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Distinguished Lecture

Democratizing Computer Hardware Design

Valeria Bertacco, Mary Lou Dorf Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

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Private frequency estimation via projective geometry (and a little bit on K-12 math education)

Jelani Nelson, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley

3:00pm – 4:15pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni

The Story Behind Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)

Rich Uhlig, Intel Senior Fellow and Corporate VP, Intel Labs

10:00am – 11:00am in 1670 Beyster Building

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Algorithms: A Random Walk

Nikhil Bansal, Patrick C. Fischer Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 5:30pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

Distinguished Lecture | MIDAS Seminar | Women in Computing

Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Driven Discovery

Juliana Freire, Professor, Computer Science and Data Science, New York University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 140 Lorch Hall

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Natural Language Processing with People, for People, by People

Rada Mihalcea, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 6:00pm in 1050 Ford Motor Company Robotics Building

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni

Homecoming lecture: Building successful technology products, companies, and cultures in a cloud world

Bob Muglia, Alumni Merit Award Winner in CSE

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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The Open Virtual Assistant Initiative

Monica Lam, Professor, Stanford University

2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

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Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions

Fred Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor, University of Chicago

10:00am – 11:00am in Remote/Virtual

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Networks Capable of Change

Jennifer Rexford, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and the Chair of Computer Science, Princeton University

2:45pm – 3:45pm in Remote/Virtual

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Achieving Privacy in an Increasingly Connected World

Todd Austin, S. Jack Hu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

AI for Intelligent Financial Services: Examples and Discussion

Manuela Veloso, Managing Director, Head of AI Research, J. P. Morgan

5:00pm – 6:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing | Alumni

Detection structure and patterns in big biomedical data

Smita Krishnaswamy

10:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building

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Physics, Machine Learning, and Networks

Cris Moore, Professor, Santa Fe Institute

2:00pm – 3:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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From Reinforcement Learning to Artificial Intelligence

Satinder Singh Baveja, Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence

4:00pm – 6:00pm in Gerald R. Ford Library

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From Discrete Event Systems to Discreet Event Systems

Stéphane Lafortune, N. Harris McClamroch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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The 3rd Revolution in Computing has just begun: Connecting the Physical World to the Power of the Digital World

Samuel H. Fuller, CTO Emeritus and Distinguished Scientist, Analog Devices Inc., Research Scientist Affiliate, MIT

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Art Meets Science: My journey from Apple to Pandora to Snapchat

Tom Conrad, Board Member, Sonos

1:00pm – 2:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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A 21st Century Model for Disseminating Knowledge

Robert Sedgewick, William O. Baker Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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The Past, Present and Future of Parallel Computing

Kunle Olukotun, Cadence Design Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Taking Computing+Data Wide Across the Curriculum: The Illinois CS+X Degree Programs

Rob Rutenbar, Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Pittsburgh

5:00pm – 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?

Regina Barzilay, Professor, MIT

5:00pm – 6:00pm in 1017 Dow Building

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A Retrospective on the AMPLab and the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack

Michael Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and a Sr. Advisor to the Provost for Computation and Data, University of Chicago

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

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The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box

Michael Stonebraker, Co-Director, Intel Science and Technology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Professorship Lecture and Ceremony:
Autonomous Agents: Threat or Menace?

Michael P. Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

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On Being an Applied Computer Scientist

Gregory Abowd, Regents’ Professor and J.Z. Liang Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Era of Platforms

Ali Sebt, President, Renesas Electronics America

4:30pm in 1013 Dow Building

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Connecting with the Emerging Nervous System of Ubiquitous Sensing

Joseph Paradiso, Alexander W Dreyfoos Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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The Story Behind the Result

Richard Lipton, Storey Chair of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Emotion Technology, Wearables, and Surprises

Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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The Science and Policies of DIY Medical Technologies: Health Makers from Matagalpa to Montana

Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Lab Director, MIT

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Homecoming Lecture: From Snowstorms to Star Trek: A Career in Advanced Technology

Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

3:00pm – 4:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Crypto Wars Part Deux: How the NSA is Making Us All Less Safe

Cindy Cohn, Legal Director , Electronic Frontier Foundation

5:00pm – 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Does Wiretapping Make US More Secure? What a Computer Scientist Has to Add to the National Conversation

Susan Landau, Senior Staff Privacy Analyst, Google

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

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Provable Bounds for Machine Learning: Getting Around Intractability

Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Debugging DC: Why Government Is That Way, and How to Start Fixing It

Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University

5:00pm – 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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The Science and Engineering of Online Learning

Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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From Computational Thinking to Computational Values

4:30pm – 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Richard Stallman, President and Founder, Free Software Foundation

4:30pm – 5:30pm in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

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Making Parallelism Easy: A 25 Year Odyssey

Kunle Olukotun – Rackham Centennial Lecture, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director, Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at Stanford University, Stanford University

3:00pm – 4:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future

Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Chair, Computing Community Consortium

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Inmates vs Asylum: Overtime

Krisztian Flautner, CSE Merit Award Winner Lecture, Vice President for R&D, ARM, Inc.

