CS @ ILLINOIS has two named lecture series. The Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a renowned CS faculty member. The Robert Mueller-Thuns Lecture honors the memory of a graduate who died at a young age, but whom always strove for excellence.

• Gillies Lecture Series
• Mueller-Thuns Lecture Series

Distinguished Lecture Series

The CS @ ILLINOIS Distinguished Lecture Series brings prominent leaders and experts to campus to share their ideas and promote conversations about important challenges and topics in the discipline. 

Fall 2016 Speakers

Date (Link to Calendar)	Speaker	Lecture Title
8/29	John Ousterhout, Stanford University	Designing for Understandability: The Raft Consensus Algorithm
9/12	Martial Herbert, Carnegie Mellon University	Toward Robust Perception
9/22	David Blei, Columbia University	Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior
9/26	Mihai Pop, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies	Unraveling How the Human Microbiome Impacts Health and Disease
10/3	David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University	Self-Adaptive Systems
10/10	Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research	Data, Predictions, and Decisions in Support of People and Society
10/24	Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research	Research at Microsoft: Beyond the Horizon
11/7	Daniel Jackson, MIT	Towards a Theory of Software Design
11/14	William Noble, University of Washington	Machine learning methods for annotating and extending big, heterogeneous genomic data
12/5	Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT	Local Computational Algorithms
1/30	William T. Freeman, MIT	Visually Indicated Sounds