Events for 2008
JAN
08
2008
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Lab Seminar
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Interactive Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
JAN
11
2008
Theory Seminar
Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes
Bei Zeng, MIT
JAN
15
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Processing Web-Scale Data with Pig
Christopher Olston, Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
JAN
15
2008
AI Seminar
Finding Patterns in Large Networks
Mark Newman, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
JAN
22
2008
AI Seminar
Mechanism Design and Analysis Using Simulation-Based Game Models
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSE Division
JAN
28
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Wizards and Fruitflies — Using Eternal and Ephemeral Overlays for Monitoring Distributed Systems
Indranil Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
JAN
29
2008
AI Seminar
Is Cognitive Science the Right Method for AI?
John E. Laird, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
JAN
30
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
Out-of-order processing-History of the IBM System/360 Mode 91
Robert Tomasulo, IBM and Amdahl Consulting (ret.)
FEB
01
2008
Theory Seminar
Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes
Bei Zeng, MIT
FEB
01
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Improving Device Drivers for Real-Time Systems
Ted Baker, Professor and former Chair, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
FEB
08
2008
Theory Seminar
Power, Time, and Location: Parallel algorithms addressing them all
Quentin Stout
FEB
12
2008
AI Seminar
Multi-Robot Intelligence
Manuela M. Veloso, Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
FEB
14
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Hybrid modeling and robustness analysis of cell cycle regulatory circuitry
Xiling Shen, PhD student, Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University
FEB
19
2008
AI Seminar
Semantic Matchmaking with Expressive Preference Representation
Azzurra Ragone, Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
FEB
21
2008
Other Event
Seminar by Mike Shaver, Mozilla
Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist of Mozilla Corporation and Co-Founder of the Mozilla Project, Mozilla Corporation
MAR
04
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
A Non-Linear Neural Classifier and its Applications in Testing Analog/RF Circuits
Yiorgos Makris, Professor , Yale University
MAR
05
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Efficient Pattern Mining across DNA Sequences
Dr. Nelson R. Manohar-Alers
MAR
05
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control with Application to Quadruped Locomotion and Autonomous Helicopter Flight
Pieter Abbeel, Stanford University
MAR
11
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Inferring What's Out There: Probabilistic Reasoning about Unknown Objects
Brian Milch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
13
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web
Andreas Krause, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
14
2008
Theory Seminar
Leontief Economies Encode Nonzero Sum Two-Player Games
Ye Du
MAR
17
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Fighting Concurrency Bugs
Shan Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MAR
18
2008
Other Event
Developing with Mac OS X Leopard: The Power of UNIX. The innovation of Macintosh
Dr. Steve Hayman, Apple's Consulting Engineer
MAR
19
2008
Other Event
Sandia National Labs Tech Talk
Sue Kelley and Cole Shaw, Computer Software R&D, Sandia National Laboratories
MAR
20
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Analysis and Defense of Vulnerabilities in Binary Code
David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
21
2008
Theory Seminar
CSPL/Theory Seminar: Zero-error classical capacity of noisy quantum channels
Runyao Duan, Tsinghua University
MAR
24
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
A Theory of Similarity Functions for Learning and Clustering
Maria Balcan, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
25
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Security through the Lens of Failure
J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University
MAR
28
2008
Other Event
Ethics and Lethality in Autonomous Robots
Professor Ron Arkin, Regents' Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
APR
03
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Robust and Efficient Robotic Mapping
Edwin Olson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
APR
04
2008
Theory Seminar
The Unbounded-Error Communication Complexity of Symmetric Functions
Alexander Sherstov, The University of Texas at Austin
APR
07
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Secure Web Applications and Expressive Security Policies
Stephen Chong, Cornell University
APR
08
2008
AI Seminar
Reinventing Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
Eyal Amir, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
APR
09
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
Combining Circuits + Architecture to Combat Variability in Nanoscale CMOS
Gu-Yeon Wei, Associate Professor, Harvard University
APR
15
2008
AI Seminar
BoostCluster: Boosting Clustering by Pairwise Constraints
Rong Jin, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
APR
24
2008
Other Event
Lecture/Reception: Steve Forrest – William Gould Dow Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering
APR
28
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Rethinking Network Protocol Design for Large Scale Sensor Networks
Prasun Sinha, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
MAY
07
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Challenges in providing online advertising technology solutions
Dr. Radu Litiu, Atlas Search, Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions
MAY
07
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
Why Tools Matter
Todd Austin, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
MAY
07
2008
Other Event
Welcome Reception: CSE@50 Symposium and Reunion
MAY
08
2008
Other Event
CSE@50 Symposium
MAY
09
2008
Other Event
CSE@50 Reunion and Symposium
MAY
10
2008
Other Event
Midwest Theory Day
MAY
14
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Telling the Story of an Image
Fei-Fei Li, Princeton University
MAY
15
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Seeing at a Glance: Psychophysical and fMRI Studies on Rapid Natural Scene Perception
Fei-Fei Li, Princeton University
JUN
20
2008
Other Event
Arthur Burks Memorial Service
JUL
11
2008
Other Event
EECS Picnic
JUL
16
2008
Other Event
Intel Technical Seminar, Technologies to enable distributed data/media access and enjoyment across the home.
