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ISTeC Distinguished Lectures

ISTeC Distinguished Lecturers give two presentations at CSU. One is a talk suitable for a general audience interested in information science and technology (which is the ISTeC Distinguished Lecture), and one is suitable for an audience in the speaker’s particular field of information science and technology. In addition, the ISTeC Distinguished Lecturer may spend up to a week at CSU to interact with our faculty and students. (Guidelines for proposing ISTeC Distinguished lecturer)


Spring 2008 Semester Poster

Spring 2008
Dr. Anthony Ephremides
, Cynthia Kim Professor of Information Technology, University of Maryland
Host: Dr. Rockey Luo, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “Network Coding: A New Paradigm for Networking?”
January 28, 2008, Attendance about
Second Lecture:
Title: “Cooperative Techniques At The Network Level”
Tuesday, January 29 2008, Attendance about
 
Spring 2008
Dr. T.W. (Tom) Williams, Synopsys Fellow, Synopsys, Inc.
Host: Dr. Anthony Maciejewski, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “Electronic Design Automation (EDA) to the Rescue of the Silicon Roadmap”
March 24, 2008, Attendance about
Second Lecture:
Title: “Quality Now Requires Small Delay Fault Model”
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 , Attendance about
 
Spring 2008
Dr. Radia Perlman, Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems
Host: Dr. Indrajit Ray, Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “Myths, Missteps, and Folklore of Network Protocol Design ”
March 25, 2008, Attendance about
Second Lecture:
Title: “Data: Making It Be There When You Want It and Go Away When You Want It Gone”
Monday, March 24, 2008 , Attendance about
 
Spring 2008
Dr. Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Professor and HPC Endowed Chair, University of California San Diego
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “100 Years of Digital Data”
March 31, 2008 , Attendance about
Second Lecture:
Title: “Cyberinfrastructure Challenges in Computer Science” Monday, March 31, 2008 , Attendance about  

Spring 2008
Dr. André van Tilborg , Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “ Future Directions in DoD Science and Technology”
April 7, 2008 , Attendance about 100
 
Spring 2008 Dr. Tim Starkweather, Second Sight Medical Products
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lecture:
Title: “Neural Stimulation Using Implantable Devices: Auditory and Optical Systems”
April 28, 2008 , Attendance about 60
 
 
Fall 2007 Semester Poster
 
Fall 2007
Steve Leibson, Technology Evangelist, Tenselica Inc.
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “Challenges for Consumer Electronics in the 21st Century ”
October 1, 2007 , Attendance: about 66
Second Lecture:
Title: “Everything You Know About Microprocessors and Systems Design is Wrong for SOC Design”
October 2, 2007 , Attendance: about 35
 
Fall 2007
Dr. Don Towsley Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “The Internet is Flat: A Brief History of Networking in the Next Ten Years”
October 22, 2007, Attendance about 75
Second Lecture:
Title: “Multipath Routing, Congestion Control and Dynamic Load Balancing”
October 23, 2007 , Attendance about about 25
 
Fall 2007
José E. Moreira , Chief Architect, Commercial Scale Out IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chief Architect, Commercial Scale Out, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “ Scale-up and Scale-out: Evolution and Trends in Parallel Processing”
October 29, 2007, Attendance about 75
Second Lecture:
Title: “Delivering Teraflops: An Account of How Blue Gene was Brought to Life”
October 30, 2007, Attendance about 25
 
Fall 2007
Mike Flynn , Senior Adviser, Maxeler Corp. and Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
Title: “Super SOC: Putting the Whole System on the Chip”
November 12, 2007, Attendance about 55
Second Lecture:
Title: “The Future is Parallel but it May Not be Easy”
November 13, 2007, Attendance about
 
Spring 2007 Semester Poster
Spring 2007
Speaker:  Dr. Martin Gruebele, Director of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois
Host:  Dr. Nancy Levinger, Department of Chemistry
   “Quantum Computing with Molecules”
     Thursday, January 25, 2007, Attendance:  98
Second Lecture
   “Single Molecule Absorption Spectroscopy”
     Friday, January 26, 2007, Attendance:  40
Speaker:  Dr. Andrew Weiner, Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Host:  Dr. Carmen Menoni, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    “Ultrafast Parallel Optical Signal Processing”
      Monday, February 5, 2007, Attendance:  98
Second Lecture
   “Optical Pulse Shaping at Hyperfine Spectral Resolution”
     Tuesday, February 6, 2007, Attendance: 
Speaker:  Dr. Jianqing Fan, Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Director of Committee of Statistical Studies, Princeton University
Host:  Dr. Haonan Wang, Department of Statistics
   “High Dimensional Statistical Learning and Inference”
   Wednesday, April 11, 2007, Attendance:
Speaker:  Dr. Avinash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Host:  Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
   “Why Robots Will Never Have Sex”
   Monday, April 23, 2007

Fall 2006 Semester Poster

Fall 2006 Speakers
Speaker:  Dr. Rochit Rajsuman, Chief Scientist, Advantest America Corporation
Host: Dr. Anura Jayasumana, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
   “State of Semiconductor Industry:  Business and Technical Perspective”
     Tuesday, August 29, 2006, Attendance:  35
Second Lecture:
   “Industrial Research in Semiconductor Test”
     Tuesday, August 29, 2006, Attendance:  120
Speaker:  Dr. Viktor Prasanna, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science University of Southern California
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
   “Reconfigurable Computing:Opportunities and Challenges”
     Monday, September 25, 2006, Attendance:  80
Second Lecture:
   “Design of Linear Algebra Library for Reconfigurable Systems”
     Tuesday, September 26, 2006, Attendance:  about 25
Speaker:  Dr. Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Professor & Chair, Department of Electrical  Engineering and Computer Science
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The Walls of Computer Design”
     Monday, October 9, 2006, Attendance:  60
Second Lecture:
   “Design and Effectiveness of Small Decoupled Dispatch Queues”
      Tuesday, October 10, 2006, Attendance:  about 15
Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Atallah, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
   “Security Issues in Collaborative Computing”
     Monday, October 30, 2006, Attendance:  65
Second Lecture:
    “Privacy-Preserving Trust Negotiations”
      Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Speaker: Dr. Michael Goodchild, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Dr. Denis Dean, Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The Spatial Web: Visions For A Geographically Enabled World”
     Monday, December 4, 2006, Attendance:  75
Second Lecture:
   “The Fundamental Laws Of Geographic Information Science
   Friday, December 1, 2006, Attendance:  20
Spring 2006 Semester Poster
Spring 2006
Speaker: Dr. Edward Delp, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
      “Are You Stealing Content? Multimedia Security: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:  We are Going to Catch You!”
     Friday, March 24, 2006
Second Lecture:
   “Network-Driven Wyner-Ziv Video Coding  Using Forward Prediction”
     Friday, March 24, 2006
Speaker: Dr. José Fortes, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida
Host: Dr. Sanjay Rajopadhye, Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture:
  “Computing Grids: Virtually Yours and At Your Service”
     Friday, March 31, 2006, Attendance:  215
Second Lecture:
  “Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications and Systems”
     Friday, March 31, 2006, Attendance:  20
Speaker: Dr. Herschel A. Rabitz Professor, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Host: Dr. Randy Bartels, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
  “Controlling Quantum Phenomena: The Dream Is Alive”
     Thursday, April 27, 2006, Attendance:  72
Second Lecture:
  “An Open Forum on Controlling Quantum Phenomena:   Why do the Experiments Appear “Easy” and What May Lie Ahead?”
     Friday, April 28, 2006, Attendance:  21
Speaker:  Dr. James Hack, Senior Scientist and Head, Climate Modeling Section, Deputy Director, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Host: Dr. Pat Burns, ACNS
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The Earth Simulator: A Retrospective on the Background, Science Opportunities, and Risks”
     Monday, May 1, 2006, Attendance:  55
Second Lecture:
   “Business Technology Management: Research Synthesis and Future Directions”
     Monday, May 1, 2006, Attendance:  45
Speaker:  Dr. Robert W. Zmud, Professor and Michael F. Price Chair in Management Information Systems, Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma
Host: Dr. Stephen Haynes, Computer Information Systems
Distinguished Lecture:
   “Business Technology Management: Research Synthesis and Future Directions”
     Friday, May 5, 2006, Attendance:  30
Second Lecture:
   “The Identity Crisis with the Information Science Discipline: Implications for Publishing Strategies”
     Friday, May 5, 2006, Attendance:  20
Fall 2005:
Speaker: Dr. Nick Tredennick, Editor, The Gilder Technology Report
Host: Dr. Sanjay Rajopadhye, Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture:
   “Semiconductor Trends 2005
  Thursday, September 8, 2005, Attendance:  51
Second Lecture:
   “Moore Myths”
     Friday, September 9, 2005, Attendance:  54
Spring 2005:
Speaker: Dr. Joan Mitchell, IBM Fellow
Host: Dr. Pete Seel, Journalism and Technical Communication
Distinguished Lecture:
   “A Cultural  History of the Original JPEG Standard”
   Monday, March7, 2005, Attendance:  70
Second Lecture:
   “What's Being Added to JPEG-1?”
    Monday, March 7, 2005, Attendance:  10
Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC Grid Computing and Network Services
Host: Dr. Michael De Miranda, School of Education
Distinguished Lecture/CS BMAC Lecture:
  “Grid Computing, the Next Big Thing? ”
    Monday, March 21, 2005, Attendance:  60
Second Lecture:
  “A Grid Software Stack”
     Tuesday, March 22, 2005, Attendance:  20
Speaker: Dr. Henryk Temkin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University
Host: Dr. Carmen Menoni, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
    “Light Emitting Diodes Based On Nitride Semiconductors – From Red To Ultraviolet”
    Thursday, March 24, 2005, Attendance:  70
Second Lecture:
  “Waveguide Optics and MEMS - From Wavelength Division Multiplexing to Generation of THz bursts”
    Friday, March 25, 2005, Attendance:  30
Speaker: Dr. Yale Patt, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Dr. H.J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
    “Education. Are there any questions?”
     Tuesday, April 12, 2005, Attendance:  40
Second Lecture:
     “The Microprocessor in the Year 2015: Issues, Challenges, Potential Avenues to Solutions”
    Monday, April 11, 2005, Attendance:  140
Fall 2004:
Speaker: Dr. Robert Corn, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Host: Nancy Levinger, Chemistry
Distinguished Lecture:
   “DNA Computing at Surfaces: Programmable DNA Assemblies”
     November 11, 2004, Attendance: about 100
Second Lecture:
   “Enzymatic Methods for SPR Biosensors: A Combination of Langmuir and Michaelis-Menten Kinetics”
     November 11, 2004, Attendance: about 40
Spring 2004
Speaker: Professor Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Host: H. J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science.
Distinguished Lecture:
   “N+1 Heads Are Better Than N -- or Are They?”
  January 23, 2004, Attendance: about 30
Second Lecture:
“"How to Share a Bag of Tasks Optimally in a Heterogeneous Cluster -- Three Models, Three Answers.”
  January 22, 2004, Attendance: about 40
Speaker: Prof. Jim Hendler, University of Maryland.
Host: Adele Howe, Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The Semantic Web -- Bringing Meaning to the World Wide Web”
  February 9, 2004, Attendance: about 140
Second Lecture:
   “Dynamic Service Choreography on the Semantic Web.”
  February 9, 2004, Attendance: about 70
Speaker: Dr. Emmit Leith, University of Michigan
Host: Randy Bartels, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Distinguished Lecture:
   "Making the Invisible Visible with Holographic Information Processing"
  May 4, 2004, Attendance: about 60
Second Lecture:
   "Holography, Synthetic Apertures, Optical Sectioning, and Photon Migration: Cross-Fertilizations"
   May 5, 2004, Attendance: about 50
Fall 2003
Speaker: Professor David Haussler, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The UCSC Human Genome Browser.”
  November 14, 2003, Attendance: about 125
Second Lecture:
“Comparing the Human, Mouse and Rat Genomes”
  November 14, 2003, Attendance: about 150
Speaker: Professor Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Host: Anura Jayasumana, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science.
Distinguished Lecture:
   “Networking Successes, New Challenges, and an Expanding Waist as the Field Approaches 40”
     December 4, 2003,   Attendance: about 50
Second Lecture:
   “Network-based Matchmaking in Distributed Publish/subscribe Systems”
     December 5, 2003,   Attendance: about 40
Spring 2003
Speaker:  Prof. Alfred Hero, University of Michigan.
Host: Louis Scharf, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Statistics
Distinguished Lecture: 
  “Data Mining for Genomics”
     February 24, 2003, Attendance: about 50
Second Lecture:
   “Space-Time Coding for Wireless Communication”
     February 25, 2003, Attendance: about 40
Spring 2002
Speaker: Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
Host: H. J. Siegel, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture:
   “An Overview and Trends in High Performance Computing”
     May 2, 2002, Attendance: about 60
Second Lecture:
   “Three Tools to help with Cluster and Grid Computing: ATLAS, PAPI, and Netsolve.”
     May 2, 2002, Attendance: about 30
Fall 2001
Speaker: Prof. Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Host: Louis Scharf, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Statistics
Distinguished Lecture:
   “The Wireless Revolution: A Signal Processing Perspective”
   December 5, 2001, Attendance: about 80
Second Lecture:
“Coherent Space-Time Receivers for Wireless Communication”
   December 6, 2001, Attendance: about 30

 

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