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
Innovation 2020: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Michigan to Silicon Valley Startups to Google
 
04-15-09 Jeannette Wing
Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing
 
03-16-09 Luiz Barroso
On Warehouse-Scale Computers
 
01-26-09 David Yen
How Should the Next Generation (Mega) Data Center Be? - An Infrastructure Perspective
 
11-24-08 Tom MItchell
Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
 
04-02-08 Alfred Spector
Al Spector seminar
 
01-10-08 Larry Burns
“Designing a New Automotive DNA”
 
11-19-07 Professor Lise Getoor
Graph Identification
 
11-12-07 Professor Keith Edwards
Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on Networking
 
11-05-07 Professor Daniel Spielman
Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms
 
10-29-07 Professor Craig Boutilier
Regret-based Methods for Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design
 
09-27-07 Dr. Jeff Dean
Google: A Meandering Behind-the-Scenes Tour
 
01-08-07 Professor Bernard Chazelle
The Impending Algorithmic Revolution
 
12-04-06 Professor Scott Shenker
Rethinking the Internet Architecture
 
11-27-06 Dr. Mary Czerwinski
User Interface Support for Today's Crazed Information Worker: From Scatterbrained to Focused
 
10-09-06 Dr. Phil Emma
The End of Scaling? Revolutions in Technology and Microarchitecture as we Pass the 90 Nanometer Node
 
03-28-06 Dr. Larry Bernstein
Trustworthy Software Systems
 
03-23-06 Prof. Peter Pesic, St. Johns College
Abel's Proof: Solving the Unsolvable
 
11-18-05 Professor Fred Schneider
Special CSE Seminar: Progress Towards Trustworthy Services
 
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
 
10-10-05 Professor Stuart Russell
Special CSE Seminar: Uncertainty in an unknown world.
 
09-16-05 Professor Dan Atkins
Special CSE Seminar: The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Movement and the Role for the CSE Research Community
 
11-16-04 Yoav Freund
Boosting and Brownian motion
 
09-24-04 Professor James J. Duderstadt
IT Forum Project
 
03-29-04 Takeo Igarashi
Distinguished Lecture Series in Graphics
 
03-21-03 Dr. Jim Blinn
Computer Graphics: Past, Present and Future
 
03-14-03 Paul Debevec
Making Movies with Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting
 
03-07-03 Julie Anne Mayfield
Succeeding in Hollywood with a Technical Degree
 
11-13-02 John Buchanan
Research in Video Gaming
 
11-01-02 Professor David Patterson
Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC)
 
10-11-02 Warren Spector
Future Game Design: Generating Player Driven Experiences