Talks on Computing Systems (TOCS)
Each week, the Silicon Valley campus will present a different speaker who will give a talk on relevant computing and technology topics to students, faculty and staff.
Sponsored by Yahoo!, TOCS occur on Tuesdays, 1:30 pm PT at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus in room 118. Talks will be broadcast and recorded via AdobeConnect and and also available on our YouTube channel. Remote attendance is available via http://cmusv.acrobat.com/tocs. Recordings from prior academic years are available in the talk archive.
For more information or to suggest speakers, contact Mayrasol Alvarez. You may also subscribe to the TOCS newsletter and mailing list.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 7-2-13 | Andrzej M. Goscinski |
School of Information Technology, Deakin University - Australia Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing Associate Editor, Inderscience's International Journal on Cloud Computing Associate Editor, Springer's Future Generation Computer Systems General, Program Chair, and Honorary Chair of IEEE Conference Program |
Toward SaaS Clouds Supporting HPC Biology and Medicine Applications |
| 7-9-13 | Alec Proudfoot |
Chief Designer, Proudfoot Design Engineer, Google's RechargeIT plug-in vehicle project Engineer, GM Impact Prototype |
Dead Simple Human Powered Airplane (DaSH PA) Project |
| 7-23-13 | Ken Karakotsios |
Cellular Automata (CASim on the Mac II, Tracit on iPhone & iPad) Creator, SimLife (an award-winning game) Founder, DecisionPower Creator, MarketSim |
Occupy the Future |
| 9-3-13 | Raja Sengupta | Associate Professor, UC Berkeley | To be announced. |
| 9-17-13 | David Broman, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Linkoping University Sweden | To be announced. |
| 9-24-13 | Benjamin Brooks | Research Geologist, Earthquake Science Center/US Geological Survey |
To be announced. |
| 10-8-13 | Nolan Bushnell | CEO, Brainrush | To be announced. |
Recent TOCS
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Recording |
| 6-11-13 | Jason Chuang |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science, Stanford University | Designing Visual Analysis Methods | |
| 6-4-13 | Jon Fisher |
CEO/Co-Founder, CrowdOptic | Being Out Front to Trade to the #1 Acquirer | |
| 5-28-13 | Sanjeev Agrawal | CEO, collegefeed | Kickstarting Early Careers Through collegefeed | |
| 5-21-13 | Terry Winograd |
Stanford University Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford Liberation Technology Project Computer Professionals of Social Responsibility 2011 CHI Lifetime Research Achievement Award |
Filling in the H in CHI | |
| 5-7-13 | Ronald Kaplan |
Sr. Director/Distinguished Scientist, Nuance Consulting Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University |
Conversational User Interface |
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| 4-30-13 | Chuck Thacker |
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley |
The Xerox Alto Architecture | |
| 4-23-13 | Stan Rosenschein |
BranchTime Technologies CSLI, Stanford University |
Open Coordination Architecture for a Networked World | |
| 4-16-13 | Salim Achouche |
Sr. Software Architect, Informatica | Trying to Optimize ETL on Top of Hadoop using HIVE | |
| 4-9-13 | Scott Clark | Software Engineer, Yelp | Optimally Learning for Fun and Profit | |
| 4-2-13 | Dr. Paul Hofmann |
CTO, Saffron Technology |
Sense Making and Prediction Like the Human Brain | |
| 3-26-13 | Jeany Stein | CEO, Select2Gether | The Future of Consultation and Location - From Social to Mobile | |
| 3-5-13 | Alex Nobert | Director of Technical Operations, Minted | They Grow Up So Fast: Scaling Production Web Applications | |
| 2-26-13 | Abe Ishihara | Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University | Degradation of Solar Arrays and its Resolution | |
| 2-12-13 | George Vanecek | Sr. Principal Researcher/Architect, FutureWei Technologies/Center of Innovation | eCeNS Hybrid Knowledge Base and SCN Engine Framework for Building Intelligent Systems | |
| 1-29-13 | Robert de Neve | Founder/CEO, E Systems Technology Inc. | Collaborative Manufacturing: How the Next Generation in Production Systems will save US Jobs & Intellectual Property | |
| 12-4-12 | Allan Alcorn | Engineer/Entrepreneur | The Development of Video Games and their Role as a Technology Driver | |
| 11-27-12 | Dr. Peter Pirolli | Research Fellow, Augmented Social Cognition Area, PARC | Information Foraging in the Social Web | |
| 11-13-12 | Pat Langley | Distinguished Scientist, CMUSV; Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland | Combining Data with Knowledge To Construct Interpretable Scientific Model | |
| 11-06-12 | Garima Sinha | MS Software Management Student, CMUSV | Making a Gaming Company in India | YouTube |
