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.
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. 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 Dan Anderson.
TOCS will be on hiatus during semester break May 8 & 15.
Recent TOCS
Date
|
Speaker
|
Affiliation
|
Title
|
Recording
|
| 05-22-12 |
Marek Michalowski |
Co-Founder BeatBots, LLC |
BeatBots: Social robot design for research and entertainment |
recorded webcast |
| 05-01-12 |
Mark Micire |
Research Scientist, CMUSV |
Evolution of an Urban Search and Rescue Robot |
recorded webcast |
| 04-24-12 |
Steven Ray |
Distinguished Research Fellow, CMUSV |
Federated Data Stores using Semantic Web Technology |
|
| 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 |
recorded webcast |
| 04-03-12 |
Randy Smith |
Research Engineer, Oracle Labs |
A History of Tomorrows in Educational Computing |
recorded webcast |
| 03-27-12 |
Robert Baertsch |
Co-Founder, SkyTran |
SkyTran – A Compelling Alternative to the Car |
recorded webcast |
| 03-20-12 |
Ted Hoff |
Inventor of the Microprocessor |
The Microprocessor, etc. |
recorded webcast
|
| 02-28-12 |
Jeffrey Mulligan |
Computer Engineer, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA |
An Eye-Movement-Defined Hierarchy of Visual Stimuli |
recorded webcast |
| 02-21-12 |
Caitlin Sadowski |
Ph.D. candidate, UC Santa Cruz |
Correctness and Programming with Threads |
recorded webcast |
| 02-14-12 |
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon |
Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris - Sud |
Instrumental Interaction in Multisurface Environments |
recorded webcast |
| 02-07-12 |
Henri Binsztok |
CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board of mlstate |
Developing web apps with Opa |
recorded webcast |
| 01-31-12 |
Jason Lohn |
Associate Professor, ECE; Directory, Innovations Laboratory, CMUSV |
Evolving Antenna Systems: Strange yet High-performance AI Designs |
recorded webcast |
| 01-24-12 |
Ken Salisbury |
Professor of Computer Science, Surgery; Stanford University |
Haptic Interfaces - Fidelity and Complexity |
recorded webcast |
| 01-17-12 |
Raffi Krikorian |
Director of the Applications Services Group, Twitter |
Twitter - Engineering for Real-Time;
ILSS Executive Speaker Series Event |
recorded webcast |
| 12-06-11 |
Alex Waibel |
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
A New Assault on the Language Divide
|
recorded webcast |
| 11-29-11 |
Prof. Willem-Jan |
Tilburg University |
Blueprinting for the Cloud;
ILSS Executive Speaker Series Event
|
recorded webcast |
| 11-22-11 |
David Ungar |
IBM Research |
Everything You Know (About Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed About the Future
|
recorded webcast |
| 11-15-11 |
Adam Pease |
Senior Researcher, Rearden Commerce |
Formal Ontology and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)
|
recorded webcast
|
| 11-08-11 |
Petros Maniatis |
Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs |
Trusting Your Data in the Hands of Others
|
|
| 11-01-11 |
Joy Zhang |
Assistant Research Professor, CMUSV |
Mobile Sensing for Behavior-ware Mobile Computing
|
recorded webcast |
| 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 |
recorded webcast |
| 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) |
recorded webcast |
| 10-11-11 |
Subhasish Mitra |
Director, Robust Systems Group, Stanford University |
Robust System Design (.pdf) |
recorded webcast |
| 09-20-11 |
Romulus Periera |
CEO and Founder of Looxcie Inc. |
Connected Devices (.pdf) |
recorded webcast |