Colloquia

Archive 2009

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Archive 2007

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Spring 2010 Distinguished Lecture Series

3/3/ 2010, Carl Landwehr ( National Science Foundation and University of Maryland ), "Revolution Through Competition?", 11AM - 12 noon, TECH Center 111,
3/17/2010, David Clark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Internets We Did Not Build".
4/2/2010, Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas), "Bottom-up Search and Transfer Learning in Markov Logic".
4/21/2010, Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota), "Mining Climate and Ecosystem Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Some Early Successes".

Colloquium

2/10/2010, Sajal Das (U. Texas-Arlington, NSF), 11am, Wachman 447 [POSTPONED]
2/17/2010, Susan Davidson (U. Pennsylvania), 11am, Wachman 447
2/24/2010,Kostas Daniilidis (U. Pennsylvania), 11am, Wachman 447
4/14/2010, Eduardo Fernandez (Florida Atlantic), 11am, Wachman 447
4/26/2010, Afrand Agah with James Fabrey (West Chester U.), "A Game Theoretic Framework for Security in Wireless Sensor Networks", 11am, Wachman 447

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2010

2/3/2010, Dong Xuan (Ohio State U.), 11am, Wachman 447

1/27/2010, Ko Nishino (Drexel.), 11am, Wachman 447
1/25/2010, Kel Smith (Anikto, Inc.), 11am, Wachman 447
1/20/2010, Lyle Ungar (U. Pennsylvania), "Feature Selection in Large Data Sets", 11am, Wachman 447, Abstract

2009

12/9/2009, Qun Li (William and Mary), " Finding Popular Categories for RFID Tags ", 11am-12pm , Wachman 447
12/3/2009, Mary Lou Soffa (U. Virginia) Distinguished Lecture, " Path-Sensitive Analysis for Security Flaws", 10am - 11 am, TECH Center 111.

11/30/2009 Naixue (Neal) Xiong (Georgia State University), "Design and Analysis of QoS on Fault-tolerant Large-scale Networking Systems" , 11am-12pm, Conwell 3B

12/ 2/2009, Jeremy Johnson (Drexel U.), " SPIRAL and Beyond: Automatic Derivation and Optimization of DSP Algorithms and More ", 11am-12pm, Wachman 447

11/18/2009 Kai Hwang (University of Southern California), DISTINGUISHED LECTURE, " Cloud Computing: Virtual Clusters, Security and Geospatial Applications", 11am-12pm, TECH Center 111
11/11/2009, Mitch Marcus (U. Pennsylvania),"Situation Understanding Bot Through Language and Environment ",11am-12pm, Wachman 447

11/4/2009 Ramesh K. Karne and Alexander L. Wijesinha (Towson U.), Bare Machine Computing (BMC), 11am-12pm, Wachman 447
10/28/2009 Gang Li (Siemens Research), Geometric Context in 3D Computer Vision , 11am-12pm , Wachman 447

10/22/2009 Alhussein Abouzeid ( NSF - CISE/CNS/NeTS ), " The Science and Engineering of Protocols for Dynamic Complex Networks ", 11am-Noon, TECH Center 111

10/14/2009 Tony Hu (Drexel U.), Mining, Modeling and Simulation of the Biomolecular Network , 11am-12pm, Wachman 447

10/16/2009 Krishna Kant (NSF - CISE/CNS/CSR), "Power and Thermal Management in Data Centers" 11am-Noon, TECH Center 111.

