2011 – 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series - Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica

2011 – 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series

Date: Wednesday, July 20^th, 2011 Auditorium 106

Topics:	Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Speaker:	Jiawei Han Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Areas:	Knowledge Discovery Data Mining Database Systems
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Date: Thursday, August 25^th, 2011 Auditorium 106

Topics:	Face Recognition (Cancelled)
Speaker:	Anil K. Jain University Distinguished Professor, Departement of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan State University
Research Areas:	Pattern recognition Computer vision Biometric recognition

Date: Thursday, September 22^nd, 2011 Auditorium 106

Topics:	Participatory mHealth: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker:	Deborah Estrin Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Research Areas:	Design of network and routing protocols for very large, global networks Embedded networked sensing systems, with emphasis on environmental monitoring applications Participatory sensing systems, leveraging the location
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Date: Thursday, October 13^th, 2011 Auditorium 106

Topics:	Towards Trustworthy Systems
Speaker:	Gernot Heiser Scientia Professor and John Lions Chair of Operating Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales Sydney
Research Areas:	Operating systems Virtualization Embedded systems Real-time systems Trustworthy systems Energy management
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Date: Wednesday, November 23^rd, 2011 Auditorium 106

Topics:	The Time-Triggered Architecture
Speaker:	Hermann Kopetz Professor, Real-Time Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Research Areas:	Intersection of real-time systems, fault-tolerant systems, and distributed systems.
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Date: Monday, January 16^th, 2012 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	The Power of Abstraction
Speaker:	Barbara Liskov Institute Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Areas:	Programming methodology Distributed computing Programming languages Operating systems
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Date: Tuesday, March 13^th, 2012 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	The Past and 3½ Futures of NLP
Speaker:	Eduard Hovy Research Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California
Research Areas:	Natural Language Processing; Computational Linguistics; Human Language Technology Ontologies; Text Mining or Harvesting ; Lexical Semantics Digital Government
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Date: Monday, April 9^th, 2012 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	New Frontiers in Formal Software Verification
Speaker:	Gerald J. Holzmann Faculty Associate in Computer Science at California Institute of Technology Fellow at NASA/JPL
Research Areas:	Software reliability and software analysis methods Formal verification Logic model checking Distributed systems design Analysis of multi-threaded software Requirements capture and analysis Algorithms Text processing Image processing
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Date: Monday, May 7^th, 2012 10:00am Auditorium 106

Topics:	Technical Computing: Past, Present, Future
Speaker:	Dan Reed Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy Group, Microsoft Corporation
Research Areas:	Computer security Cryptography Operating system design Parallel programming models Cloud software Data center architectures Natural user interfaces Specialty hardware accelerators