Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science and Engineering

The Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus top thinkers in the field of computer science. They meet with faculty and students and present their cutting-edge research to the University of Michigan community.

Upcoming and Former Lectures

04-22-13	Peter Norvig Google The Science and Engineering of Online Learning 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster
02-25-13	Hal Abelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology From Computational Thinking to Computational Values 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building
01-17-13	Richard Stallman Free Software Foundation A Free Digital Society 4:15pm - 5:30pm in Stamps Auditorium
10-24-12	Kunle Olukotun, Rackham Centennial Lecture Stanford University Making Parallelism Easy: A 25 Year Odyssey 3:00pm - 4:00pm in 1109 FXB
10-19-12	Ed Lazowska University of Washington and Chair, Computing Community Consortium Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 BBB
10-12-12	Krisztián Flautner – CSE Merit Award Winner Lecture ARM, Inc. Inmates vs Asylum: Overtime 2:30pm - 3:30pm in 1303 EECS
04-18-12	Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data 4:00pm - 5:00pm in Stamps Auditorium
03-26-12	Nancy Lynch Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
12-02-11	Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
11-09-11	Bjarne Stroustrup Texas A&M University C++11 Style 5:00pm - 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
10-28-11	Mark Abel Intel Stories from the High Tech Career of an Accidental Engineer 1:30pm - 2:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
04-04-11	Randy Katz University of California, Berkeley A Computer Scientist Looks At The Energy Problem 12:00pm - 1:30pm in 1200 EECS
02-04-11	Tim Howes RockMelt Stories from the Trenches of Silicon Valley 1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1500 EECS
10-26-10	Lisa Porter IARPA IARPA: Be the Future 3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3725 Beyster Bldg.
10-20-10	John Guttag MIT Shortening the Healthcare Control Loop 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
10-13-10	Niels Provos Google Real-World Challenges of Web-Based Malware 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
10-07-10	Robert F. Brammer Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity and Global Climate Change: Complementary or Conflicting National Priorities? 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
04-23-10	Raghu Ramakrishnan Yahoo! Building and Searching a Web of Concepts 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
04-13-10	Cynthia Dwork Microsoft Research What is Differential Privacy? 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
02-16-10	Sarita Adve Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
02-15-10	Radia Perlman Sun Microsystems Soul of a New Network Protocol 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
02-04-10	Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research Learning, Inference and Action in the Open World 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
01-19-10	Vivek Sarkar Rice University Multicore Programming Models and their Implementation Challenges 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-16-09	Henrik Christensen Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology Cognitive Systems and Mobile Manipulation 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
10-26-09	Annie Anton NCSU Distinguished Lecture by Annie Anton 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
10-08-09	Susan Davidson University of Pennsylvania Provenance and Scientific Workflows 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
10-01-09	Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley Technology for Developing Regions 4:30pm - 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
09-17-09	RJ Pittman Google Innovation 2020: An Entrepreneurs Journey from Michigan to Silicon Valley Startups to Google 4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
09-15-09	Shekhar Borkar Intel Corporation The Exascale Challenge 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
04-15-09	Jeannette Wing Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
03-16-09	Luiz Barroso Google On Warehouse-Scale Computers 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
01-26-09	David Yen Juniper Networks How Should the Next Generation (Mega) Data Center Be? - An Infrastructure Perspective 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
11-24-08	Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
04-02-08	Alfred Spector Google Al Spector seminar 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
01-10-08	Larry Burns General Motors Designing a New Automotive DNA 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-19-07	Lise Getoor University of Maryland Graph Identification 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-14-07	Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute Goff Smith Lecture - Amory Lovins 4:00pm - 6:00pm in Biomed. Res. Bldg. Auditorium - Medical Campus
11-12-07	Keith Edwards Georgia Institute of Technology Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on Networking 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-05-07	Daniel Spielman Yale University Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
10-29-07	Craig Boutilier University of Toronto Regret-based Methods for Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
09-27-07	Jeff Dean Google, Inc. Google: A Meandering Behind-the-Scenes Tour 3:30pm - 4:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
01-08-07	Bernard Chazelle Princeton University The Impending Algorithmic Revolution 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
12-04-06	Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley Rethinking the Internet Architecture 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-27-06	Mary Czerwinski Microsoft Research User Interface Support for Todays Crazed Information Worker: From Scatterbrained to Focused 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
10-09-06	Phil Emma IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center The End of Scaling? Revolutions in Technology and Microarchitecture as we Pass the 90 Nanometer Node 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
03-28-06	Larry Bernstein Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey Trustworthy Software Systems 5:00pm - 6:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
03-23-06	Peter Pesic St. Johns College Abels Proof: Solving the Unsolvable 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
11-18-05	Fred Schneider Cornell University Progress Towards Trustworthy Services 4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
11-04-05	John Shen Intel Iron Laws for Multi-Core Scalability 12:00pm - 1:30pm in 1500 EECS
10-10-05	Stuart Russell University of California, Berkeley Uncertainty in an unknown world 4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
09-16-05	Dan Atkins University of Michigan The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Movement and the Role for the CSE Research Community 3:30pm - 5:00pm in 1200 EECS
11-16-04	Yoav Freund Boosting and Brownian motion 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1017 Dow
09-24-04	James J. Duderstadt University of Michigan IT Forum Project 4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1311 EECS
03-29-04	Takeo Igarashi Distinguished Lecture Series in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
03-19-04	Szymon Rusinkiewicz DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
03-08-04	Steve Seitz DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
02-20-04	Fredo Durand DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
10-03-03	Jim Gray On-Line Science: The World-Wide Telescope as a Pro 4:00pm - 7:30pm in Cheseborough Auditorium
03-21-03	Jim Blinn Microsoft, Computer Graphics Research Computer Graphics: Past, Present and Future 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
03-14-03	Paul Debevec Making Movies with Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
03-07-03	Julie Anne Mayfield Succeeding in Hollywood with a Technical Degree 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1200 EECS
11-13-02	John Buchanan Research in Video Gaming 10:30am - 11:30am in 185 EWRE Bldg.
11-01-02	David Patterson University of California at Berkeley Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC) 3:30pm - 5:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
10-11-02	Warren Spector Future Game Design: Generating Player Driven Experiences 10:00am - 11:30am in 1610 IOE