CS Special Seminar Series 2015

James Mickens,
Building a Better Web Browser
Speaker(s): James Mickens
Date: Monday, February 23, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Yael Kalai, Microsoft Research
Delegating Computation
Speaker(s): Yael Kalai
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Joseph Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Speaker(s): Joseph Gonzalez
Date: Monday, March 02, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 3-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Yun-En Liu, University of Washington
Building behavioral experimentation engines
Speaker(s): Yun-En Liu
Date: Monday, March 09, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Matt Weinberg, Princeton University
EECS/Networked Systems and Connection Science Seminar: Algorithms for Strategic Agents
Speaker(s): Matt Weinberg
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Anca Dragan, CMU
Interaction as Manipulation
Speaker(s): Anca Dragan
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Peter Bailis, UC Berkeley
Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases
Speaker(s): Peter Bailis
Date: Monday, March 16, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Morgan Dixon, University of Washington
Unlocking Interaction via Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering
Speaker(s): Morgan Dixon
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Elaine Shi, University of Maryland
ObliVM: Practical Oblivious Computation
Speaker(s): Elaine Shi
Date: Monday, March 30, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (kiva)
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Christina Delimitrou, Stanford University
Improving Resource Efficiency in Cloud Computing
Speaker(s): Christina Delimitrou
Date: Thursday, April 02, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-4602, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Simon Peter, University of Washington
Building an Operating System for the Data Center
Speaker(s): Simon Peter
Date: Monday, April 06, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, University of Washington
Big Visual Data Meets Human Face Modeling
Speaker(s): Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Date: Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Deian Stefan, Stanford University
Principled and Practical Web Application Security
Speaker(s): Deian Stefan
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, UC Berkeley
Structured Models for Unlocking Language Data
Speaker(s): Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
Date: Monday, April 13, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Justin Solomon, Stanford University
Transportation Techniques for Geometric Data Processing
Speaker(s): Justin Solomon
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Jing Chen, Stony Brook University
EECS/Networked Systems and Connection Science Seminar: Jing Chen "Resilient Mechanism Design"
Speaker(s): Jing Chen
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 32-G449 (kiva)
Contact: Joanne Talbot Hanley, 617-253-6054, joanne@csail.mit.edu
Andrew Sutherland, MIT alum
Andrew Sutherland, Quizlet founder
Speaker(s): Andrew Sutherland
Date: Sunday, October 04, 2015
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: 32-124
Contact: Kenneth C. Zolot, zolot@csail.mit.edu