 4:00-5:00pm Tech M345 Peter Dinda
11-Oct-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Week
4		14-Oct-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
Andrew Chien The Entropia Desktop Grid System and Applications in Life Sciences UCSD  Con. Sys. Arch. 16-Oct-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm. 342 Peter Dinda
17-Oct-2002 Thurs 12:30-1:30pm
18-Oct-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Week
5		21-Oct-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
Peter J. Braam LUSTRE - The inter-galactic cluster file system?  23-Oct-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Tech L-324 ECE
25-Oct-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Week
6		28-Oct-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
30-Oct-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Phillip Klein From the Tennis Club to the Golf Course in .005 seconds or Less: a Commercial Shortest-Path Engine That Employs Preprocessing Brown Univ. and WaveMarket 01-Nov-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm 381 Ming Kao
Week
7		04-Nov-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
06-Nov-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Martin Farach-Colton Adventures at Google Rutgers Univ. 08-Nov-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm  Ming Kao
John Buchanan Research in VideoGaming Electronic ArtsWeek
8		11-Nov-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ben Watson
13-Nov-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Michael Spertus Fault-Tolerant Runtime Environments Geodesic, Inc 15-Nov-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm 381 Uri Wilensky
Week
9		18-Nov-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
Jim Foley

(Directs Movies too! ;-)

 Multidisciplinary Computing Research and Education - Why, What, When, Where, Who Georgia Tech 20-Nov-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Don Norman
Shanghua Teng Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time Boston University / Akamai Technologies 21-Nov-2002 Thu 4:00 - 5:00pm Tech, L351 Ming Kao
22-Nov-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Week
10		25-Nov-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
27-Nov-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
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Zhong Shao Towards a Principled Multi-Language Infrastructure Yale Univ.Week
11		02-Dec-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm381 Ming Kao
04-Dec-2002 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
06-Dec-2002 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
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12		09-Dec-2002 Mon 12:30-1:30pm    
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Week
1		06-Jan-2003  Mon 12:30-1:30pm
08-Jan-2003  Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Week
2		13-Jan-2003  Mon 12:30-1:30pm
15-Jan-2003  Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Pramod Joisha

A New Approach to Inferring Array Shapes in MATLAB

 ECE Dept, NorthwesternWeek
3		20-Jan-2003  Mon 4:00 - 5:00pm  Tech, L324 (none)
22-Jan-2003  Wed 12:30-1:30pm
24-Jan-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Srinivasan Keshav Towards Tetherless Computing Ensim Corp, Cornell Univ.Week
4		27-Jan-2003  Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Larry Birnbaum
29-Jan-2003  Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Brian CooperData preservation in self-supervising networks Stanford Univ. Week
5		03-Feb-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Larry Birnbaum
Adam Kalai Efficient Algorithms for Combining Learners MIT 05-Feb-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ming Kao
David Kempe Gossip and Information Flow in Networks Cornell Univ.Week
6		10-Feb-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ming Kao
John Regehr Principles and Pragmatics for Embedded Systems Univ. of Utah12-Feb-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Peter Dinda
14-Feb-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
Bruce Gooch Computer-Generated Illustrations: Creation and Psychophysical Evaluation Univ. of UtahWeek
7		17-Feb-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Jack Tumblin
Calvin Yang Content-Based Music Retrieval on Acoustic Data Stanford Univ. 19-Feb-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Larry Birnbaum
Dave O'Hallaron Database Methods for Scientific Computing Carnegie Mellon Univ. 21-Feb-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm 381 Peter Dinda
Daniel Aliaga Capturing and Rendering Real-World Environments Bell Labs / UNC Chapel HillWeek
8		24-Feb-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ben Watson
Yolanda Gil Interactive Knowledge Capture in the Large and in the Small:  Results and Prospects Univ. Southern Calif. ISI 25-Feb-2003 Tue 4:15-6:00pm Rm 381 Ken Forbus
26-Feb-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Sha Xin Wei Resistance is Fertile; Gesture and Agency in the Field of Responsive Media Georgia Tech GVU Lab / Literature Comm. & Culture 27-Feb-2003 Thu 4:00-5:00pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum Auditorium Meghan Wilson

