Special Lecture Series in Computer Science
CS
385
Harney Science Center
235
:
The
Kudlick Classroom
Tuesdays or Thursdays,
12:20–1:20
September
10
Video Presentation:
the Science of Origami
“Between
the Folds”
17
Pascal Kaplan,
iCohere, Walnut
Creek CA
“Trends
in Online Community
Building”
22
Cliff Stoll,
Author, Security Genius, Klein Bottle Factor, and >>OK Guy,
kleinbottle.com, Oakland CA
TUESDAY TALK
“To Be Determined by Noon”
24
Piero Scaruffi,
Leonardo
, Cognitive Scientist, Poet, Author, Music Historian, Software
Consultant, SF
“What Is the Dao of an
Ant?”
29
Benjamin Wells,
Computer Science and
Mathematics, USF
TUESDAY TALK
“Advances in I/O,
Speedup, and Universality on COLOSSUS, an Unconventional
Computer”
October
8
Jim Huang,
Senior Systems Engineer,
Grid-Operations, Cloud Computing and Data Infrastructure),
Yahoo!
Inc., Sunnyvale CA, and USF CS Alumnus
“Hadoop: From Post-It Notes
to Production—an Operations Perspective”
15
Bebo White,
Departmental Associate (Emeritus): SLAC National
Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford CA
“The Emergence of Web
Science”
22
Robert J. Lang,
Robert
J. Lang Origami, Alamo CA
“From Flapping Birds to Space
Telescopes:
The Modern Science of
Origami”
27
Wen Dong,
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge
MA, and USF MS/CS Alumnus
TUESDAY TALK
“A Quantitative Analysis of Collective Creativity in Playing
20-Questions Games”
November
3
Rachel Beth
Egenhoefer,
Assistant Professor in Design, Department of Art +
Architecture
, USF
TUESDAY
TALK
“Knitting Code”
10
David G. Stork,
Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations, Menlo Park CA
and
Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University
TUESDAY TALK
“When Computers Look at
Art:
Image Analysis in Humanistic
Studies of the Visual Arts”
12
Shanna Tellerman,
Founder
and CEO,
Sim Ops
Studios, Inc.,
Aaron Tarnow
, Software Engineer,
Pittsburgh PA and San Francisco
“Building
3D Games for the Web with
Wild Pockets
”
19
Bruce
Shapiro,
Physician, Sonoma CA
“The Art of Motion Control”
8
Senior and Master’s
Project Presentations
TUESDAY TALK
TBA
9/25/09
