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ISRI Seminar Series

The ISRI Seminar Series is held on Thursdays at noon in NSH 1507 (unless otherwise noted). Talks are on topics of interest to the diverse faculty and students in ISRI and its graduate programs (PhD program in Software Engineering, PhD program in Computation, Organizations, and Society, and Master of Software Engineering). Lorrie Cranor currently organizes the series with assistance from Jennifer Lucas.

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2004-2005 Seminar Calendar

Date, time, and location Speaker Title Sponsor
9 Sept. 2004, 12 pm, Wean 4623 Frank Padberg, University of Karlsruhe Stochastic Simulation and Optimization of Software Project Schedules ISRI
Monday, 13 Sept. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 3305 Michael Shamos Electronic Voting in the Courts: How should judges evaluate software?
[slides and video] [WMV video]
COS and Cylab
23 Sept. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507 David Farber The Societal Implications of Networking: A Personal Perspective [WMV video] COS
30 Sept. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Alma Whitten, Google Giving Johnny the Keys COS
7 Oct. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1305 Mark Paulk The Future of Software Quality MSE
14 Oct. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507 No seminar this week
21 Oct. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 3305 Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research Towards Privacy in Public Databases The Data Privacy Lab and the ALADDIN Center
Friday, 22 Oct. 2004, 10:30 am, Wean 4623 Satish Chandra, IBM India Research Lab Efficient Execution of Composite Web Services ISRI
28 Oct. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1305 Ramayya Krishnan Internet-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach ISRI
4 Nov. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario Building in Privacy from the Bottom Up: How to Preserve Privacy in a Security-Centric World EPP, COS
11 Nov. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Jerry Berman, CDT What Does the Election Mean for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and the Internet? [video] EPP, COS
Wednesday, 17 Nov. 2004, 12 pm, Wean 4623 C. Andrew Neff, Votehere.net Trustworthy Electronic Election Results without Trusted Machines COS
18 Nov. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1305 Michael Clark DARPA Grand Challenge 2005- Take 2.... MSE
2 Dec. 2004, 12 pm, Wean 4623 canceled
13 Jan. 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Katia Sycara Autonomous Semantic Web Services ISRI
Wednesday 19 Jan. 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1305 Jay Apt Failures in Space Exploration ISRI
27 Jan. 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507
3 Feb. 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Barry Steinhardt talk POSTPONED to March 24 COS/EPP
10 Feb. 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1305 No talk this week
Tuesday 15 Feb. 2005, 3 pm, Hammerschlag 1112 Watts S. Humphrey Can Programming be Fun? MSE
24 Feb. 2005, 3 pm, NSH 1507 Simson Garfinkel Johnny 2: A user test of key continuity management with S/MIME and outlook express COS/EPP
Wednesday 2 March 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1305 Orit Hazzan Teaching and Learning Abstraction through Reflection Processes: Application to Software Engineering MSE
17 March 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Clare-Marie Karat and Carolyn Brodie, IBM Research Two short talks: "Methods for Ensuring Compliance with Privacy Policies in Organizations" and "User-Centered Design of the SPARCLE Privacy Management Workbench" COS
24 March 2005, 12 pm, NSH 3305 Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program The Suppression of Scientific Freedom in the Post-9/11 Age COS/EPP
31 March 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507
7 April 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 Greg Vetter, University of Houston Law Center Infectious Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance COS
14 April 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 MSE
21 April 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507
28 April 2005, 12 pm, NSH 1507 S.D. Shibulal, Co-founder, Infosys Software Engineering in Practice : Infosys Experience MSE