Talks on Computing Systems (TOCS) Archive
During the academic calendar year, there is a weekly talk series, focused on current computing topics. For those who are unable to join us on campus or via live webcast, we offer the recordings in this archive. View upcoming talks.
2011
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Recording |
| 07-26-11 | Elie Bursztein | postdoctoral researcher, Stanford Security Laboratory | How To Design Usable and Secure CAPTCHAs? (.pdf) | |
| 06-28-11 | Kanda Ishihara | patent attorney, Patent Law Works LLP (PLW;) COO, PLW’s Patent Processing Center | Patent Essential for High Technology Companies (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-21-11 | Todd Davies | Associate Director & Lecturer, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University | From the Social Web to Public Deliberation: Design Considerations for the Deme Platform (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-14-11 | Pierre Fiorin | CEO and one of the founders of HPC Project | Some Works on Computing Models and Languages For Efficient Data-Parallel Execution (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-07-11 | Aneesh Karve | interaction designer at Cooliris | Design Patterns for Browsing, Sharing and Privacy (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 05-31-11 | Richard Waldinger | Principal Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International | English Access to Data (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 05-24-11 | Jeffrey Ventrella | Author, Virtual Body Language | Virtual Body Language (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 05-17-11 | Anthony Francis | Persona Lead for Google's Cloud Robotics Initiative | Maybe Your Robot Just Needs a Hug (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-26-11 | Johnny Lee | Rapid Evaluator, Google, Inc. | Working on Kinect (.pdf) | |
| 04-19-11 | Wendy MacKay | Research Director at INRIA Saclay, Île-de-France | Comm Apps: An Alternative to Facebook for Helping People Stay in Touch With Close Family and Friends (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-12-11 | Frankie James | Researcher, GM Advanced Technology Office | Designing Interior Audio Cues for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-05-11 | Steve Cousins | President and CEO of Willow Garage | Open Robotics (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-29-11 | Aaron Marcus | Founder, Aaron Marcus and Associates | The Green Machine (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-22-11 | Adam Beberg | Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University | Volunteer Distributed Computing: Operating in the Worst Case Scenario and Lessons for Conquering Clouds and Many-core (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-15-11 | Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller | Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University | Exertion Games (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-22-11 | Koji Tsukada | Assistant Professor, Academic Production, Ochanomizu University | Novel User Interfaces for Ubicomp (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-15-11 | Douglas Naimo | President, Triggerfinger Software | Handheld Advanced Technology Systems (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-08-11 | Jeff Atwood | CTO, Stack Overflow | Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-01-11 | Les Earnest | Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University | Visible Legacies for Y3K (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-25-11 | Kim Page | communication & innovation consultant and trainer | The Unknown Messenger – Our Voice: Advice on How to Use Audio As an Interface Medium Via Mobile Devices (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-18-11 | Antoine Raux | Scientist, Honda Research Institute USA | Advanced Research on Spoken Dialog Systems (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-11-11 | Mark Hatch | CEO, TechShop | The Creative Revolution: BOOM! (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
2010
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Recording |
| 12-07-10 | Michael Harville | Director of R&D and IP at Obscura Digital | Bringing The Digital World Into The Real: The Power of Persuasion Through "Enhanced Reality" (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-30-10 | Matthias Paulik | member of Cisco's Speech and Language Technology (C-SALT) team | Learning Speech Translation from Interpretation (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-23-10 | Dilek Hakkani-Tur | Principal Scientist, Microsoft Speech Labs | Exploiting Query Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding (.pdf) | |
| 11-16-10 | Mike Schuster | Speech Recognition Group at Google Research | Voice Search at Google (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-09-10 | Larry Kelly | Managing Partner, Kelly Ventures | Technology And Entrepreneurship: Is It The Engineer Or The MBA That Helps? (.pdf) | |
