Lecture

Steven Jeromy Carriere
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Datadog

“Scale” is a complex notion that encompasses some easy-ish-to-measure factors such as the resource footprint or transaction rate of a system, but also substantially more subtle considerations such as service dependencies that influence the cost of making changes and team behaviors that affect how long it takes to resolve a production issue.

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 as well as livestreamed over Zoom.

Sheila McIlraith
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Associate Director and Research Lead, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

Please note: This lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Mostafa H. Ammar, Regents’ Professor
School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

A networking researcher, traveling forward in time from 1985 to the present, would be shocked by many things — not the least of which is the fact that people are still doing networking research in 2022.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

DLS: Pascal Van Hentenryck — Fusing AI and Optimization

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Pascal Van Hentenryck
Associate Chair, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

DLS: Tony Chan — A Personal and Historical View of Computational Mathematics

Please note: This DLS presentation will be given in person in DC 1302 and livestreamed over MS Teams.

Tony Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

In its modern incarnation, computational mathematics is a discipline that blossomed only after WWII. But even in its relatively brief history, there have been some major shifts in its methodology, emphasis, and applications.

Milind Tambe
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University
Director, AI for Social Good, Google Research India