10/7/2009 Shigang Chen (U. Florida), "Fairness, Bandwidth Differentiation, and Quality of Service in CSMA/CA Networks", 11am-12pm, Wachman 447
9/24/2009, Jeremy Barry (Mathworks), "Speeding up Matlab Applications", 11am-12:30pm, Tuttleman 300AB.
9/17/2009 Robert Lai (Science Applications International Corporation - SAIC) "Ethical Hacking and Information Security" 11am-Noon, Tuttleman 300AB.
9/16/2009 David Post (Temple University, Beasley School of Law), "In Search of Jefferson's Moose: What Jefferson Can Teach Us About the Internet (and vice versa)", 11am-Noon, Wachman 447.
9/11/2009 Ivan Stojmenovic (U. of Ottawa), Distinguished Lecture: "Contribution of Applied Algorithms to Applied Computing", 11am-Noon, Wachman 447
9/10/2009 Xiaolei Huang (Lehigh), "Object Models for Boundary Extraction with Application to Medical Image Analysis", 11am-Noon, Tech Center 111
9/2/2009 Joseph Picone (Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple U.) "Nonlinear Statistical Modeling of Speech" 1-2pm, Wachman 447
4/29/2009 Gerry Stahl (Drexel University http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/ ) "Understanding computer-supported small-group cognition"
4/22/2009 Siwei Lyu (SUNY Albany) "Modeling statistics of photographic images", 12 - 1 PM, 447 Wachman Hall
4/15/2009 Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University), Modularity in Design:
Formal Modeling and Automated Analysis , 12 - 1 PM, Wachman Hall 447
4/6/2009 Steve Cooper (St. Joseph's University http://www.sju.edu/~scooper/ ) , " Program Visualization and Alice: Past, Present, and a Look into the Future ", 11AM - 12 PM, Wachman Hall 447
3/25/2009 Richard M. Stallman, " Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"
3/18/2009 Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~nenkova/), "Modeling Text Quality in Newspaper Text and Machine Translation"
2/18/2009 Yuhong Guo (Temple University), "Supervised Dimensionality Reduction via Convex Optimization"

2008

CST 10th Anniversary Celebration Event: 11/20/2008 Jin-Yi Cai (Professor, U. Wisconsin -- Madison), "Computational Complexity Theory and Holographic"

11/12/2008 Brian Kernighan (Professor, Princeton University), "The Changing Face of Programming"

11/5/2008 Ralph Grishman (Professor, New York University), "Information Extraction: Knowledge Discovery from Text"

11/4/2008 Jason Eisner (Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University), "Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation"

10/29/2008 Le Lu (Research Scientist, Siemens Research), "Visual Representation Bridging Machine Learning to Computer Vision" (related publications are available at www.cs.jhu.edu/~lelu)

10/22/2008 Longin-Jan Latecki (Associate Professor, Temple University CIS), "Multiscale Random Fields with Application to Contour Grouping"

10/8/2008 Whitney Anne Postman-Caucheteux (Visiting Research Scholar, Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University) "When Right Is Wrong: An fMRI Study of Overt Picture Naming in Patients with Language Impairment Due to Stroke"

10/1/2008 Zachary Ives (Professor, U. Pennsylvania Computer Science), "Orchestra: Sharing Inconsistent Data in a Consistent Way"

9/29/2008 Xin Li (graduate student CIS), "Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression", Computer Vision Journal Club

9/26/2008 Haibin Ling (Assistant Professor, Temple CIS Department), "Recognition, Detection, and Analysis from Visual Information"

9/17/2008 Zoran Obradovic (Professor, Temple CIS Department and Director, IST Center), "Functions of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Relationship with Human Disease Network"

5/2/2008 Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University / NSF Program Director), "Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Friend or Foe?"

4/30/2008 Pei Wang, "NARS: an Artificial General Intelligence Project"

4/23/2008 Jacob Feldman (Rutgers University), "Towards a principled account of the mental representation of shape"

4/16/2008 Boleslaw K. Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "Energy Efficient Self Healing Sensor Network Protocol Based on Computing with Time"

4/9/2008 Winners of Temple's "Future of Computing" Competition, Presentations of the winning graduate and undergraduate projects

4/8/2008 Raghvinder Sangwan (Penn. State - Great Valley), "Integrating Software Architecture-Centric Methods into Object-Oriented Analysis and Design" [SLIDES]

4/2/2008 Henry Paradiz, "CIS Short Course: PHP and AJAX for Web Development"

3/26/2008 Slobodan Vucetic, "Memory-Constrained Data Mining"