| 11-02-10 | Jike Chong | Ph.D. Researcher at University of California, Berkeley | Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition on the GPU (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 10-19-10 | Ian Lane | Research Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University | Challenges in Spoken Language Translation (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 10-12-10 | Kiumarse Zamaniant | consulting and adjunct professor at CMU Silicon Valley | On-line Advertising: A Technology Overview and Emerging Trends (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 10-05-10 | Jahanzeb Sherwani | Adjunct Faculty at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon | The iTeleport Story: Designing and Building a Top Grossing iPhone App (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 09-28-10 | Abe Ishihara | Research Faculty, CMU Silicon Valley | Neural Network Estimation of Photovoltaic Array I-V Curves under Non-Uniform Conditions (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 09-14-10 | Corina Pasareanu | Senior Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, in the Robust Software Engineering Group | Using Symbolic PathFinder for Automated Test Generation (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 09-07-10 | Jean-Claude Junqua | Vice President of Panasonic R&D Company of America; Managing Director of Panasonic San Jose Laboratory | User Centered Innovation for Tomorrow User Interfaces (.pdf) | |
| 08-10-10 | Aleecia McDonald | PhD candidate, Carnegie Mellon University | Privacy Targets: Three User Studies on Internet Privacy and Targeted Advertising (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 07-27-10 | Alex Faaborg | Principal Designer at Mozilla | Designing Firefox (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 07-20-10 | Mike Leibhold | Institute of the Future Distinguished Fellow | Combinatorial Effects for Amplified Interaction (.pdf) | |
| 07-13-10 | Richard Wallace | CSO, Pandorabots, Inc. | Pandorabots Overview (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 07-06-10 | Elizabeth Churchill | Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research | Designing the Everyday Internet (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-29-10 | Ole Mengshoel | Senior Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley | Recent Advances in Modeling and Computation Using Bayesian Networks (.pdf) | recorded webcast | presentation slides (.pdf) |
| 06-22-10 | John Canny | Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley | People, Persuasion, Politics and IT (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-15-10 | Debarag Banerjee | Founder, President and CEO of WiViu Technology Inc. | Video Calling in the Age of Mobile Devices (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 06-01-10 | Milind Tambe | Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California (USC) | Multiagent Systems: Lessons Learned From Putting Theory Into Practice (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 05-25-10 | Jingtao Wang | Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley | Perceptual and Context Aware Interfaces on Mobile Devices (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-27-10 | Peter Neumann | Principal Scientist, SRI's Computer Science Lab | A Total-System View: Who and What Should You Trust (or Not)? (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-20-10 | Peter Hart | Chairman of Ricoh Innovations, Inc. | My Excellent Adventure As An Expert Witness (.pdf) | |
| 04-13-10 | Rong Yan | Research Scientist, Facebook | Large-Scale Machine Learning - Algorithms and Platforms (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 04-6-10 | Branislav Kveton | Scientist, Intel Labs | Online Semi-Supervised Perception: Real-Time Learning Without Explicit Feedback (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-30-10 | Anupam Datta | Research Scientist, CyLab | Modularity in Computer Security (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-23-10 | Carl Hewitt | Emeritus, MIT | Personal Information in the Cloud is Headed For Regulation: The Challenge of Emerging Privacy-Friendly Competitors (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 03-16-10 | Ted Selker | Associate Director, Mobility Research | Creating a Considerate World (.pdf) | |
| 02-23-10 | Nikhil Balram | Vice President and General Manager of the Digital Entertainment Business Unit, Marvell Semiconductor Inc. | Case studies In Converting Technology Innovation In Consumer Electronics Into Sustainable Business Success (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-16-10 | Cynthia Thompson | member of management team of PricewaterhouseCooper's Center for Advanced Research | Where Was I? Recovering From Interruptions (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-09-10 | Peter Thoeny | CTO of Twiki Inc | Structured Wikis at Work – Enterprise 2.0 in Action (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 02-02-10 | Charles House | executive director of Media X, Stanford University’s pre-eminent program on the Impact of Information Technology on Society | Innovation Challenges for Larger Corporations (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-26-10 | Ge Wang | Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) | The World is Your Stage: A Story of Music on the iPhone, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-19-10 | Dan Kikinis | Inventor | Entrepreneurial IP Development: My Focus on Goal-Oriented Creative Problem Solving (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 01-12-10 | Trey Smith | Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley | The GeoCam Disaster Response Project (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
