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

04-18-12 Michael I. Jordan
University of California, Berkeley
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
4:00pm - 5:00pm in TBD
 
03-26-12 Nancy Lynch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
12-02-11 Professor Jiawei Han
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
11-09-11 Bjarne Stroustrup
Texas A&M University
C++11 Style
5:00pm - 6:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
10-28-11 Mark Abel
BSE EE ’79 and 2011 CoE Alumni Merit Award Winner for CSE
Stories from the High Tech Career of an Accidental Engineer
1:30pm - 2:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
04-04-11 Randy Katz
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Lecture, Randy Katz, A Computer Scientist Looks At The Energy Problem
Noon - 1:30pm in 1200 EECS
 
04-04-11 Dr. R. Keith Raney
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Thinking Outside of the Box can be Over the Moon
11:30am - 12:30pm in 1311 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
DLS, Dr. Lisa Porter, Director, IARPA
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3725 CSE
 
10-20-10 John Guttag
MIT
DLS, Shortening the Healthcare Control Loop
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1690 CSE
 
10-13-10 Niels Provos
Google
Real-World Challenges of Web-Based Malware
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
10-07-10 Dr. Robert F. Brammer
Northrop Grumman
DLS, Cybersecurity and Global Climate Change: Complementary or Conflicting National Priorities?
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
04-23-10 Raghu Ramakrishnan
Yahoo
Distinguished Lecturer, Building and Searching a Web of Concepts
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
04-13-10 Cynthia Dwork
Microsoft Research
Distinguished Lecturer: What is Differential Privacy?
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
02-16-10 Sarita Adve
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Distinguished Lecture: Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
02-15-10 Radia Perlman
Sun Microsystems
Distinguished Lecture: Soul of a new network protocol
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
02-04-10 Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research
Distinguished Lecture: Learning, Inference and Action in the Open World
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
01-19-10 Vivek Sarkar
Rice University
Distinguished Lecturer, Multicore Programming Models and their Implementation Challenges
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
11-16-09 Henrik Christensen
Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology
Distinguished Lecture, Cognitive Systems and Mobile Manipulation
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
11-16-09 Henrik Christensen
Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Tecnology
RECEPTION: Distinguished Lecturer, Henrik Christensen
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor lounge area, CSE
 
10-26-09 Annie Anton
North Carolina State University
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer, Annie Anton
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
10-26-09 Annie Anton
NCSU
Distinguished Lecture by Annie Anton
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 CSE
 
10-08-09 Susan Davidson
University of Pennsylvania
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer, Susan Davidson
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor across from Robotics Lab
 
10-08-09 Susan Davidson
University of Pennsylvania
Distinguished Lecture: Provenance and Scientific Workflows, Susan Davidson
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
10-01-09 Eric Brewer
University of California, Berkeley
RECEPTION: Distinguished Lecturer, Eric Brewer
6:00pm - 7:00pm in 3rd floor, CSE Building
 
10-01-09 Eric Brewer
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Lecture by Eric Brewer
4:30pm - 6:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
09-25-09 Prof. Nino Masnari
North Carolina State University
Memories and Recollections: and How to Move a College
1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1311 EECS
 
09-25-09 Dr. Michael McCorquodale

Straight Down the Crooked Path: The Dynamic Process of Commercializing Research
2:30pm - 3:30pm in 1200 EECS
 
09-17-09 RJ Pittman
Google
Innovation 2020: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Michigan to Silicon Valley Startups to Google
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
09-15-09 Shekhar Borkar
Intel Corporation
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer Shekar Borkar
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor across from Robotics Lab
 
09-15-09 Shekhar Borkar
Intel Corporation
Distinguished Lecture: The Exascale Challenge by Shekar Borkar
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
04-15-09 Jeannette Wing
Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation
Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 CSE
 
03-16-09 Luiz Barroso
Google
On Warehouse-Scale Computers
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 CSE
 
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 CSE
 
11-24-08 Tom MItchell
Carnegie Mellon University
Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 CSE
 
04-02-08 Alfred Spector
Google
Al Spector seminar
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
01-10-08 Larry Burns
General Motors
“Designing a New Automotive DNA”
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
11-19-07 Professor Lise Getoor
University of Maryland
Graph Identification
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
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 Professor Keith Edwards
Georgia Institute of Technology
Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on Networking
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
11-05-07 Professor Daniel Spielman
Yale University
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
10-29-07 Professor Craig Boutilier
University of Toronto
Regret-based Methods for Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
09-27-07 Dr. Jeff Dean
Google, Inc.
Google: A Meandering Behind-the-Scenes Tour
3:30pm - 4:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
01-08-07 Professor Bernard Chazelle

The Impending Algorithmic Revolution
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
12-04-06 Professor Scott Shenker

Rethinking the Internet Architecture
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
11-27-06 Dr. Mary Czerwinski

User Interface Support for Today's Crazed Information Worker: From Scatterbrained to Focused
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
10-09-06 Dr. Phil Emma

The End of Scaling? Revolutions in Technology and Microarchitecture as we Pass the 90 Nanometer Node
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
03-28-06 Dr. Larry Bernstein

Trustworthy Software Systems
5:00pm - 6:30pm in 1670 CSE
 
03-23-06 Prof. Peter Pesic, St. Johns College

Abel's Proof: Solving the Unsolvable
4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
 
11-18-05 Professor Fred Schneider

Special CSE Seminar: Progress Towards Trustworthy Services
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
11-04-05 Dr. John Shen the director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL) at Intel

Iron Laws for Multi-Core Scalability given by Dr. John Shen the director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL) at Intel
Noon - 1:30pm in 1500 EECS
 
10-10-05 Professor Stuart Russell

Special CSE Seminar: Uncertainty in an unknown world.
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
09-16-05 Professor Dan Atkins

Special CSE Seminar: 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 Professor James J. Duderstadt

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
 
04-02-03 Prof. Ken Wise

Dow Professorship Lecture: Prof. Ken Wise
4:00pm - 5:00pm in Michigan League, Hussey Room
 
03-21-03 Dr. Jim Blinn

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 Professor David Patterson

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