Dertouzos Lecturer Series Archive
Present Schedule: 2004-2005
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04/29/04 - Professor Dan Huttenlocher , Cornell University
"The Computer Science of Computer Vision"
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04/15/04 -Professor Scott Shenker , ICSI Berkeley
"Distributed Hash Tables and Internet Architecture"
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04/08/04 - Prof. Anna Karlin , University of Washington
"Mechanism Design for Fun and Profit"
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10/10/02 - Brian Kernighan, Department of Computer Science Princeton University
"What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers"
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02/06/03 - Dr. Alfred Spector, Vice President of Services and Software IBM Research Division
"Conundrum of Systems"
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02/13/03 - Professor Monica Lam, Department of Computer Science Stanford University
"Converting Cycles into RASS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, Security)"
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02/20/03 - Dr. Greg Papadopoulos,=Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Sun Microsystems
"Finishing the Revolution"
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11/8/01 - Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU, Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Defending Cyberporn"
10/11/01 - Dr. James Gray, Senior Researcher and Manager,
Microsoft Research, Bay Area Research Center
"On-Line Science: The Virtual Observatory as a Prototype for the New Computational
Science"
6/10/01 - Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University
"Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace"
4/26/01 - Professor Mark Horowitz, Director of Computer Systems Laboratory,
Stanford University
"Life after Silicon: An Oxymoron?"
11/30/00 - Robert Broderson, Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
"The Case Against Von Neumann Architectures in System-on-a-Chip Design"
10/12/00 - Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Chief Technology Officer, Cohera Corporation
"The Future of Object-Relational Technology"
5/11/00 - Professor Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Lab
"Security Engineering"
4/20/00 - Mr. Vinton Cerf, Senior Vice President, MCI Telecom Corp.
"The Internet Tidal Wave"
11/4/99 - Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science
"Mobile Computing: Hype or Harbinger"
10/21/99 - Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy, National Science Foundation
"Information Technology for the 21st Century: Challenges &
Opportunities"
5/14/98 - Patrick Hanrahan, Professor EECS, Stanford University
"Digital Lights, Cameras and Materials"
4/16/98 - Eckhard Pfeiffer, CEO, Compaq
"The Future of Computing: Key Trends in Technology and Customer value"
3/26/98 - Randy Katz, Department Chair, EECS, University of California, Berkeley
"From Smoke Signals to the Internet: The Development of Communiations Infrastructures"
11/20/97 - Robert Morris, Retired from the National Security Agency
"Protection of Valuable Information"
10/30/97 - James Gosling, Sun Microsystems
"Java: Past, Present and Future"
5/8/97 - David R. Cheriton, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
"Gigabit Ethernet, ATM and the Death of Phone Companies"
4/17/97 - John E. Warnock, President and CEO, Adobe Systems, Inc.
"The Challenges of Managing Information"
3/27/97 - Dr. Anita Jones, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
"Adventures in Interesting Times"
10/17/96 - Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"Cryptology, Technology and Politics"
5/2/96 - Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
United States Department of Commerce
"Civilian Technology for Economic Growth: The Changing Face of Federal R & D"
3/18/96 - James Clark, Chairman and CEO, Netscape Communications Corporation
"The Internet and Electronic Commerce"
2/8/96 - Andrew J. Viterbi, Chief Technical Officer, Qualcomm, Incorporated
"A Fresh Look at the Terrestrial Mobile Multiple Access Networks"
10/26/95 - John Ousterhout, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories;
University of California, Berkeley
"Tcl: A Universal Scripting Language"
4/20/95 - Andries van Dam, Dept. of CS, Brown University
"Escaping Flatland - What Lies Beyond WIMP User Interfaces?"
2/16/95 - Barbara Grosz, Division of Applied Sciences Harvard University
"Collaborative Systems"
12/15/94 - Manuel Blum, Dept. of CS, University of California, Berkeley
"Result-Checking: A Theory of Testing Meets a Test of Theory"
10/27/94 - Rick Rashid, VP Research, Microsoft Corporation
"Making the Future Happen: Things Your Advisor Never Told You About Technology Transfer"
4/7/94 - Joel Birnbaum, Vice President, R & D, Hewlett-Packard
"Towards Pervasive Information Systems"
2/17/94 - Edward Lazowska, Dept. CS & Engineering, University of Washington
"Operating System Support for Interactive Design Applications"
11/4/93 - Henry Fuchs, Dept. of CS. UNC-Chapel Hill
"Simulated Environments and Augmented Reality:
From Sutherland's Ultimate Display to the Lunatic Fringe and Back"
10/14/93 - Alexander Fraser, AT&T Bell Labs
"Broadband Networks and the Information Revolution"
4/29/93 - Ken Kennedy, Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
"Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming Support in FORTRAN D"
4/15/93 - Eli Noam, Professor, Columbia University School of Business
"The Impeding Doom of Common Carriage"
4/1/93 - Charles Thacker, Corporate Consultant Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation
"Computing in 2001"
2/11/93 - Susan Graham, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
"Languages and Environments"
12/3/92 Lýszló Lovýsz, Professor, Princeton University
"Random Walks, Volume and Random Elements"
10/5/92 - Mitchell Kapor, President, Electronic Fontier Foundation
"Transitional Steps to a National Information Infrastructure"
4/2/92 - Andrew C. Yao, William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering &
Applied Science, Princeton University
"A Synthesis of Communication and Computation"
2/20/92 - David Patterson, Chair and Professor of Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley
"Terabytes>>Teraflops"
12/5/91 - Robert Sproull, Sun Microsystems
"Interactive Graphics Systems"
10/31/91 - Leonard Kleinrock, Chair and Professor of Computer Science, University of
California, Los Angeles
"Broadband Networks in the 1990's"
10/3/91 - Mary Shaw, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
"Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software"
3/7/91 - Ms. Frances E. Allen, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
"Software for Parallelism"
12/13/90 - Prof. H.T. Kung, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
"How to Move Parallel Processing into the Mainstream"
11/29/90 - William Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation
11/8/90 - Prof. Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
"A Bridging Model for Parallel Computation"
10/25/90 - Dr. James Flanagan, Director, Center for Aids for Industrial Productivity,
Rutgers University
"Voice Interactive Information Systems"
5/17/90 - Dr. Gordon Plotkin, Professor of Computer Science Unversity of Edinburgh
"What Programs Mean, and Why and How"
4/19/90 - Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe, Ethernet Inventor and 3Com Corporation Founder
"MIT, Ethernet and 3Com: 1964-1989, A 25-Year Story for Engineers"
3/22/90 - Dr. Ronald L. Graham, Adjunct Director, Research Information Sciences
Division AT&T Bell Laboratories
"Computers and Combinatorics"
11/16/89 - Dr. Terrence J. Senowski, Professor of Biology Physics University of California,
San Diego
"Perspectives on Neural Computation"
10/12/89 - Dr. John Hennessy, Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Stanford University
"RISC Architectures: Past, Present and Future"
4/27/89 - Robert W. Taylor, Director, Systems Research Center Digital Equipment Corporation
"Licklider's Legacy: The Power of a Vision"
3/16/89 - Raj Reddy, Director of Robotics Institute Carnegie-Mellon University
"Speech Recognition: A Challenging Task Domain for Artificial Intelligence and
Computer Science"
2/16/89 - David S. Johnson, Department Head, Mathematical Foundations of Computing,
AT&T Bell Laboratories
"The Traveling Salesman Problem"
10/20/88 - David L. Parnas, Professor of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University
"Can We Make Software More Trustworthy?"
5/19/88 - Jeffrey Ullman, Professor, Computer Science Department Stanford University
"Object-Oriented Database Systems: Hot New Idea or Blast from the Past?"
4/21/88 - Alfred Aho, Director, Computing Science Research AT&T Bell Laboratories
"Languages and Their Compilers"
2/18/88 - Ralph Gomory, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist IBM Corporation
"The Evolution of Computing"
12/3/87 - Raymond Kurzweil, Chairman of the Board, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc.
"Five Trends Shaping Our Future World (Hardware to Software, Analog to Digital, Silicon Compilation,
Parallel Processing)"
11/12/87 - William Poduska, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stellar Computer, Inc.
"Venture Opportunities and High Performance Workstations"
5/14/87 - Nils J. Nilsson, Chairman, Department of Computer Science Stanford University
"Intelligent, Communicating Agents"
4/16/87 - Leslie B. Lamport, Computer Scientist, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems
Research Center
"Everything you need to know to reason about concurrent programs - but no one ever told you because
it is so simple"
3/19/87 - David J. Kuck, Director, Center for Supercomputing and Development
University of Illinois
"The Cedar Systems"
2/12/87 - Robert E. Kahn, President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
"Developing the National Information Infrastructure"
11/6/86 - Charles L. Seitz, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
"Portable Programming Systems for Concurrent Computers"
10/2/86 - Hans J. Berliner, Senior Research Scientist Computer Science Department
Carnegie-Mellon University
"Pattern Knowledge and Search: The SUPREM Architecture"
5/8/86 - David A. Turner, Professor of Computer Science University of Kent at Canterbury
"New Developments in Functional Programming"
4/17/86 - William H. Gates, Chairman of the Board, Microsoft Corporation
"Trends in Microcomputer Software"
3/13/86 - Daniel C. Dennett, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
"Information, Technology and the Virtues of Ignorance"
2/6/86 - John E. Hopcroft, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
"The Promise of Electronic Prototyping"
11/21/85 - Robert W. Lucky, Executive Director Research, Communications Sciences
Division AT&T Bell Laboratories
"Optical Technology and Computer Communications"
10/10/85 - Robert E. Tarjan, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
"New Themes in Data Structure Design"
5/23/85 - Kenneth L. Thompson, Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
"A Unix Retrospective"
4/25/85 - Carver A. Mead, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technololgy
"VLSI Structures for High Bandwidth Computation"
3/21/85 - Bobby R. Inman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Microelectronics &
Computer Technology Corp.
"Maintaining America's Technological Preeminence"
2/7/85 - Stephen A. Cook, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
"A Log-Depth Circuit for Interger Division"
11/15/84 - Roger C. Schank, Chairman, Department of Computer Science, Yale University
"Getting Computers to Explain Themselves"
10/11/84 - Steven P. Jobs, Chairman, Board of Directors Apple Computer, Inc.
"The Impact of Personal Computers"
4/26/84 - Manuel Blum, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
"Three Impossible Problems: 1. Coin- Flipping by Telephone, 2. Exchanging Secrets,
3. Certifying Electronic Mail"
3/22/84 - Alan W. Kay, Vice President and Chief Scientist - Atari Corp.
"Too Many Smart People: A Personal View of Design in the Computer Field"
2/23/84 - Robin Milner, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science,
University of Edinburgh
"Language, Meaning, Computation and Proof"
11/17/83 - Robert A. Kowalski, Professor of Computational Logic, Imperial College of Science
and Technology, University of London
"Logic Programming"
10/20/83 - Peter E. Hart, President, Syntelligence, Inc.
"Managing Artificial Intelligence in Transition"
5/21/82 - Richard M. Karp, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
"What We Have Learned About Polynomial-Time Computation"
4/16/82 - William M. Wulf, Professor of Computer Science Carnegie-Mellon University
"PQCC: A Machine-Relative Compiler Technology"
3/12/82 - Richard W. Hamming, Adjunct Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
"Scholasticism and Modern Science"
2/19/82 - William A. Norris, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - Control Data Corp.
"Evolution of the Best Business Strategy in the World"
1/13/82 - Grace M. Hopper, Captain, Naval Data Automation Command - U.S. Navy
"Possible Futures: Hardware, Software and People"
12/9/81 - Edward D. de Castro, President, Data General Corp.
"Managing Technologies in the 1980's"
11/4/81 - Louis Pouzin, Director, Pilot Project Institut National de Recherche d'Informatique
et d'Automatique
"The Pervasive Growth of Data Networks"
4/17/80 - Dana Scott, Professor of Mathematical Logic, University of Oxford
"What is Denotational Semantics"
3/25/80 - Brian Randell, Professor of Computing Science, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
"From Analytical Engines to Electronic Computers.
The Contributions of Ludgate Torres y Queve and Bush"
2/14/80 - Jacob Schwartz, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Courant Institute, New York University
"Ultra Computers"
12/4/79 - Kenneth E. Iverson, IBM Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center
"APL as a Mathematical Notation"
11/8/79 - Lawrence G. Roberts, Chairman, Telnet Communications Corporation
"Future Networks"
10/30/79 - John McCarthy, Stanford University
"Common Sense for Computers"
5/1/79 - Butler W. Lampson, Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corporation
"Building Programs"
4/10/79 - Alan J. Perlis, Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
"The Influence of VLSI Programming Languages and Their Processors"
2/15/79 - Lewis M. Branscomb, Vice President and Chief Scientist, IBM
"Small is Beautiful"
12/7/78 - Juris Hartmanis, Professor and Chairman Dept. of C.S., Cornell University
"On the Nature of Computer Science and it's Paradigms"
11/2/78 - Herbert A. Simon, Professor of Computer Science and Psychlogy,
Carnegie-Mellon University
"Learning from Examples and Learning by Doing"
10/17/78 - Ruth M. Davis, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Education,
Department of Defense
"The Disappearance of Computers and Software as We Know Them Today"
5/2/78 - John Cocke, Fellow, International Business Machines Corporation
"Compiler Optimization"
4/4/78 - Allen Newell, University Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
"On Production Systems in Search of an Architecture for Human Cognition"
3/9/78 - B.O. Evans, Vice President, Engineering Programming & Technology, IBM
"The Applications Revolution Promised by Communications Satellites"
2/23/78 - Kenneth H. Olsen, President, Digital Equipment Corportation
"What I Think I Saw in Early Years of Computers"
12/6/77 - Ivan E. Sutherland, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
"The Integrated Circuit Revolution is Only Half Over"
11/8/77 - Maurice V. Wilkes, Dept. Head, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
"Early Computer Development in Cambridge"
10/20/77 - Edsger W. Dijkstra, Burroughs Research Fellow, The Netherlands
"The Interplay Between Mathematics and Programming"
3/22/77 - Niklaus Wirth, Professor, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
"A Language for Modular Multprogramming"
Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr. , Kenan Professor of C.S. and Chai or the Department, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
"The Proof of the Pudding"
2/8/77 - Joseph F. Traub , Head of the Department, Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
"On the Fast Computation of Algebraic Functions with Applications"
11/16/76 - C.A. R. Hoare, Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University, Belfast
"Communicating Sequential Processes"
10/13/76 - Michael O. Rabin, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Probabilistic Algorithms: Can Chaos Produce Certainty?"
4/27/76 - C. Gordon Bell, Vice President of Engineering, Digital Eqipment Corporation
"Small Computer Architecture (based on th DEC PDP-11 Computer)"
3/23/76 - Gene M. Amdahl, Chairman of the Board, Amdahl Corporation
"Large Commercial Systems, Their Architectural and Technological Evolution"
2/24/76 - Donald E. Knuth, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
"An Analysis of Alpha-B Pruning"