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Tuesday
April 01
Thesis Oral
Ranjith Unnikrishnan
Statistical Approaches to Multi-scale
Point Cloud Processing
, Abstract
2:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  VASC Seminar
Gabriel Taubin , Associate Professor
of Engineering and Computer Science
Brown University
Recent Contributions to 3D Photography , Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  SigBovik Might Have Been Today...
...But It Isn't

See you April 6.

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Wednesday
April 02
MOBOT (MObile RoBOT) $99 Challenge
12:30 p.m., Race Course in Front of Wean Hall
On the sidewalk Wean Hall
  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Seminar
Todd Scofield, Big Data Fast
Jim Seaman and Loren Hudziak, Netezza Corporation
Netezza Performance Server---A Data-Intensive
Supercomputer Appliance – Scientific and
Commercial Applications
, Abstract
1:30 p.m., Other
  Thesis Proposal
Ryan Kelly
Analysis of large-scale neuronal data
acquired with micro-electrode arrays
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4625 Wean Hall

  HCII Seminar Series
David F. Feldon ,
Assistant Professor of Educational Studies
University of South Carolina
Leveraging Contexts, Expertise, and
Instructional Design in Educational
Technology Research
, Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Haakan Younes ,
Software Engineering, Google Pittsburgh
Statistical Probabilistic Model Checking , Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Future of Interactive Technology for Peace
Abstract
Host: The Entertainment Technology Center

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Thursday
April 03
Joint SCS/RI/Physics Seminar

Jeff Peterson , Professor
Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon
Robotic Lunar Cosmology , Abstract
4:00 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall
The April Fool's We're Not Kidding Seminar

  Thesis Oral
Douglas L. Vail
Conditional Random Fields for Activity Recognition , Abstract
1:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  CSD Systems Seminar
Nick Feamster , Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech
Improving Internet Reliability with Path Splicing , Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  FRC Seminar
Geoffrey L. Barrows ,
Founder, Centeye, Inc.
Minimalist Vision Systems with Applications
to Robotic Aircraft
, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1109 Newell-Simon Hall
  VASC/Graphics Seminar
Saad Ali , University of Central Florida
Visual Analysis of Crowded Scenes , Abstract
3:00 p.m., Mauldin Auditorium - 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
April 04
CS Graduate Student Appreciation Day
4:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. , Perlis Atrium Newell-Simon Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Vyas Sekar
cSamp: A System for Network-Wide
Flow Monitoring
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  Thesis Oral
Sandeep Pandey
Information Mediation in the Presence of
Constraints and Uncertainties
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  Robotics Seminar
Paul Newman , University Lecturer
Mobile Robotics Research Group
Dept. of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Appearance Based Navigation and the
FAB-MAP Algorithm
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Thesis Proposal
Han Liu , PhD Candidate
Nonparametric Learning in High Dimensions , Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. , 4623 Wean Hall
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Monday
April 07
ML/Google Seminar
Jerome Friedman , Professor, Stanford University
Fast Sparse Regression and Classification , Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , 7500 Wean Hall
Refreshments at 4:15

  Corporate Talk: YARD BARKER
4:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Corporate Presentation: Yardbarker
Mark Johns
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Alex Rofman
Vice President, Product and Business Development
Bringing Interactivity and Authenticity to
Online Sports Media
, Abstract
4:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
w/refreshments

  Speaking Skills Talk
James McCann
Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  Speaking Skills Talk
Debabrata Dash
An Integer Linear Programming-based tool for Automated Physical Design , Abstract
12:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall

  Thesis Proposal
Thomas M. Howard
Adaptive Model-Predictive Motion Planning
for Navigation in Complex Environments
, Abstract
1:45 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
April 08
SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Douglas Downey , University of Washington
Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate
Douglas Downey , University of Washington
Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Parallel Thinking Seminar
James Larus , Microsoft Research
Spending Moore's Dividend , Abstract
3:00 p.m., Panther Hollow Room
at Intel Research Collaborative Innovation Center
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Wednesday
April 09
Robot Hall of Fame: Induction Ceremony
Carnegie Science Center Other
  HCII Seminar Series
NO SEMINAR, CHI 2008
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Different Color Hair Day
featuring the yet unmet
Mohawk Challenge!

