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Department Talks

Spring 2008

04/16/08 Robert Daley
Are you Interested in Gaming? Encore Presentation
03/31/08 Qinglan Li
A User-centric Annotation Framework for Scientific Data
03/24/08 Naveen Kumar
Source level debugging of dynamically translated programs
03/21/08 KyoungSoo Park
Designing a Highly Reliable and Scalable Content Distribution System
03/20/08 Robert Daley
Are you Interested in Gaming?
03/18/08 Guofei Gu
New Models for Relational Learning
03/17/08 Bill Tomer
03/03/08 Ricardo Silva
Program Generation and Programming Models for Distributed Computing
03/06/08 Yannis Smaragdakis
Program Generation and Programming Models for Distributed Computing
02/25/08 Adam J. Lee
Towards Practical and Secure Decentralized Attribute-Based Authorization Systems
02/26/08 David A. Smith
Enhancing Ethernet's Reliability
02/29/08 Khaled Elmeleegy
Enhancing Ethernet's Reliability
02/25/08 Adam J. Lee
Towards Practical and Secure Decentralized Attribute-Based Authorization Systems
02/21/08 Hong Cheng
Towards Accurate and Efficient Classification: A Discriminative and Frequent Pattern-based Approach
02/19/08 Research Competition Finalist Presentations
02/18/08 George Samaras
DITIS: Digital Collaborative Teams for Home Healthcare
02/15/08 Haym Hirsh
Computers, People, and Information
02/13/08 Daniel Cosley
Understanding and Building Member-Maintained Communities
02/11/08 Dorian Arnold
Tree-based Overlay Networks for Scalable, Reliable Tools and Applications
02/08/08 Sameh Gobriel
Energy-Efficient Design of Adhoc and Sensor Networks
02/07/08 Nevine AbouGhazaleh
Power Management Techniques for Conserving Energy in Multiple System Components
02/04/08 Andrew Ko
Debugging Reinvented: Asking and Answering Why and Why Not Questions about Program Behavior
02/01/08 Jim Rudakewiz  
Software Design Patterns Used to Implement High Availability Systems
01/23/08 Jiang Zheng  
Towards Accurate Buffer-Overflow Vulnerability Diagnosis for Commodity Software
01/08/08 Ricardo Villamarin-Salomon 
Identifying Botnets Using Anomaly Detection Techniques Applied to DNS Traffic

Fall 2007

12/19/07

Jie Xu
Managing Web Data Repositories under Quality Contracts

12/14/07 Tomas Singliar
Probabilistic tools for traffic management
11/30/07 Mahmoud Elhaddad
Packet scheduling in networks with fixed-size buffers
10/19/07 David Essary
Ph.D. Proposal
09/28/07 Subrata Acharya
Dynamic Traffic Driven Architectures and Algorithms for Securing Networks
09/18/07 José Brustoloni
Improving Security Decisions with Polymorphic and Audited Dialogs
09/11/07 Gregory Kapfhammer
The Measured Performance of Database Aware Test Coverage Monitoring
09/04/07 Allen Cheng
A Post-Fabrication Reconfigurable Platform for Cost-Effective Low-Power High-Performance Embedded Computing
08/31/07 Huiming Qu
Managing Query and Update Transactions under Quality Contracts in Web-Databases

Summer 2007

06/22/07 Mohamed A. Sharaf
Metrics and Algorithms for Processing Multiple Continuous Queries
06/18/07 Mohamed Aly
Load-Balanced Data-Management Protocols for Sensor Networks
06/14/07 Mark Fenner
Semantic Feature Construction

Spring 2007

04/27/07 Sherif Khattab
Mitigating Denial-of-Service By Dodging
04/19/07 Greg Kapfhammer
A Comprehensive Framework for Testing Database-Centric Software Applications
04/17/07 Richard Thompson
WDM Networks can be Nonblocking without Wavelength Interchange
04/05/07 Tracy Brown
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: What does this have to do with Information Security?
04/02/07 Heesook Choi
Security Aspects in Wireless and Mobile Networks
03/30/07 Amol Ghoting
Architecture and Knowledge-Conscious Data Mining
03/27/07 Steven Levitan
Life on the Fringe: Projects in Computer Science and Engineering
03/19/07 Michela Taufer
Building Adaptive Cyber-infrastructures to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research
03/16/07 Jimeng Sun
Incremental Pattern Discovery on Stream, Graphs and Tensors
02/28/07 Mehmet Koyurturk
Comparative Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks
02/26/07 Liz Marai
Beyond Traditional Computer Science: Data-Driven Computational Modeling of Anatomical Joints
02/19/07 Jinze Liu
Mining Salient Patterns in High Dimensional Data
01/23/07 Peter Brusilovsky
Addictive Links: The Motivational Value of Adaptive Link Annotation in Web-based Hypermedia Systems
01/18/07 Amr El Abbadi
Privacy Preserving Query Processing Over Private Databases

