EECS Joint Colloquium

University of California, Berkeley

EECS Joint Colloquium 1999-2000
Wednesdays 4:00 -- 5:00 PM

HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall unless otherwise noted
Refreshments 3:30 -- 4:00 PM in the Wozniak Lounge
Organized by Richard Newton and Christos Papadimitriou
This colloquium is sponsored in part by a generous contribution from Nortel Networks (formerly Bay Networks)

This colloquium is dedicated to hosting presentations at the intersection of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The colloquium consists of a mix of short faculty presentations presenting their latest research results, with presentations of internationally distinguished speakers who are brought to campus to interact with our department's community.




Spring Semester 2000
January 26 No Seminar
February 2 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Richard Newton, Chair, EECS Dept., U.C. Berkeley
"Gigascale Silicon Research Center: The First Year "
Abstract
February 9 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Gaetano Borriello, CS and Engineering Dept., University of Washington
"The Portolano Expedition in Invisible Computing"
Abstract
February 16 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Luca Trevisan, CS Department, Columbia University
"Randomness Extractors and Pseudorandom Generator"
Abstract
February 23 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Elsa Garmire, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
"Lasers and Optics in the Information Technology Revolution"
Abstract
March 1 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Dave Ditzel, CEO, Transmeta Corporation
"Transmeta's Crusoe: A Low-Power x86 Microprocessor Built with Software"
Abstract
March 8 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Francine Berman, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, UC San Diego
"Achieving Application Performance on the Computational Grid"
Abstract
March 15 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Novell Inc.
"Taking it to the Next Level: Making Life Easier on the Net"
Abstract
March 22 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Susan Eggers, CS & Engineering Dept., University of Washington
"Managing Thread-Shared Hardware Resources on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors"
Abstract
April 5 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Jan Rabaey, Vice Chair, EECS Dept., U.C. Berkeley
"Ubiquitous Ultra-Low Energy Wireless Sensor and Monitor Networks"
Abstract
April 12 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Gary May, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, GeorgiaTech
"Intelligent Semiconductor Manufacturing Using AI and Neural Networks"
Abstract
April 19 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Henry Samueli, CTO and VP of R&D, Broadcom Corporation
"Broadband Communications Chip Technology: Enabling the Connected World of the 21st Century"
Abstract
April 26 Distinguished Lecture Series
TBA
title TBA
May 3 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. James Stoffel, Director of R&D and Vice President, Eastman Kodak
"Imaging Industry Research and Development"
Abstract
May 10 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Deborah Estrin, CS Department, University of Southern California
"Embedding the Internet: Instrumenting the Physical World"
Abstract






Fall Semester 1999
August 25 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Profs. Richard Newton and Joseph Hellerstein, EECS Department
"Computer-Aided Design" and "Information Systems/Software Systems"
Abstract
September 1 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Profs. Jeffrey Bokor and Christos Papadimitriou, EECS Department
"Solid State/Optoelectronics/Electromagnetics" and "Computer Science Theory"
Abstract
September 8 Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor and Director of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
"Virtualized Reality: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Real Event As Is and in Real Time "
Abstract
September 15 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Profs. Venkat Anantharam and Michael Jordan, EECS Department
"Networking" and "Intelligent Systems (Control Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Optimization)"
Abstract
September 22 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Prof. John Kubiatowicz, EECS Department
"Computer Architecture/Systems"
Abstract
September 29 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Richard Hughes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Quantum Cryptography for Secure Communications"
Abstract
October 6 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Prof. Alex Aiken, EECS Department
"Programming Languages and Systems "
Abstract
October 13 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Profs. Kris Pister and Charles Birdsall
"MEMS/Robotics "and "Computational Science and Engineering (Applied to Plasmas)"
Abstract
October 20 Current Department Research Presentation Series
Profs. Robert Brodersen and John Canny
"Integrated Circuits/Communications" and "Human/Computer Interaction/Graphics "
Abstract
October 27 No Seminar
November 3 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, Scaleable Servers Research Group & Manager, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center
"1998 Turing Lecture: What Next? A Few Remaining Problems in Information Technology "
Abstract
November 10 Distinguished Lecture Series
David Haussler, U.C. Santa Cruz
"Computational Analysis of High-Throughput Genomics Data"
Abstract
November 17 Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof. Ken Goldberg, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
"New Algorithms for Manufacturing and Collaborative Filtering "
Abstract
November 24 No Seminar (day before Thanksgivings)
December 1 Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof. Rod Tucker, Professor and Director of Photonics, University of Melbourne
"Towards Terabit Per Second Optical Networks "
Abstract




Chris Williams, chrisw@eecs.Berkeley.edu,
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