  Pre-Registration Event: Hosted by Women@SCS
Abstract
4:30 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
  The Last Lecture:
A Love Story for Your Life

Randy Pausch interview with Diane Sawyer , on ABC
Abstract
10:00 p.m.EST (9:00 pm C)

  ML Seminar
Purnamrita Sarkar , PhD Candidate
Fast Algorithms for Proximity Search on Large Graphs , Abstract
2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Seminar
Risi Kondor , Senior Post-Doc Research Fellow
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London
The Skew Spectrum of Graphs–A New
Class of Graph Invariants
, Abstract
5:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thursday
April 10
Katayanagi Prize Presentations and Lectures
Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize

Erik D. Demaine ,
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor
and Associate Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra:
Folding with Algorithms
, Abstract
4:30 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall
  Katayanagi Prize Presentations and Lectures
Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence

Christos Papadimitriou ,
C. Lester Hogan Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
The Algorithmic Lens:
How the Computational Perspective is
Transforming the Sciences
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall
  ML Seminar
Jingrui He , PhD Candidate
Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning as a Generative Model , Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. , 5409 Wean Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate
Ashish Sabharwal , Cornell University
A Quest for Large-Scale Reasoning and
Sampling Methods
, Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Invented, Engineered and Pioneered in Pittsburgh
Abstract
8:00 p.m., On WQED TV
Premiere!

  Speaking Skills Talk
Stefan Zickler
Playing Creative Soccer: Randomized Behavioral
Kinodynamic Planning of Robot Tactics
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall

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Friday
April 11
Robotics Seminar
Omead Amidi ,
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
Flying Robots at RI Build 3D World Maps , Abstract
3:30 p.m., Mauldin Auditoriuim 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
April 14
The Last Lecture
Book Talk and Signing

Jeffrey Zaslow ,
Senior Writer and Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
Abstract
4:30 p.m., Chosky Theatre Purnell Center
Watch for details.

  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Nickolai Zeldovich , Stanford University
Building secure systems from buggy code
with information flow control
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Thesis Oral
Lu Luo , Software Engineering PhD Student
Designing Energy and User Efficient Interactions
with Mobile Systems
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 4625 Wean Hall
  VASC Seminar
Yaser Yacoob , Research Faculty
Computer Vision Laboratory
University of Maryland, College Park
Image Segmentation Using Meta-Texture Saliency , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
April 15
Speaking Skills Talk
Olatunji Ruwase
Parallel Runtime Monitoring , Abstract
12:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall

  LTI Seminar
Ronald M. Kaplan , Chief Scientific Officer, Powerset, Inc.
Powerset: Deep Natural Language Processing
for Web-Scale Indexing and Retrieval
, Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Your Taxes are Due Today!
Post Offices Open Until Late Tonight , Courtesy Link: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Olympus CONNECTS Students Roundtable
Topic:
What You Always Wanted to Know
About IP and All That

5:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  LTI PhD Thesis Defense
Christian Monson
ParaMor: From Paradigm Structure to
Natural Language Morphology Induction
, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Parallel Thinking Seminar
Maurice Herlihy , Professor
Computer Science Department
Brown University
Making Transactional Memory More Scalable , Abstract
3:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
April 16
Thesis Proposal
Nathan Ratliff
Abstract
3:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Michael Dinitz
The Discounted Secretary Problem , Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

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Thursday
April 17
No Classes: Anticipating Carnival!
  ML Seminar
Hanghang Tong , Ph.D. Candidate
Center-Piece Subgraphs: Problem Definition and Fast Solutions , Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. , 5409 Wean Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
James Hendricks
Byzantine fault-tolerant erasure-coded storage , Abstract
12:00 p.m., 8220 Wean Hall

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Friday
April 18
14th Annual Mobot Races
12:00 p.m., Race Course Event Wean Hall
  Spring Carnival
No classes!

