Every year, the department invites a small number of distinguished speakers to come to the department. Our speakers are leaders in the field of computer science, coming from academia and industry.
2012-2013 Speakers
[DLS Poster]
Umesh Vazirani - OCTOBER 30, 2012 (Bahen Centre 1170)
Roger A Strauch Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
UC Berkeley
Juliana Freire - DECEMBER 4, 2012 (Bahen Centre 1170)
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Shwetak Patel - JANUARY 29, 2013 (Bahen Centre 1180)
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Eberhart Zrenner - APRIL 30, 2013 (Medical Sciences 2158)
Chair Professor of Ophthalmology
Centre for Ophthalmology, Institute for Ophthalmic Research
University of Tübingen
2011-2012 Speakers
[DLS Poster]
Saul Greenberg - SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Professor and NSERC/AITF/Smart Technologies
Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Alon Halevy - OCTOBER 11, 2011
Head of Database Research GroupGoogle Inc.
Christos Papadimitriou - NOVEMBER 15, 2011
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECSComputer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
Jeannette Wing - FEBRUARY 7, 2012
President’s Professor of Computer Science
and Head Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Ng - FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Associate Professor
and Director of the Stanford AI Lab
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Claire Tomlin - MARCH 6, 2012
Charles A. Desoer Chair and Professor of EECS
Electrical Engineering Division
University of California at Berkeley
2010-2011 Speakers
[DLS Poster]
Maja Mataric - SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Professor, Departments of Computer Science and NeuroscienceUniversity of Southern California
Talk details
Richard Ladner - SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
Boeing Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Washington
Talk details
Webcast
Mor Harchol-Balter - OCTOBER 26, 2010
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon University
Talk details
Webcast
Mark Guzdial - NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Professor, School of Interactive ComputingGeorgia Institute of Technology
Talk details
Webcast
Nicholas A. Christakis - JANUARY 18, 2011
Professor, Department of Medicine, Health Care Policy and SociologyHarvard University
Master of Pforzheimer House
Harvard College
Talk details
Josh Tenenbaum - FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computation, Department of Brain and Cognitive SciencesMIT
Talk details
Webcast
2009-2010 Speakers
[DLS Poster]
Ed Lazowska - SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, Department of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Washington
Talk details
Webcast
Linda Petzold - OCTOBER 20, 2009
Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California at Santa Barbara
Talk details
Webcast
Edmund Clarke - NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Professor, School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
Talk details
Webcast
Fran Allen - DECEMBER 1, 2009
IBM Fellow EmeritaIBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk details
Webcast
Joe Marks - FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Vice PresidentDisney Research
Talk details
*No Webcast of this talk will be posted.
Maja Mataric - RESCHEDULED
Professor, Computer Science and NeuroscienceFounding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems
Co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab
University of Southern California
Talk details
2008 - 2009 Speakers
Eric Brewer
Professor, Computer Science DivisionUniversity of California at Berkeley
Daphne Koller
Professor, Department of Computer ScienceStanford University
Prabhakar Raghavan
Head of Yahoo! ResearchBatya Friedman
Professor, Information SchoolAdjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Value Sensitive Design Research Lab
University of Washington
Alan Kay
PresidentViewpoints Research Institute
Dan Jurafsky
Associate Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer ScienceStanford University
Shree K. Nayar
T.C. Chang Professor, Computer Science DepartmentColumbia University
Webcasts of these talks can be found here. The 2008-09 poster is found here.