Past Talks

November 18, 2009 4:00 p.m., AKW 200

Frans Kaashoek, MIT

The multicore evolution and operating systems

Abstract

Host: Bryan Ford

March 5, 2009
4:00 p.m., AKW 200

Ronald Rivest, MIT CSAIL

Security of Voting Systems

Abstract

Host: Joan Feigenbaum

April 4, 2008
4:00 p.m., AKW 200

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo!

The Next Generation of Web Data Management

Abstract

February 5, 2008
4:00 p.m., AKW 200

Eva Tardos, Cornell

Bargaining and Trading in Networks

Abstract

Host: Julie Dorsey

April 17, 2007
4:00 p.m., AKW 200

David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Column Stores: A Solution to TB Disk Drives?

Abstract

March 6, 2007
5:30 p.m., LC 102
63 High Street

Rob Cook, Pixar

Behind the Scenes at Pixar

Abstract

October 5, 2006
10:30 a.m., AKW 200

Michael Stonebraker
EECS Dept, M.I.T.

One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone

Abstract

Host: Julie Dorsey

May 3, 2005
10:30 a.m., AKW 200

John Reynolds, Carnegie Mellon University

An Introduction to Separation Logic

Abstract

Host: Carsten Schuermann

April 7, 2005
10:30 a.m., AKW 200

Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University

Quantum Complexity: How Fast Can Quantum Computers Sort?

Abstract

Host: Joan Feigenbaum

February 3, 2005
10:30 a.m, AKW 200

Nancy Lynch, MIT

Sharing Memory in Dynamic Networks

Abstract

Host: Michael Fischer

October 19, 2004
11:30 a.m., Luce Hall Room 202

John Hennessy,
Stanford University

Challenges and Directions in Computer Architecture

Abstract

Host: Avi Silberschatz

January 29, 2004
10:30 a.m.
AKW 200

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University

And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth

Abstract

Host: Paul Hudak

November 13, 2003
4pm
Luce Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue

Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University

The Fantasy of a First-person Science of Consciousness

Abstract

Host: Drew McDermott

October 2, 2003, 4pm
Luce Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue

Brian Kernighan, Princeton University

What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?

Abstract

Host: Avi Silberschatz