Computer Science

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. All talks are at 11:00 a.m., in the Bahen Centre, Room 1180.

2009-2010 Speakers

[DLS Poster]

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Ed Lazowska - SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Talk details
Webcast

Linda Petzold - OCTOBER 20, 2009

Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Santa Barbara
Talk details
Webcast

Edmund Clarke - NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Professor, School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Talk details
Webcast

Fran Allen - DECEMBER 1, 2009

IBM Fellow Emerita
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk details

Joe Marks - FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Vice President
Disney Research
Talk details

Maja Mataric - MARCH 30, 2010

Professor, Computer Science and Neuroscience
Founding 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

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Eric Brewer

Professor, Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley

Daphne Koller

Professor, Department of Computer Science
Stanford University

Prabhakar Raghavan

Head of Yahoo! Research

Batya Friedman

Professor, Information School
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Value Sensitive Design Research Lab
University of Washington

Alan Kay

President
Viewpoints Research Institute

Dan Jurafsky

Associate Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science
Stanford University

Shree K. Nayar

T.C. Chang Professor, Computer Science Department
Columbia University

Webcasts of these talks can be found here. The 2008-09 poster is found here.