Past CS Colloquium:

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Sofus Macskassy: Studies of Inference in Networks  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Title: Studies of Inference in Networks: Classification, Combining and Creating Networks for better Classification Abstract: There has been an increasing amount interest and published work in classification of r... (read more)

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Dr. George A. Bekey Keynote Lecture: Experiments in Social Computation by Michael Kearns  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Location: THH 102 Experiments in Social Computation Michael Kearns University of Pennsylvania What do the theory of computation, economics and related fields have to say about the emerging phenomena of crowdsourcing and social co... (read more)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Alefiya Hussain: Toward Systematic Design and Analysis of Networked System Scenarios  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Alefiya Hussain Date: Jan 31 Time: 3:30 pm Place: SSL 150 Title: Toward Systematic Design and Analysis of Networked System Scenarios Abstract: Networked and distributed system scenarios are of substanti... (read more)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Takeo Kanade: First-Person Vision  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Title: First-Person Vision Abstract: For understanding the behavior, intent, and environment of a person, the surveillance metaphor is traditional; that is, observe the person and her interaction with other peop... (read more)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Exploring Impossible Spaces: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Title Exploring Impossible Spaces: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality Speaker Evan Suma Abstract Natural locomotion presents one of the fundamental challenges for the field of immersive virtual environments.... (read more)

Thursday, January 19, 2012

CS Colloquium: Seminar with Ron Artstein  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 CS Colloquium: Seminar with Ron Artstein Place: SSL 150 Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM Title Reliability and evaluation of corpus annotation and natural language processing systems. Abstract This talk will touch... (read more)

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

CS Colloquium: Seminar with Kallirroi Georgila  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 CS Colloquium: Seminar with Kallirroi Georgila Place: SSL 150 Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM Title: Towards robust, adaptive and human-like dialogue systems Abstract: This talk addresses issues involved in building... (read more)

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The First USC Symposium on the Futures of Robotics  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 9 AM - 5 PM Location: Tutor Campus Center 227 The First USC Symposium on the Futures of Robotics 12/7/2011 The Rosen Family Screening Theater, Tutor Campus Center (Room 227) Organized and hosted by the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems There i... (read more)

Monday, December 05, 2011

PhD Social Talk: Prof. Kevin Knight  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 4 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 SSL 150 4:00 - 5:00 PM Abstract: In 1947, Warren Weaver suggested applying cryptanalysis methods to the problem of language translation. He said: "When I look at an article in Russian, I say: this is really wri... (read more)

Friday, December 02, 2011

Internet privacy: It is not getting better  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Location: RTH 306 Internet privacy: It is not getting better Speaker: Balachander Krishnamurthy Host: Ramesh Govindan AT&T Labs--Research RTH 306 Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with both the advent of Online Soc... (read more)

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Maryam M. Shanechi: Real-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Neural Decoding from Plan to Movement  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location: EEB 248 Real-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Neural Decoding from Plan to Movement Maryam M. Shanechi Harvard Medical School, MIT EECS, Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:30 AM – 11... (read more)

Monday, November 21, 2011

CAMS Colloquium: Laplacian Growth and the Mystery of the Abelian Sandpile: a Visual Tour  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Location: KAP 414 Yuval Peres Microsoft NOTE: This event is hosted by the USC Department of Mathematics / CAMS Colloquium Series. Title: Laplacian Growth and the Mystery of the Abelian Sandpile: a Visual Tour 3:30-4:30 PM, KAP 4... (read more)

Friday, November 11, 2011

Decentralized Decision Support for an Agent Population in Dynamic and Uncertain Domains  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 10:30 AM - 12 PM Location: SAL 322 TITLE: Title: Decentralized Decision Support for an Agent Population in Dynamic and Uncertain Domains SPEAKER: Professor Pradeep Varakantham, Singapore Management University VENUE: Nov. 11, 10:30am-12:00pm ... (read more)

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Michael Wellman: Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Canonical Auction Games  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM Location: EEB 248 GAME THEORY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR SEMINAR Title: Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Canonical Auction Games Speaker: Michael Wellman Date: November 10, 2011 (Thursday) Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Venue: EEB 248 (... (read more)

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Why Blame? by Mehment Y. Gurdal, Joshua Miller, Aldo Rustichini  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM Location: EEB 248 Title: Why Blame? Speakers: Mehment Y. Gurdal, Joshua Miller, Aldo Rustichini Extended Abstract: We provide evidence that subjects in an experimental setup blame others for outcomes for which the others cannot ... (read more)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Keshet: Loss Minimization for Voice Onset Time (VOT) Measurement, Phoneme Alignment, and Phoneme Recognition  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 8 AM - 9 AM Location: EEB 248 You are invited to attend. Title: Loss Minimization for Voice Onset Time (VOT) Measurement, Phoneme Alignment, and Phoneme Recognition Speaker: Joseph Keshet, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, TTI-Chicago Da... (read more)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

WiFi-NC : WiFi over narrow channels  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Title: WiFi-NC : WiFi over narrow channels Speaker: Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research India Abstract : The quest for higher data rates in WiFi is leading to the development of standards that make use of ... (read more)

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Game Theory and Human Behavior with Robb Willer  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 12 PM - 9 AM Location: EEB 248 Speaker: Robb Willer Date: September 27, 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 12 Noon Venue: EEB 248 About the Talk: Title: Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem Abstr... (read more)

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Wireless Network for FPGA-based Cluster System  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 10 AM - 11 AM Location: HED 116 Wireless Network for FPGA-based Cluster System Wayne Luk Professor of Computer Engineering Imperial College London Thursday, September 15th 10:00 to 11:00 AM in HED 116 Refreshments will be served Hosted ... (read more)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The 21st Century Energy Ecosystem - Speaker: Dr. Dan Reed  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Location: SLH 100 Center for Energy Informatics and Viterbi School of Engineering presents The Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy Informatics "The 21st Century Energy Ecosystem" Dr. Dan Reed Corporate Vice President, Microso... (read more)

The California Cut Flower Industry: A Case for Transportation Consolidation  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM Location: RGL 209 Topic: The California Cut Flower Industry: A Case for Transportation Consolidation Speakers: Dr. Maged Dessouky, Christine Nguyen, Dr. Alejandro Toriello and Dr. James Moore When: Wednesday, September 14th, Noon (1... (read more)

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Game Theory and Human Behavior: Ad Exchanges  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM Location: EEB 248 Speaker: S. Muthukrishnan Date: September 6, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Venue: EEB 248 (Electrical Engineering Center: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/) About the Talk: Title: Ad Exchanges Abstract: How are di... (read more)

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Providing manipulative advice to humans  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 1 PM Location: PHE 223 Speaker: Dr. Zinovi Rabinovich Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: In this talk I will describe several methods for effective open manipulation of human action choice. First, a direct manipulation learning will be... (read more)

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Optimizing Despite Handicaps by Matthew P. Johnson  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 1 PM Location: GFS 222 Event Type: CS Colloqium Speaker: Matthew P. Johnson Abstract: Many optimization problems are posed in settings whose salient feature takes the form of some limitation on the ability of the algorithm designer... (read more)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

CANCELLED- How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies by Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM Location: Stauffer Hall - SLH 200 THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. Speaker: Dr. Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research Host: Prof. Fei Sha Abstract: Major advances in Question Answering technology were needed for Watson to play Jeopardy! at championship level -- th... (read more)

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Robust Planning of Distributed Robotic Agents by Professor Han-Lim Choi  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Han-Lim Choi, Division of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: This seminar presents high-level planning approaches for networked robotic agents when the mission object... (read more)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Open universes and nuclear weapons By Prof. Stuart Russell  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley Host: Prof. Fei Sha, USC Abstract: I will discuss a formal unification of probability theory and full (open-universe) first-order logic that allow... (read more)

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Leftover Hash Lemma, Revisited by Prof. Yevgeniy Dodis, NYU  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: GFS 118 Speaker: Prof. Yevgeniy Dodis, NYU Host: Prof. David Kempe Abstract: The famous Leftover Hash Lemma (LHL) states that (almost) universal hash functions are good randomness extractors. Despite its numerous applicatio... (read more)

