Northeastern University

Page Content   Main Links   Local Links   Utility Links   Footer Links

Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

Archived Events – Colloquia & Seminars

CCIS Colloquia

The listing of colloquia for the current year can be found here.

2011

September 8, 2011 – Admissions Center (11:30 AM)
Speaker:
Title/Abstract: CCIS Mondays

November 12, 2011 – 108 West Village G (10:00 AM)
Speaker:
Title/Abstract: Fall Open House for Undergraduates. Click here to register

2010

January 12, 2010 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Prasad Tetali, Georgia Tech
Title/Abstract: Markov Chain Mixing with Applications

January 21, 2010 – 366 WVH (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Katya Scheinberg, Columbia University
Title/Abstract: First-order methods with complexity bounds for optimization problems arising in statistical machine learning

February 10, 2010 – 366 West Village H (1:30 PM)
Speaker: William Regli, Drexel University
Title/Abstract: Lessons Learned in Creating a Secure Wireless Agent Testbed

February 16, 2010 – WVH 366 (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Timothy Bickmore
Title/Abstract: Towards Enabling Population-scale Physical Activity Measurement on Common Mobile Phones (and other projects on the use of ubiquitous sensing for health monitoring and intervention)

February 18, 2010 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Kay Connelly
Title/Abstract: A mobile health application for a chronically ill, low-literacy population

April 5, 2010 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs Research
Title/Abstract: Programming Language Ideas Escape the Lab: A Declarative Data Description Language for Managing Ad hoc Data

2009

January 13, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: David Lazer, Associate Professor of Public Policy/Director, Program on Networked Governance, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Life in the Network: The Coming Age of Computational Social Science

February 20, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Marty Vona, MIT
Title/Abstract: Virtual Articulations for Coordinated Motion in High-DoF Robots

February 26, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:45 AM)
Speaker: David Molnar, University of California, Berkeley
Title/Abstract: Theory Plus Practice in Computer Security : Radio Frequency Identification and Whitebox Fuzzing

February 27, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Lena Mamykina, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Designing Technologies for Reflection and Learning in Chronic Disease Management

March 9, 2009 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Title/Abstract: Modeling User Interactions in Web Search and Social Media

March 10, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Anand Panangadan, Saban Research Institute of the Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles
Title/Abstract: Resource Management using Adaptive Sensing for a Body Area Network

March 17, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Domagoj Babic, University of British Columbia
Title/Abstract: Scalable and Precise Extended Static Checking

March 19, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alan Mislove, Rice University
Title/Abstract: Leveraging Social Networks in Information Systems

March 25, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Moses Charikar, Princeton University
Title/Abstract: New Insights into Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization

April 1, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Jeffrey Bigham, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Improving Access for Blind Web Users

April 3, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Justin Zhan, Cylab Japan, Carnegie Mellon University
Title/Abstract: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining

April 14, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Andres Lagar-Cavilla, University of Toronto
Title/Abstract: Flexible Computing with Virtual Machines

April 15, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:30 PM)
Speaker: Michael J. Cafarella, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Extracting and Managing Structured Web Data

April 17, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: William Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title/Abstract: Detecting and Preventing Attacks Against Web Applications

April 22, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Alvaro Cardenas, University of California, Berkeley
Title/Abstract: Statistical Models for Anomaly Detection

May 6, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
Title/Abstract: High Performance Computational Network Science: Epidemics in Social and Wireless Networks

May 8, 2009 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Title/Abstract: Bits vs. Trits

August 4, 2009 – 366 West Village H (1:05 PM)
Speaker: Bo Sheng, College of William and Mary
Title/Abstract: Efficient Data Acquisition in Pervasive Computing Environments

August 21, 2009 – WVH366 (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Adam Meyerson, UCLA
Title/Abstract: On the Price of Mediation

November 16, 2009 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Krishna Gummadi, Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany
Title/Abstract: Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation

November 20, 2009 – 366 West Village H (2:30 PM)
Speaker: Nathan Eagle, The Santa Fe Institute
Title/Abstract: Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems

November 23, 2009 – 440 Huntington Ave.  366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Michael Macy - Cornell University
Title/Abstract: The Length of Weak Ties

