Cornell University Computer Science Department 
Distinguished Lecture Series

CS709 Meets Thursdays at 4:15PM in 101 Phillips unless otherwise indicated.

1/27/00 Bart Selman, Cornell Understanding Complexity: Recent Developments and Directions
2/3/00 Jon Kleinberg, Cornell Information Networks: Some Models and Algorithms
2/10/00 Moses Charikar*, Stanford Algorithms for Clustering
2/15/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Michael Ernst*, Univ. of Washington Dynamically Detecting Likely Program Invariants
2/17/00 Matteo Frigo, MIT Cache-Oblivious Algorithms
2/24/00 Farnam Jahanian, Univ. of Michigan Experimental Study of Internet Stability and Wide-Area Backbone Failures
2/29/00
Tues.
B14Holliste
Salil Vadhan*, MIT Pseudorandomness: Connections and Constructions
3/7/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Stefan Savage*, Univ. of Washington Network Services in an Uncooperative Internet
3/14/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Ion Stoica*, CMU A Stateless Core Approach for Scalable Internet Services
3/16/00 Miguel Castro*, MIT Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
3/28/00
Tues.

B17 Upson
Anastassia Ailamaki*, Univ. of Wisconsin Architecture-Conscious Database Systems
3/30/00
B17 Upson
Amit Sahai*, MIT Statistical Zero Knowledge
4/4/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Jun Yang*, Stanford Temporal Data Warehousing
4/6/00
B17 Upson
Cindy Grimm*, Brown Univ. Between geometry and images
4/11/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Eddie Kohler*, MIT The Click modular router and its programming language   Schedule
4/13/00
Thurs.
B17 Upson
Dan Rubenstein*, U. Mass. Fair Congestion Control for Large-Scale Continuous-Media Internet Sessions   Schedule
4/18/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
Tuomas Sandholm*,  Washington University in  St. Louis Leveled Commitment Contracts for Automated Negotiation: A Backtracking Instrument for Multiagent Systems  Schedule
4/25/00
Tues.
B14Hollister
4/27/00
B17 Upson
Marina Meila-Predoviciu*, CMU Efficient Leaning in high dimensions with trees and mixtures   Schedule
5/2/00
Tues.

B17 Upson
James O'Brien*, Georgia Instit. of Technology Generating Synthetic Motion Using Physically Based Simulation   Schedule
5/4/00
B17Upson
Gun Sirer*, Univ. of Washington Distributed Virtual Machines: A New System Architecture for Networked Computers   Schedule

Fall 1999 Lectures

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