Distinguished Lecture Series 2012-2013

This series annually 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.

2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series

Zvi Galil

Zvi Galil
Georgia Institute of Technology
Real-Time Streaming String-Matching

June 14, 2012

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photo of Renee Miller

Renée Miller
University of Toronto​
Big Data Curation
January 30, 2013

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Hector Levesque

Hector Levesque
University of Toronto
Two Thoughts on the Turing Test
November 7, 2012

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Maneesh Agrawala

Maneesh Agrawala
University of California, Berkeley
Story Telling Tools
March 7, 2013

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Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes
Microsoft
The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms
November 15, 2012

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David Eppstein

David Eppstein
University of California, Irvine
From Information Visualization to Soap Bubbles
May 13, 2013

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  • Michael Zyda
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  • Harry Shum
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2013-2014 DLS

  • Frans Kaashoek
  • David Sankoff
  • Mary Lou Soffa
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2012-2013 DLS (you are here)

  • 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
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  • Andy Yao
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  • Shafi Goldwasser
  • Adi Shamir
  • Fran Allen

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  • Alan Kay
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  • Anne Condon
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  • David Patterson
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  • Umesh Vazirani
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