CIS Seminars & Events

Fall 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Martin C. Rinard
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
"Automatically Reducing Energy Consumption, Improving Performance, and Tolerating Failures With Good Accuracy"

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Dan Suciu
Computer Science and Engineering Dept, University of Washington
"Querying Probabilistic Data"

Tuesday, September 28, 2010   
Silvio Micali
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
"New Mechanisms for a New World"

Tuesday, October 19, 2010       
Madhu Sudan
Microsoft Research, New England
"Towards Universal Semantic Communication"

Tuesday, October 26, 2010       
Bill Pugh
Department. of Computer Science, University of Maryland
"Mistakes that matter, and Mistakes that don't"

Tuesday, November 9, 2010      
Tom Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Dept., School of Computer Science
"Never-Ending Learning"

Tuesday, November 16, 2010    
Craig Chambers
Google
"Flume: Towards Easy, Efficient Massively-Data-Parallel Pipelines"

Tuesday, November 23, 2010    
Grace Hopper Lecture Series
Margo Seltzer
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
"Provenance Everywhere"

Tuesday, November 30, 2010    
Dan Roth
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Constraints Driven Learning for Natural Language Understanding"