December 11, 2009 – 366 West Village H (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Christopher King
Title/Abstract: Superadditivity of Quantum Channel Capacity via Random Matrix Methods

December 15, 2009 – 440 Huntingon Avenue 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Gopal Pandurangan
Title/Abstract: Walking Faster in a Distributed Network

December 16, 2009 – 440 Huntington Avenue, 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Sue Moon
Title/Abstract: Understanding Topological Mesoscale Features in Community Mining

2008

January 7, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies
Title/Abstract: Towards A Content-Oriented Internetwork

January 14, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
Title/Abstract: Combinatorial identities, and visualizing recursion

February 4, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Martin Fürer
Title/Abstract: Faster Integer Multiplication

February 8, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Krzysztof Gajos, University of Washington
Title/Abstract: Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces

February 11, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Vincent Danos
Title/Abstract: Rule-based modelling of cellular signalling [Joint work with Jerome Feret, Walter Fontana, Russell Harmer, and Jean Krivine]

February 14, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Petros Drineas
Title/Abstract: Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations and Applications to Data Mining

February 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto and Mitsubishi Labs
Title/Abstract: Towards useful and usable multi-touch systems

March 12, 2008 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Bryan Ford, MIT
Title/Abstract: Intuitive Global Connectivity for Personal Mobile Devices

March 13, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Kyle Jamieson, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Title/Abstract: A Shift from Packets to Symbols in Wireless Systems

March 19, 2008 – 108 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson
Title/Abstract: WiFi on the Road : Real-World Performance and Applications

March 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Ben Vandiver
Title/Abstract: Beyond crash faults: Tolerating byzantine faults in database systems

March 24, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Mirek Riedewald
Title/Abstract: Scalable Data Stream Processing

March 28, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Peter Desnoyers, UMass Computer Science
Title/Abstract: Data Management for Streaming Systems

March 31, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: S. Muthu Muthukrishnan
Title/Abstract: Sponsored Search Algorithmics

April 10, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Anthony Hornof, University of Oregon
Title/Abstract: The Rich Information Potential of Eye Movements for Building Psychological Theory and for Assisting in Human Expression.

April 11, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Yannis Smaragdakis
Title/Abstract: Program Generation and Programming Models for Distributed Computing

April 16, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:30 PM)
Speaker: Brendan Eich, Mozilla Corp.
Title/Abstract: Securing the Open Web

April 17, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Daniel Golovin
Title/Abstract: Uniquely Represented Data Structures with Applications to Privacy

April 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:00 AM)
Speaker: K V Subrahmanyam
Title/Abstract: An introduction to Geometric Complexity Theory

April 28, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Emanuele Viola
Title/Abstract: Pseudorandomness

May 6, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Nitesh Chawla
Title/Abstract: Learning in the presence of class imbalance

May 8, 2008 – 366 WVH (11:45 AM)
Speaker: Julie Kientz, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Decision Support through Embedded Capture for Everyday Health and Wellness

May 9, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Shwetak Patel, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Bringing Sensing to the Masses: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing

August 25, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research, Barcelona
Title/Abstract: Delay Tolerant Bulk Data Transfers on the Internet or how to book some terabytes on “red-eye” bandwidth

September 15, 2008 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Engin Kirda, EURECOM, France
Title/Abstract: Dynamic Malware Analysis

October 9, 2008 – 20 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Edward Felten, Princeton University, US
Title/Abstract: Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity

October 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Brent Heeringa, Williams College
Title/Abstract: Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees

November 21, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew University & Microsoft Research
Title/Abstract: Edge-isoperimetry and Influences

December 12, 2008 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: Benjamin Rossman, MIT
Title/Abstract: The Constant-Depth Complexity of k-Clique

2007

January 10, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Brian Milch, MIT
Title/Abstract: Probabilistic Models with Unknown Objects

February 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sergey Yekhanin, MIT
Title/Abstract: New Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes

February 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 PM)
Speaker: Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland
Title/Abstract: Social Networks on the Web: Analysis, Applications, and Interaction

March 12, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 PM)
Speaker: Atilla Eryilmaz, MIT
Title/Abstract: Opportunities and Challenges in Networking: A Unifying Approach

