This annual series showcases outstanding researchers, scholars and thinkers in the field of computer science and related disciplines, and gives them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.
2024–2025 Distinguished Lecture Series
Adam Smith, Professor
Departments of Computer Science
and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
Privacy, Learning, and Inference
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302
John Stasko, Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Reflections on the Value of Visualization
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302
Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google
Internet: Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
2:30 p.m. • J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities
Nitin Saxena, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Kanpur
The Border and its Demystification
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
10:30 a.m.• DC 1302
I.F. Akyildiz
Professor, Telecommunications
President & CTO
Truva Inc.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online distinguished lecture
Ion Stoica, Professor
EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley
Director, Sky Computing Lab
An AI Stack: From Scaling AI Workloads to LLM Evaluation
Monday, November 4, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Fine-Grained Approach to Algorithms and Complexity
Friday, December 13, 2024
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture
Peter Bartlett, Professor
Statistics and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
Gradient Optimization Methods: The Benefits of a Large Step-size
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture