Listed below are the seminars for the current academic year starting with the most recent. These are open events and all are invited to attend.

"Using a Type-centric, Multi-dimensional Event Dispatch Strategy to Simplify Android Programming"
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Edwards
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Location: 2150 Torgersen
Date: Friday, April 13, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Dynamic Optimization for Irregular Applications on Many-Core"
Speaker: Zheng (Eddy) Zhang
College of William and Mary
Location: 2150 Torgersen
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:30pm
See: Abstract

"Secure Low-Level Programming with Compiler/Hardware Assisted Memory Safety"
Speaker: Santosh Nagarakatte
University of Pennsylvania
Location: 110 McBryde
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Bayesian Reinforcement Learning With Censored Observations and Applications in Dynamic Pricing"
Speaker: Sanmay Das
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: 1110 KnowledgeWorks II
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
See: Abstract

"The SpiceC Parallel Programming System"
Speaker: Min Feng
University of California at Riverside
Location: 110 McBryde
Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Real Life Learning Agents"
Speaker: Matt Taylor
Department of Computer Science
Lafayette College
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Maintaining and Evolving GUI Test Scripts"
Speaker: Dr. Chen Fu
Accenture Technology Labs
Location: McBryde 110
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Machine Learning in the Bandit Setting: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Case Studies"
Speaker: Lihong Li
Yahoo! Research
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

Download: Video

"Runtime Systems: Taming the High Performance Computing Beast"
Speaker: Cal Ribbens
Center for High End Computing Systems
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

Download: Video

"Practical Resource Assignment in Dynamic Wireless Networks"
Speaker: Prof. Allen B. MacKenzie
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

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"An Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Parallel Computing"
Speaker: Prof. Wuchun Feng
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"Mining Useful Patterns"
Speaker: Jilles Vreeken
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Sponsored by the Discovery Analytics Center (http://dac.cs.vt.edu)
Location: Torgerson 2150
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
See: Abstract

"From Understanding to Enabling Networks: Using Web Science to Enhance Recommender Systems"
Speaker: Prof. Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
School of Communication
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Location: 2180 Research Building XV, Corporate Research Center
Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
See: Abstract

"Leveraging the Bandwidth/Latency Tradeoffs of Modern Networks via Software Abstraction"
Speaker: Prof. Eli Tilevich, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
See: Abstract

"Leveraging the Bandwidth/Latency Tradeoffs of Modern Networks via Software Abstraction"
Speaker: Prof. Eli Tilevich, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
See: Abstract

"Commoditizing Personalized Genomics through Computational Innovations"
Speaker: Dr. David Mittleman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
See: Abstract

"Symbolic Predictive Analysis for Concurrent Programs"
Speaker: Prof. Chao Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, September 23, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
See: Abstract

"The Biomuse System: Technology at the Boundary between Science and Art"
Speaker: Dr. R. Benjamin Knapp, Director, Institute for Creativity, Art, and Technology (ICAT) Virginia Tech
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
See: Abstract

"Knowledge Enhanced Data Mining and Machine Learning"
Speaker: Prof. Ian Davidson, Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
See: Abstract

"Between Two Worlds: An Entrepreneur's Journey"
Speaker: Pooja Sankar, Piazza
Location: Torgersen 2150
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
See: Abstract

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