EECS Department Colloquium Series

This colloquium is dedicated to hosting presentations at the intersection of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The colloquium consists of a mix of short faculty presentations presenting their latest research results, with presentations of internationally distinguished speakers who are brought to campus to interact with our department's community.

Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 PM HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Fall 2014

September 10	Using Computer Science to Help Save Lives David Patterson AMP and ASPIRE Labs, UC Berkeley
September 17	Engineering Near-field Interactions with Body for Powering Bioelectronic Medicines Ada Poon Professor, Stanford University, Integrated Biomedical Systems
September 24	The Three R's of Computer Vision: Recognition, Reconstruction and Reorganization Jitendra Malik Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley
October 1	Deep Learning: Overview and Trends Andrew Ng Co-founder, Coursera and Director, Stanford AI Lab
October 8	Building US Power Grid Resiliency Wanda Reder Vice President, Power Systems Solutions, S&C Electric Company
October 15	No talk due to cancellation
October 22	Beyond the Singularity: The Search for Extraterrestrial Technologies Andrew Siemion Berkeley SETI Research Center
October 29	Fireside Chat with Max Levchin: All things Data, Fintech, and How to Solve Hard, Valuable, and Fun Problems Max Levchin Co-founder and CEO of Affirm
November 5	Information Technology Enablers for Deep Space Exploration Larry Bergman Manager, Space Mission Information Systems Office, JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
November 12	Planning to Control Crowd-Sourced Workflows Dan Weld Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
November 19	The Future of Computational Media Michael Mateas Professor and Chair, Computational Media Director, Center for Games and Playable Media Professor, Computer Science
November 26	No talk due to Thanksgiving Holiday
December 3	Software-Defined Networks and the Maturing of the Internet Nick McKeown Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford
December 10	Multi-tenancy and datacenters: to each according to his... Ali Ghodsi Assistant Professor at KTH/Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Visiting Researcher, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
December 17