2:30pm – 3:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data

Michael I. Jordan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks

Nancy Lynch, NEC Professor of Software Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks

Jiawei Han, Bliss Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Bjarne Stroustrup, Distinguished Professor and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science, Texas A&M University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Stories from the High Tech Career of an Accidental Engineer

Mark Abel, Assoc. GM of Software Services and Director of Pathfinding, Intel, Intel

1:30pm – 2:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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A Computer Scientist Looks at the Energy Problem

3:00pm – 4:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Stories from the Trenches of Silicon Valley

Tim Howes, Co-Founder and CTO, RockMelt

1:00pm in 1500 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

IARPA: Be the Future

Lisa Porter, Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, IARPA

2:00pm – 3:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Shortening the Healthcare Control Loop

John Guttag, Head of MIT Computer Science and AI Lab, MIT

4:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Real-World Challenges of Web-Based Malware

Niels Provos, Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security, Google

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Cybersecurity and Global Climate Change: Complementary or Conflicting National Priorities?

Robert F. Brammer, VP, Advanced Technology, and CTO, Northrop Grumman

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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Building and Searching a Web of Concepts

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience & Cloud Computing, Yahoo!

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

What is Differential Privacy?

Cynthia Dwork, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware

Sarita Adve, Professor, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Soul of a New Network Protocol

Radia Perlman, PI: Network Protocols and Security, Sun Microsystems

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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Learning, Inference and Action in the Open World

Eric Horvitz, Principal Researcher , Microsoft Research

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Multicore Programming Models and their Implementation Challenges

Vivek Sarkar, Professor, Rice University

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Cognitive Systems and Mobile Manipulation

Henrik Christensen, Professor & Director , Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Distinguished Lecture by Annie Anton

Annie Anton, Professor, NCSU

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Provenance and Scientific Workflows

Susan Davidson, Professor & Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

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Technology for Developing Regions

Eric Brewer, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

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Innovation 2020: An Entrepreneurs Journey from Michigan to Silicon Valley Startups to Google

RJ Pittman, Director, Product Management, Google

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The Exascale Challenge

Shekhar Borkar, Director, Microprocessor Technology Lab, Intel Corporation

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing

Jeannette Wing, President’s Professor of Computer Science and Assistant Director for CISE, Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation

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On Warehouse-Scale Computers

Luiz Barroso, Engineer, Google

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How Should the Next Generation (Mega) Data Center Be? – An Infrastructure Perspective

David Yen, Executive Vice President of Emerging Technologies, Juniper Networks

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Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics

Tom Mitchell, E. Fredkin Professor and Machine Learning Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University

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Al Spector seminar

Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google

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Designing a New Automotive DNA

Larry Burns, Vice President GM Research & Development and Strategic Planning, General Motors

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Graph Identification

Lise Getoor, Professor , University of Maryland

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Goff Smith Lecture – Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins, Cofounder, Chaiman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

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Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on Networking

Keith Edwards, Professor , Georgia Institute of Technology

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Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms

Daniel Spielman, Professor , Yale University

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Regret-based Methods for Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design

Craig Boutilier, Professor , University of Toronto

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Google: A Meandering Behind-the-Scenes Tour

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The Impending Algorithmic Revolution

Bernard Chazelle, Professor , Princeton University

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Rethinking the Internet Architecture

Scott Shenker, Professor , University of California, Berkeley

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User Interface Support for Todays Crazed Information Worker: From Scatterbrained to Focused

Mary Czerwinski

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The End of Scaling? Revolutions in Technology and Microarchitecture as we Pass the 90 Nanometer Node

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Trustworthy Software Systems

Larry Bernstein, Industry Research Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey

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Abels Proof: Solving the Unsolvable

Peter Pesic, Professor, St. Johns College

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Progress Towards Trustworthy Services

Fred Schneider, Professor , Cornell University

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Iron Laws for Multi-Core Scalability

John Shen, Director, Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL), Intel

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Uncertainty in an unknown world

Stuart Russell, Professor , University of California, Berkeley

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The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Movement and the Role for the CSE Research Community

Dan Atkins, Professor , University of Michigan

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Boosting and Brownian motion

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IT Forum Project

James J. Duderstadt, Professor , University of Michigan

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Distinguished Lecture Series in Graphics

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DLS in Graphics

Szymon Rusinkiewicz

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DLS in Graphics

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DLS in Graphics

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On-Line Science: The World-Wide Telescope as a Pro

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Computer Graphics: Past, Present and Future

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Making Movies with Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting

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Succeeding in Hollywood with a Technical Degree

Julie Anne Mayfield

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Research in Video Gaming

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Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC)

David Patterson, Pardee Chair of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley

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Future Game Design: Generating Player Driven Experiences