2012 Spring Colloquium Lecture Series Our Lectures are held weekly on Tuesday and/or Thursday Wu and Chen Auditorium Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street from 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (Unless otherwise noted)

CIS 2012 Systems Seminar Series

Tuesday January 24, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Carlos Guestrin
Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University
Talk: GraphLab: A Distributed Abstraction for Machine Learning

Thursday, January 26, 2012	This talk is being held in DRL Rm A6
Jae Woo Lee
Dept. of Computer Science Columbia University
Talk:   "C++ in 45 minutes. Or not."

Tuesday, February 7, 2012	CIS Distinguished Lecturer
Gokhan Memik
Department of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science Northwestern University
Talk: Humans and Bits: Designing Holistic Computer Architectures

Thursday, February 9, 2012	This talk begins at 1:30 pm in Wu & Chen
Sam Moelius
IDA Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland.
Talk: Java Generics

Thursday, February 9, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Hank Hoffman
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk: SEEC:  A Framework for the Self-aware Management of Goals and Constraints in Modern Computing Systems.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Haryadi Gunawi
Computer Science Dept University of California, Berkeley
Talk: Towards Reliable Storage Systems: From OS-Level File Systems to Cloud Storage

Thursday, February 23 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Allen Clement
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Talk: Robust Replication (or how I learned to stop worrying and love failures)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Chris Callison-Burch
Computer Science Department Johns Hopkins University
Talk: Advances to machine translation and language understanding

Thursday, March 1, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Mohit Tiwari
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkley
Talk: Crafting Secure Systems from the Gates Up

Spring Break March 5th - 9th

Tuesday, March 13, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Jack Sampson
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego
Talk: Conservation Cores: Architectures for a Future of Dark Silicon

Thursday, March 15, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Kevin Fu
Dept. of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst
Talk: Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless! Perpetual Computation on Intermittently Powered Embedded Systems* (*Batteries Not Included)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Daniel Sanchez
Electrical Engineering Dept. Stanford University .
Talk: Scaling Software and Hardware for Thousand-Core Systems

Thursday, March 22, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Joe Devietti
Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington
Talk: No Such Thing as Luck: Improving Parallel Programmability with Determinism

Tuesday, March 27, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Barbara Jobstmann
Verimag Laboratory, CNRS and Université de Grenoble, France
Talk: Synthesis-Augmented System Development

Tuesday, April 3, 2012	CIS Colloquium Speaker
Viktor Kuncak
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
Talk: Verifying and Computing with Constraint Solvers

Tuesday, April17, 2012	The Thomas and Yvonne Williams Lectures for the Advancement of Logic and Philosophy
Dana Scott
Dr. Scott is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Mathematical Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon Universit. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Talk: A Simple NP-complete Tiling Problem

 

Special Events

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012	CIS Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture
Leslie G Valiant
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Talk: “A Computational Theory of Cortex and Hippocampus”

Wednesday, April 25th , 2012	Franklin Institute Symposium
2012 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MEDAL IN COMPUTER AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Vladimir Vapnik, Ph.D. NEC Laboratories Princeton, New Jersey
Several talks will be given during the day. Please visit http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/2012.html for more information
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 4pm	CIS Lecture Candidate Talk
Thomas J. Farmer
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Army Research Lab Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Talk: “From C to Assembly to the MIPS Processor - An Overview”
Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 4pm	CIS Lecture Candidate Talk
Max Morawski
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Maple Lab
Talk: “Intro To Recursion”

 

 

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