BU CS Department Colloquia - Fall 2000
Wednesdays 3pm or as noted
Seminar Room / MCS 135
Coffee will be served at 2:45 in the seminar room.
July 19, 2000:
Visual Models of Interaction
David Hogg
School of Computer Studies
University of Leeds
October 11, 3pm
Using Multiple Hash Functions to Improve IP Routing
Michael Mitzenmacher
Harvard University
Host: John Byers
October 18, 3pm
Probabilistic Methods for Web Caching
David Starobinski
Boston University
Host: John Byers
Friday, October 20, 3pm
Beyond the Welcome Mat:
The Privacy Implications of Web Browser Extensions
David M. Martin Jr.
University of Denver
Host: Azer Bestavros
October 25, 3pm
Writing the First Compiler for XSLT/XML
(or How to Make XSLT/XML Ubiquitous)
Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
Boston University
Host: Assaf J. Kfoury
November 8, 3pm
How to Achieve Quality on the Internet: A Debate between QoS and CDD
Abdelsalam Heddaya
InfoLibria Inc. and Boston University
Host: Ibrahim Matta
November 15, 3pm
Physics-based Modeling Methods in Vision, Graphics and Medical Image
Analysis
Dimitris Metaxas
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Margrit Betke
November 28, 3pm
The Effects of Wide-Area Conditions on WWW Server Performance
Erich M. Nahum
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Host: Paul Barford
November 29, 3pm
DISEC: A distributed group key management protocol for secure
multicasting
Lakshminath Dondeti
Nortel Networks
Host: Ibrahim Matta
Monday, December 4, 3pm
Ph.D. Thesis Defense:
Shape Model-Based Region Grouping, A Method for Deformable Object
Detection and Retrieval
Lifeng Liu
Advisor: Stan Sclaroff
December 6, 3pm
Multiprotocol Lambda Switching
Bruce Davie
Cisco Systems
Host: Ibrahim Matta
Friday, December 8, 1pm
Stable Distributions, Pseudorandom Generators, Embeddings and Data
Stream Computation
Piotr Indyk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: George Kollios
December 13, 3pm
Spectral Methods, Graph Partitioning, and Clustering
Shang-Hua Teng
Akamai Technologies Inc, and
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Azer Bestavros
Updated on: 2001.07.19
Maintainer: Margrit Betke
betke@cs.bu.edu