Fall 2006

12/08/06 Raymond Mooney
Learning to Extract Proteins and their Interactions from Biomedical Text
12/05/06 Jung Yang
Dynamic Power and Thermal Monitoring and Management for High-Performance Microprocessors
12/01/06 Pradeep Khosla -- Distinguished Lecturer
Cybersecurity - Opportunities and Challenges
11/28/06 Mihai Rotaru
Using Discourse Structure to Model Student Performance in Speech-based Tutoring Systems
11/21/06 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
Algorithms for Wireless Network Design
11/16/06 Scott Baird
Industry Board Undergraduate Seminar Series
11/14/06 Mohamed Aly
Online Packet Admission and Oblivious Routing in Sensor Networks
11/07/06 Timothy Pinkston
A Simple Throughput Model for Interconnection Networks
11/03/06 Mike Franklin -- Distinguished Lecturer
Services for Large-Scale Sensor Networks
11/02/06 Mark Juliano & Jerry Pompa
Compunetix and Talkshoe: Collaboration, Interactive Talkcasts and Podcasts
10/31/06 Sherif Khattab
Integration of Application-Layer Scheduling and Routing in Delay-Tolerant MANETs
10/24/06 Carlos Guestrin
Near-Optimal Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing Communication Cost
10/17/06 David Tipper
Spare Capacity Allocation in Backbone Networks
10/16/06 John Kim
Cost-Effiecient High-Radix Interconnection Networks
10/10/06 Jason Hong
Usable Privacy and Security
10/06/06 Doug Tygar -- Distinguished Lecturer
Listening in on Keyboards
10/03/06 Sven Dietrich
From DDoS to Botnets
09/29/06 David S. Johnson -- Distinguished Lecturer
34 Years of Bin Packing
09/12/06 Sameh Gobriel
RideSharing: Fault Tolerant Aggregation in Sensor Networks Using Corrective Actions
09/08/06 John Wilkes -- Distinguished Lecturer
Tuscany: Economy-Based Service-Oriented Computing

Spring 2006

04/20/06 Alfred Z. Spector
The Global Integration Agenda
04/10/06 Arkady Zaslavsky
Managing context and reasoning about it in pervasive computing systems
04/07/06 Christer Ahlund
Port-based Multihomed Mobile IPv6
04/04/06 Mazin Yousif
Scale-right Provisioning
03/30/06 Ioannis Fudos
A Feature-Based Approach to Reverse Engineering CAD Models from Point Clouds
03/29/06 Evaggelia Pitoura
Workload-Aware Content Overlays
03/24/06 Jennifer Neville
From Nodes to Networks: Exploiting Autocorrelation to Improve Statistical Models of Relational Data
03/21/06 Scott A. Brandt
High-Performance Data Storage at Scale: Managing Petabytes of Data with Commodity Components
03/16/06 Elisabeth Strunk
Dependability in Embedded System Software Through Assured Reconfiguration
03/14/05 Alex Liu
Firewall Design Methods
03/03/06 Arvind (MIT) -- Distinguished Lecture
A tinker-toy approach to building Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC)
03/01/06 Vinod Yegneswaran
Empirical Foundations for Network Defense
02/28/05 Li-San Wang
Phylogenetic Estimation for Complex Evolutionary Processes
02/24/06 Carla Ellis (Duke University) -- Distinguished Lecture
When Less is More: Using Data Fidelity to Protect Privacy and Save Energy
02/21/06 Daniel B. Neill
Spatial Disease Surveillance by Detection of Anomalous Clusters
02/03/06 David B. Johnson (Rice University) -- Distinguished Lecture
Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Past, Present, and Future
01/27/06 Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University) -- Distinguished Lecture
Why NP got a new definition: the quest to understand the approximation properties of NP-hard optimization problems
01/17/06 Prashant Krishnamurthy (SIS, Pitt)
Radio Channel Models for Wireless Network Performance Analysis
01/13/06 Eugene Charniak (Brown University) -- Distinguished Lecture
Language Modeling and Its Applications

Fall 2005

12/07/05 Marlin H. Mickle (ECE, Pitt)
RFID: An Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research to Lead World Innovation
11/16/05 Gregory M. Kapfhammer (CS, Pitt)
Empirical Evaluation of an Approach to Resource-Constrained Test Suite Execution
11/04/05 Nam Sung Kim (Intel)
Total Power-Optimal Pipelining and Parallel Processing under Process Variations in Nanometer Technology
11/02/05 James Joshi (SIS, Pitt)
A Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Framework
10/26/05 Jose Brustoloni (CS, Pitt)
Using Secure Coprocessors to Protect Access to Enterprise Networks
10/19/05 Lorrie Faith Cranor (CMU)
Towards Usable Web Privacy and Security
10/10/05 Ming Xiong (Bell Labs)
A Deferrable Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Transactions Maintaining Data Freshness

Spring 2005

04/29/05 Michael Jordan
Graphical Models, Kernel Methods and Statistical Learning Algorithms
04/18/05 Yannis Kotidis
Snapshot Queries: Towards Data-Centric Sensor Networks
04/18/05 Marco Caccamo
Implicit RT-QoS for Wireless Collaborative Real-Time Systems
04/07/05 Richard Stallman
Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation
04/01/05 Yale Patt
The Microprocessor: Its Characteristics Ten Years from now
03/24/05 ACM Company Talk
Novaurora
02/25/05 Eva Tardos
Network Games and the Price of Stability or Anarchy
02/11/05 Keith Cooper
Finding Good Compilation Sequences
02/04/05 Guri Sohi
Single Chip Multiprocessors: The Next Wave of Computer Architecture
01/31/05 Dennis J. Frailey
Careers in Computing - How to Prepare and What to Expect
01/28/05 Phil Bernstein
Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation
01/14/05 Antonia Zhai
Compiler Optimization of Value Communication for Thread-Level Speculation

Fall 2004

11/30/04 ACM Talk
Perioptimum
11/19/04 John Regehr
Using Application- and System-Specific Heuristics to Compile Embedded Software for Real-Time and Other Resource Constraints
11/11/04 Frederica Darema
Departmental Colloquium
11/08/04 Duncan Buell
Departmental Talk
10/21/04 Ron Vetter
Emerging Web Technologies
10/19/04 Vivisimo
ACM Company Talk
09/28/04 Google
ACM Company Talk
09/20/04 Craig Stunkel
Trends in Supercomputer Networks
09/09/04 V. Rao Vemuri - Univeristy of California at Davis:
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

Archived Talks

Summer 2004

Spring 2004

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