Colloquia - Spring 2006
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Times: Mondays 11am --- or as noted.
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Location: Seminar Room, MCS 135 --- or as noted.
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Coffee will be served at 15 minutes before the talk in the seminar room.
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Next Scheduled Colloquium
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Monday, April 3, 2:00 pm
in
Room 135, 111 Cummington Street
To Memory Safety Through Proofs
Dengping Zhu - Ph.D. Defense
Boston University
Computer Science Department
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Tuesday, April 4, 11:00 am
in
Room TBA, 111 Cummington Street
Security through measurement for wireless LANs
David Kotz
Dartmouth College
Institute for Security Technology Studies
Host: Mark Crovella
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Past and Future Colloquia
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Wednesday, September 28,
3:00
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington
Street
Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems
Professor Karsten Schwan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Host:
Rich West
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Wednesday, October 5, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
VMotion: Fast Transparent Migration for Virtual Machines
Kit Colbert
VMware, An EMC Company
Host:
Azer Bestavros
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Monday, October 17,
11:00
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Application-Level Service Guarantees for Wireless
Sensor Networks
Eylem Ekici
The Ohio State University
Host:
Ibrahim Matta
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Wednesday, November 2,
2:00
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
What's Going On With Federal Funding for Computing Research
and Words from My Sponsor
Andrew Bernat
Executive Director
Computing Research Association
Host:
Azer Bestavros
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Wednesday, November 9, 3:10
in
Room CAS 313, 685 Commonwealth Ave.
RATIONAL SECURE COMPUTATION and IDEAL MECHANISM DESIGN
Silvio Micali
MIT
Host: Leonid Reyzin
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Monday, November 14,
11:00 AM
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
Sonia Fahmy
Purdue University
Hosts:
Azer Bestavros
and
Ibrahim Matta
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Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Surviving Denial of Service Attack that Mimic Legitimate Browsing
Dina Katabi
MIT
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Monday, December 19, 3:10 pm
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Authentication without Identification: from Theory to Practice
Anna Lysyanskaya
MIT
Host: Leo Reyzin
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Wednesday, February 1, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Analysis of Genetic and Metabolic Networks
Calin Belta
BU, ENG
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Monday, February 6, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Staff Presentation on Department Computing Issues
Systems Staff and Administrators
Boston University
Host: Hongwei Xi
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Wednesday, February 8, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Improving Region Selection in Dynamic Optimization Systems
Michael Smith
Harvard University
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Wednesday, February 15, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
An Economic Response to Unsolicited (spam) Communication
Marshall Van Alstyne
Informations Systems Dept., SMG, Boston University
Host: Steve Homer
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Wednesday, February 22, 11:00 pm
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Towards Robust Overlay Networks: Enhancing Adaptivity Mechanisms
with Byzantine Resilience
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Purdue University
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Monday, February 27, 4:00 pm
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
A Neural Model of Motion Computation:
From Features to Moving Surfaces
Heiko Neumann
Ulm University, Germany
Host: Margrit Betke
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Wednesday, March 22, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Information and Collaboration in the Storage Stack
Tim Denehy
University of Wisconsin
Host: Rich West
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Friday, March 24, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Operating System Scheduling for Multicore Processors
Sasha Fedorova
Harvard University
Host: Rich West
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Monday, March 27, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Improving Software Dependability with Hardware Support
Pin Zhou
University of Illinois
Host: Rich West
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Monday, April 3, 2:00 pm
in
Room TBA, 111 Cummington Street
To Memory Safety Through Proofs
Dengping Zhu - Ph.D. Defense
Boston University
Computer Science Department
Host: Azer Bestavros
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Tuesday, April 4, 11:00 am
in
Room TBA, 111 Cummington Street
Security through measurement for wireless LANs
David Kotz
Dartmouth College
Institute for Security Technology Studies
Host: Mark Crovella
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Friday, April 7, 10:00 am
in
Room 135, 111 Cummington Street
Spatiotemporal Gesture Segmentation
Jonathan Alon - Ph.D. Defense
Boston University
Computer Science Department
Host: Steve Homer
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Tuesday, April 11, 11:00 am
in
Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street
Load Shedding Techniques for Data Stream Management Systems
Nesime Tatbul
Brown University
Host: George Kollios
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Wednesday, April 19, 3y:00 pm
in
Room 135, 111 Cummington Street
Computing Nash Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Complexity
Shang-Hua Teng
Boston University
Computer Science Department
Host: Steve Homer
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