07-08 Colloquium Series
Planning Page
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Version: Thu Feb 28 15:11:51 EST 2008
All Colloquia are from 11am until noon, unless otherwise stated
Colloquium Coordinators: 07-08: Profs. Mani & Hofri
Fall 2007
| Date | Room | Speaker | Talk |
| 7 Sep. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Dr. Andy Bernat Executive Director Computer Research Association |
Federal Funding for Computing Research, Building Community and Words from My Sponsor |
| 14 Sep. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Ryan S. J. d. Baker CMU |
Towards Educational Software that Detects and Responds to All the Ways Students Choose to Use It |
| 21 Sep. 07
Friday 11am |
No Colloquium | Bio-Engineering presentation | |
| 28 Sep. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Dr. Candace L. Sidner BAE Systems AIT |
Robots and People Collaborating: How to be an Engaging Robot |
| 5 Oct. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Robert E. Kinicki CS Department, WPI |
A Glimpse at Three Wireless Networking Problems |
| 12 Oct. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Peter Fontana Pathfinder Solutions |
Developing Best Practice: How do we build a standard action language for executable UML? |
| 19 Oct. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Alan G. Konheim University of California, Santa Barbara. |
On adaptive hashing |
| 26 Oct. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Kathi Fisler CS Department, WPI |
How playing cards changed my view of access-control policies |
| 2 Nov. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Dr. Joseph E. Beck CS Department, WPI |
Learning by Choosing |
| 5 Nov. 07
Monday 11am |
Higgins Labs 218 | Special Colloquium Jeremy Epstein VerifiedVoting.org |
Electronic Voting 2007: What's New in the US and What Might Happen in the 2007 Election |
| 9 Nov. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Edward G. Coffman Columbia University |
Self-Assembly in the Tile Model of Molecular Computation |
| 16 Nov. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Emmanuel Schanzer CitizenSchools.org |
Bootstrap: Teaching Mathematics and Problem-Solving through Programming |
| 23 Nov. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Thanksgiving Holiday | No Colloquium |
| 30 Nov. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Ramkumar Krishnan Oracle Server Technologies |
The In-Database Miner's Toolkit - Oracle SQL and Data Mining APIs |
| 7 Dec. 07
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Dr. Bil Lewis Computer Scientist, MIT (Broad Institute (Genomics)) |
Debugging Backwards in Time via the Omniscient Debugger |
| 14 Dec. 07
Friday 11am |
-- | Last Day of the Semester No Colloquium |
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Spring 2008
| Date | Room | Speaker | Talk |
| 18 Jan 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Joshua Guttman MITRE |
How to Break a Protocol |
| 25 Jan 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Dave Pritchard MIT |
Assessing learning |
| 1 Feb 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Chris Dede Harvard University |
Immersive, Collaborative Simulations and Neomillennial Learning Styles: Implications for Education and Training |
| 8 Feb 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Janice Gobert CS @ WPI |
tbd |
| 15 Feb 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Erion Plaku Rice University |
Toward Autonomous Robotics: From High-Level Tasks to Low-Level Motions. |
| 22 Feb 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Bruce Croft UMASS -- Amherst |
Text Reuse (--Rescheduled to 4/18--) |
| 29 Feb 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Matthew Jadud Olin College |
Defense in the field - the future of software for robotics |
| 7 Mar 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | tbd | tbd |
| 14 Mar 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Henry Lieberman Media laboratory, MIT |
AnalogySpace: Reducing the Dimensionality of Commonsense Knowledge |
| 21 Mar 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | WPI CS faculty | MQP / IQP topics presentations to students |
| 28 Mar 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | tbd | tbd |
| 4 Apr 08
Friday 11am - 12:30 |
Fuller Labs 320 | Norman Danner Wesleyan University |
Two algorithms in search of a type system |
| 11 Apr 08
Friday 11am - 12:30 |
Fuller Labs 320 | David Brown CS --- WPI |
Computational Creativity, A Research Discussion |
| 18 Apr 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Bruce Croft UMASS -- Amherst |
Text Reuse |
| 25 Apr 08
Friday 11am |
Fuller Labs 320 | Yanlei Diao UMASS Amherst |
tbd | -->
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