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Agent-oriented modelling by Prof. Kuldar Taveter  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Kuldar Taveter, Professor and Chair, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Host: Prof. Milind Tambe, USC Abstract: Agent-oriented modelling is a holistic approach for engineering socio-technical sys... (read more)

Google Street View: Image Acquisition and Computer Vision at Global Scale by Dr. Luc Vincent, Director of Engineering, Google Inc.  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 12 PM - 1 PM Location: EEB 248 Speaker: Dr. Luc Vincent, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. Host: Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, USC Abstract: Unveiled in May 2007, the Street View feature of Google Maps is the result of a substantial engineering effo... (read more)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Paths, Trees and Polygons by Professor Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Professor Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara Host: Professor Gaurav Sukhatme Abstract: The growing scope of combinatorial algorithms often forces us to compute structures when the data ar... (read more)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Wireless Networks with Software Radios by Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: Wireless networks are mostly architected on the principles of modularity and layering. Emerging software radio platforms are be... (read more)

Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections by Prof. Shawn Newsam, UC Merced  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: VKC 151 Speaker: Prof. Shawn Newsam, UC Merced Host: Dr. Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, USC Abstract: In this talk, I will describe an interesting new research direction which I term Proximate Sensing that leverages ground-level... (read more)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Improving Internet Performance and Availability with Reverse Traceroute by Ethan Katz-Bassett (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: The Internet is now central to many aspects of modern society, yet it remains remarkably fragile. Partial outages are comm... (read more)

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Efficient Online Decision-Making and Applications to Semidefinite Programming by Satyen Kale  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Satyen Kale, Yahoo! Research Host: Prof. Yan Liu Abstract: Decision-making in the face of uncertainty over future outcomes is a fundamental algorithmic task, with roots in statistics and information theory... (read more)

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Scalable Management of Enterprise and Data Center Networks by Minlan Yu (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Minlan Yu, Princeton University Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: The networks in campuses, companies, and data centers are growing larger and becoming more complicated to manage. Today, network operato... (read more)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Towards Scalable User-Agnostic Attack Defense by Dr. Zhichun Li  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Zhichun Li Host: Prof. William Halfond Abstract: Security has become one of the major concerns for today's Internet. End users, however, are slow in adopting new security technologies. Many users cannot... (read more)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

George Bekey Lecture: Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics by Prof. Michael I. Jordan  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 4 PM - 6 PM Location: GER Auditorium & Courtyard Speaker: Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley Host: Prof. Fei Sha Refreshments will be served at the Gerontology (GER) courtyard at 4 pm. Talk begins in GER Auditorium at 4:30pm. Abstract: Com... (read more)

Monday, March 21, 2011

Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned by Roger Dingledine  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM Location: THH 210 (Taper Hall) Speaker: Roger Dingledine, Project Leader - the Tor Project Host: Terry Benzel and John Wroclawski - USC/ISI Abstract: Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet i... (read more)

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Cooperative Game Theory: A New Frontier for Agent Researchers by Makoto Yokoo  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12 PM Location: GFS 101 Speaker: Dr. Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University Host: Prof. Milind Tambe, USC Abstract: Cooperative game theory deals with how (selfish) agents can create a coalition and divide the gain of the coalition among them, w... (read more)

Randomization and Computation in Strategic Settings by Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University Host: Prof. David Kempe, USC Abstract: In resource allocation problems, a centralized agency allocates resources to recipients: an Internet Service Provider allocates... (read more)

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Towards Reliable Storage Systems by Haryadi Gunawi, UC Berkeley (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Haryadi Gunawi, UC Berkeley Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan, USC Abstract: Three trends will dominate the storage systems of tomorrow: increasingly massive amounts of data, the incredible growth of software... (read more)

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Differential Privacy: Recent Developments and Future Challenges by Guy Rothblum, Princeton University (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Guy Rothblum, Princeton University Host: Prof. Ming-Deh Huang Abstract: Consider a database of sensitive information about a set of participants. Statistical analysis of the data may yield valuable resul... (read more)

