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37 Events for the week of Monday, July 6, 2009
through Sunday, August 12, 2009

Monday
July 06
  Thesis Proposal
Amy Hurst ,
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Improving Computer Access Through Automatic
Assessment of Real World Pointing Performance
, Abstract
1:30 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall

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Tuesday
July 07
  Birthday of the Hershey's Kiss!
First introduced 7 July 1907.

    NPR's All Things Considered
featuring Sanjiv Singh
Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Local station: WDUQ 90.5 FM

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Wednesday
July 08
  Thesis Oral
Manfred Lau ,
Computer Science Department
Modeling Behavior and Variation for Crowd Animation, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

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Thursday
July 09
  PhD Thesis Defense
Vasco Pedro ,
Language Technologies Institute
Federated Ontology Search , Abstract
10:30 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
July 10
  Special Robotics Seminar
Ariel Shamir ,
Associate Professor
The School of Computer Science
The Interdisciplinary Center, Israel
Multi-Operator Media Retargeting, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
    Thesis Defense
Andrew Arnold ,
Machine Learning Department
Exploting Domain and Task Regularities
for Robust Named Entity Recognition
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
    Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!
Stop by and offer your best wishes
at the Tesla Statue in the entrance to
the Robotics Institute!

    Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Featuring: Roger Dannenberg
Performance of: Critical Point
live cellist and interactive computer music and animation
, Abstract
8:00 p.m., City Theatre
near corner 13th and Bingham Streets
Pitstburgh South Side Other
Repeats July 11

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Saturday
July 11
  Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Featuring: Roger Dannenberg
Performance of: Critical Point
live cellist and interactive computer music and animation
, Abstract
8:00 p.m., City Theatre
near corner 13th and Bingham Streets
Pitstburgh South Side Other
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Monday
July 13
  PhD Thesis Proposal
Gary Hsieh ,
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Applying Market Mechanisms for Interpersonal
Information Exchange
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

    PhD Thesis Proposal
Karen Tang ,
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Sometimes Less is More:
Exploring Privacy-Sensitive Disclosure Abstractions
for Location-Aware Social Applications
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

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Tuesday
July 14
  Thesis Proposal
Larry Maccherone , Software Engineering
A Declarative Specification System for
More Agile Measurement, Analysis, and Visualization
Targeted at Software and Systems Engineering
, Abstract
2:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. , 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
    INI / Silicon Valley Seminar (Live Telecast)
Ken Pier ,
Director of Product Quality
Socialtext
Socialtext: Social Software for the Enterprise, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , Distributed Education Center
Room 1201 Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
    NPR Interview: All Things Considered
featuring Robert Siegel
Abstract
4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. Grant Building's Morse Code
on WDUQ 90.5 FM.

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Wednesday
July 15
  Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Abstract
Mountain View, California
Continues through July 17.

    Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC):
Symposium on Decision Making

Abstract
1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. , Conference Room
4400 Fifth Avenue Mellon Institute
Continues through July 16

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Thursday
July 16
  Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Abstract
Mountain View, California
Continues through July 17.

    Thesis Oral
James Vincent Hendricks ,
Computer Science Department
Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance for
Scalable Storage and Services
, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center

    Thesis Oral
Marius Leordeanu ,
Robotics Institute
Spectral Graph Matching, Learning, and
Inference for Computer Vision
, Abstract
1:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
    Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC):
Symposium on Decision Making

Abstract
09:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. , Conference Room
4400 Fifth Avenue Mellon Institute
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Friday
July 17
  Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Abstract
Mountain View, California

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Monday
July 20
  PhD Thesis Defense
Yik-Cheung (Wilson) Tam ,
Language Technologies Institute
Rapid Unsupervised Topic Adaptation:
a Latent Semantic Approach
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 407 S. Craig Street Other
    One Giant Step for Mankind....
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Tuesday
July 21
  INI/ Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Seminar (Live Broadcast)
Robert C. Hampshire ,
Assistant Professor of Operations and Public Policy
Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon
Modeling Large-Scale Bike Sharing Programs, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , Distributed Education Center
1201 Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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Thursday
July 23
  Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Masahiro Fujita ,
VLSI Design and Education Center
University of Tokyo and CREST
High-Level Optimization of Arithmetic Circuits
over Finite Bit-Widths
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
    Masters Thesis Presentation
Jiaqi Tan ,
Computer Science Department
Log-based Approaches to Characterizing and
Diagnosing MapReduce Systems
, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center

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Friday
July 24
  Thesis Oral
Haowen Chan ,
Computer Science Department
Authenticated Communication and Computation in
Known-Topology Networks with a Trusted Authority
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center

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Saturday
July 25
  SCS/ECE Summer Alumni & Student Picnic
with Mark Stehlik ,
SCS Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education
Abstract
1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , Sam Chowder House
Half Moon Bay, CA Other
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Monday
July 27
  Thesis Oral
Nikolaos Hardavellas ,
Computer Science Department
Chip Multiprocessors for Server Workloads , Abstract
1:00 p.m., D210 Hamerschlag Hall

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Tuesday
July 28
  INI/ Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Seminar (Live Broadcast)
David Matheson ,
President and CEO, SmartOrg, Inc.
Raising the Bar on Strategic and Economic
Thinking in Innovation
, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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Wednesday
July 29
  Thesis Oral
James H. Hays ,
Computer Science Department
Large Scale Scene Matching for Graphics and Vision, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 7220 Wean Hall

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Friday
July 31
  LTI Seminar
Judith Gelernter ,
Post-Doc
Language Technologies Institute
Varied Applications of Ontology for Vertical Search,
Information Visualization, and Data Fusion
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
August 03
  SDI / LCS Seminar
Orran Krieger ,
Senior Staff Engineering
VMWare
VMware's vCloud Initiative, Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. , 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
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Wednesday
August 05
  CSD Faculty Meeting
4:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
August 07
  POP Seminar
K. Subramani, Ph.D. ,
Associate Professor, Lane CSEE
West Virginia University
A Combinatorial Algorithm for Horn Programs, Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 8220 Wean Hall
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Monday
August 10
  Thesis Oral
Donna M. Malayeri ,
Computer Science Department
Coding Without Your Crystal Ball:
Unanticipated Object-Oriented Reuse
, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall