2006-2007 Scheduled Seminars

Date About Speaker and the Talk When and Where
Tuesday September 05, 2006
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Andrej Kosir
Electrical Engineering Dept. , Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
On the Scalability and the Performance Optimization
of Combinatorial Auction Solvers Using Isomorphs

Room Room 406, Daniels Hall, NCSU Historical Campus
04:30 PM (talk begins)
Friday September 15, 2006
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Dimitris Nikolopoulos
CS, Virginia Tech
Event-Driven Scalability Prediction: Improving Energy Efficiency under Hard Performance Constraints on Multiprocessors
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Friday September 15, 2006
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Prashant Iyer
Computer Science, NCSU
Optimizing Convertor Placement for Broadcasting in WDM Networks
Room 3211, EB 2, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Friday October 06, 2006
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Zachary Ives
CIS, UPenn
ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Taming the Data Seminar series
Friday October 27, 2006
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Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Purdue University CERIAS & Computer Science Department
Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems to Wide Area Networks
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday October 30, 2006
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Barton Miller
Computer Science, University of Wisconsin
Binary Code Patching: An Ancient Art Refined for the 21st Century
Room 313, MRC, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Monday November 06, 2006
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John Musa
independent consultant
More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper - An Overview
Room 313, MRC, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:30 PM (talk begins)
Monday November 13, 2006
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Henry Levy
Computer Science, University of Washington
Reliability Challenges for Commodity Operating Systems
Room 313, MRC, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Monday December 04, 2006
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Evgenia Smirni
College of William and Mary
Performance Impacts of Autocorrelation in Systems
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Monday December 04, 2006
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David Karger
MIT
Why everyone should be their own database administrator, UI designer, application developer, and web site builder, and how they can.
Room 313, MRC, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Monday December 11, 2006
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Prabhu Manyem
University of Ballarat, Australia
Polynomial-Time Maximisation Classes: Syntactic Characterisation
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Wednesday December 13, 2006
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Andy Ayers
Microsoft
Microsoft Phoenix: A Framework for Program Analysis and Transformation
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Monday January 29, 2007
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Edmund Clarke
Computer Science, CMU
Model Checking: From Hardware To Software And Back Again
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Friday February 02, 2007
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Ken Ross
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
Efficient Hash Probes on Modern Processors
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Taming the Data Seminar series
Monday February 05, 2007
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Daphne Koller
Computer Science, Stanford U.
Probabilistic Models for Structured Domains: From Cells to Bodies
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Friday February 09, 2007
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Rudolf Eigenmann
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Implementing Tomorrow's Programming Languages
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Historical Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Monday February 19, 2007
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Dan Gusfield
Computer Science, UC Davis, California
Efficient and Practical Algorithms for Studying the History of Recombination in Populations
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Wednesday February 21, 2007
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Carol O'Sullivan
Dept. Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Metropolis: Inhabiting a Virtual City with Supercrowds
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
01:30 PM (talk begins)
Thursday February 22, 2007
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Miron Livny
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Submitting locally and running globally: The GLOW and OSG Experience
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Monday February 26, 2007
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Harry Shum
Microsoft Research Asia
Prior, Context and Interactive Computer Vision
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Wednesday February 28, 2007
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Yong Zhao
Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
A Virtual Data Language and System for Scientific Workflow Management in Data Grid Environments
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Thursday March 01, 2007
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Chiu-Yuen Koo
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Round-Efficient Secure Computation
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday March 05, 2007
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David Evans
Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
Disk-Level Behavioral Virus Detection
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday March 12, 2007
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Sam Malek
Computer Science, University of Southern California
A User-Centric Approach for Improving a Distributed Software System's Deployment Architecture
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Friday March 16, 2007
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Alexander Egyed
Teknowledge Corporation
Detecting and Tracking Inconsistencies in Software Design Models
Room 3211, Engineering Building II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday March 19, 2007
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Xiaotong Zhuang
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Compiler Optimizations For Highly Constrained Multithreaded Multicore Processors
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Wednesday March 21, 2007
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Colleen McCreary
Electronic Arts
Moving from Player to Creator: Opportunities in the Videogame Industry
Room 1011, EB I, NCSU Centennial Campus
03:35 PM (talk begins)
Thursday March 22, 2007
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Nagiza Samatova
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Towards Data Analytics at Petascale: Finding the Dots, Connecting the Dots, Understanding the Dots
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday March 26, 2007
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Jennifer Widom
Computer Science, Stanford U.
Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Tuesday March 27, 2007
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Gary McGraw
Cigital, Inc.
Exploiting Online Games
Room 313, MRC, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:15 AM (talk begins)
Friday March 30, 2007
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Vinod Ganapathy
Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin
Retrofitting Legacy Code for Security
Room 3-211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Monday April 02, 2007
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Eno Thereska
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Enabling what-if explorations in distributed systems
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Monday April 02, 2007
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Raphael Chandler
Creative Director, Media Sunshine
Screen/Play: Next-Generation Narrative
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Thursday April 05, 2007
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Cong Yu
Department of EECS, UMichigan
Taming Complex Databases through Schema Summaries
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Monday April 09, 2007
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Troy Johnson
Purdue Univ.
Algorithm Composition using Domain-Specific Libraries and Program Decomposition for Thread-Level Speculation
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Monday April 09, 2007
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Tuomas Sandholm
Computer Science, CMU
Clearing Algorithms for Barter Exchange Markets: Enabling Nationwide Kidney Exchanges
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
01:15 PM (talk begins)
Monday April 09, 2007
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Tuomas Sandholm
CombineNet, Inc. and CMU
Expressive Commerce and Its Application to Sourcing: How We Conducted $25 Billion of Generalized Combinatorial Auctions
Room 1230, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
02:20 PM (talk begins)
Monday April 09, 2007
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Tuomas Sandholm
Computer Science, CMU
Algorithms for solving sequential imperfect information games, and application to poker
Room 331, Daniels -- NOTE THE CHANGE ==>>, NCSU Historical Campus
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Wednesday April 11, 2007
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Kemafor Anyanwu
University of Georgia
Supporting Subgraph Extraction Queries in Semantic Web Databases
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Thursday April 12, 2007
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Monica Lam
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Consumerizing PCs: From Research to Product
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Thursday April 12, 2007
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Chris Landreth
Independent Filmmaker & Animator
From Particle Image Velocimetry to Animated Filmmaking: A Personal Journey
Room Grand Ballroom, Talley Student Center, NCSU Historical Campus
04:30 PM (talk begins)
Friday April 13, 2007
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Xiaohui (Helen) Gu
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
System support for large-scale on-line data analysis
Room 3211, EB II, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Monday April 16, 2007
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Michael Mascagni
Computer Science, Florida State University
Random Number Generation: A Practitioner's Overview
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Wednesday April 18, 2007
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Juan Benito
Creative Director, Destineer Studios
The Soul in the Machine
Room 320, Brooks Hall, NCSU Historical Campus
04:30 PM (talk begins)
Friday April 20, 2007
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Victor Vianu
Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
Automatic Verification of Communicating Data-Aware Web Services
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Taming the Data Seminar series
Thursday April 26, 2007
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Adam Silberstein
Computer Science Dept., Duke University
Suppression Methods for Data Collection in Sensor Networks
Room 3211, Engineering Building II, NCSU Centennial Campus
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Tuesday May 01, 2007
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Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
RAND Corporation
I'll Buy That! Cyber Security in the Internet Marketplace
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Wednesday May 02, 2007
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Guy Lohman
IBM Almaden Research Center
Is (Your) Database Research Having Impact?
Room 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Taming the Data Seminar series
Monday May 21, 2007
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Martin Schulz
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Developing New Tool Strategies for Scalable HPC Systems
Room 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)
System Research Seminar series
Monday June 25, 2007
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Byungsoon Kim
Andong National Unversity, South Korea
Message Ferrying for Disconnection Tolerant Networking
Room 3211, EB-2, NCSU Centennial Campus
10:00 AM (talk begins)

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