3/5/2008, Yuhong Guo, University of Alberta, "Convex Techniques for Learning with Latent Variables"

2/22/2008, Matthew Streeter, Carnegie Mellon University, "Combining Multiple Heuristics Online"

2/20/2007, Robert Kenyon, University of Illinois - Chicago, "Size-Constancy in the CAVE"

2/13/2007, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Brown University, "Fast and Highly-Available Stream Processing"

2/8/2008, Haibin Ling, UCLA and Siemans Research Center, "Visual information Analysis and Its Application"

2/7/2008, Ganesh Adlura, University of Utah "Regularized Image Reconstruction Techniques for Accelerated MR Imaging"

2/6/2008, Zhengdao Xu, University of Toronto, "Location Constraint Processing for Proximity Detection"

1/30/2008, Dan Lin, Purdue University, "Moving Objects Databases"

2007

12/12/2007, Dr. Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, "Wearable Technology at the Point-of-Care"

11/14/2007, Dr. Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Research, "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Predicting Where Faults are Hiding)"

References:

Thomas J. Ostrand, Elaine J. Weyuker, Robert M. Bell, Automating
Algorithms for the Identification of Fault-Prone Files, Proceedings of
ISSTA 2007, London, UK, ACM

Robert M. Bell, Thomas J. Ostrand, Elaine J. Weyuker, Looking For Bugs
in All the Right Places, Proceedings of ISSTA 2006, Portland, Maine,
USA, ACM.

Thomas Ostrand, Robert Bell, Elaine Weyuker, Predicting the Location
and Number of Faults in Large Software Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, Volume/Number: Vol 31, No 4, April, 2005,
pp.340-355.
Abstract here: http://www.research.att.com/viewPublication.cfm?id=651

10/24/2007, Brian O'Neill, Gestalt LLC, " Solving the Challenges of Scaled Product Platform Development"

10/17/2007, Prof. Rolf Lakaemper, Temple University, "Integration of Low and Mid Level Spatial Cognition Processes for Robot Perception"

10/10/2007, Nagesh Adluru and Prof. Longin Jan Latecki, Temple University, "Contour Grouping Based on Local Symmetry"

10/3/2007, Prof. Pei Wang, Temple University, "Artificial General Intelligence"

9/19/2007, Dr. Shane Mueller, ARA Inc., "Inferring Contextual Semantic Information from Text Using a Model of Human Episodic and Semantic Memory"

9/12/2007 Prof. Alexander Yates, Temple University, "Towards Language Independent Information Extraction"

9/5/2007 Prof. Yuan Shi, Temple University, "Reliable High Performance Computing – Introducing Stateless Parallel Processing Machines (SPPM)"

4/19/2007, Prof. Gene Spafford, Purdue Univ., "Insanity Rules: The Growing Cyber Security Crisis"

3/23/2007 Mehmet Koyuturk, Purdue University, " Comparative Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks "

3/16/2007 Daniel Kifer, Cornell University, "Injecting Utility into Anonymized Datasets"

3/13/2007 Vassilis Athitsos, Boston University, " Learning Embeddings for Similarity-Based Retrieval"

3/1/2007 Prof. Norman Badler, Director, Center for Human Modeling and Simulation and Professor, Computer and Information Science , Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Simulating human behaviors: Instructions, models, and parameterized actions"

2/23/2007 Alexander Yates, University of Washington, "Synonym Resolution on the Web "

2/15/2007 Razvan Bunescu, Univ. of Texas at Austin," Learning to Extract Relations from the Web and Biomedical Corpora "

2/21/2007 Vikas Sindhwani, Univ. of Chicago, "Manifold Regularization and Low-Density Techniques for Semi-supervised Learning"

1/26/2007 IST Center Colloquium: Prof. Hyoil Han, Drexel University, "Biomedical Text Understanding and User Modeling"

2006

11/30/2006 Prof. Zoran Duric, George Mason Univ. "Detecting, Describing, and Understanding Human Body Motions"

11/9/2006 Prof. Sampath Kannan Professor and Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania. "Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Streamed Graphs"