Thursday
May 01 |
Thesis Proposal
Aleksey Kliger
Reasoning about garbage collection in linear logic
, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Noam Zeilberger
Walking the Way of Duality (in programming languages)
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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ACM Student Chapter @ CMU Roundtable
Katie Kean
, Coporate VP, IBM
Abstract
6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
, 5310 Wean Hall
w/refreshments
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Friday
May 02 |
Dec/5, FreeCSD, MLD, SE, EGO present:
The Sixth Annual Random
Distance Run
Abstract
4:45 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Track University Center
Early Registration: Friday, April 18
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Thesis Oral
Martin Stolle
Finding and Transferring Policies Using
Stored Behaviors
, Abstract
, 4623 Wean Hall
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SCS Student Seminar Series
Terrill Frantz
, Computation, Organizations and Society
Institute for Software Research
ORA: Software for Dynamic Network Analysis
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Aladdin Theory Seminar
Vijay V. Vazirani
, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nash Bargaining via Flexible Budget Markets
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 7500 (Special Location) Wean Hall
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Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Jiri Sima
, Carnegie Mellon
On the Way to Parallel and Distributed
Explicit State LTL Model Checking
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1109 Newell-Simon Hall
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Robotics Seminar
Daniela Rus
,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building Bodies and Brains for Programmable Matter
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., Mauldin Auditorium 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Data Mining Class Project Demos
Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
, 4215A Wean Hall
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Monday
May 05 |
ML/Google Seminar
Lada Adamic
, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Expertise Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums
, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
Refreshments at 4:15
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Thesis Proposal
Geoffrey A. Hollinger
Search in the Physical World
, Abstract
3:15 p.m., 1109 Newell-Simon Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Debabrata Dash
An Integer Linear Programming-based Tool
for Automated Physical Design
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4615A Wean Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Himanshu Jain
The Quest for Fast Boolean Satisfiability Solvers
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Thesis Proposal
Manfred Lau
Modeling Behavior and Variation for Crowd Animations
, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
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Seminar
Mino Garafalakis
, Principal Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research
Streaming in a Networked World: Querying Distributed Data Streams
, Abstract
1:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
May 06 |
CyLab Seminar
Eng Keong Lua
, Special Researcher
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Tokyo
Internet Geometry, Latency Structure & Routing
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Lunch provided
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ML Seminar
Jingrui He
, PhD Candidate
Nearest-Neighbor-Based Active Learning for Rare Category Detection
, Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.
, 5316 Wean Hall
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Krishnendu Chatterjee
, University of California at Berkeley
Stochastic Games in Synthesis and Verification
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thesis Oral
Andrew J. Ko
Asking and Answering Questions about the
Causes of Software Behavior
, Abstract
12:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
May 07 |
Speaking Skills Talk
William Lovas
A Programming Language Based on Classical Logic
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 8220 Wean Hall
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Mechatronics Course: Public Demo
Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
, Giant Eagle Auditorium (A51) Baker Hall
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Yaser Sheikh
, Carnegie Mellon University
Analyzing Dynamic Scenes from Moving Cameras:
A Spacetime Perspective
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Yaser Sheikh
, Carnegie Mellon University
Analyzing Dynamic Scenes from Moving Cameras:
A Spacetime Perspective
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Oprah Show: Features Our Randy Pausch
Abstract
4:00 p.m.WTAE TV in Pittsburgh
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Thursday
May 08 |
CyLab Seminar
Carl Landwehr
, Program Leader
National Intelligence Community
Information Assurance Research
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Disruptive Technologies for Information Assurance
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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LTI Seminar
Jimmy Lin
, University of Maryland
Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Scalable Text Processing
with MapReduce
, Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Media Event:
Panel Discussion with Outsourcing Executives
Venkatesh Roddam CEO, Satyam BPO
Tony MacinaFormer General Manager
Global Service Delivery, IBM Global Services
Shari L. Dove, Senior Executive for Outsourcing, Accenture
Shawn McCray, Partiner, TPI
Abstract
2:00 p.m., McKenna Room University Center
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Friday
May 09 |
SCS Student Seminar Series
Robert J. Simmons
, Computer Science Department
Test The Program, Test The Abstraction,
Make It Better, Prove It Right
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Robert J. Simmons
Test The Program, Test The Abstraction,
Make It Better, Prove It Right
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Michael Ashley-Rollman
Meld: A Declarative Approach to Programming Ensembles
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 8220 Wean Hall
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VASC Special Seminar
Peter Tu and Xiaoming Liu
,
GE Global Research
Discriminative Image Alignment
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Saturday
May 10 |
15-466: Computer Game Programming
Spring 2008 Final Project Demos
Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
May 12 |
14th Annual CNBC Lecture
Jocelyne Bachevalier, Ph.D.
,
Department of Psychology and
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
Behavioral Outcomes of Neonatal Orbital
Frontal Lesions in Monkeys
4:00 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
Martin Colloquium Center Other
Reception to follow.
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CyLab Seminar
Alvaro Cardenas
, Post-Doc
University of California at Berkeley
Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Stephen McCamant
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantitative Information-flow Tracking
as Maximum Network Flow
, Abstract
01:30 a.m.- 03:00 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thesis Proposal
Dean R. Anderson
Online Adaptive Modeling for Outdoor Mobile Robots
in Rough Terrain
, Abstract
10:30 a.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Cristen Torrey Thesis Proposal
Cristen Torrey
, PhD Student in HCII
Social Responses to Receiving Verbal Assistance:
A Comparison of
, Abstract
1:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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ML/Google Seminar
Jason Eisner
, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Weighted Deduction as a Programming Language
, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
Refreshments at 4:15
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VASC Seminar
Tomasz Malisiewicz
, Robotics Institute
Recognition by Association via Learning
Per-exemplar Distances
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
May 13 |
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in
Computational Biology Seminar
Trey Ideker
, Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Universty of California, San Diego
Mapping gene regulatory pathways by assembly
of physical and genetic interactions
, Abstract
11:00 a.m., Conference Room Mellon Institute
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Noah Snavely
, University of Washington
Modeling and Visualizing the World from
Internet Photo Collections
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Joint SDI and Intelligence Seminar
Feng Zhao
, Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
Power Management: from tiny embedded
devices to warehouse sized data centers
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
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Wednesday
May 14 |
LTI PhD Thesis Defense
Yanjun Qi
Learning of Protein Interaction Networks
, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Seminar and Technical Session
Mike Agostini
, Senior Applications Engineer
The MathWorks, Inc.
Distributed and Parallel Computing with MATLAB
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., PSC Other
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Speaking Skills Talk
Sarah Aboutalib
MCOR: Multiple-Cue Object Recognition
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Thesis Proposal - Architecture
Michael Philetus Weller
Objects-to-Think-Computationally-With:
Posey and Quik Blocks
, Abstract
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Thursday
May 15 |
CSD Black Friday
It Begins
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Corporate Talk
Ulas Bardak
, SECOM
Intelligent Systems Lab, Japan
Abstract
3:30 p.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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LTI Student Talk
Shekar Sivasubramanian
, Self-Defined Ph.D. Student
Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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LTI PhD Thesis Proposal
Jae Dong Kim
Chunk Alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
May 16 |
CSD Black Friday
It Continues
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LTI Seminar
Jing Jiang
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing
, Abstract
2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Saturday
May 17 |
Commencement 2008
SCS Honors Ceremony
10:00 a.m., University Center
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Sunday
May 18 |
Commencement 2008
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Monday
May 19 |
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Alfred Spector
,
Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives
at Google
Research @ Google
, Abstract
4:00 p.m., Google Pittsburgh
Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Registration requested.
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VASC Seminar
Onur C. Hamsici
, Ohio State University
Spherical-Homoscedastic Distributions and
the Design of Bayes Optimal Classifiers
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
May 21 |
Thesis Proposal
William Lovas
Refinement Types for LF
, Abstract
10:30 a.m., 4615A Wean Hall
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Thursday
May 22 |
Thesis Defense
Aaron Bauer
, PhD Student
Evaluating the Impact of Technology on Note-Taking
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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LTI Seminar
Hassan Sawaf
, Applications Technology
Hybrid Machine Translation of Text
and Speech: A Business Perspective
, Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Systems Seminar
Michael Isard
, Microsoft Research
Dryad and DryadLINQ: General-purpose
distributed data-parallel programming
using a high-level language
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Room 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
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Saturday
May 24 |
RoboCup USOpen
Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Sunday
May 25 |
RoboCup USOpen
Games/Demos
, Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Monday
May 26 |
RoboCup
Carnegie Science Center
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RoboCup USOpen
Games/Demos
, Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Tuesday
May 27 |
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Richard Caruana
, Cornell University
Getting the Most from Supervised Learning
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Space is limited.
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/5qxx6j
to guarantee a spot.
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RoboCup
Carnegie Science Center
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CyLab Seminar
Damian Walsh
,
Director with responsibility for delivering disaster
recovery, business continuity,
information security and risk-related services
Deloitte
Data Center Resilience
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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Thursday
May 29 |
Thesis Oral
David R. Thompson
Intelligent Mapping for Autonomous Robotic Survey
, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Pongsin Poosankam
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation
is Possible: Techniques
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Friday
May 30 |
Special SDI/LCS Seminar
Vasanth Bala and Glenn Ammons
,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Virtual Machine Images as Data:
the Mirage Project
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Bhiksha Raj
, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
A Multinomial View of Signal Spectra
for Latent-Variable Analyses
, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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