TCSDLS Speakers 1999-2000

27 SEPTEMBER 1999
Speaker: Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
Title: “Concurrent Design of a Compiler and an Architecture”
Host School: UNC-Chapel Hill

4 OCTOBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University
Title: “A New Class of Fast Adaptive Multipole Methods”
Host School: Duke University

18 OCTOBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Carlo Sequin, University of California at Berkeley
Title: “CAD, Creativity, and Reality”
Host School: N.C. State University

25 OCTOBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Steven W. Zucker, Yale University
Title: “Vision, Tangents, and Neural Computation”
Host School: UNC-Chapel Hill

1 NOVEMBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan
Title: “EMERALDS: A Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel for Information Appliances”
Host School: N.C. State University

8 NOVEMBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin
Title: “Creating an Instructable and Self-Adaptive Web Browser”
Host School: N.C. State University

15 NOVEMBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Persistent Object Repositories in Distributed Systems”
Host School: Duke University

6 DECEMBER 1999
Speaker: Dr. Tony DeRose, Pixar Animation Studios
Title: “How Computer Graphics is Changing Hollywood”
Host School: UNC-Chapel Hill

20 MARCH 2000
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University
Title: “Some Advances in Data-Mining Techniques”
Host School: Duke University