2020-2021 Distinguished Lecture Series

This annual series showcases a handful of outstanding thinkers in the field of computer science, giving them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.

2020-2021 Distinguished Lecture Series

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Moshe Y. Vardi
University Professor
Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor
in Computational Engineering
Rice University

An Ethical Crisis in Computing?

Thursday, Sep 24, 2020
2:00 p.m. • Online presentation

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Oren Etzioni
Chief Executive Officer
Allen Institute for AI
Professor of Computer Science
University of Washington

Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19

Thursday, Nov 5, 2020
3:30 p.m. • Online presentation

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Mary Czerwinski
Partner Research Manager
Human Understanding and Empathy (HUE) Research Group
Microsoft Research

Using Technology for Health, Wellbeing and Empathy

Thursday, Jan 14, 2021
1:00 p.m. • Online presentation

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Laurie Williams
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

Solving Software Security Challenges with Artificial Intelligence

Friday, Apr 9, 2021
1:30 p.m. • Online presentation

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Leonard Kleinrock
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles

Origins of the Internet

Monday, May 17, 2021
1:30 p.m. • Online presentation

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2022-2023 DLS

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck

2021-2022 DLS

  • Raquel Urtasun
  • Karl J. Friston
  • Milind Tambe
  • Kai Li
  • Tony Chan

2020-2021 DLS (you are here)

  • Moshe Y. Vardi
  • Oren Etzioni
  • Mary Czerwinski
  • Laurie Williams
  • Leonard Kleinrock

2018-2019 DLS

  • Donald Knuth
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • Margo Seltzer
  • Barbara Liskov
  • Shafi Goldwasser

​2017-2018 DLS

  • Silvio Micali
  • James Demmel
  • Jeff Ullman
  • ​Jennifer Widom
  • ​Joe Mitchell

2016-2017 DLS

  • Gail Murphy
  • Ophir Frieder
  • Eric Horvitz
  • Daniel Alan Spielman

2015-2016 DLS

  • Margaret Martonosi
  • Mike Stonebraker
  • Tony Chan
  • Robert Tarjan
  • Susan Dumais
  • Kevin Leyton-Brown

2014-2015 DLS

  • Michael Zyda
  • Deborah Estrin
  • Harry Shum
  • Leslie Pack Kaelbling
  • Laurie Hendren

2013-2014 DLS

  • Frans Kaashoek
  • David Sankoff
  • Mary Lou Soffa
  • Pat Hanrahan
  • Maria Klawe

2012-2013 DLS

  • Zvi Galil
  • Hector Levesque
  • Jennifer Chayes
  • Renée Miller
  • Maneesh Agrawala
  • David Eppstein

2011-2012 DLS

  • Bruno Buchberger
  • Saul Greenberg
  • Ed Lazowska
  • Jeannette Wing
  • Cynthia Dwork

2010-2011 DLS

  • Stuart Feldman
  • Madhu Sudan
  • Susan Landau
  • Gilles Brassard
  • Joe Marks
  • Jon Kleinberg

2009-2010 DLS

  • Andy Yao
  • Paul Van Oorschot
  • Shafi Goldwasser
  • Adi Shamir
  • Fran Allen

2008-2009 DLS

  • Alan Kay
  • Eric Brewer
  • Anne Condon
  • Nancy Leveson
  • Tom Furness

2007-2008 DLS

  • David Patterson
  • Manuela Veloso
  • David D. Clark
  • Christos Papadimitriou

2006-2007 DLS

  • Kurt Mehlhorn
  • Ben Shneiderman
  • Barbara Liskov
  • Vint Cerf

2005-2006 DLS

  • Umesh Vazirani
  • Stephen Cook
  • Andrew Tanenbaum
  • Andries van Dam

2004-2005 DLS

  • Alfred Aho
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Jim Gray
  • Barbara Grosz
  • Jim Mitchell