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| Jun 4, 2008 | Chuck Moore
AMD | The Role of Accelerated Computing in the Multi-Core Era | |  |
| May 28, 2008 | Panel Discussion
| The Search for Jim Gray
A Tribute to Honor Jim Gray is planned for May 31, 2008 at UC Berkeley. Jim Gray, a renowned
computer scientist, has been missing at sea since January 28th, 2007. | | |
| May 21, 2008 | Charles Tahan
Booz | Allen | Hamilton | Spookytechnology and Society: The progress and implications of quantum
information science and technology | | |
| May 14, 2008 | Jerry Dien
Asus Computer | The Next Big Things--The Challenge of Small Form Factor: The ASUS Eee PC | | |
| May 7, 2008 | Steve Yegge
Google | Dynamic Languages Strike Back: Addressing the tools and performance issues head-on | | |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Adam L. Beberg
Computer Science Department
Stanford University | Distributed Systems: Computation With a Million Friends (and a Few Foes) | | |
| Apr 23, 2008 | Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon.com | A Head in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service | | |
| Apr 16, 2008 | Jonathan Bachrach
MIT CSAIL | Spatial Computing in Proto | | |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Randy Breen
Emotiv | Demonstration of Brain Computer Interface using the Emotiv Epoc | | |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Janak H. Patel
HP Laboratories and Stanford University (visiting)
on Sabbatical Leave from the University of Illinois | CMOS Process Variations:
A "Critical Operation Point" hypothesis | | |
| Mar 12, 2008 | Charles Reis
University of Washington | Building a Safer Web: Web Tripwires and A New Browser Architecture | | |
| Mar 5, 2008 | David G. Stork
Chief Scientist, Richoh Innovations
Visiting Stanford CS Spring 2008 | When computers look at art:
Computer vision and image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts
No video will be available for this
lecture due to
copyright issues. Students who did not attend the Colloquium live should view
the lecture by Steve Mann taken from our archives and listed below.
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| Feb 27, 2008 | John Nickolls
NVIDIA | Scalable parallel programming with CUDA on manycore GPUs. | | |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Nick Tredennick
Gilder Publishing | Computing in Transistion | | |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Johnny Chung Lee
CS Department, Carnegie Mellon University | Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote | | |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Charles Simonyi
Intentional Software Corporation | Program representation using a domain workbench | | |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Zhenan Bao
Chemical Engineering, Stanford | Organic Thin Film Flexible Electronics | | |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Jim Tørresen
University of Oslo, Norway | Adapting Systems by Evolving Hardware | | |
| Jan 16, 2008 | Dan Ingalls
SUN Microsystems | The Lively Kernel: A Self-Supporting System on a Web Page | | |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Vint Cerf
Google | Tracking The Internet into the 21-st Century | | |
| Dec 5, 2007 | Rob Semper
San Francisco The Exploratorium | Science communication, science literacy and public support: new models in place of old thoughts | | |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Richard Miner
Google | Android: Building a Mobile Platform to Change the Industry | | |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Robert M. Lefkowitz
Asurion | On the Road to Computer Literacy | | |
| Nov 7, 2007 | Renee James and Wei Li
Intel Corporation | Parallel Programming 2.0 | | |
| Oct 31, 2007 | Randy Allen
Catalytic Inc | The Challenges of Implementing Matlab(R) | | |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Steve Omohundro
Self-Aware Systems | Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Computation | | |
| Oct 17, 2007 | Matthias Kaiser
SAP Research | From monoliths to molecules
and how they can "put Humpty dumpty together again" | | |
| Oct 10, 2007 | Dirk Riehle
SAP Research | Open Source Research
Analytics, Economics, and Best Practices | | |
| Oct 3, 2007 | Bill Thies
MIT | Programmable Microfluidics | | |
| Sep 26, 2007 | Matthew Papakipos
Google | The PeakStream Platform for Many-Core Computing | | |
| Jun 6, 2007 | Rick Wesson
support-intelligence.com | Botnets: Anticipating Failure | | |
| May 30, 2007 | Raj Amirtharajah
University of California, Davis | Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors | | |
| May 23, 2007 | Ian Goldberg
University of Waterloo | Off-the-Record Messaging: Useful Security and Privacy for IM | | |
| May 16, 2007 | Peter Mattson
Stream Processors,Inc. | Stream Programming: Multicore Made Practical | | |
| May 9, 2007 | Catherine H. Crawford
IBM Systems & Technology Group
Chief Architect
Next Generation Systems Software | Multi-core, Multiprocessor, and Memory Hierarchies: An Application Developer's View of Next Generation Systems Enablement | | |
| May 2, 2007 | Maurice Herlihy
Brown University | Taking Concurrency Seriously: New Directions in Multiprocessor Synchronization | | |
| Apr 25, 2007 | Irving Wladawsky-Berger
VP, Technical Strategy and Innovation
IBM | IT-based Innovation in the 21st Century | | |
| Apr 18, 2007 | Jerry Feldman, ICSI; Todd Davies, Stanford
| Software Not Provided:
Challenges, Experience, and Opportunities in Supporting Communities and Democracy | | |
| Apr 11, 2007 | Paul Saffo
Futurist
saffo.com | Life After The Information Revolution
(No video available.) | | |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Mark Pinto
Applied Materials, New Business and New Products Group, including Solar Business Group | Nanomanufacturing Technologies: Extending the Silicon Roadmap and Enabling New Applications | | |
| Mar 14, 2007 | Bin Zhang
HP Labs | A New Balancing Method for Solving Parametric Maximum Flow Problems | | |
| Mar 7, 2007 | Phillip Zimmermann
| VoIP encryption in a surveillance society | | |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Alan Huang
| An Ultrafast Optical Digital Technology
Smart Light | | |
| Feb 21, 2007 | Cliff Click
Azul Systems | A Fast Wait-Free Hash Table
and (time permitting)
Scaling Up a Real Application on Azul | | |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Ian Piumarta
Viewpoints Research Institute | Building your own dynamic language is fun and easy!
First steps on the road to reinventing computing | | |
| Feb 7, 2007 | Fabian Klass
PASemi | Design for Yield / Design for Manufacturing | | |
| Jan 31, 2007 | Dave Patterson
UC Berkeley | Computer Architecture is Back:
The Berkeley View of the Parallel Computing Research Landscape " | | |
| Jan 24, 2007 | Kristin McDonnell
LimeLife, Inc | Expanding the Mobile Consumer Software Market: Lifestyle, Games, Wallpaper, and Text Messaging | | |
| Jan 17, 2007 | Philip Levis
Stanford University | What the Second Generation Holds | | |
| Jan 10, 2007 | Anoop Gupta
Corporate Vice President
United Communications Group
Microsoft Corporation | The United Communication Transformation | | |
| Dec 6, 2006 | Rick Reitmaier
Adobe Systems | Flash Player ActionScript Virtual Machine (Tamarin) | | |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Ian Buck
NVIDIA | Computing on the GPU
GE Force 88000 and NVIDIA CUDA | | |
| Nov 15, 2006 | Richard Chuang
Pacific Data Images ("PDI")/DreamWorks | 25 Years at PDI | | |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Kevin Hayes
Atheros Communications | The Need, Evolution, and Detail of WLAN Security | | |
| Nov 1, 2006 | William Dally
Stanford Streaming Supercomputer (Merrimac), Sequoia Programming Language, and Imagine project links | Stream Computing - Efficient Computing in the Many-Core Era | | |
| Oct 25, 2006 | Jayadev "Jay" Misra
University of Texas at Austin | A Structured Orchestration Language | | |
| Oct 18, 2006 | Dror Baron
Rice University | Measurements vs. Bits: Compressed Sensors meets Information Theory | | |
| Oct 11, 2006 | David E. Shaw
D E Shaw Research and Development &
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University | New Architectures for a New Biology | | |
| Oct 4, 2006 | Mark J. Foster
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) | One Laptop Per Child | | |
| Sep 27, 2006 | Norm Jouppi
HP Laboratories | The future evolution of high-performance microprocessors | | |
| Jun 7, 2006 | Pat Gelsinger
Senior Vice President
Digital Enterprise Group
Intel Corporation | Into the Core ... | | |
| May 31, 2006 | Mary Baker
HP | Saving Bits Forever
A Systems View of Long-Term Digital Storage | | |
| May 24, 2006 | John Mitchell
TRUST project
NSF Center for Research in Security and Privacy | Network Protocol Security
Analysis methods and protocol standards | | |
| May 17, 2006 | Dan Farmer
Elemental Security | From Bits to Business | | |
| May 10, 2006 | Andreas Bechtolsheim
SUN Microsystems | High Performance Compute Clusters | | |
| May 3, 2006 | Christopher Stolte and Jock Mackinlay
Tableau Software | VizQL: A language for query, analysis, and visualization | | |
| Apr 26, 2006 | Michelle Wallig and Leslie Leland
Microsoft | Inside the Xbox 360 Platform: What Information Do You Need to Build Games? | | |
| Apr 19, 2006 | Greg Turetzky
SiRF Technology | The Future of Location | | |
| Apr 12, 2006 | Geordie Rose
D-Wave | So you've built a quantum computer...now what? | | |
| Apr 5, 2006 | David Lawrence
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate Change Research and Terrestial Science Section | A Global Climate Model Projection of Severe Degradation of Near-Surface Permafrost: Potential Feedbacks on Climate | | |
| Mar 15, 2006 | Steven M. Bellovin
Columbia University | Permissive Action Links, Nuclear Weapons, and the History of Public Key Cryptography | | |
| Mar 8, 2006 | Matt Blaze
University of Pennsylvania | Signaling Vulnerabilities in Law-Enforcement Wiretap Systems | | |
| Mar 1, 2006 | Marc Levoy
Computer Graphics
Stanford University | Light field photography and videography | | |
| Feb 22, 2006 | H. Peter Hofstee
IBM | Cell Broadband Engine Processor and Applications | | |
| Feb 15, 2006 | Daniel Clancy
Google | Google Book Search -- Making off-line content fully searchable on the web | | |
| Feb 8, 2006 | Dr. Rose Ray
Exponent | Is it a Baby or a Bathtub? How Many Fish?
Two Studies in Applied Computing. | | |
| Feb 1, 2006 | Christopher Payne
Corporate VP of Search
Microsoft Corporation | Search at Microsoft | | |
| Jan 25, 2006 | Simon Crosby
Xensource | Xen: The Art of Open Source Virtualization
Inside the Xen Hypervisor | | |
| Jan 18, 2006 | Andy Rubin
Google | A Smart Camera Platform
Lessons Learned from Sand Hill Road | | |
| Jan 11, 2006 | Michael Woodacre
SGI | Towards Multi-Paradigm Computing at SGI | | |
| Dec 7, 2005 | Martin Roscheisen
nanosolar | The engineering road to cost-efficient solar energy | | |
| Nov 30, 2005 | Red Byer
Mobius Photonics | Cross Pollination and Design Innovation | | |
| Nov 16, 2005 | Michel Pelletier
Open Source Evangelist & Senior Consultant @ CIGNEX Technologies | The Zope Component Architecture | | |
| Nov 9, 2005 | Matt Pharr
Neoptica | The Quiet Revolution in Interactive Rendering | | |
| Nov 2, 2005 | John McCarthy
Professor (emeritus)
Computer Science
Stanford University | The logical road to human level AI | | |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Hans Reiser
namesys.com | The Reiser4 Filesystem:
Ways In Which Extra Rigor In Scientific
Methodology Can Consume Years Of Your Life, And How The Result Can Be So
Very Worthwhile | | |
| Oct 19, 2005 | Dan Gillmor
| We the Media: The Rise of Open-Source, Grassroots Journalism | | |
| Oct 12, 2005 | Windsor Hsu
IBM Almaden Research Laboratory | Fossilization™ of Electronic Records | | |
| Oct 5, 2005 | Ken Owens
Humbolt State University | The Development and Marketing of a JAVA Based System for Navigating and Mapping the Activities of Landmine Clearing Robots | | |
| Sep 28, 2005 | Ricardo Gonzalez
Stretch, Inc. | A Software Configurable Processor | | |
| Jun 1, 2005 | Peter Beerel
EE Systems, University of Southern California | High-Speed Asynchronous Standard-Cell Design using Single-Track Full Buffers | | |
| May 25, 2005 | Winfried Wilcke
IBM Almaden Research Laboratory | IceCube--Petabytes and beyond | | |
| May 18, 2005 | Jeri Ellsworth
Freelance Developer | CommodoreOne remake of the 1980's Commodore 64 | | |
| May 11, 2005 | Kris Pister, Founder and CTO
Dust Networks | Wireless Sensor Networks | | |
| May 4, 2005 | Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit
Danny Shader, CEO, Good Technology
| Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program
shared session -- Alternate time and location
4:30pm-5:30pm at Terman Auditorium | | |
| Apr 27, 2005 | Udi Manber
CEO, A9.com
An Amazon.com Company | Improving User Experience in Search | | |
| Apr 20, 2005 | Ritu Shrivastava
VP of Technology, Zettacore | Zettacore Molecular Memory Technology | | |
| Apr 13, 2005 | Peter Swire
Moritz College of Law, Ohio State | Model for When Disclosure Helps Security
What is Different About Computer and Network Security | | |
| Apr 6, 2005 | Hermann Maurer
Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Graz Univeristy of Technology | Can we avoid catastrophic failures of computer networks? | | |
| Mar 30, 2005 | Ian Young
Intel Corporation | Design of Clock Distribution in High Performande Processors
Clocking Circuit Design from Digital Logic | | |
| Mar 9, 2005 | Jean Carlson
UCSB (Physics) | Complexity and Robustness | | |
| Mar 2, 2005 | Kelin Kuhn
Intel Corporation | Transistor Scaling and its Impact on Analog/RF Device Performance | | |
| Feb 23, 2005 | Jane McGonigal
UC Berkeley
42 Entertainment | Supergaming!
Ludic Networking and Massively Collaborative Play | | |
| Feb 16, 2005 | Bram Cohen
bitconjurer.org | Under the hood of BitTorrent | | |
| Feb 9, 2005 | Peter Fromherz
Max Planck Institute | Joining Ionics and Electronics
Semiconductor Chips with Ion Channels, Nerve Cells and Brain Tissue | | |
| Feb 2, 2005 | Tom Edsall
Cisco | Storage Area Networks | | |
| Jan 26, 2005 | Edward Fredkin
Carnegie Mellon University (East and West) | Fifty Years of Hacks | | |
| Jan 19, 2005 | Timothy "Mothy" Roscoe
Intel Research | PlanetLab Design Principles and Experiences | | |
| Jan 12, 2005 | Paul Maglio
IBM Almaden Research Center | Service Science: An Approach to Increasing Service Innovation and Work System Productivity | | |
| Jan 5, 2005 | Steven N. Ward
Research Geophysicist, Earth Sciences
Theoretical Seismology and Geophysics
UC Santa Cruz | Tsunami--Earthquakes, Landslides, and Asteroids | | |
| Dec 1, 2004 | Jim Fruchterman
Martus
Benetech | Martus: Human Rights Technology | | |
| Nov 24, 2004 | John Koza
Consulting Professor, Stanford | Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence | | |
| Nov 17, 2004 | Warren Packard
Draper Fisher Jurvetson | Nanotechnology:A Technology and Business Perspective from the Venture Capital World | | |
| Nov 10, 2004 | Dennis Tsichritzis
Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) | If we lose the applications, we will lose the war | | |
| Nov 3, 2004 | Margaret Burnett
Oregon State University
EUSES - End Users Shaping Effective Software | End-user software engineering | | |
| Oct 27, 2004 | Burton Richter
Stanford Linear Accelerator | Science and Technology Policy II
The Kerry View | | |
| Oct 20, 2004 | E. Floyd Kvamme
Partner Emeritus
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | Science and Technology Policy I
The Bush View | | |
| Oct 13, 2004 | Raymond Boute
INTEC, Gent University, Belgium | Making CS and classical EE meet: unification by formalism | | |
| Oct 6, 2004 | Bruce Lindsay
IBM Almaden Research Center | Peer-to-Peer Database Replication: Convergence Despite Conflicts | | |
| Sep 29, 2004 | Ann McCormick
Learning Friends | Powerful e-Learning Worlds | | |
| May 12, 2004 | Ari Rapkin
Industrial Light and Magic | Controlling Digital Cloth
Live presentation only. This talk will not be webcast or broadcast due to copyright restrictions. | | |
| May 5, 2004 | Tamara Munzner
University of British Columbia | Scalable Visual Comparion of Biological Trees and Sequences | | |
| Apr 28, 2004 | Oskar Mencer
Imperial College and Maxeler Technologies | Flexible Number Representations for Computing with FPGAs | | |
| Apr 21, 2004 | Vern Paxson
International Computer Science Institute
Center for Internet Research | The Threat of Internet Worms | | |
| Apr 14, 2004 | Gerard Holzmann
JPL (Nasa) and Cal Tech | Model-driven Software Verification | | |
| Mar 31, 2004 | Mark Seager
Advanced Simulation and Computing Program
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | petaFLOPS/s systems and changing the nature of Science
How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the petaFLOPS/s | | |
| Mar 10, 2004 | Daniel Robbins
Gentoo.org | Gentoo and You | | |
| Mar 3, 2004 | Matthew Szulik
President and CEO
RedHat | Open for Change | | |
| Feb 25, 2004 | Parham Aarabi
University of Toronto
Artificial Perception Laboratory | Multi-Microphone Speech Processing, or Why Two Ears Are Better Than One | | |
| Feb 18, 2004 | Bob Colwell
| Things CPU Architects Need To Think About | | |
| Jan 28, 2004 | Ron Kimmel
CS Department, Technion | 3D Face Recognition
The Ultimate Biometric Lock | | |
| Jan 21, 2004 | Richard Marks
Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D (PlayStation)
Manager, Special Projects | EyeToy: A New Interface for Interactive Entertainment | | |
| Jan 14, 2004 | Norm Jouppi
HP Labs | BiReality: Mutually-Immersive Mobile Telepresence | | |
| Jan 7, 2004 | Kevin McGrath
AMD | The AMD Opteron Microcomputer
A Compatible Bridge Between 32- and 64-bit Computing | | |
| Nov 19, 2003 | John Manferdelli
General Manager, Windows Trusted Platform Infrastructures
Microsoft Corporation | Improving the Security Structure through Code Identity | | |
| Oct 29, 2003 | Guido van Rossum
Elemental Security and python.org |  What's New in Python
Not your usual list of new features | | |
| Oct 22, 2003 | Andy Rappaport
August Capital | Wireless Communication in a Post-Spectral World | | |
| Oct 8, 2003 | David Dill
Stanford University | The Voting Machine War
The Battle for Accountability in Election Systems | | |
| Oct 1, 2003 | Paul Vixie
Internet Software Consortium | dns typosquatting: method, effects, counteraction | | |
| Sep 24, 2003 | John Nagle
Team Overbot | 200 miles across the desert. 10 hours. No driver. | | |
| Jun 4, 2003 | Doug Lenat
Cycorp | Computers versus Common Sense: An Engineering Approach to AI | | |
| May 21, 2003 | Ashley Rindsberg and Brewster Kahle
The Internet Archive | The Internet Bookmobile: Public Access to Publishing | | |
| May 14, 2003 | Urs Hölzle
Fellow, Google
Use the "Hoelzle" spelling for reporting. | Finding needles in a terabyte haystack: How Google searches the web | | |
| Apr 30, 2003 | Bill Cheswick
Lumeta | Internet Security:
An Optimist Gropes for Hope | | |
| Apr 9, 2003 | Eric Blossom
Blossom Research | Free software and hardware for software radios | | |
| Feb 12, 2003 | Dr. Stephen Wolfram
Creator of Mathematica, author of A New Kind of Science, and CEO of Wolfram Research, Inc. | A New Kind of Science | | |
| Jan 29, 2003 | Mitch Kapor
Open Source Applications Foundation | Chandler: An (Inter)personal Information Manager | | |
| Jan 8, 2003 | Lee Felsenstein
The Jhai Foundation | The Pedal-Powered Internet: Wireless Village Systems in the Developing World | | |
| Dec 4, 2002 | Scott Collins
mozilla.org | Mozilla
Mozilla and Open Source, Our Project Dynamics and Exploitable Technologies | | |
| Oct 30, 2002 | Jeff Bier
BDTI, Inc. | Comparing FPGAs and DSPs for Embedded Signal Processing | | |
| Oct 16, 2002 | Elwyn Berlekamp
UC Berkeley | Quantitative Go, And Some Other Combinatorial Games | | |
| Oct 9, 2002 | Stan Williams
Hewlett-Packard | Molecular Electronics: Defect Tolerance, Chemical Fabrication and Quantum-State Switching | | |
| Jun 5, 2002 | Steve Mann
University of Toronto | Intelligent Image Processing
Eyeglass-based computer vision systems based on the EyeTap principle | | |
| Apr 24, 2002 | Todd Proebsting
Microsoft Research | Distruptive Programming Language Technologies | | |
| Mar 6, 2002 | Erik Loyer
www.marrowmonkey.com | Syncopation for Programmers | | |
| Feb 13, 2002 | William LeFebvre
CNN Internet Technologies | CNN.COM -- Facing A World Crisis | | |
| Jan 23, 2002 | Andrew Rappaport
August Capital | The Post Dot-Com Golden Age: Open and Now Serving | | |
| Dec 5, 2001 | Andy Glew
Intel Corporation
Disclaimer: Andy will not be speaking as an Intel Representative. | Computer Architecture 2000-2025: A Retrospective | | |
| Oct 3, 2001 | John Hennessy
President, Stanford University
Former CSL Director | The Future of Systems Research | | |
| Apr 29, 1998 | ARCHIVED TALK: Jim Gray
Microsoft Research
video streamed 4/11/2007 | SuperComputers from CyberBricks? | | |