Schedule of Classes and Presentations - COT 4810Spring 2011

Date / Topic / Paper/Title / Presenter
Wednesday January 19 / Turing awards / Allan Key / Chris Rees
Friday January 21 / Turing awards / John Mc. Carthy / Peter Tonner
Monday January 24 / Distributed Systems / Access control in collaborative systems / ShehanSirigampola
Wednesday January 26 / Ethics and Cyber Law / Computer and information ethics / Andrew Harmic
Friday January 28 / Algorithms / Algorithms that check themselves / Jeff Corbell
Monday January 31 / Intelligent Systems / A cognitive agent architecture / Lisa Soros
Wednesday February 2 / Ethics and Cyber Law / The future of intellectual property; Protecting intellectual property / Thomas Kafalas
Friday February 4 / Algorithms and Data Structures / Lock-free techniques in building concurrent data structures / Wilfredo Velasquez
Monday February 7 / Architecture / Massive data storage; Google file system - data on the cloud / JoshuaMichalczak
Wednesday February 9 / Architecture / Cellular automata / Anthony Lora
Friday February 11 / Architecture / Power reduction techniques for microprocessor systems / Timothy Goldberg
MondayFebruary 14 / Models / Modeling time in computing / Benjamin Gamble
Wednesday, February 16 / Algorithms / Space partitioning data structures and algorithms / Jon Leonard
Friday February 18 / Algorithms / Approximate String Matching / Justin Wiseman
Monday February 21 / Algorithms / Split-ordered lists: lock-free extensible hash tables / Pierre LaBorte
Wednesday February 23 / Distributed systems / Publish-subscribe paradigm / Erin Collins
Friday February 25 / Distributed systems / Distributed snapshots / Joshua Eberhart
Monday February 28 / Distributed systems / Group communication / Philip Jameson
Wednesday March 2 / Programming languages / Bachus – Functional programming / Robert Biber
Friday March 4 / Programming languages / Just In Time / Keith Krajwsky
Monday March 14 / Programming languages / An axiomatic basis for computer programming / Robert Stewart
Wednesday March 16 / Networks / Peer-to-peer Contents Distribution / Tzu-Wei Kuo
Friday March 18 / Networks / Wireless 4G Systems / JeremeyMayeres
Monday March 21 / New Paradigms / Musical expression: no longer exclusively human; computer systems for music / Danielle Frantz
Wednesday March 23 / Embedded systems / Wireless sensor networks / Corey Pittman
Friday March 25 / Embedded systems / Information fusion for wireless sensor networks / Michael Scherer
Monday March 28 / Applications / Face recognition / Avia Diego Velazques
Wednesday March 30 / Security / Denial of service attacks / Jordan Deveroux
Friday April 1 / Security / Cryptography methods / Kylie Brown
Monday April 4 / Security / Key management for secure communication / Garret Lund
Wednesday April 6 / Clouds / Above the clouds: a Berkeley view of cloud computing / Michael Calvo
Friday April 8 / Web / Cheap User Modeling for Adaptive Systems / Frank Hines
Monday April 11 / Web / Web page classification / Jason Bender
Wednesday April 13 / New paradigms / Introduction to quantum computing / Anthony Luaders
Friday April 15 / Applications / Procedural contents generation / James Grisetti
Monday April 18 / Computer Ethics Discussion / The basic ethical and professional issues inherent in the discipline of computing / All
Wednesday April 20 / Technological Changes Discussion / The process of technological change in the society and the impact of computer science / All
Friday April 22 / Final discussions / Class review and feedback / All
Monday April 25 / Final discussions / Analysis of student reviews / All