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

Apr. 18, 2012
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Speaker: Michael I. Jordan
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
4:00pm - 5:00pm in Stamps Auditorium
 
Mar. 26, 2012
Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks
Speaker: Nancy Lynch
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Dec. 02, 2011
Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Speaker: Professor Jiawei Han
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 09, 2011
C++11 Style
Speaker: Bjarne Stroustrup
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
5:00pm - 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 28, 2011
Stories from the High Tech Career of an Accidental Engineer
Speaker: Mark Abel
Affiliation: BSE EE ’79 and 2011 CoE Alumni Merit Award Winner for CSE
1:30pm - 2:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Apr. 04, 2011
Distinguished Lecture, Randy Katz, A Computer Scientist Looks At The Energy Problem
Speaker: Randy Katz
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Noon - 1:30pm in 1200 EECS
 
Apr. 04, 2011
Thinking Outside of the Box can be Over the Moon
Speaker: Dr. R. Keith Raney
Affiliation: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11:30am - 12:30pm in 1311 EECS
 
Feb. 04, 2011
Stories from the Trenches of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Tim Howes
Affiliation: RockMelt
1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1500 EECS
 
Oct. 26, 2010
DLS, Dr. Lisa Porter, Director, IARPA
Speaker: Lisa Porter
Affiliation: IARPA
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3725 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 20, 2010
DLS, Shortening the Healthcare Control Loop
Speaker: John Guttag
Affiliation: MIT
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 13, 2010
Real-World Challenges of Web-Based Malware
Speaker: Niels Provos
Affiliation: Google
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 07, 2010
DLS, Cybersecurity and Global Climate Change: Complementary or Conflicting National Priorities?
Speaker: Dr. Robert F. Brammer
Affiliation: Northrop Grumman
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Apr. 23, 2010
Distinguished Lecturer, Building and Searching a Web of Concepts
Speaker: Raghu Ramakrishnan
Affiliation: Yahoo
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Apr. 13, 2010
Distinguished Lecturer: What is Differential Privacy?
Speaker: Cynthia Dwork
Affiliation: Microsoft Research
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Feb. 16, 2010
Distinguished Lecture: Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware
Speaker: Sarita Adve
Affiliation: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Feb. 15, 2010
Distinguished Lecture: Soul of a new network protocol
Speaker: Radia Perlman
Affiliation: Sun Microsystems
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Feb. 04, 2010
Distinguished Lecture: Learning, Inference and Action in the Open World
Speaker: Eric Horvitz
Affiliation: Microsoft Research
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Jan. 19, 2010
Distinguished Lecturer, Multicore Programming Models and their Implementation Challenges
Speaker: Vivek Sarkar
Affiliation: Rice University
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 16, 2009
Distinguished Lecture, Cognitive Systems and Mobile Manipulation
Speaker: Henrik Christensen
Affiliation: Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 16, 2009
RECEPTION: Distinguished Lecturer, Henrik Christensen
Speaker: Henrik Christensen
Affiliation: Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Tecnology
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor lounge area, Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 26, 2009
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer, Annie Anton
Speaker: Annie Anton
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 26, 2009
Distinguished Lecture by Annie Anton
Speaker: Annie Anton
Affiliation: NCSU
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 08, 2009
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer, Susan Davidson
Speaker: Susan Davidson
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor across from Robotics Lab
 
Oct. 08, 2009
Distinguished Lecture: Provenance and Scientific Workflows, Susan Davidson
Speaker: Susan Davidson
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 01, 2009
RECEPTION: Distinguished Lecturer, Eric Brewer
Speaker: Eric Brewer
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
6:00pm - 7:00pm in 3rd floor, Beyster Bldg. Building
 
Oct. 01, 2009
Distinguished Lecture by Eric Brewer
Speaker: Eric Brewer
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
4:30pm - 6:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Sep. 25, 2009
Memories and Recollections: and How to Move a College
Speaker: Prof. Nino Masnari
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1311 EECS
 
Sep. 25, 2009
Straight Down the Crooked Path: The Dynamic Process of Commercializing Research
Speaker: Dr. Michael McCorquodale
2:30pm - 3:30pm in 1200 EECS
 
Sep. 17, 2009
Innovation 2020: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Michigan to Silicon Valley Startups to Google
Speaker: RJ Pittman
Affiliation: Google
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Sep. 15, 2009
RECEPTION, Distinguished Lecturer Shekar Borkar
Speaker: Shekhar Borkar
Affiliation: Intel Corporation
3:00pm - 4:00pm in 3rd floor across from Robotics Lab
 
Sep. 15, 2009
Distinguished Lecture: The Exascale Challenge by Shekar Borkar
Speaker: Shekhar Borkar
Affiliation: Intel Corporation
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Apr. 15, 2009
Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing
Speaker: Jeannette Wing
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Mar. 16, 2009
On Warehouse-Scale Computers
Speaker: Luiz Barroso
Affiliation: Google
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Jan. 26, 2009
How Should the Next Generation (Mega) Data Center Be? - An Infrastructure Perspective
Speaker: David Yen
Affiliation: Juniper Networks
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 24, 2008
Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
Speaker: Tom MItchell
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1690 Beyster Bldg.
 
