| Date | Speaker & Affiliation | Topic |
| Jan 28 | Shirley Liu Harvard
University | Discovery of Transcription Factor Binding
Sites Using Computational Statistics |
| Jan 28 | Nicholas Pippenger Department
of Computer Science, University of British Columbia |
Computation in the Presence of Noise: Classical and Quantum |
| Feb 4 | Susan Vrbsky University of
Alabama | Satisfying Multiple Constraints of Real-Time
Databases |
| Feb 11 | Anita K. Jones Department of
Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied
Science, University of Virginia |
Cyber Security--The Weak Link |
| Feb 13 | Kaleem Siddiqi Centre for
Intelligent Machines, School of Computer Science, McGill
University | Flux-Maximizing Geometric Flows |
| Feb 18 | Leonard McMillan Computer Graphics
Group, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology | Image-Based Rendering: Past, Present, and
Future Directions |
| Feb 18 | Bruce Randall Donald Departments
of Computer Science & Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology
and Computational Chemistry, Dartmouth College | Algorithmic
Challenges in Structural Molecular Biology |
| Feb 20 | Greg Humphreys Stanford
University | A Stream Processing Approach to Interactive
Graphics on Clusters |
| Feb 21 | Julia Schnabel Division of
Radiological Sciences and Medical Engineering, King's College
London | Finite Element Based Validation of Non-Rigid
Registration Using Single- and Multi-Level Free-Form Deformations:
Application to Contrast-Enhanced MR Mammography |
| Feb 25 | Marc Pollefeys Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | Visual 3D Modeling From
Images |
| Feb 25 | Lixia Zhang Department of
Computer Science, University of California at Los
Angeles | How to Scale |
| March 4 | Brian Bailey University of
Minnesota | Supporting Creativity: A Behavior-Sketching
Tool for Early Multimedia Design |
| March 15 | Michael Sheetz
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University |
Force-Dependent Signals in Cell Motility |
| March 18 | Jose F. Martinez
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Speculative Shared-Memory Architectures |
| March 18 | Richard Karp
Computer Science Division, University of California
at Berkeley | Accessing Data In Peer-to-Peer
Networks and Other Large Distributed Networks |
| March 20 | Wei Wang
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
Beyond the Distance-Based Clustering: Concepts and
Applications |
| March 25 | Maria Papadopouli
Columbia University | Information Dissemination
and Resource Sharing in Mobile, Ad Hoc Networks |
| March 26 | Mads Nielsen
IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Features for Image Analysis |
| March 27 | Nirupama Bulusu
University of California at Los Angeles |
Self-Configuring Beacon Systems for Localizing
Network Sensors |
| April 1 | Daniel A. Reed
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and National Center for
Supercomputing Applications | Intelligent,
Adaptive Computing: Clusters, Grids, and Community
Building |
| April 3 | Peter H. Brown
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Multiscale Evaluation of 3D Shape Perception in
Computer Graphics (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| April 3 | Anthony Steed
University College London | Mixed-Reality Interface
to Immersive Projection Technology Systems |
| April 4 | Albert Harris
Department of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Mechanical Forces in Tissue Culture and Embryonic
Development |
| April 4 | David Kirk
NVIDIA | Cool Graphics GPUs |
| April 8 | Adrian Perrig
Carnegie Mellon University |
Security Protocols for Broadcast Communication |
| April 8 | Leslie Lamport
Microsoft Research |
Paxos Made Simple |
| April 10 | Jasleen Sahni
University of Texas |
Scalable Network Architectures for Providing
Per-Flow Service Guarantees |
| April 11 | Jan Hoh
Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine |
Probing the Chemical and Physical Properties of
Biological Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy |
| April 12 | Robert Katz
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Shape Analysis for Computer Graphics via Figural
Models of Perception (Doctoral Dissertation Defense) |
| April 12 | Benjamin Chak Lum Lok
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Interacting With Real Objects Significantly Enhances
Cognitive Virtual Environment Tasks (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| April 15 | Eyal de Lara
Rice University |
Puppeteer: Component-Based Adaptation for Mobile
Computing |
| April 17 | Eric Anderson
University of Washington |
Towards Efficient and Stable Adaptive Routing |
| April 18 | Julie Theriot
Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology &
Immunology, Stanford University, School of Medicine |
Actin-Membrane Interactions and Force Generation
in Cell Motility |
| April 22 | Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research |
Uncertainty, Intelligence, and Interaction |
| April 29 | Lars Nyland
Computer Science Department, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Why Build Systems |
| May 1 | Dina Katabi
MIT |
Congestion Control in Future Large Bandwidth-Delay
Product Internet |
| May 6 | Diane H. Sonnenwald
School of Information and Library Science,
UNC-Chapel Hill |
System Design & Evaluation: Including the Human
Perspective |
| May 8 | Sarang Joshi
Department of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical
Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Large Deformation Diffeomorphisms and Gaussian
Random Fields for Statistical Characterization
of Anatomical Variability |
| May 17 | David Kirk McAllister
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
A Generalized Surface Appearance Representation
for Computer Graphics (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| May 29 | Wei-Chao Chen
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Light Field Mapping: Efficient Representation of
Surface Light Fields (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| July 10 | Nicholas Vallidis
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
WHISPER: A Spread Spectrum Solution to Occlusion
in Acoustic Tracking (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| July 11 | Daniel Rueckert
Department of Computing, Imperial College London |
Non-Rigid Registration of Cardiac MR: Application to
Motion Modelling and Atlas-Based Segmentation |
| Aug 30 | Goopeel Chung
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Log-Based Collaborative Infrastructure (Doctoral Dissertation
Defense) |
| Sept 9 | Frans Kaashoek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Fad? |