| Date | Speaker & Affiliation | Topic |
|---|
| Feb 1 | Peter Winkler
Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies | Optimality and Greed in Dynamic Allocation |
| Feb 4 | Steven Hadfield
Evans & Sutherland
Computer Corp. | The History and Progress of Computer Graphics |
| Feb 15 | Leslie Pack Kaelbling
Department of
Computer Science, Brown University | Building Topological Maps
for Robot Navigation |
| Feb 22 | Gopal Gupta
New Mexico State University |
ACE: A High Performance Parallel Logic Programming System |
| Feb 24 | William Chan
University of Washington |
Symbolic Model Checking for Large Software Specifications:
Case Studies, Optimization, and Extension |
| March 1 | Jack Snoeyink
University of British Columbia
| Efficient Algorithms for Line and Curve Segment Intersection Using
Restricted Predicates |
| March 1 | Jurg Nievergelt
ETH Zurich |
Half-A-Century of Computer Chess: The Longest Running Experiment in
Knowledge Engineering |
| March 3 | Sanjoy Baruah
University of Vermont |
On-Line Scheduling in the Presence of Overload |
| March 15 | Sandeep Sen
Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi | Towards a Theory of Cache-Efficient Algorithms |
| March 17 | Thomas C. Bressoud
Ascend Communications,
Inc. | TFT: A Software System for Application-Transparent Fault
Tolerance |
| March 22 | Julius O. Smith, III
Center for Computer
Research in Music & Accoustics, Stanford University | Recent Results
in Sound Synthesis and Processing |
| March 22 | Samrat Bhattacharjee
Georgia Institute
of Technology | Active Networking: Architecture and Applications |
| March 25 | Ketan Mayer-Patel
University of
California at Berkeley | Parallel Software-Only Video Effects
Processing |
| March 29 | Brian Neil Levine
University of
California at Santa Cruz | Supporting Large-Scale Group
Communication Applications on the Internet |
| March 31 | Christos Papadopoulos
Washington
University | Light-weight Multicast Services (LMS) |
| April 5 | Supratik Bhattacharyya
University
of Massachusetts | Flow and Congestion Control for Reliable
Multicast Communication in Wide-Area Networks |
| April 5 | Richard R. Muntz
University of
California at Los Angeles | Storage Systems Issues in Multimedia |
| April 7 | Jacob Furst
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Height Ridges of Oriented Medialness
(Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| April 16 | William R. Mark
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping:
Visibility, Reconstruction, and Performance for Depth-Image Warping
(Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| April 19 | Aravind K. Joshi
University of
Pennsylvania | Role of Constrained Formal Systems: Theoretical,
Computational, and Processing Implications |
| May 7 | William J. Yakowenko
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Propositional Theorem Proving by
Semantic Tree Trimming for Hardware Verification (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| Aug 23 | Carl A. Mueller
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | The Sort-First Architecture for Real-Time
Image Generation (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Sept 24 | Rui Bastos
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Superposition Rendering: Increased
Realism for Interactive Walkthrough (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Sept 27 | Burton Smith
Tera Computer Company
| Concurrent Design of a Compiler and an Architecture |
| Sept 29 | Barry Jay
Sydney University of
Technology | Shape Theory: FISh implementation |
| Oct 4 | Dr. Vladimir Rokhlin
Yale University
| A New Class of Fast Adaptive Multipole Methods |
| Oct 18 | Dr. Carlo Sequin
University of California
at Berkeley | CAD, Creativity, and Reality |
| Oct 25 | Dr. Steven W. Zucker
Yale University |
Vision, Tangents, and Neural Computation |
| Oct 27 | Carl M. Erikson
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Hierarchical Levels of Detail to
Accelerate the Rendering of Large Static and Dynamic Polygonal
Environments (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Nov 1 | Kang G. Shin
University of Michigan |
EMERALDS: A Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel for Information Appliances |
| Nov 8 | Jude Shavlik
University of Wisconsin
| Creating an Instructable and Self-Adaptive Web Browser |
| Nov 12 | Ari Rapkin
Industrial Light & Magic
| Digital Technologies in Star Wars--Episode I: The Phantom
Menace |
| Nov 15 | Barbara Liskov
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology | Persistent Object Repositories in Distributed
Systems |
| Dec 6 | Tony DeRose
Pixar Animation Studios |
How Computer Graphics is Changing Hollywood |
| Dec 8 | Warren Robinett
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | The Role of Simulation in the
nanoManipulator System |
| Dec 8 | Kevin Arthur
Department of Computer
Science, UNC-Chapel Hill | Effects of Field of View on Performance
with Head-Mounted Displays (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| Dec 9 | Tom Rodeheffer
Compaq Systems Research
Center | Current Research at Compaq |
| Dec 10 | Sarang Joshi
Washington University
of St. Louis | Large Deformation Diffeomorphisms and Gaussian
Random Fields for Statistical Characterization of Brain Sub-Manifolds |
| Dec 10 | George Stetten
Department of Biomedical
Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill | Automated Identification and
Measurement of Cardiac Anatomy via Statistical Analysis of Medial
Primitives (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