March 19, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 PM)
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions

March 30, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Panagiotis Manolios, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Verifying System-Level Properties of Hardware at the Register Transfer Level

April 2, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
Title/Abstract: Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks

April 9, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Chien-Chung Hwang, Dartmoth University
Title/Abstract: Cheating Strategies in the Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates Problems

April 18, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:40 AM)
Speaker: Ben Liang, The University of Toronto
Title/Abstract: Distributed Persistent Data Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks

April 30, 2007 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Anupam Gupta, CMU
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Notions of Dimension

May 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Vinodchandran Variyam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title/Abstract: On the Space Complexity of Directed Planar Reachability Problem

May 21, 2007 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: C.Pandu Rangan, IIT, Madras, India
Title/Abstract: On Perfectly reliable and secure message transmission in a synchronous network.

June 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Kara Nance,
Title/Abstract: Virtual Information Assurance

September 7, 2007 – 366 WVH (5:00 PM)
Speaker: Stathis Zachos,
Title/Abstract: Hierarchies of Complexity Classes

September 17, 2007 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Xin Liu
Title/Abstract: Cross Layer Design for Cooperative and Adversarial Wireless Networks(PhD Thesis Defense)

October 1, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Damian DG Gessler
Title/Abstract: SSWAP: Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol

October 2, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Wagen Jean-Frédéric
Title/Abstract: Applied research at the Mobile Systems Group (HES-SO Fribourg Switzerland)

October 18, 2007 – 366 WVH (4:00 PM)
Speaker: David Kempe
Title/Abstract: On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling (or: Power-law Degree Distributions in Regular Graphs)

October 24, 2007 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Greg Malewicz
Title/Abstract: MapReduce

November 19, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Lenore Cowen
Title/Abstract: Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction

November 26, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Title/Abstract: Network Science: From the Web to the Cell

December 3, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Chris Darnell (GMO)
Title/Abstract: Portfolio optimization, stochastic dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning

December 10, 2007 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Telefonica Research
Title/Abstract: On the Many Facets of Neighbor Selection for Overlay Networks

December 10, 2007 – 164 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
Title/Abstract: Self-Organized Key Revocation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

2006

January 30, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Karan Singh (University of Toronto)
Title/Abstract: Psychorealism: A Fresh Perspective

February 10, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova (Harvard University)
Title/Abstract: Operating System Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors

February 17, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Morgan McGuire (Brown University)
Title/Abstract: Separating Foreground from Background in Video, and Other Applications of a Single-axis, Multi-sensor Camera

February 23, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Prof. Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Title/Abstract: Designed to Effectively Frustrate: ����Technical Copyright Protection and the Agency of Users

March 1, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University)
Title/Abstract: Algorithms and Data Structures for Flash Memories

March 2, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Darren Gergle (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title/Abstract: The Value of Shared Visual Information for Collaborative Task Performance

March 13, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Bill Scherer (University of Rochester)
Title/Abstract: Synchronization and Concurrency in User-level Software Systems

March 23, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Andrea Grimes
Title/Abstract: Human Centered Computing for a Technologically Mediated World

March 24, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ryan Lilien
Title/Abstract: Algorithmic Challenges and Biological Results in Computational and Systems Biology

March 31, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Title/Abstract: Generating correlated random variables with minimum transmission

April 10, 2006 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Greg Plaxton, University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: Optimal Cover Time for a Graph-Based Coupon Collector Process

April 13, 2006 – 110 WVH (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Tushar Saxena, Verizon Communications
Title/Abstract: The FiOS Digital Home

April 14, 2006 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Peter Pietzuch, Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Stream-Based Overlay Networks: Querying Internet Stream Data

April 21, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Dan Cosley, GroupLens Research Project, University of Minnesota
Title/Abstract: Helping hands: Design for member-maintained online communities

April 26, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sofya Raskhodnikova, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title/Abstract: Sublinear Algorithms for String Compressibility and the Distribution Support Size

April 27, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Martin, University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Beyond

April 28, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Sanjit Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Title/Abstract: Generalization of the Selective-ID Security Model for HIBE Protocols

May 1, 2006 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Olin Shivers, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: What Lambda Calculus has to Offer Network-Protocol Implementors

