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Lectures & Videos

Video Archive

We are pleased to present this archived collection of our distinguished lecture series. 

Video archives of the Donald B. Gillies and Robert Mueller-Thuns lectures are available by clicking the tabs at the top of the page, as are collected ACM Reflections | Projections talks and other departmental videos.

These collected videos present a rich treasure trove of thoughtful reflections from the remarkable academics, entrepreneurs, writers, and pivotal computer science figures who have graced our lecture halls since 1998.


Distinguished Academic Lectures

Title Date Speaker
Event Based Control Nov 2, 2009 Karl Astrom
Challenges of Mult-Core Processor Architecture Performance Oct 19, 2009 Faye Briggs
Four Important Concepts to Consider when Using High Performance Computers Apr 13, 2009 Jack Dongarra
The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? Apr 8, 2009 David Patterson
Industrial and Research Challenges in the  Area of Multi-Core and Many Cores Mar 16, 2009 Avi Mendelson
Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Visual Features Mar 2, 2009 Yann LeCun
Capacity-based Codesign of Computer HW and SW Jan 26, 2009 David Kuck
Towards Discourse Meaning: Complexity of Dependencies at the Discourse Level and at the Sentence Level. Nov 10, 2008 Aravind Joshi
The Art of Tangible Bits Nov 3, 2008 Hiroshi Ishii
On the Complexity of Game and Market Equilibria Sep 5, 2008 Shang-Hua Teng
Cyber-Security Architectures for Control Systems Aug 25, 2008 Carl Gunter
The Regulatory Genome and the Computer Apr 28, 2008 Sorin Istrail
Bayesian models of language acquisition, Or, Where do the rules come from? Apr 7, 2008 Mark Johnson
A Wireless Sensor Network for Traffic Surveillance Mar 10, 2008 Pravin Varaiya
Internet-Scale Overlay Hosting Mar 5, 2008 Jonathan Turner
Wide Area Consensus Feb 18, 2008 Keith Marzullo
An Ultimate Type System Jan 28, 2008 Greg Morrisett
Web Search: Challenges, Directions, and Opportunities Dec 3, 2007 Amit Singhal, Google Fellow
Architecture-aware analysis of concurrent software Oct 15, 2007 Rajeev Alur
Towards A Theory of Automated Software Development Oct 1, 2007 Don Batory
Decentralized Search, Cascading Behavior, and the Structure of On-Line Communities May 1, 2007 Jon Kleinberg
First-Order System LL* (FOSLL*)for Maxwell's equations in 3D with edge singularities Apr 30, 2007 Tom Manteuffel
In Crowds We Trust Apr 23, 2007 Irene Greif
Exploring the 21st Century via the Internet Apr 11, 2007 Vinton Cerf
Technology and Policy Challenges for the Internet in 2007 Apr 10, 2007 Vinton Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist and VP
More Natural Programming Through User Studies Apr 9, 2007 Brad Myers
A Tapeless World Can Be Inexpensive Mar 26, 2007 Kai Li
Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives Mar 29, 2007 Daniel E. Atkins
Information Retrieval in Context Mar 26, 2007 Susan Dumais
Watching People Mar 5, 2007 David Forsyth
Finding Strangers and Security of Peer-to-peer Networks Feb 26, 2007 Nikita Borisov
Recent Results in Parsing Feb 5, 2007 Eugene Charniak
UIA: Unmanaged Internet Architecture Jan 29, 2007 Frans Kaashoek
Human-Centered Computing as a Computer Scientist Dec 4, 2006 Gregory Abowd
What is Theoretical Computer Science? Nov 27, 2006 Sanjeev Arora
Recent Developments in Nonparametric Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Nov 13, 2006 Michael Jordan
Discovering Regulatory Signals in DNA Sequences Oct 30, 2006 Gary Stormo
Duality in Projective Geometry Oct 16, 2006 Dana Scott

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