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The Spring 2006 Faculty Recruiting Colloquia

& Colloquia Series

Our Lectures are held weekly on Tuesday and/or Thursday
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street
from 3:05 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
(Unless otherwise noted)

Spring Semester 2006

Tuesday, January 17, 2006	Location 307 Levine Hall
Steve Swanson
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Title: WaveScalar: A Scalable Processor Architecture

Wednesday, January 18, 2006	Location 307 Levine Hall
Piotr Indyk
Theory of Computation Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab MIT
Title: Nearest neighbor in high dimensions

This talk has been canceled..Thursday, January 19, 2006	Location 307 Levine Hall
Dr. C. Lee Giles
David Reese Professor, School of Information Sciences and Technology Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Next Generation CiteSeer: CiteSeerx

Thursday, January 26, 2006
Avi Pfeffer
Associate Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
Title: Representations and Algorithms for Monitoring Dynamic Systems

Friday, February 3 , 2006
Mark Hill
Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: LogTM: Log-based Transactional Memory


CIS Faculty Recruiting Colloquia

Thursday, March 2, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Boon Thau Loo
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Declarative Networking: Extensible Networks with Declarative Queries

Spring Break

Saturday March 4th - Saturday, M arch 12th

No Classes

Monday, March 13, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Koushik Sen
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Title: Scalable Automated Methods for Software Reliability ***This talk will be held in 307 Levine Hall***

Thursday, March 16, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Samuel T. King
University of Michigan
Title: Analyzing Intrusions Using Operating System Level Information Flow

Tuesday, March 21, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Edward Suh
Pufco Inc.
Title: AEGIS: Architectural EnGine for Information Security

Thursday, March 23, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Aseem Agarwala
University of Washington
Title: Beyond the traditional image: depicting reality by merging multiple photographs and videos

Monday, March 27, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Ryan O'Donnell
Microsoft Research
Title: Constraint Satisfaction and Property Testing (and Voting and Double Bubbles)

*****This talk will be held in 337 Towne Bldg*****

Tuesday, March 28, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Jason Lawrence
Princeton University
Title: Data-Driven Models of Appearance

Thursday, March 30, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Adam Bargteil
University of California at Berkeley
Title: Computer Animation of Visco-elasto-plastic Materials through Physical Simulation

Thursday, April 6, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Alan Nash
University of California, San Diego
Title: Data Integration and Data Exchange ***This talk will be held in 337 Towne Bldg.***

Monday, April 10, 2006	*No Faculty Candidate Lecture*
Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture

Tuesday, April 11, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Hai Huang
University of Michigan
Title: Boosting Energy-Efficiency, Performance, and Fault-Tolerance by Leveraging Unused System Resources

Thursday, April 13, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Kamin Whitehouse
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Dealing with Real Sensors and Environments for Sensor Network Applications

Monday, April 17, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Yael Kalai
Massachusetts of Institute of Technology
Title: Limits of Obfuscation ***This talk will be held in 307 Levine Hall***

Tuesday, April 18, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Adam Kalai
University of Chicago
Title: Repeated Decision Making and Online Optimization ***This talk will be held in 307 Levine Hall***

Thursday, April 20, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Bo Pang
Cornell University
Title: A sentimental education: machine learning problems using opinion-oriented text

Monday, April 24, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Ani Nenkova
Columbia University
Title: Content selection and rewrite for generic multi-document summarization of news ***This talk will be held in 307 Levine Hall***

Thursday, April 27, 2006	*Faculty Candidate*
Ben Taskar
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Tractable Learning of Structured Prediction Models ***This talk will be held in 307 Levine Hall***

Tuesday, September 19, 2006	Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Sarita Adve
Professor Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk: Lifetime Reliability Aware Architectures

Monday, October 9, 2006	*Colloquia Speaker*
Marco Caccamo
Assistant Professor Departmenrt of Computer Science University if Illinois
Talk: RT-QoS for Wireless ad-hoc Networks of Embedded Systems

Thursday, October 26, 2006	*Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture Speaker*
Jessica Hodgins
Professor Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University.
Talk: Interfaces for Controlling Human Characters

Friday, October 27, 2006	*Colloquia Speaker*
Stephen Fink *Please note the time and location change for this talk*
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Talk: Effective Typestate Verification in the Presence of Aliasing

Thursday, November 9, 2006	Distinguished Lecturer
Jim Larus
Microsoft Research
Talk: Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack

Tuesday, Novemebr 14, 2006	*Colloquia Speaker*
Luis Almeida *Please note the time and location change for this talk*
Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Department (DETI) of the Universidade de Aveiro
Talk: Traffic Scheduling Anomalies within Temporal Partitions

Thursday, November 16, 2006	Distinguished Lecturer
Uri Feige
Microsoft Research
Talk: Algorithms for deciding satisfiability of random formulas

Tuesday, November 28, 2006	Distinguished Lecturer
Hari Balakrishnan
Professor Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labortory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk: Stamp Out Spam!

Tuesday, December 5, 2006	Distinguished Lecturer
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Professor Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk: Community Systems: The World Online

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