The Computer Science Colloquium
 

Schedule - Fall 2008

September 4 Archan Misra
(IBM Watson)
Title: Advances in Utility-Based Distributed Congestion Control Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
September 11 Alexander W. Dent
(Information Security Group, UK)
Title: Arguments about Proofs: The case for and against provable security in cryptography
September 18 Vladimir Uspensky
(Moscow University)
Title: Four Algorithmic Faces of Randomness
September 25 Bruno Motta de Carvalho
(UFRN-Brazil / SureScan Corporation)
Title: Stylized Rendering of Videos
October 2 Umut Topkara
(Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
Title: Infusing Usability into Passwords Trough Natural Language
October 16 David G. Stork
(Ricoh Innovations/Stanford University)
Title: When computers look at art: Image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts
October 23 Nasir Memon
(Polytechnic Institute of NYU)

Rescheduled
October 30 Nasir Memon
(Polytechnic Institute of NYU)

Title: File Carving for Forensics Recovery
November 6 Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Title: Decision-Theoretic Planning in Multi-Agent Settings
November 13 Will Schroeder and Bill Hoffman (Kitware)
Title: Quality Software Process In the Era of Collaborative Computing
November 20 Mark Wegman
(IBM)
Title: Computer Science Challenges for the next 25 years
December 4 TBA
 
December 11 Lucien Harriot
(Mechanisms Digital Studios)
Title: Behind the Curtain of 3D and Visual Effects for Film and Television

The Colloquium is supported by generous contributions from the Bloomberg, Information Builders, Inc., and Netlogic, Inc.

       


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