Participation in Panels and Invited Talks

Panos Chrysanthis was the keynote speaker at the Hellenic Symposium on Data Management, Thessalonki, September 7, 2006.

Taieb Znati was the keynote speaker “Large Scale Sensors Networks and Systems for Disaster Management:  Challenges and Opportunities,”  IPCCC2007, New Orleans, LA, April 11-13, 2007.
Taieb Znati was also the keynote speaker “A Holistic Approach to Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Design and Deployment,” International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Wuhan, China, December 13-15, 2006.

Bruce R. Childers gave the following invited colloquiums: “Continuous Compilation for Aggressive and Adaptive Code Transformation,” Center for Embedded Systems, University of California-Irvine, May 13, 2005. He gave the same talk at North Carolina State University on May 4, 2005.

Jose Carlos Brustoloni gave a talk entitled “Usable Security for Wi-Fi Hotspots,” School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, September 24, 2004.

Rebecca Hwa gave the following invited lectures: “Semi-Supervised Learning for Information Management,” University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005; “Breaking the Resource Bottleneck for Multilingual Processing,” IGK Summer School sponsored by the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 2004.

Diane J. Litman was the keynote speaker at The7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, July, 2006. Diane Litman was also the keynote speaker at Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Associations for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, New York, NY, June 2006. She gave the following invited lectures: “Speech and Affect in Intelligent Tutoring Dialogue Systems,” University of Illinois, May 2005; “Correlations with Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues,” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2005; “Learning, Dialogue, Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech in Spoken Dialogue Tutoring,” Office of Naval Research Tutorial Discourse Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2005; “Using Prosody to Recognize Student Emotions and Attitudes in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues,” Workshop on Analysis and Generation of Prosody, Tilburg University, Netherlands, December 2004; “Adaptive Systems and Computational Linguistics,” Unilever Change Behaviour Through Automated Dialogue Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2004; “Experiments with ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System,” Educational Testing Services, Princeton, New Jersey, November 2004.

Diane Litman is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL), 2002 –present.