Apr. 02, 2008
Al Spector seminar
Speaker: Alfred Spector
Affiliation: Google
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Jan. 10, 2008
“Designing a New Automotive DNA”
Speaker: Larry Burns
Affiliation: General Motors
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 19, 2007
Graph Identification
Speaker: Professor Lise Getoor
Affiliation: University of Maryland
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 14, 2007
Goff Smith Lecture - Amory Lovins
Speaker: Amory Lovins
Affiliation: Rocky Mountain Institute
4:00pm - 6:00pm in Biomed. Res. Bldg. Auditorium - Medical Campus
 
Nov. 12, 2007
Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on Networking
Speaker: Professor Keith Edwards
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 05, 2007
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms
Speaker: Professor Daniel Spielman
Affiliation: Yale University
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 29, 2007
Regret-based Methods for Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design
Speaker: Professor Craig Boutilier
Affiliation: University of Toronto
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Sep. 27, 2007
Google: A Meandering Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Dean
Affiliation: Google, Inc.
3:30pm - 4:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Jan. 08, 2007
The Impending Algorithmic Revolution
Speaker: Professor Bernard Chazelle
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Dec. 04, 2006
Rethinking the Internet Architecture
Speaker: Professor Scott Shenker
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Nov. 27, 2006
User Interface Support for Today's Crazed Information Worker: From Scatterbrained to Focused
Speaker: Dr. Mary Czerwinski
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Oct. 09, 2006
The End of Scaling? Revolutions in Technology and Microarchitecture as we Pass the 90 Nanometer Node
Speaker: Dr. Phil Emma
4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Mar. 28, 2006
Trustworthy Software Systems
Speaker: Dr. Larry Bernstein
5:00pm - 6:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
 
Mar. 23, 2006
Abel's Proof: Solving the Unsolvable
Speaker: Prof. Peter Pesic, St. Johns College
4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
 
Nov. 18, 2005
Special CSE Seminar: Progress Towards Trustworthy Services
Speaker: Professor Fred Schneider
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Nov. 04, 2005
Iron Laws for Multi-Core Scalability given by Dr. John Shen the director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL) at Intel
Speaker: Dr. John Shen the director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL) at Intel
Noon - 1:30pm in 1500 EECS
 
Oct. 10, 2005
Special CSE Seminar: Uncertainty in an unknown world.
Speaker: Professor Stuart Russell
4:30pm - 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Sep. 16, 2005
Special CSE Seminar: The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Movement and the Role for the CSE Research Community
Speaker: Professor Dan Atkins
3:30pm - 5:00pm in 1200 EECS
 
Nov. 16, 2004
Boosting and Brownian motion
Speaker: Yoav Freund
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1017 Dow
 
Sep. 24, 2004
IT Forum Project
Speaker: Professor James J. Duderstadt
4:00pm - 5:00pm in 1311 EECS
 
Mar. 29, 2004
Distinguished Lecture Series in Graphics
Speaker: Takeo Igarashi
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
 
Mar. 19, 2004
DLS in Graphics
Speaker: Szymon Rusinkiewicz
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
 
Mar. 08, 2004
DLS in Graphics
Speaker: Steve Seitz
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
 
Feb. 20, 2004
DLS in Graphics
Speaker: Fredo Durand
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
 
Oct. 03, 2003
On-Line Science: The World-Wide Telescope as a Pro
Speaker: Jim Gray
4:00pm - 7:30pm in Cheseborough Auditorium
 
Apr. 02, 2003
Dow Professorship Lecture: Prof. Ken Wise
Speaker: Prof. Ken Wise
4:00pm - 5:00pm in Michigan League, Hussey Room
 
Mar. 21, 2003
Computer Graphics: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Dr. Jim Blinn
4:00pm - 5:30pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Mar. 14, 2003
Making Movies with Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting
Speaker: Paul Debevec
4:00pm - 5:30pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Mar. 07, 2003
Succeeding in Hollywood with a Technical Degree
Speaker: Julie Anne Mayfield
4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1200 EECS
 
Nov. 13, 2002
Research in Video Gaming
Speaker: John Buchanan
10:30am - 11:30am in 185 EWRE Bldg.
 
Nov. 01, 2002
Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC)
Speaker: Professor David Patterson
3:30pm - 5:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium
 
Oct. 11, 2002
Future Game Design: Generating Player Driven Experiences
Speaker: Warren Spector
10:00am - 11:30am in 1610 IOE