Frank Hady, Director of Network Storage Pathfinding STG, Intel
JUL
21
2008
Other Event
Keynote Address for CSST Institute, Web Communities: The World Online.
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience and Research Fellow, Yahoo Research
AUG
05
2008
Other Event
What does the Mona Lisa really look like? Analysis of works of art down to the nanometer scale
Michel Menu, Ph.D., Head of the Louvre Research Laboratory, Paris, Co-Author, Mona Lisa: Inside the Painting (Abrams, 2006)
SEP
05
2008
Theory Seminar
Theory Seminar: Organizational meeting & introductions
SEP
12
2008
Theory Seminar
Theory Seminar Introductory Talks – R. Sami & S. Pettie
Seth Pettie & Rahul Sami, UMich
SEP
12
2008
Other Event
EECS Graduate Student Fellowship Workshop
Todd Austin
SEP
16
2008
AI Seminar
Graphical Multiagent Models
Michael Wellman, Professor, Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
SEP
18
2008
Other Event
PhD Lunch Panel
SEP
23
2008
Other Event
Grad School Information Session for EECS Undergrads
SEP
23
2008
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar | Place Recognition from Perceptually Ambiguous Data
Edwin Olson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
SEP
24
2008
Other Event
MENTAL CHRONOMETRY TODAY
Michael Posner, Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon
SEP
24
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Coming to Grips with Live Attackers
Vern Paxson, Associate Professor and Senior Scientist, University of California – Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute
SEP
26
2008
Other Event
Those Who Stay Will Become Champions – Quotes from a Venture Capitalists Playbook
Marc Weiser, Founder and Managing Director, RPM Ventures
SEP
30
2008
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar | The RoboCup Standard Platform League: Challenges and Opportunities
Eric Chown, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Bowdoin College
OCT
03
2008
Theory Seminar
Exchange Market Equilibria with Leontief ’s Utility: Freedom of Pricing Leads to Rationality
Ye Du, UMich
OCT
03
2008
Other Event
Data-Intensive Scalable Computing: Taking Google-Style Computing Beyond Web Search
Randy Bryant, Dean of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
OCT
08
2008
Other Event
Shaping the Future with Technology
Dr. Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft
OCT
10
2008
Theory Seminar
On the Computation and Approximation of Two-Player Nash Equilibria
Xi Chen, Princeton University
OCT
10
2008
AI Seminar
Sid Meier: AI seminar on AI and Games
Sid Meier, Firaxis
OCT
10
2008
Other Event
NAE Reception for Pallab Bhattacharya
OCT
14
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Designing a Virtual Information Telescope Using Mobile Phones and Social Participation
Romit Roy Choudhury, Assistant Professor of ECE and CS, Duke University
OCT
14
2008
AI Seminar
Learning Nonparametric Kernel Matrices from Pairwise Constraints
Rong Jin, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
OCT
14
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
Design-for-reliability for scaled electronic technologies: Opportunities and challenges
Kartik Mohanram, Assistant Professor, Rice University
OCT
15
2008
Systems Seminar – CSE
Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones
Venkat Padmanabhan, Senior Researcher and Research Manager, Microsoft Research India in Bangalore
OCT
17
2008
Other Event
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
Dragomir Radev, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
OCT
24
2008
Other Event
Mentor Graphics/CSE Honors Competition
OCT
24
2008
Other Event
Mentor Graphics/CSE Honors Competition
OCT
29
2008
Other Event
Lecture/Reception to Honor Jessy Grizzle
OCT
30
2008
Other Event
Lecture/Reception to Recognize John E. Laird
OCT
31
2008
Other Event
Social vs. Professional Networks in a Globally-Connected, Knowledge-Based World
Ellen Levy, Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, LinkedIn
NOV
06
2008
Other Event
Professor Seminar Series
Professor Ian Hiskens
NOV
06
2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Mobile Music Making between Realtime Sound Synthesis and Mobile HCI
Georg Essl, Senior Research Scientist, Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU-Berlin
NOV
11
2008
AI Seminar
Evaluation of Human-level Intelligence
John Laird
NOV
14
2008
Other Event
Creating Something from Nothing
Kevin O'connor, Co-Founder and Former CEO/Chairman of DoubleClick, O'connor Ventures
NOV
14
2008
CSE Seminar
The Most Important Challenge America Faces: Educating the Mobile Generation
Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan
NOV
18
2008
AI Seminar
Finding Preferable Choices in Constrained and Multiagent Contexts
Ed Durfee, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
DEC
05
2008
CSE Seminar
Beyond Tagging and Poking: Information Management and Exploration on Social Content Sites
Cong Yu, Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
DEC
09
2008
Computer Engineering Seminar
Problem Solving in Visual Effects: Spider-Man 3
Jonathan Cohen