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

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
 
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
 
11-12-07 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
 
03-21-03 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