Department colloquium series

Held in Volen 101.


Fall 1998


Thursday September 12, 1998, 2:00-3:00am: Fred G. Martin (MIT Media Lab)
"Crickets and GroupWear: Technology for Scientific Experimentation and Social Interaction

Thursday September 17, 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: Silvio Micali (MIT)
Secure Protocols with Invisable Trusted Party

Thursday October 15 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: Nir Shavit (Tel Aviv University)
Towards a Topological Characterization of Asynchronous Complexity

Thursday October 22, 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: Anne Foerst (Harvard Divinity School and MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab)
Commander Data at a Divinity School: Complementary Myths in AI and Theology

Wednesday October 28, 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: Georges Brun-Cottan (INRIA, France and Brandeis University)
Wide-Area Cooperation and Consistency of Replicated Objects

Monday November 12, 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: Marilyn Walker (AT&T Labs)
Performance Models for Dialogue Strategy Choices in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Monday November 16, 1998, 2-3pm: Eli Upfal (Brown University)
Design and Analysis of Dynamic Processes


Spring 1998


April 21, 1998, 9:00-10:00am: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Reasearch Center)
ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method

February 26, 1998, 2:00-3:00pm: David Wittenberg (Brandeis University)
An Introduction to the Consensus Hierarchy

February 19, 1998, 1:30-2:30pm: Dana Ron (MIT and Bunting Institute)
Testing Properties of Graphs

February 12, 1998, 2:10-3:10pm: Harry Mairson (Brandeis University)
Procedure-calling Protocols, Shared Computations, and Computational Complexity

February 5, 1998, 2:10-3:10pm: Gilles Muller (Irisa, France)
Using Partial Evaluation Techniques for Active Network Specialization

January 22, 1998, 4:10-5:10pm: Charles B. Owen (Dartmouth University)
Multiple Media Stream Correlation and Cross-modal Information Retrieval


Fall 1997


October 17, 1997, 3:30-4:30pm: Maarten Van Emden (University of Victoria),
Interval Constraints

October 27, 1997, 3:30-4:30pm: Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Weizman),
Distributed Cryptography: Past and Present

October 28, 1997, 5-6pm: Gadi Moran (Haifa University),
The r-Majority Action on 0-1 Sequences

November 5, 1997, 3:30-4:30pm: Bradley Chen (Harvard),
Morph: An Environment for Platform Specific Optimization

November 13, 1997, 2-3pm: Warren Katz, (MAK technology),
Current Issues in Multiuser Synthetic Environments

November 25, 1997, 2:10-3:10pm: John Reif (Duke University),
Biomolecular Computation


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