| Date | Speaker & Affiliation | Topic |
| Jan 21 | Tom Piantanida SRI International |
Human Perceptual Issues and Virtual Reality |
| Feb 2 | James W. Demmel University of California
at Berkeley | Recent Advances in High Performance Linear Algebra |
| Feb 16 | Krithi Ramamritham Department of Computer
Science, University of Massachusetts | Building Virtual Warehouses
using Workflows and the Web |
| Mar 5 | Nick Carter Stanford and MIT |
Hardware Support for Software Shared-Memory on the M-Machine |
| Mar 25 | Ken Calvert College of Computing,
Georgia Tech | Composable Active Network Elements |
| Mar 30 | Ken Kennedy Department of Computer
Science, Rice University | Interprocedural Compilation: Algorithms
and Applications |
| Mar 31 | Marc Olano Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | A Programmable Pipeline for Graphics
Hardware (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Apr 1 | Mel Slater Department of Computer
Science, University College London | Presence in Virtual
Environments: Some Experimental Results |
| Apr 13 | Jean-Claude Latombe Computer Science
Department, Stanford University | Randomized Path Planning:
Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications |
| Apr 15 | Yunshan Zhu Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Efficient First-Order Semantic
Deduction Techniques (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Apr 27 | Stiliyan Kalitzin Image Sciences
Institute, University of Utrecht | Topological Deep-structure
Analysis, Multiscale Reversible Orientation Bundles, and Applications
to Image Processing |
| Apr 27 | Pat Hanrahan Departments of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
Digital Lights, Cameras, Materials |
| May 29 | Peter Giblin University of Liverpool
| How to Make a Face |
| June 25 | Stephen Goddard Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | On the Management of Latency and Memory
Requirements in the Synthesis of Real-Time Signal Processing Systems
from Processing Graphs (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| July 10 | George J. Kalarickal Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Theory of Cortical Plasticity in Vision
(Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| July 17 | Hansong Zhang Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Effective Occlusion Culling for
Interactive Display of Large Scale Models (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| July 29 | David Luebke Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | View-Dependent Simplification of
Arbitrary Polygonal Environments (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Sept 30 | Jonathan D. Cohen Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Appearance-Preserving Simplification of
Polygonal Models (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Oct 1 | Daniel G. Aliaga Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Automatically Reducing and Bounding
Geometric Complexity by Using Images (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Oct 5 | Randy Pausch School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University | The Interdisciplinary Challenge of Building
Virtual Worlds |
| Oct 7 | Mark A. Livingston Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Vision-Based Tracking with Dynamic
Structured Light for Video-See-Through Augmented Reality (Doctoral
Dissertation Defense) |
| Oct 19 | Nicolas D. Georganas Multimedia
Communications Research Laboratory and School of Information Technology
and Engineering, University of Ottawa | Multimedia Tele-Collaboration
with Shared Spaces: Experiences |
| Oct 20 | Ross Whitaker Department of Electrical
Engineering, University of Tennessee at Knoxville | A Statistical
Approach to 3D Reconstruction From Range Data |
| Oct 21 | Andrew Senior IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center | Face Recognition and Understanding |
| Oct 28 | John G. Eyles Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Technology Transfer: The PixelFlow
Experience |
| Nov 2 | Stefan Jaehnichen Technical University Berlin
and GMD FIRST | The Virtual Guggenheim Museum and GMD Research in
Realtime Visualization |
| Nov 13 | Jim Griffioen Department of Computer
Science, University of Kentucky | Group Communication in Unify |
| Nov 16 | Peter Lee School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University | Proofs, Types, and Safe Mobile Code |
| Nov 30 | Jeff Zadeh Computer Science Department,
Francis Marion University | Year 2000 and Computer Technology |
| Dec 4 | Tom Rodeheffer Compaq Systems Research
Center | A Tour of Research at Compaq's Systems Research Center |
| Dec 4 | Stefan Gottschalk Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Collision Queries Using Oriented Bounding
Boxes (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Dec 7 | Larry Peterson Department of Computer
Science, Princeton University | The Scout Operating System |
| Dec 11 | Charles P. Schmitt Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Recognizing Moving Objects: A Neural
Model of Temporal Binding in Human Vision (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |