2011

Monday, Oct. 24, 2011
How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies
Gerry Tesauro
IBM Research

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011
Vacuum Microsystems for Energy Conversion
Roger T. Howe
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
Stanford University
Palo Alto, Calif.
| video |

Wednesday, May 4, 2011
A Vision for Computer Science: The System Perspective
Joseph Sifakis
CNRS Research Director
Schneider-INRIA Endowed Researcher Chair
Founder of Verimag Laboratory, and Director (1993-2006)
Verimag Laboratory
| video |

Friday, April 8, 2011
Large-Scale Wind/Marine Turbines: State-of-the-Art & Current Challenges
Yin Lu (Julie) Young
Associate Professor
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
| video |

2010

Monday, Oct. 11, 2010
Sensing, Control, and Decision Making with Limited Actions
Tamer Basar
Swanlund Endowed Chair
CAS Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Center for Advanced Study
Research Professor, Information Trust Institute
Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
| video |

Friday, Oct. 8, 2010
Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
Ben Shneiderman
Department of Computer Science, UMIACS, ISR
University of Maryland
| PDF flyer |

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
Sparse Sensing with Coprime Sampling Lattices
P.P. Vaidyanathan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Caltech Digital Signal Processing Group
California Institute of Technology
| video |
Note: video quality is inferior for this speaker.

2009

May 21
Characterizing General Anesthesia-Induced Loss of Consciousness
Emery N. Brown
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| video |

Thursday, Feb. 26
Game Theoretic Learning for Distributed Autonomous Systems
Jeff Shamma
Julian T Hightower Chair of Systems and Controls
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
| video |

2008

Thursday, Nov. 14
Polarization codes and the rate of channel polarization
Emre Telatar
Professor
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
| PDF flyer |

Thursday, Oct. 2
The Challenge of the Neocortex for Information Technology
Rodney Douglas
Professor of Neuroinformatics
Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)
ETH/UZH, Zurich
| video |

Friday, May 2
Applications of Formal Methods in Model-Based Development of Embedded Control Systems
Bruce Krogh
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
| PDF flyer |

Wednesday, April 16
4G Wireless Technology Vision
Siavash M. Alamouti
Intel Fellow, Mobility Group
Chief Technology Officer
Mobility Wireless Group
Intel Corporation
| PDF flyer |

2007

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007
Microsystems engineering at the interface of physics, biology and chemistry: Where are we now and where are we heading?
Andreas G. Andreou
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Johns Hopkins University
| video |

Monday, Oct. 15, 2007
Systems Biology: How Can Control Engineers Help to Understand Biology?
Frank Allgöwer
Director, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Stuttgart, Germany
| no video available |

Monday, March 26, 2007
Feedback Fundamentals: Old and New
Petar V. Kokotovic
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
| video |

Tuesday, February 13
Understanding the Simulation of Mobility Models
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
| PDF flyer |

2006

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing
Bob Carlyon
Medical Research Council
Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
| video |

Tuesday, September 19      
The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Steven Strogatz
Professor, Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
Cornell University
| video |

Tuesday, May 2
Control Systems Theory and a Qualitative/Quantitative Approach to Systems Biology
Eduardo Sontag
Department of Mathematics
BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers University
| PDF flyer |

Tuesday, March 7
Hybrid Systems and Control
S. Shankar Sastry
Director, Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society
NEC Distinguished Professor of EECS and Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
| video |

2005

Tuesday, November 15
Signal Processing and Wireless Networks
H. Vincent Poor
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
| PDF flyer |

Tuesday, October 11
Robust and Adaptive Optimization:
A Tractable Approach to Optimization under Uncertainty
Dimitris Bertsimas, Ph.D.
Boeing Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management; Operations Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| video | PDF flyer |

Tuesday, April 12
The Operational Semantics of Hybrid Systems
Edward A. Lee
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
| video | PDF flyer |

Wednesday, March 9
Decoding the Human Genome by Multi-Species Sequence Comparisons
Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
| video | PDF flyer |

2004

Tuesday and Wednesday, November 16 and 17
Cell Talk
Bhubaneswar “Bud” Mishra
Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics & Cell Biology (Courant Institute & NYU School of Medicine) New York University
| video | PDF flyer |

Wednesday, October 13
A Unified View of Temporal Difference Methods for Neuro-Dynamic Programming
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
McAfee Professor of Engineering, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| video | PDF flyer |

Friday, April 16
From Hierarchies to Polyarchies: Visualizing Multiple Relationships
George G. Robertson, ACM Fellow and Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
| video | PDF flyer |

Friday, Feb. 20
Dynamics in Genetic Networks
Leon Glass, FRSC, Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
| video | PDF flyer |

2003

Thursday, Dec. 18
New Perspective on Wolfram’s ‘New Kind of Science’
Leon O. Chua; University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, Calif.
| video | PDF flyer |

Monday, Oct. 20 and Tuesday, Oct. 21
Automated Synthesis of High-Performance Planners and Schedulers
Douglas Smith, Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.
| PDF flyer |

Friday, April 18
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
Alan J. Laub, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
| PDF flyer |

Friday, March 14
Swarm Intelligence
Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem Corp., Cambridge, Mass.
| PDF flyer |

2002

December 6
Algorithmic Aspects of the Internet
Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley
| PDF flyer |

October 25
Video Re-Coding
Bede Liu, Princeton University
| PDF flyer |