Monday, February 28, 2011

Limits of Communication by Sasha Sherstov (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SAL 101 Speaker: Alexander Sherstov (Microsoft Research) Host: Prof. Ming-Deh Huang Abstract: Consider a function f whose arguments are distributed among several parties, making it impossible for any one party to compute ... (read more)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Analysis Techniques for Mobile Operating System Security by William Enck (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: William Enck Host: Prof. William Halfond Abstract: Over the last several years, smartphone application markets such as Google's Android Market and Apple's App Store have become a thriving industry with s... (read more)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization by Mohit Singh  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Mohit Singh, McGill University Host: Prof. David Kempe Abstract: Many fundamental combinatorial optimization problems including minimum spanning tree, matchings, flows are polynomial time solvable but mos... (read more)

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Computational Social Choice: A Decision-theoretic Perspective by Dr. Craig Boutilier.  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12 PM Location: MHP 106 Speaker: Dr. Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto Host: Prof. Milind Tambe, USC Abstract: Social choice, an important topic of study for centuries, has recently been the subject of intense investigation and app... (read more)

Path, matrix and triangle problems -- subcubic algorithms and equivalences by Virginia Vassilevska Williams, UC Berkeley (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, UC Berkeley Host: Prof. Ming-Deh Huang, USC Abstract: Many graph and matrix problems studied in optimization have relatively simple algorithms which run in time cubic in th... (read more)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Classification based data base management by Dieter Gawlick  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Location: RRI 101 Speaker: Dieter Gawlick, Oracle Host: Prof. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC Talk will be held between 3:30 - 4:30 pm, followed by reception at 4:30 pm. Abstract: Patient care - as IT support in other domains - is ... (read more)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Regaining Control Over Mobile and Cloud Data by Roxana Geambasu (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Roxana Geambasu, University of Washington Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: Emerging technologies, such as cloud and mobile computing, offer previously unimaginable global access to data; however, the... (read more)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sparse Matrix Factorization, Mesh Modification, and Real-Time FEM Simulation by Dr. James F. O'Brien  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. James O'Brien, UC Berkeley Host: Prof. Jernej Barbic, USC Abstract: This talk will discuss the use of dynamic remeshing and sparse matrix factorization in the context of real-time dynamics simulations... (read more)

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Vertex Sparsification by Ankur Moitra, MIT (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Ankur Moitra, MIT Host: Prof. David Kempe, USC Abstract: Suppose we are given a gigantic communication network, but are only interested in a small number of nodes (clients). There are many routing proble... (read more)

Thursday, February 03, 2011

CANCELLED: Using Process Definition and Analysis Techniques to Reduce Errors and Improve Efficiency in the Delivery of Health Care by Prof. Lori Clarke  Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 CANCELLED: Speaker: Prof. Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Host: Prof. Nenad Medvidovic, USC Abstract: As has been widely reported in the news lately, heath care errors are a major cause of ... (read more)

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

What makes a bunch of molecules a cell: The power of chemical reaction networks by Rebecca Schulman (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Rebecca Schulman, University of California Berkeley Host: Profs. Len Adleman & Shang-Hua Teng Abstract: While we can write programs that emulate our capacity for chess playing or predict our tastes, many ... (read more)

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Learning to Effectively and Efficiently Rank at Scale by Donald Metzler  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Donald Metzler, ISI, USC: Information Retrieval (Natural Language and Machine Learning Host: Prof. Louis-Philipe Morency, USC Abstract: Ranking functions serve as the "brains" of modern search engines... (read more)

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Improving the Dependability of Distributed Systems through AIR Software Upgrades by Tudor Dumitras  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM Location: PHE 631 Speaker: Tudor Dumitras, Symantec Research Lab Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan, USC Abstract: Traditional fault-tolerance approaches concentrate almost entirely on responding to, avoiding, or tolerating unexpected fau... (read more)

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Electrical Flows and Laplacian Systems: A New Tool for Graph Algorithms by Aleksander Madry, MIT (Faculty Candidate)  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Aleksander Madry, MIT Host: Prof. David Kempe Abstract: In recent years, the emergence of massive computing tasks that arise in context of web applications and networks has made the need for efficient gra... (read more)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

CS Colloquium: Seminar with Ron Artstein  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 CS Colloquium: Seminar with Ron Artstein Place: SSL 150 Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM Title, Abstract and Speaker Bio coming soon.... (read more)

