Computer Science Department

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Kathi Fisler, Brown University Title:  Socially-Responsible Computing Education: Views from a Researcher Abstract: Efforts to teach ethics in university-level CS have been around since the 1970s. In the last few years, […]

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Radhika Nagpal, Princeton University Title:  Taming the Swarm In nature, thousands of individuals can cooperate to achieve complex goals from local interactions -- from cells that form complex organisms, to social […]

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Edward A. Lee, University of California at Berkeley Title: Consistency versus Availability in Distributed Systems Abstract: Distributed software systems often require consistent shared information. For example, connected vehicles require agreement on […]

Dr. John Stamper (Associate Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU) will be presenting on Oct. 9th in our distinguished lecture series. The talks are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title: What is the role of Data Science in the era […]

Dr. Kimberly Keeton (Principal Software Engineer, Google) will be presenting next in our distinguished lecture series on Nov. 6th.  The talks are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title:  Not Your Grandparents’ Memory System Abstract: Virtual memory, invented in the 1960s, has been […]

Dr. Guy E. Blelloch (U.A. and Hellen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University) will be presenting in our distinguished lecture series on Nov. 20th.  The talks are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title:  Parallel Algorithms: A Retrospective and Current […]