CS 385 SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE             

Mondays or Wednesdays, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Harney Science Center 235:  The Kudlick Classroom


Wed., January 25:        Dr. Sean Peisert, University of California, Davis                                                                                         
                                        Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Sustainable Defenses Against Insider Threats

Mon., January 30:        Jon Rahoi,   USF BSCS '96
                                        The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (How to finish things, especially software.)

Wed., February 8:       Elecia White, Software Engineer, Logical Elegance
                                        Applications Matter: Computer Science from preschool toys to a gunshot location system

Wed., February 15:     Han Hee Song, CTO Group of Narus, Inc.
                                        Mosaic: Quantifying Privacy Leakage in Networks

Wed., February 22:     Dr. Phillip Rogaway, Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
                                        Constructing Cryptographic Definitions

Wed., February 20:     Ian Pye, Head of Analytics, CloudFlare
                                        What it takes to scale and manage a database for a fast-growing startup

Wed., March 7:           Dr. Cay Horstmann, Professor of Computer Science, San Jose State University
                                        Scala for the Impatient

Mon., March 19:         Dr. Manas Saksena, Senior Director of Technology, Marvell Semiconductors
                                        Enabling the next billion smart and connected devices

Mon., March 26:         Dan Wagster on Harnessing group intelligence in the music Industry
                                       Song Prediction: Leveraging digital’s connection between bands and fans to make
                                better music, increase album sales and create viral fan growth.

Wed., April 4:            Dr. Arnav Jhala, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
                                       Computational Cinematics Research:  Expanding the Design Space of Games Through Procedural Camera Control

Mon., April 9:            Dr. Juan Lang, Security Software Engineer at Google
                                       10 Things I wish I had known

Mon., April 16:           Dr. Lauren Barghout, CEO of Eyegorithm
                                        Image Segmentation and Natural Computer Vision

Wed., April 25:           Dr. Greg Benson, Professor of Computer Science, University of San Francisco
                                        Trendulate:  Making Time-Series Data Usable by Everyone
                                       
Wed., May 2:             Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
                                        Application Development Practices Today

Wed., May 9:             Senior Team Project and Masters Project classess
                                        CrowdShipper:  A Ride Share for Packages,
                                        LuniSolar Web Calendar, and
                                        LuniSolar iOS Calendar