Program in the Study of Imagination

Rene Vidal Generalized Principal Component Analysis (GPCA):  An analytic approach to static and dynamic image segmentation UC Berkeley 28-Feb-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pmRm 381Jack Tumblin
Limin Wang Building Robust Network Services Through Efficient Resource Management Princeton Week
9		03-Mar-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Peter Dinda
Hong Tang

Programming Support and Resource Management for Cluster-based Internet Services UC Santa Barbara05-Mar-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pmRm 381 Brian Dennis
RESERVED     07-Mar-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm   Ming Kao
Week
10		03-Mar-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
05-Mar-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
RESERVED     07-Mar-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm   Ming Kao
Shudong Jin Scalability of Multicast-based Internet Streaming Delivery: Implications from Workload and Topology Characterization Boston Univ. Week
11		10-Mar-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381Fabian Bustamante
Yan Chen Efficient and Adaptive Replication Using
Content Clustering		 UC Berkeley12-Mar-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Fabian Bustamante 
RESERVED     14-Mar-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm   Ming Kao
Mark Corner

Transient Authentication for Mobile Devices

U. Michigan

 Week
12		17-Mar-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Peter Dinda
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TBA

   19-Mar-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm   KHS
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John Jannotti Internet Infrastructure for Efficient Overlays MIT Week
1

28-Mar-2003 Fri

10:30-11:30am

Rm 381

Peter Dinda

Dan Grossman Safe Programming at the C Level of Abstraction Cornell 31-Mar-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ian Horswill

Jaewoo Kang

 Toward the scalable integration of Internet information sources


UW-Madison

 02-Apr-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Larry Birnbaum
Dan Oblinger Learning Computer Administration By Demonstration IBM Corp.  03-Apr-2003 Thu  12:30-1:30pm  Rm 381 Ming Kao 
RESERVED TBA   04-Apr-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA KHS
Mema Roussopoulos Controlled Update Propagation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Stanford Week
2		 07-Apr-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Brian Dennis
Stephen Wolfram A New Kind of Science Wolfram Research, Inc. 08-Apr-2003 Tue 4:00pm Ryan Family Auditorium NU
Indranil Gupta Achieving Scale And Reliability in Distributed Systems -- A Probabilistic Protocol Methodology Cornell 09-Apr-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Fabian Bustamante 
RESERVED TBA   11-Apr-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA Ming Kao
Week
3		 14-Apr-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
16-Apr-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
RESERVED TBA   18-Apr-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA Ming Kao
Week
4		 21-Apr-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
23-Apr-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
RESERVED TBA   25-Apr-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA Ming Kao
Illah R. Nourbakhsh The Personal Rover Project CMU Week
5		 28-Apr-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm Rm 381 Ian Horswill
30-Apr-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
RESERVED TBA   02-May-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA  
Week
6		 05-May-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
07-May-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Susan Eggers Extracting Thread-level Parallelism on
Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors		 U. of Washington 08-May-2003 Thu 4:00 - 5:00pm Tech LR3 Peter Dinda
RESERVED TBA   09-May-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA  
Week
7		 12-May-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
14-May-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Holly Rushmeier 3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage Applications IBM 16-May-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm 381 Jack Tumblin
Week
8		 19-May-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
21-May-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Steve Marschner  [Graphics - TBA] Cornell 23-May-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm TBA Jack Tumblin
Week
9		 26-May-2003 Mon 12:30-1:30pm
28-May-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
Ian Foster Grid Computing and the Open Grid Services Architecture U of C - Argonne Nat'l Labs 30-May-2003 Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm Rm 381 Peter Dinda
Week
10		 02-Jun-2003  Mon 12:30-1:30pm
04-Jun-2003 Wed 12:30-1:30pm
06-Jun-2003  Fri 3:00 - 4:00pm
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11		 09-Jun-2003  Mon 12:30-1:30pm    
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      23-Jun-2003 Mon  Summer Qtr.      
Illah R. Nourbakhsh Social Mobile Robotics and Low-Overhead Representation CMU    03-Jul-2003 Thu 11:00am-12:00pm Rm 381 Ian Horswill


Questions? Contact:
Jack Tumblin
CS Dept. Colloquium Dir.
jet@cs.northwestern.edu
www.cs.northwestern.edu/~jet/

or

cs_seminar@cs.northwestern.edu

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