  15th Gate Wrap-Up & Award Ceremony
14th Annual Mobot Races

Abstract
3:00 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall
  POP Seminar
Matthew Fluet
Manticore: A Heterogeneous Parallel Language , Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 8220 Wean Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Kami Vaniea
An Empirical Study of a Smartphone-Based
Access-Control System
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall

  Thesis Oral
Shang-Wen Cheng , Software Engineering PhD Student
Rainbow: Cost-Effective Software Architecture-Based
Self-Adaptation
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. , 4623 Wean Hall
  Robotics Club Open House
Abstract
3:00 p.m., Robotics Club - UC Basement University Center
  LTI seminar
Hiroshi Kanayama ,
Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Japan
ESPER: Extractor of Sentiment and Preference
ExpRessions
, Abstract
2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Saturday
April 19
Spring Carnival
  RI Hosts: Dynamic Balance Festival
Have fun, get some exercise,
and celebrate spring!
Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. , By the Tennis Courts University Center
After the buggy races!

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Sunday
April 20
SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
David Brumley , Carnegie Mellon University
Analysis and Defense of Vulnerabilities in Binary Code , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
April 21
ML/Google Seminar
Yoram Singer , Senior Research Scientist, Google
Efficient Projections Algorithms onto the L1 Ball for Learning Sparse Representations from High Dimension Data , Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , 7500 Wean Hall
Refreshments at 4:15

  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Pieter Abbeel , Stanford University
Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control,
with Application to Quadruped Locomotion and
Autonomous Helicopter Flight
, Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  CyLab Seminar
Katerina Argyraki , Research Scientist, EPFL, Switzerland
Loss and Delay Accountability for the Internet , Abstract
3:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
  LTI PhD Thesis Proposal
Satanjeev Banerjee
Improving Automatic Meeting-Understanding
by Leveraging Meeting Participant Behavior
, Abstract
2:30 p.m., A19D Porter Hall
  Thesis Oral
Galen Clark Haynes
Gait Regulation Control Techniques for
Robust Legged Locomotion
, Abstract
4625 Wean Hall
  Special Alumni Talk
Ken Jenkins (CMU ECE'69) , 9/11 Reconsidered
Abstract
5:00 p.m., 1212 Doherty Hall
  VASC Seminar
Kasuhisa Ogawa ,
Canon CMOS Group
Canon CMOS sensor's Past, Present and Future , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Special Seminar
Dan Bohus , Microsoft Research
Voice-Search on Mobile Devices , Abstract
11:00 a.m., 8220 Wean Hall
  LTI Seminar
Gideon Mann , Google
Generalized Expectation Criteria for
Semi-Supervised Learning
, Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
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Tuesday
April 22
2008 Buhl Lecture
Joel R. Primack ,
Professor of Physics, SCIPP
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
University of California at Santa Cruz
A Brief History of Dark Matter , Abstract
4:30 p.m., Auditorium Mellon Institute
Reception Immediately Following the Lecture

  Parallel Thinking Seminar
Charles Leiserson ,
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, MIT
and Cilk Arts, Inc.
Cilk++: Multicore-Enabling Legacy C++ Code , Abstract
3:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  LTI Ph.D Thesis Proposal
Richard Wang
Language-Independent Set Expansion of
Named Entities Using the Web
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4625 Wean Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
David Brumley , Carnegie Mellon University
Analysis and Defense of Vulnerabilities in Binary Code , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  SCS Senior Night
6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
  CyLab Seminar
Steve Boutelle , Vice President, Cisco Systems
Consequences of Network Ubiquity , Abstract
12:30 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
  Intelligence Seminar
Martin Wainwright , Assistant Professor
Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences
Universty of California, Berkeley
Inference in high-dimensional settings:
Trade-offs between computational and
statistical efficiency
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
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Wednesday
April 23
HCII Seminar Series
Cliff Lampe , Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University
Participation Patterns in an Online Community , Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  A Celebration of Teaching
Abstract
4:30 p.m., Rangos 1/2 University Center
Faculty, staff and students welcomed.

  POP Seminar
Philippa Gardner
Local Hoare Reasoning about DOM , Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 8220 Wean Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
William Thies , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stream Programming: Luring Programmers
into the Multicore Era
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Heinz School Review: Alternative Convocation
Jerry Patyas
Director of Research, Economic Architecture Practice, GSP Consulting
Matt Harbaugh
Chief Investment Officer, Innovation Works
Eric Close, President and Chief Economic Officer, RedZone Robotics
Robots & Revitalization:
Building Pittsburgh's Technology Sector

12:15 p.m.- 1:15 p.m. , 1000 Hamburg Hall
Lunch served.