CS Colloquium with Kallirroi Georgila  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Topic abstract and Bio TBA.... (read more)

An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making by Prof. Jenn Wortman  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 10 AM - 11:30 AM Location: HNB Auditorium Speaker: Prof. Jenn Wortman Vaughan, UCLA (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~jenn/) Host: Prof. David Kempe, USC Abstract: A prediction market is a financial market designed to aggregate information. To facilitate trades, p... (read more)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Toward flexible, robust, and rapid understanding of user speech in natural language dialogue systems by David DeVault  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. David DeVault, ICT, USC: Natural Language (Dialogue) Host: Prof. Kevin Knight Abstract: This talk presents recent research that targets two of the major limitations in current natural language dialog... (read more)

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Learning the Encyclopedia of the World using the Web by Dr. Zornitsa Kozareva  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Zornitsa Kozareva, ISI, USC: Natural Language (Lexical Semantics) Host: Prof. Aiichiro Nakano Abstract: How can we automatically build the Encyclopedia of the World, that will contain not only high-l... (read more)

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Space-efficient Algorithms for Data Streams by Vladimir Braverman  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Vladimir Braverman, UCLA Host: Prof. David Kempe Abstract: Data streams is an important area of theoretical computer science with many practical applications. We will define the basic model of data streams ... (read more)

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Investigating and Modeling the Role of Cultural Narratives in Moral Decision-Making by Dr. Morteza Dehghani  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Morteza Dehghani, ICT, USC: AI and Computational Social Science Host: Prof. Ewa Deelman Abstract: In dealing with conflict, two broadly different approaches to modeling the values that drive decision... (read more)

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Accelerating Machine Learning by Aggressive Extrapolation by Dr. Chun-Nan Hsu  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Chun-Nan Hsu, ISI, USC: Machine Learning, Information Integration and Bioinformatics Host: Prof. Dennis McLeod Abstract: This talk presents how to accelerate statistical machine learning algorithms fo... (read more)

Friday, November 19, 2010

Reflections on being an AI System Architect by Prof. Victor Lesser  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3 PM - 4:30 PM Location: SGM 124 Speaker: Prof. Victor Lesser Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: I will share with you the intellectual intuitions and serendipities that have shaped my research career. I first discuss my early research that incl... (read more)

Thursday, November 18, 2010

CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series: Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment by Dr. Charles Lee Isbell Jr.  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Georgia Tech Host: Dr. Timothy Pinkston, Senior Associate Dean of Engineering Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in constructing rich interactive ent... (read more)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Robot Babies by Melinda Snodgrass  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 2 PM - 4 PM Location: SLH 100 Speaker: Melinda Snodgrass Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: This talk is designed to raise several questions. The first is to examine the purpose of the robot in fiction both in prose and on film. Ro-bots are... (read more)

Monday, November 15, 2010

Verifiable Network-Performance Measurements by Katerina Argyraki, EPFL  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3 PM - 4:30 PM Location: EEB 248 Speaker: Katerina Argyraki, EPFL Host: Profs. Konstantinos Psounis and Ramesh Govindan Abstract: In the current Internet, there is no clean way to troubleshoot poor forwarding performance: when an Internet service... (read more)

From Bayesian to Worst-Case Optimal Auction Design by Prof. Tim Roughgarden  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM Location: KAP 140 Speaker: Prof. Tim Roughgarden Host: Prof. David Kempe Note: Talk starts at 11:15 am. Abstract: We define a general template for auction design that explicitly connects Bayesian optimal mechanism design, the d... (read more)

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

How to Compute in a Selfish Society: Randomness May be the Key by Shaddin Dughmi  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University Host: Dr. David Kempe Abstract: Algorithmic Mechanism Design is concerned with solving computational problems in situations where essential problem data is being held p... (read more)

Thursday, November 04, 2010

SOFAS - Distributed and Collaborative SOFtware Analysis Services by Dr. Harald Gall  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Harald Gall Host: Dr. Nenad Medvidovic Abstract: In this talk, we present SOFAS, a distributed and collaborative software analysis platform. SOFAS shall enable interoperability of software analysis to... (read more)

