BU CS Department Seminar -- Talks from Academic Year 1998-1999 (reverse chronological)


Friday, May 14:
Asymmetric MACs, Secure IP Multicast, and other easy Crypto

Gene Itkis
NKS


Friday, May 7:
A Paradigm Shift in Program Analysis and Transformation via Intersection and Union Types

Joe Wells
Heriot-Watt University


Friday, April 30:
Cryptography: Beyond Ink and Paper Metaphors

Ari Juels
RSA Laboratories


April 28:
Controllable Visual Cues: Images as Sensory Signals in Complex Control Systems

Stefano Soatto
Washington University


Friday, April 23:
Distributed, Multi-Party Security Policies

Trevor Jim
University of Pennsylvania


April 21:
Physically Based Motion Transformation

Zoran Popovic
Carnegie Mellon University


March 31, 1999:
Vision as Feedback: Toward Desktop Software Systems for Vision-Based Interaction

Greg Hager
Yale University


Monday, March 29, 1999:
Management of Intelligent Learning Agents in Distributed Data Mining Systems

Andreas Prodromidis
Columbia University


Friday, March 26, 1999:
Evaluating Lock Acquirer Prediction and Programming Model in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems

Ricardo Bianchini
University of Rochester


March 24, 1999:
QoS-aware Network Resource Management

Ibrahim Matta
Northeastern University


Friday, March 19, 1999:
Cache Management in Scalable Network Servers

Vivek Pai
Rice University


March 17, 1999:
Recognition of multi-agent action from perceptual features

Stephen Intille
MIT Media Lab


Friday, March 12, 1999:
Scalable Internet Network Engineering

Robert Morris
Harvard University


March 10, 1999:
Architecting for earthquakes: fault tolerant storage

Elizabeth Borowski
HP Labs, Palo Alto


March 3, 1999:
Automatic Input/Output Access Pattern Classification

Tara Madhyastha
Carnegie Mellon University


Monday, March 1, 1999
Cooperative Solutions to the Dynamic Management of Communication Resources

Robin Kravets
College of Computing, Georgia Tech


December 16, 1998
Adaptive Communication Protocols for the Future Internet

Hari Balakrishnan
MIT


December 9, 1998:
The BT-Forest: A Branched and Temporal Access Method

Betty Salzberg
Northeastern University


December 2, 1998:

Yannis Paschalidis
Boston University, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering


November 18, 1998:
Scheduling under Uncertainty

David Castanon
Boston University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering


November 4, 1998:
Some Problems and Results in Fault-tolerant Computing

Peter Gacs
Boston University, Dept. of Computer Science


October 28, 1998:
Secure Protocols with Invisible Trusted Parties

Silvio Micali
MIT LCS


October 21, 1998:
Interpretations of Objects and Object Types

Michele Bugliesi
University of Padua


October 7, 1998:
Image Retrieval by Appearance

Raghavan Manmatha
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computer Science Department, U. Mass, Amherst


September 30, 1998:
Tracking Figures in Video Using Kinematic Models

Jim Rehg
Cambridge Research Lab, Compaq Computer Corp