2009
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Recording |
| 12-01-09 | Ed Chi | Area manager and a senior research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group | Augmented Social Cognition: Using Social Web Technology to Enhance the Ability of Groups to Remember, Think, and Reason (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-24-09 | Jim Gemmell | Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research | Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-17-09 | Keith Argenbright | Associate Professor in the Simmons Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the Medical Director of the Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth, Texas | Cancer Control, Prevention and Care in Tarrant County (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-10-09 | Steven Dow | Postdoctoral Scholar, HCI Group, Stanford University | How Do Prototyping Practices Affect Design Performance? (.pdf) | recorded webcast |
| 11-03-09 | David Stork | Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. | When computers look at art: Image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts (.pdf) | |
| 10-27-09 | Gayle Curtis | independent user interface architect and design strategist for online ventures and interactive products | Taming Complexity and Sparking Innovation Through Ideation and Design Thinking | recorded webcast |
| 10-20-09 | Stuart Card | Senior Research Fellow, PARC | Visualization and the Manufacture of Insight | |
| 10-06-09 | Steven Hetzler | IBM Fellow at IBM's Almaden Research Center | Chasm Analysis: A Tool to Evaluate the Market Prospects of Storage Technologies | recorded webcast |
| 09-29-09 | Paul Maglio | Senior Manager of Service Systems Research, IBM Almaden Research Center | Progress Toward Service Science |
recorded webcast |
| 09-22-09 | Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye | Research Scientist & Ethnographer in the IDEA Group at Nokia Research | Making Family: Constructing Family Values Through Skype | recorded webcast |
| 09-15-09 | Lina Pandey | CEO of CloudTrust Inc. | Authentication and Access Control for Cloud Security | |
| 09-08-09 | William Clancey | Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Computing in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center | Being Scientific on Mars: The Challenges and Accomplishments of the Phoenix Lander Mission | |
| 09-01-09 | Ethan Eismann | Experience Design Manager at Adobe Systems | Making Programming Playful |
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| 07-28-09 | David Matheson | President & CEO, SmartOrg, Inc. | Raising the Bar on Strategic and Economic Thinking in Innovation |
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| 07-21-09 | Robert Hampshire | assistant professor in Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University | Modeling Large-Scale Bike Sharing Programs | |
| 07-14-09 | Ken Pier | Director of Product Quality at Socialtext | SocialText | |
| 06-30-09 | Alok Rishi | Transforming Enterprise Software delivery, consumption, and economics using Virtualization/Cloud Computing/SaaS | ||
| 06-23-09 | Steve Ray | Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley | Next Generation Standards - A Science-Based Discipline of Information Management for Integrated Systems | |
| 06-09-09 | Vytas SunSpiral | Enabling Location-Smart Messaging | ||
| 06-08-09 | Alvara Cardenas | postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley | Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection | |
| 06-02-09 | David Witkowski | independent consultant to wireless and semiconductor clients | Strategies for Building a Mobile Research Center | |
| 05-29-09 | David Molnar | Theory Plus Practice in Computer Security: Radio Frequency Identification and Whitebox Fuzzing | ||
| 05-27-09 | Ray Bareiss | Director of Education Programs | Towards a Catalog of Instructional Architectures | |
| 05-20-09 | Peter Norvig | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data | ||
| 05-12-09 | Collin Jackson | Securing the Web Platform | ||
| 04-15-09 | Ara Nefian | Stereo Reconstruction from the Apollo | ||
| 04-08-09 | Jim Morris | Professor of the Practice |
Can Hi-Tech Hitchhiking Work? | |
| 03-11-09 | Aveek Purohit | PhD candidate | SensorFly | |
| 02-25-09 | Abe Ishihara | Control on Landscapes with Local Minima and Flat Regions: A Simulated Annealing and Gain Scheduling Approach | ||
| 02-18-09 | Corina Pasareanu | Symbolic Execution of Java Bytecodes | ||
| 02-04-09 | Silvio Savarese | Recognition and Reconstruction in the Three-Dimensional World for Mobile Vision Applications | ||
| 01-28-09 | Ted Selker | Associate Director, CyLab Mobility Research Center | Individual Design |