Monday, October 25, 2010

Playing in the Dark: On Solving Single/Multistage Bayesian Stackelberg Games with Unknown Player Preferences  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: PHE 223 Speaker: Dr. Janusz Marecki, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Host: Dr. Milind Tambe Abstract: Recent years have seen a rise in interest in applying game theoretic methods to real world domains such as public surve... (read more)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Object-Oriented Middleware for Offline Web Applications by Prof. Eric Wohlstadter  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Host: Prof. Nenad Medvidovic Speaker: Prof. Eric Wohlstadter Abstract: Recent advances in Web browser technology have led to interest for development of offline Web applications. Offline Web applications make use... (read more)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Multi-Version Concurrency via Timestamp Range Conflict Management by Dr. David Lomet, Microsoft Research  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM Location: SAL 222 Speaker: Dr. David Lomet Host: Prof. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh Abstract: A database supporting multiple versions needs to distinguish these versions to determine which versions a transaction can read. By using ti... (read more)

Monday, October 18, 2010

Computational Methods for Acting Strategically by Prof. Vince Conitzer  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 4 PM - 5 PM Location: HNB Audi Speaker: Prof. Vince Conitzer, Duke University Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: Game theory concerns settings where multiple self-interested agents (e.g., people or software agents) interact in the same enviro... (read more)

Thursday, October 07, 2010

A Jamming-Resistant MAC Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks by Prof. Andrea Richa  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Andrea Richa, Arizona State University Host: Prof. Shang-Hua Teng Abstract: In this paper we consider the problem of designing a medium access control (MAC) protocol for single-hop wireless netwo... (read more)

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Local Search Algorithms for Submodular Maximization by Dr. Maxim Sviridenko  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Host: Dr. David Kempe Speaker: Dr. Maxim Sviridenko from IBM Watson Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a submodular function over the intersection of k matroids (for a constant k>=2). Submodular-functi... (read more)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Two Short Talks on Video Analysis (1) Segmentation of Video and (2) Prediction of Actions in Video by Prof. Irfan Essa  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech Host: Prof. Gerard Medioni Abstract: My research group is focused on a variety of approaches for video analysis and synthesis. In this talk, I will concentrate on two of our... (read more)

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Multimodal Music Search and Discovery by Prof. Gert Lankriet  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Gert Lankriet from UCSD Host: Prof. Fei Sha Abstract: The revolution in production and distribution of music, which has made millions of audio clips instantly available to millions of people, has c... (read more)

Monday, September 20, 2010

User-Controllable Security and Privacy: Lessons from the Design and Deployment of a Family of Location Sharing Applications by Dr. Norman Sadeh  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 11 AM - 12 PM Location: EEB 248 Speaker: Dr. Norman Sadeh Host: Dr. Milind Tambe Abstract: Increasingly users are expected to configure a variety of security and privacy policies on their own, whether it is the firewall on their home computer, t... (read more)

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Real-Time Case-Based Reasoning for Interactive Digital Entertainment by Prof. Ashwin Ram  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Prof. Ashwin Ram, Georgia Tech Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: User-generated content is everywhere: photos, videos, news, blogs, art, music, and every other type of digital media on the Social Web. ... (read more)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization by Dr. Daniel Golovin  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Speaker: Dr. Daniel Golovin from CalTech Host: Dr. David Kempe Abstract: Solving stochastic optimization problems under partial observability, where one needs to adaptively make decisions with uncertain outcomes,... (read more)

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Broadcast Cryptosystems by Prof. Brent Waters  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Host: Prof. Clifford Neuman Speaker: Prof. Brent Waters Abstract: A Broadcast Encryption cryptosystem allows a sender to encrypt a message to some target set of users. In a secure system users in the target set ... (read more)

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Hierarchical Bayesian Models of Language and Text by Prof. Yee Whye Teh  Event Type: CS Colloquium Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM Location: SSL 150 Host: Prof. Fei Sha Speaker: Prof. Yee Whye Teh Abstract: In this talk I will present a new approach to modelling sequence data called the sequence memoizer. As opposed to most other sequence models, our model doe... (read more)

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