May 2, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Jakob Eriksson, University of California, Riverside
Title/Abstract: Scalability and Security in Self-Organizing Wireless Networks

August 3, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ron Metoyer, Oregon State University
Title/Abstract: Data-Driven Motion Generation

November 6, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Scott MacKenzie, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada
Title/Abstract: Text Entry Using a Small Number of Buttons

November 17, 2006 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Devavrat Shah, Department of EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: Message-Passing Algorithms for Network Scheduling

November 29, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Elliot Anshelevich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title/Abstract: Strategic Network Formation

December 6, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
Title/Abstract: Testing Global Properties of Distributions

December 13, 2006 – 110 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Xi Chen, Tsinghua University
Title/Abstract: On the Computation and Approximation of Two-Player Nash Equilibria

2005

January 7, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Shubu Mukherjee, Intel
Title/Abstract: Computing Architectural Vulnerability Factors

January 12, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Simson Garfinkel, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Title/Abstract: Used Disk Drives

January 28, 2005 – 366 West Village H (10:00 AM)
Speaker: Winslow Burleson, MIT Media Lab
Title/Abstract: Affective Computing: transforming the relationships between products, environments, and user experience.

January 31, 2005 – 366 West Village H (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Patrick Widener, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Dynamic Differential Data Protection in High-Performance Middleware

February 7, 2005 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Tandy Warnow, The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard, The University of Texas at Austin
Title/Abstract: New techniques for large-scale phylogeny

February 22, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Eli Tilevich, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Enhancing Programs Behind the Scenes

March 7, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Carlos Jensen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title/Abstract: Challenges and Directions in Privacy-Aware Design

March 8, 2005 – NEU Dodge Hall 450 (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Kevin Sullivan, (University of Virginia), Mario Sudholt, (INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes), Daniel Jackson, (MIT), Robert Filman, (NASA Ames Research Center)
Title/Abstract: Brown-Northeastern Aspects Day

March 15, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg, MIT
Title/Abstract: Adaptive Algorithms for Price-Setting and Overlay Routing

March 18, 2005 – 164 WVH (3:15 PM)
Speaker: April Rasala Lehman, MIT
Title/Abstract: Network Capacity

March 21, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Patrick Eugster, SUN Microsystems, Switzerland
Title/Abstract: Abstractions and Algorithms for Pervasive Programming

March 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Vicky Weissman, Cornell University
Title/Abstract: Reasoning about Security Policies

March 28, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Riccardo Pucella, Cornell University
Title/Abstract: Reasoning about Security

April 4, 2005 – (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Tian He, University of Virginia
Title/Abstract: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy Efficient Surveillance

April 8, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Alberto Cerpa (UCLA)
Title/Abstract: Low-Power Wireless Links Properties: ����Modeling and Applications in Sensor Networks

April 11, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:45 AM)
Speaker: Brian Demsky (MIT)
Title/Abstract: Data Structure Repair

April 13, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Tim Bickmore (Boston University School of Medicine)
Title/Abstract: Relational Agents: Effecting Change through Human-Computer Relationships

April 14, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Hridesh Rajan (University of Virginia)
Title/Abstract: Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design

April 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Guanling Chen (Dartmouth University)
Title/Abstract: Wireless LAN: Measurement and Analysis

April 29, 2005 – 206 Egan Center (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Fernando C. Colon Osorio and Zachi Klopman (WPI System Security Research Laboratory)
Title/Abstract: "And you thought you were safe after SLAMMER, not so, Swarms not Zombies present the greatest risk to Our National Internet Infrastructure"

May 5, 2005 – 366 WVH (11:30 AM)
Speaker: Howard Karloff (AT&T Labs Research)
Title/Abstract: Optimization and Approximation at AT Labs and Beyond

May 25, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Neeraj Sangal (Lattix Inc.)
Title/Abstract: Dependency Models to Manage Software Architecture

July 11, 2005 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: John Day
Title/Abstract: A Primer on Naming and Addressing

September 29, 2005 – 366 WVH (10:30 AM)
Speaker: Dr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio (WPI System Security Research Laboratory)
Title/Abstract: An Initial Analysis and Presentation of Malware Exhibiting Swarm-Like Behavior

