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 |