Distinguished Lecturer Series Archive
Since 1988, CICS has had the privilege of hosting influential computer science researchers and faculty from around the world. These lectures are designed to spark thought-provoking conversations and broaden educational opportunities for our students and the wider community. Explore our rich history of innovation and knowledge-sharing, and gain insights from some of the brightest minds in the field of computer science.
Lecture recordings are linked where available.
2023
Answering Why Questions about Narrative Text
Raymond J. Mooney
University of Texas at Austin
September 9, 2023
We Used Reinforcement Learning, but Did It Work?
Susan Murphy
Harvard University
October 25, 2023
Dendrocentric Learning for Synthetic Intelligence
Kwabena Boahen
Stanford University
November 1, 2023
2022
Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations
Juliana Freire
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Director of the VIDA Center
October 12, 2022
Algorithm Analysis Beyond the Worst-Case
Anupam Gupta
Carnegie Mellon University
November 9, 2022
Software Archipelagos Considered Harmful
Nenad Medvidovic
University of Southern California
Event postponed due to unforeseen circumstances
2020
Visualization for Data Empowerment
Sheelagh Carpendale
Simon Fraser University
January 23, 2020
Making Materials that are Computational
Gregory Abowd
Georgia Institute of Technology
January 27, 2020
Consistency in a Cloudy World
Neeraj Suri
Lancaster University
February 3, 2020
Three Modern Roles for Logic in AI
Dr. Adnan Darwiche
University of California, Los Angeles
October 28, 2020
Data for Good: Ensuring the Responsible Use of Data to Benefit Society
Jeanette Wing
Columbia University
November 4, 2020
2019
Modern Automotive Vulnerabilities: Problems, Causes and Outcomes
Stefan Savage
University California, San Diego
September 18, 2019
Designing Socially Interactive Robots for Healthcare
Ayanna Howard
Georgia Tech
October 7, 2019
2018
The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back
Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University
April 5, 2018
Computer Science in 6/10ths of a Second
Lance Fortnow
Georgia Tech
October 30, 2018
The Body You Know
Guang-Zhong Yang
Imperial College London
November 29, 2018
2017
Who Will Control Speech Online?
Nick Feamster
Princeton University
October 18, 2017
Network Coding - A Personal Account of Combining Theory and Practice
Muriel Medard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 8, 2017
Local Computation Algorithms
Ronitt Rubinfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 16, 2017
2016
Progress in Error-Correction: New Codes for Old Noise Models
Venkatesan Guruswami
Carnegie Mellon University
October 17, 2016
Toward Robots that Understand People and Their Environment
Dieter Fox
University of Washington
October 26, 2016
Randomness
Avi Wigderson
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
November 4, 2016
Towards a Theory of Software Design
Daniel Jackson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 10, 2016
Codes for Data Storage
Robert Calderbank
Duke University
November 16, 2016
2015-2016
Communication Amid Uncertainty
Madhu Sudan
Harvard University
October 7, 2015
A Big World of Tiny Motions
William Freeman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 21, 2015
Can Physics Help Us Analyze Social Networks
Cristopher Moore
Santa Fe Institute
November 4, 2015
Side Channels in Multi-Tenant Environments
Michael Reiter
University of North Carolina
December 2, 2015
2014-2015
Temporal-difference Learning and the Coming of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Richard Sutton
University of Alberta
October 8, 2014
Age of Networks
Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Microsoft Research New England
October 22, 2014
Storytelling Tools
Professor Maneesh Agrawala
University of California Berkeley
November 5, 2014
Automated Support for Reproducing and Debugging Field Failures
Professor Alessandro "Alex" Orso
Georgia Institute of Technology
January 28, 2015
2013-2014
On the Naturalness of Software
Professor Premkumar Devanbu
University of California Davis
September 18, 2013
Data Provenance and Query Provisioning
Professor Val Tannen
University of Pennsylvania)
October 10, 2013
Mining Clinical Data to Build Predictive Models
Professor Peter Szolovits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 25, 2013
2012-2013
Experiments in Social Computation
Professor Michael Kearns
University of Pennsylvania
October 3, 2012
Algorithms, Graph Theory, and the Solution of Lapiacian Linear Equations
Professor Daniel Spielman
Yale University
October 24, 2012
Commitments and Responsibilities in Multiagent Systems
Professor Edmund Durfee
University of Michigan
November 14, 2012