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99-00 Colloquium

Colloquium Coordinator: Carolina Ruiz

Summer 1999

Date Room Speaker Talk
MAY 28,'99
Friday
9:00am 
FL311  Michael Ciaraldi
Lucent Technologies 
The Software Engineer as Artist and Detective  
AUG 13,'99
Friday
11:00am 
SL105  Kathi Fisler
Rice University 
The Faces of a Super-Model: An Introduction to Computer-Aided Verification 
AUG 13,'99
Friday
3:00pm 
SL105  Shriram Krishnamurthi
Rice University 
Growth by Design: Programming for Extensibility 
 

Fall 1999

Date Room Speaker Talk
SEP 10,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  David C. Brown
CS, WPI 
The Hair Dryer Requirement: A Blow-by-Blow Account  
SEP 17,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Sarah Kuhn
Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell 
The Software Design Studio: Lessons for Pedagogy and for Practice  
SEP.24,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  CS Faculty   Research Bytes I  
SEP.24,'99
Friday
2:00pm 
FL311  Jirousek Radim
The Univ. of Economics, Prague 
An Introduction to Probabilistic Models for AI  
OCT.01,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  CS Faculty   Research Bytes II  
OCT.08,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  CS Faculty   Research Bytes III  
OCT.15,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  CS Faculty   Research Bytes IV  
OCT.21,'99
Thursday
11:00am 
FL311  Arnon Rosenthal
The MITRE Corporation 
How to Administer Security and Other Metadata for Federations, Warehouses, and Views 
OCT.22,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  John Fox
Advanced Computation Laboratory
Imperial Cancer Research Fund  
Guardian Agents: Artificial Intelligence in Safety-Critical Systems 
OCT.29,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Suzanne Watzman
Watzman Information Design 
The Art of the Interface: Creating Successful Visual Interfaces 
NOV.04,'99
Thursday
4:00pm
 
Kinnicutt Hall
Salisbury Labs,
Room 115
 
Hans Winold
LucasArts Entertainment Company 
Joint Math/CS Colloquium
Dancing on the Unit Hypersphere: Looking to Higher Dimensions for Elegant Solutions to Issues in Computer Games 
NOV.12,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Robert E. Kinicki
CS WPI 
Notes from the Network Mangement Front 
NOV.19,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  George Heineman
CS WPI 
How a PhD Changed My Life as witnessed by George Heineman 
DEC.03,'99
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Wang-Chien Lee
GTE Inc. 
Research Issues on Wireless Data Dissemination 
DEC.09,'99
THURSDAY
11:00am 
FL311  Janice D. Gobert
Harvard University  
Joint SSPS/CED/CS Colloquium
Diagramming for learning science: Implications for model-based reasoning 
 

Spring 2000

 
Date Room Speaker Talk
JAN.21,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Dominic Giampaolo
Be, Inc. 
The Design and Implementation of the Be System 
JAN.28,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Edward Coffman
New Jersey Institute of Technology 
Packing, Parking, and Partitioning in a Random World 
FEB.04,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Judith A. Stafford
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder 
A Compositional Approach to Interprocedural Control Dependence Analysis 
FEB.11,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Kathryn Fisler
Rice University 
Timing Diagrams as Data Structures in Computer-Aided Verification 
FEB.18,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Darko Stefanovic
Princeton University 
Faster Garbage Collection 
FEB.25,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Cancelled  
MAR.03,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Padmanabhan K. Aravind
Physics Dept., WPI 
Joint CS/WPI-Bridge Colloquium
Quantum Information: What is it and why is it interesting? 
MAR.13,'00
Monday
11:00am 
FL311  Vincenzo Liberatore
Univ. of Maryland, College Park 
Caching for Broadcast Disk Systems 
MAR.17,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Tim Sheard
Oregon Graduate Institute 
MetaML - Meta-programming system 
MAR.20,'00
Monday
11:00am 
FL311  James C. "Fritz" Barnes
Univ. of California, Davis 
Customizing Web Middleware: Providing Differentiated Services and Custom Caching Policies 
MAR.22,'00
Wednesday
10:00am 
FL311  Peter Brusilovsky
Carnegie Mellon Univ. 
Adaptive Web-based systems: Technologies and Examples 
MAR.24,'00
Friday
11:00am 
SL115  CS Faculty  CS Faculty MQP Presentations 
APR.07,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Robert E. Kinicki
CS WPI 
CS Graduate Program at WPI 
APR.14,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Betty J Salzberg
Northeastearn Univ. 
The BT-tree: A Branched and Temporal Access Method 
APR.21,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Bhavani Thuraisingham
The MITRE Corporation 
Some Directions for Data Mining Multimedia Databases 
APR.28,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Santosh S. Vempala
MIT 
On Clusterings --- Good, Bad and Spectral 
MAY.05,'00
Friday
11:00am 
FL311  Stanley Zdonik
Brown University 
Data Centers: Managing Web Data with Profiles 
MAY.19,'00
Friday
11:00am 
SH203  Thomas Henderson
University of Utah 
Joint Math/CS Colloquium
Computing Issues in Large-Scale Simulation 
 

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