Week 2, October 11:
Hokusai -- Sketching Streams in Real Time
Defense: Doug Downey
Offense: Christopher Moran
Week 3, Thursday October 18:
Modeling the Impact of Short- and Long-Term Behavior on Search Personalization
Defense: Marcel Flores, Xin Zhao, Lei Wang
Offense: Shaker Islam
Week 4, Thursday October 25:
Search, Interrupted: Understanding and Predicting Search Task Continuation
Defense: Patricia Pei-Yi Kuo, Tina Ding, Jacob Sherin
Offense: Esther Luk, Ji Kwon
Week 6, Tuesday November 6:
Recovering semantics of tables on the web
Defense: Haotian Liu, Srinivas Balusu, Steve Howard
Offense: Stephen Duraski, Benjamin English
Week 6, Thursday November 8:
Finding related tables
Defense: Wenfan Li, Chenjin Liang
Offense: Chandra Sekhar Bhagavatula
Week 7, Thursday November 15:
Implementing Optimal Outcomes in Social Computing: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Defense: Mohammed Alam, Muralikrishna Tummala, Akanksha Mansukhani
Offense: Lee Fan, Jordan Geltner, Khalid Aziz
Week 8, Tuesday November 27:
Combining Human and Machine Intelligence in Large-scale Crowdsourcing
Defense: Mike Greenberg, Julie Hui, and Colin Fitzpatrick
Offense: Cassandra Rommel, Thanapon Noraset, Karthic Hariharan
Week 8, Thursday November 29:
Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are
Defense: Sree Meenakshi Rachamadugu, Katie Zhu, Jeanette Huang
Offense: Yun Zhou, Ning Xia
Week 9, Tuesday December 4:
Social Annotations in Web Search
Defense: Tarun Vijayvargiya, Rishitha Chennupati, Madeline Smith
Offense: Yves Xie, Christina Burghard