October 11, 2005 – 10 Behrakis (3:25 PM)
Speaker: Scott Berkun
Title/Abstract: Why Software Sucks and What to Do About It

October 19, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Dr Eynat Rafalin (Tufts University)
Title/Abstract: Algorithms and Analysis of Depth Functions using Computational Geometry

November 2, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Xinping Zhu (ECE Northeastern University)
Title/Abstract: Design and Simulation of Multi-core System-on-Chips

November 2, 2005 – 366 WVH (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Andrew Bernat (Executive Director, Computing Research Association)
Title/Abstract: What's Going On With Federal Funding for Computing Research and Words from My Sponsor

November 10, 2005 – (Reception 4:00 p.m.) - 10 Behrakis Health Sciences Center (3:00 PM)
Speaker: Earl P. Steinberg, MD, MPP (Resolution Health Inc.)
Title/Abstract: "Use of Health Insurance Claims Data to Improve Quality and ��Reduce Cost of Health Care"

November 16, 2005 – 108 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: P Krishna (Reva Systems)
Title/Abstract: RFID Network Infrastructure

November 29, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Mohammad Mahdian (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
Title/Abstract: Random popular matchings

December 7, 2005 – 366 WVH (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL/MIT)
Title/Abstract: What is "hard" in distributed computing?

December 14, 2005 – 366 WVH (1:00 PM)
Speaker: Dr. Rama Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. (Chief Scientist, Oracle Retail and Vice President, Analytics)
Title/Abstract: Math and the Merchant: The Application of Econometrics, Machine Learning and Optimization Technologies to Retail Decision-Making

2004

January 13, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Boaz Patt-Shamir, HP Laboratories &, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Title/Abstract: Effective Collaboration Without Trust in Peer-to-Peer Systems

February 4, 2004 – 135 Shillman Hall (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Paul Nikolich, IEEE
Title/Abstract: An Overview of the IEEE-SA Project 802: LAN/MAN Standards Committee

February 25, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:30 PM)
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
Title/Abstract: Research at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)

March 23, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Leon Peshkin, Harvard University
Title/Abstract: Reinforcement Learning by Policy Search

April 7, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Ram Ramanathan, BBN Technologies
Title/Abstract: Ad Hoc Networking with Directional Antennas

April 14, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (2:00 PM)
Speaker: Homer Pien, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology, Managing Director, Center for Biomarkers in Imaging, Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Title/Abstract: Biological Computing Challenges

April 20, 2004 – 149 Cullinane (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Michael A. Bender, SUNY Stony Brook & MIT
Title/Abstract: Cache-Oblivious Searching

April 20, 2004 – 149 cullinane (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Michael A. Bender
Title/Abstract: Cache-Oblivious Data Structures

August 25, 2004 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: T. S. Jayram, IBM Almaden Research Center
Title/Abstract: Massive Data Set Computations - Algorithms and Complexity

October 1, 2004 – 366 West Village H (3:30 PM)
Speaker: Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Title/Abstract: Adversary Immune Communication Algorithms in Ad Hoc Networks

October 13, 2004 – 366 West Village H (11:00 AM)
Speaker: Madhu Sudan, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: List Decoding of Error-correcting Codes

October 22, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Muriel Medard, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: Towards a Random and Distributed Operation of Multicast Networks

October 27, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Hari Balakrishnan, EECS, MIT
Title/Abstract: The Cricket Indoor Location System

November 3, 2004 – 366 West Village H (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Gary Miller, CS, CMU
Title/Abstract: TUMBLE a software package for the simulation of soft tissues in 2D

November 19, 2004 – 366 WVH (11:00 AM)
Speaker: S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers Univ
Title/Abstract: Data Stream Algorithms and Applications

December 2, 2004 – 200 Richards Hall (12:00 PM)
Speaker: Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title/Abstract: Building Blocks for Engineering QoS Expectations over Best-Effort Networks

The listing of colloquia for the current year can be found here.

Local Links

Text Only Options

Top of page


Text Only Options

Open the original version of this page.

Usablenet Assistive is a UsableNet product. Usablenet Assistive Main Page.