  Olympus Show and Tell 5
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , Collaborative Innovation Center
Reception Follows.

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Thursday
April 24
POP Seminar
James Cheney
Data Provenance as Dependency Analysis , Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 7220 Wean Hall
  Thesis Proposal
Frederik W. Heger
Assembly Planning in Constrained Environments:
Building Structures with Multiple Mobile Robots
, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 4623 Wean Hall
  VASC Seminar
Li Zhang , Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer Vision Under Programmable Lighting:
From 3D Reconstruction to Object Recognition
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
April 25
Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Sumit Kumar Jha , Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Iterative Relaxation Abstraction
(Verification of Linear Hybrid Automata)
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Salah Aly , Texas A&M University
Distributed Coding-Based Storage Algorithms
for Wireless Sensor Networks
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  SCS Undergrad Picnic!
4:30 p.m.Get your tickets!

  Fulbright Scholarships: Info Session
Learn About the Campus Application Process , Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. , Wright Room University Center
  Speaking Skills Talk
Jason Franklin
Modeling and Analysis of Networked
Secure Systems
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  Thesis Oral
Brian Richard Potetz
Efficient Statistical Methods for 3D Shape Inference , Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall

  TechBridgeWorld Seminar
Bill Thies , Graduate Student
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Extending the Capabilities of the Internet
to the Rural Developing World
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. , 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Michael Carl Tschantz
Extracting Confidentiality Policies , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 4615A Wean Hall

  Speaking Skills Talk
Sumit Kumar Jha
Iterative Relaxation Abstraction
(Verification of Linear Hybrid Automata)
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

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Monday
April 28
CS Emigration Seminar
Roy Levin ,
Distinguished Engineer and Director
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Getting a Job in Corporate Computing Research , Abstract
Mauldin Auditorium (1305) Newell-Simon Hall
Lunch provided.

  Fulbright Scholarships: Info Session
2nd Session if you missed the first
Learn About the Campus Application Process , Abstract
16:30 p.m.- 17:30 p.m. , Wright Room University Center
  Thesis Oral
Christopher D. Twigg
Controlling Rigid Multibody Dynamics via
Browsing and Time Reversal
, Abstract
4:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  Thesis Oral
Vahe V. Poladyan
Tailoring Configuration to User's Tasks
under Uncertainty
, Abstract
08:00 a.m., 4623 Wean Hall

  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Costis Daskalakis , University of California, Berkeley
Computing Equilibria in Games , Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Steven Okamoto
The Impact of Vertical Specialization on
Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4201 Newell-Simon Hall

  CyLab Seminar
Wes Higaki , Director
Symantec Software Assurance
What are Vendors Doing to Make Software Secure? , Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Lunch provided

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Tuesday
April 29
Computational Thinking Seminar
Michael Carroll ,
Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Research and the Law:
Copyright Complications and the
Creative Commons Solutions
, Abstract
2:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
2:00 pm - Refreshments

  Thesis Oral
Dean F. Sutherland , SE PhD Student
The Code of Many Colors:
Semi-automated Reasoning about
Multi-Thread Policy for Java
, Abstract
2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 5324 Wean Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
André Platzer , University of Oldenburg
Logic-based Verification of Hybrid Systems , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Thesis Defense for Johnny Chung Lee
Johnny Chung Lee , HCII PhD candidate
Projector-Based Location Discovery and Tracking , Abstract
09:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing:
Student Poster Presentations 08-200/19-211

Abstract
09:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m. , 4th Floor Lobby Corridor
Outside the Lamguage Technologies Institute Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
April 30
POP Seminar
Chris Hawblizel , Microsoft Research
Typed Assembly Language from an
Optimizing Compiler
, Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 8220 Wean Hall
  HCII Seminar Series
Ron Wakkary , Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University
The Resourcefulness of Everyday Design , Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Xiaofeng Ren , Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Image and Video Parsing: a Gestalt Approach , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Emigration Seminar
Chris Scaffidi , Institute for Software Research
Comparing and Contrasting Software Engineering Research
in Industry and Academia
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Mauldin Auditoriuim 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  Speaking Skills Talk
Varun Gupta
Optimal Size-based Scheduling with Selfish Users , Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall



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