BU Computer Science Colloquium Series - Spring 2004
Wednesdays 3pm or as noted in red
Seminar Room / MCS 135
Coffee will be served at 15 minutes before the talk
in the seminar room.
Thursday, June 10, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Wide-area Wireless: Where do we go from here?
Suman Banerjee
U. Wisconsin at Madison
Host: John Byers
Wednesday, June 9, 3:30pm
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Extracting Meaning with Kolmogorov and Shannon
Paul Vitanyi
CWI and University of Amsterdam
Host: Steve Homer
Wednesday, June 9, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Private Transaction Management through Autonomous Oblivious Data Mining
Aggelos Kiayias
University of Connecticut
Host: Leonid Reyzin
Monday, May 17, 3pm
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
An Alternative Approach to Designing Clinical Trials: Budgeted Learning of Probablistic Classifiers
Russ Greiner
University of Alberta
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/
Host: Simon Kasif
Thursday, April 15, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Comparative Genomics for Biodefense: Tracking the Source of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks
Steven L. Salzberg
Senior Director of Bioinformatics, The Institute for Genomic Research
Research Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Azer Bestavros
Wednesday, March 31, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
Phil Gibbons
Intel Research, Pittsburgh
Host: John Byers
Friday, March 26, 3:30-4:30pm
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Recent Progress in the Design of Advanced Multimodal Interfaces
Sharon Oviatt
Center for Human-Computer Communication
Department of Computer Science
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
Hosts: Stan Sclaroff
and Carol Neidle (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Wednesday, March 24, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Simple PCPs with Poly-log Rate and Poly-log Query Complexity
Eli Ben-Sasson
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Host: Azer Bestavros
Monday, March 22, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Computational Geometry and Statistical Depth Measures
Diane Souvaine
Tufts University, Boston, MA
Host: Stan Sclaroff
Wednesday, March 17, 3pm
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Cache-Oblivious B-Trees
Michael Bender
SUNY, Stony Brook and MIT
Host: John Byers
Wednesday, January 28, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Locally Computable Extractors and Cryptosystems in the Bounded-Storage Model
Salil Vadhan
Harvard University and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Host: Leonid Reyzin
Friday, January 23, 11am
at Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Balancing Energy Efficiency and Quality of Aggregate Data
in Sensor Networks
Alexandros Labrinidis
University of Pittsburgh
Host: George Kollios
Created on: 2002.08.16
Coordinated by: Hongwei Xi