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Friday
August 04
Thesis Proposal
Nicholas Patronik
Effective Locomotion within the Intrapericardial Environment , Abstract
10:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Masters Thesis Presentation
Gregory Pennington
Methods for Cancer Phylogenetics from Single-cell Assays , Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
Thesis Committee: 
Russell Schwartz, Chair
Dannie Durand

Thesis Summary: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gregory3/thesis.html

  Special Robotics Seminar
Professor Katsushi Ikeuchi , Digital Bayon Project
University of Tokyo , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
August 07
CyLab Seminar
Alessandro Acquisti , Assistant Professor, Information Technology and Public Policy
H.J. Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Imagined Communities: Information Revelation, Privacy, and the Facebook , Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center, Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Lunch provided.

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Wednesday
August 09
Masters Thesis Presentation
Michael J. Coblenz
JASPER: Facilitating Software Maintenance Activities With Explicit Task Representations , Abstract
4:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
Thesis Committee:  Brad A. Myers, Chair James D. Herbsleb Thesis Summary: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mcoblenz/jasper/

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Friday
August 11
Masters Thesis Presentation
Ting Ting Wu
Character Rigs for Motion Exaggeration , Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
Thesis Committee: 
Nancy Pollard, Chair
Jessica Hodgins

Thesis Summary: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~burks/ThesisSummaries/wu_thesis.pdf

  CyLab Seminar
Professor Reto Wettach , Interface Design Department, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
Physical Interaction Design , Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center, Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Lunch provided.

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Monday
August 14
Thesis Oral
Jinxiang Chai
Exploiting Spatial-temporal Constraints for Interactive Animation Control , Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4625 Wean Hall
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Tuesday
August 15
Masters Thesis Presentation
Ruoran Liu
Peekaboom: A Case Study in Human Computation , Abstract
11:00 a.m., 4615A Wean Hall

  CyLab Seminar
Dave O'Hallaron , Associate Professor, Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon
Privacy Tradeoffs in Applying Virtual Machine Technology at Enterprise Scale , Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center (DEC), Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Lunch provided.

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Wednesday
August 16
LTI Ph.D Thesis Defense
Jian Zhang
A Probabilistic Framework for Multi-Task Learning , Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thursday
August 17
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Josh Bloch , Chief Java Architect, Google
and Author, Effective Java
Java Puzzlers' Greatest Hits , Abstract
7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. , 4720 Forbes Avenue, Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Space is limited. Registration prior to the event is required.
Email serventi@google.com.
Cathy will respond with a confirmation number.

  Speaking Skills Talk
Jahanzeb Sherwani
First steps in HealthLine: Who are the users and what are their needs? , Abstract
12:30 p.m., 7220 Wean Hall
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Monday
August 21
Robotics IC 2006
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Continues through August 25

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Tuesday
August 22
Robotics IC 2006
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Continues through August 25

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Wednesday
August 23
Robotics IC 2006
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Continues through August 25

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

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Thursday
August 24
COS and ISRI PhD Programs Immigration 2006
08:30 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Robotics IC 2006
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Continues through August 25

  KDD Project Presentation
Vipul Singhvi , Machine Learning MS Student
Intelligent Light Control Using Sensor Networks , Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. , 4623 Wean Hall
Refreshments

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

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Friday
August 25
Robotics IC 2006
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  eBusiness Technology: Practicum Fair
300 South Craig Other
  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

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Monday
August 28
Fall Term 2006: First Day of Classes
  CS IC 2006
Continues through September 9

  Thesis Proposal
David Ryan Koes
Abstract
10:00 a.m., 4623 Wean Hall
Thesis Committee:
Seth Copen Goldstein, Chair
Peter Lee
Anupam Gupta
Michael D. Smith, Harvard University

Thesis Summary: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dkoes/research/proposal.pdf

  ML IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  Thesis Proposal
Thomas Stepleton
Unsupervised Predictive Object Discovery , Abstract
5:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Thesis Proposal
Caroline Pantofaru
Incorporating unsupervised image segmentation into object class detection and localization , Abstract
09:30 a.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Thesis Proposal
Andrew Stein
Occlusion Boundaries: From Low-Level Detection to High-Level Reasoning , Abstract
12:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
August 29
CS IC 2006
Continues through September 9

  ML IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  Thesis Oral
David A. Tolliver
Spectral Rounding & Image Segmentation , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 4615A Wean Hall
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Wednesday
August 30
HCII Seminar Series
Robert Kraut / CMU-HCII and , Xiaoqing Wang, Ph.D student - Katz School of Business, PITT
Developing Commitment to an Online Community , Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  CS IC 2006
Continues through September 9

  ML IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8

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Thursday
August 31
CS IC 2006
Continues through September 9

  ML IC 2006
Continues through September 8

  LTI IC 2006
Continues through September 8



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