| 10-30-12 | Christian Lange | Founder and Managing Director of Ergoneers GmbH | Human-Machine Interaction: Ergoneers’ D-Lab and SimLab Measurement and Analysis Environments for Analysis and Optimization | |
| 10-09-12 | Mario Hewardt | Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer | Advanced .NET Debugging | |
| 09-25-12 | James Barrese | Chief Technology Officer, PayPal | The Cloud's Silver Lining | |
| 09-18-12 | Rachel Hinman | Senior Research Scientist, Nokia Research Center | The Mobile Frontier | |
| 09-11-12 | Walter de Brouwer | founder and CEO of Scanadu | Auto-Diagnosis at Your Fingertips | |
| 09-04-12 | Bernard Steffen | Chair of Programming Systems and Compiler Construction, University of Dortmund | Constraint-based Variability Modeling | |
| 07-24-12 | Hedda Schmidtke | Assistant Professor, CMUSV, CMU Rwanda | No Trade-Off? Context-Aware Systems are Both Smart and Scalable | |
| 06-12-12 | Tony DeRose | Senior Scientist, Lead of the Research Group, Pixar Animation Studios | Movies, Math, and Making Recent Research at Pixar | |
| 05-29-12 | Carlos Grodsinsky | Vice President, ZIN Technologies | International Space Station (ISS) Utilization for Technology Incubation and Commercialization | |
| 05-22-12 | Marek Michalowski | Co-Founder BeatBots, LLC | BeatBots: Social robot design for research and entertainment | |
| 05-01-12 | Mark Micire | Research Scientist, CMUSV | Evolution of an Urban Search and Rescue Robot | |
| 04-24-12 | Steven Ray | Distinguished Research Fellow, CMUSV | Federated Data Stores using Semantic Web Technology | YouTube |
| 04-17-12 | Annie Gentes | Telecom ParisTech | Is There Anyone Out There? How to Involve the User in the Invention of IT | |
| 04-10-12 | Erik Meike | Homeschooler | Building a Robot for Autonomously Photo-Documenting Parks | |
| 04-03-12 | Randy Smith | Research Engineer, Oracle Labs | A History of Tomorrows in Educational Computing | |
| 03-27-12 | Robert Baertsch | Co-Founder, SkyTran | SkyTran – A Compelling Alternative to the Car | |
| 03-20-12 | Ted Hoff | Inventor of the Microprocessor | The Microprocessor, etc. | |
| 02-28-12 | Jeffrey Mulligan | Computer Engineer, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA | An Eye-Movement-Defined Hierarchy of Visual Stimuli | |
| 02-21-12 | Caitlin Sadowski | Ph.D. candidate, UC Santa Cruz | Correctness and Programming with Threads | |
| 02-14-12 | Michel Beaudouin-Lafon | Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris - Sud | Instrumental Interaction in Multisurface Environments | |
| 02-07-12 | Henri Binsztok | CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board of mlstate | Developing web apps with Opa | YouTube |
| 01-31-12 | Jason Lohn | Associate Professor, ECE; Directory, Innovations Laboratory, CMUSV | Evolving Antenna Systems: Strange yet High-performance AI Designs | |
| 01-24-12 | Ken Salisbury | Professor of Computer Science, Surgery; Stanford University | Haptic Interfaces - Fidelity and Complexity | |
| 01-17-12 | Raffi Krikorian | Director of the Applications Services Group, Twitter | Twitter - Engineering for Real-Time; ILSS Executive Speaker Series Event |
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| 12-06-11 | Alex Waibel | Professor of Computer Science, CMU | A New Assault on the Language Divide |
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| 11-29-11 | Prof. Willem-Jan | Tilburg University | Blueprinting for the Cloud; ILSS Executive Speaker Series Event |
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| 11-22-11 | David Ungar | IBM Research | Everything You Know (About Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed About the Future |
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| 11-15-11 | Adam Pease | Senior Researcher, Rearden Commerce | Formal Ontology and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) |
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| 11-08-11 | Petros Maniatis | Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs | Trusting Your Data in the Hands of Others |
YouTube |
| 11-01-11 | Joy Zhang | Assistant Research Professor, CMUSV | Mobile Sensing for Behavior-ware Mobile Computing |
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| 10-25-11 | Jon Pittman | VP Corporate Strategy, Autodesk | From Nodes to Networks: Challenges of Designing Smart Objects, Buildings, and Cities; Innovation in Large Service Systems Executive Speaker Series |
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| 10-18-11 | David Ewing Duncan | Director, Center of Life Science Policy, UC Berkeley | A Babel of Nucleotides: One Man's Quest to Understand Bio-Data (.pdf) | Adobe Connect |
| 10-11-11 | Subhasish Mitra | Director, Robust Systems Group, Stanford University | Robust System Design (.pdf) | |
| 09-20-11 | Romulus Periera | CEO and Founder of Looxcie Inc. | Connected Devices (.pdf) |