Semester: Spring 2011
Lecture Time: Monday, 11:25AM - 12:40PM
Lecture Location: Stuart Building 204
Office Hours Time: By Appointment
Office Hours Location: Stuart Building 237D
Professor: Dr. Ioan Raicu (iraicu@cs.iit.edu)
Course Description
This course is required for all PhD students in computer science,
and will expose the students to presentations from senior people in
computer science from industry, government labs, and academia. The
course will involve outside invited speakers, written summaries of
presentations, and short oral presentations by the students.
Schedule
| Date | Seminar Title | Speaker |
| 01-10-2011 | Syllabus | Dr. Ioan Raicu, IIT |
| 01-17-2011 | NO CLASS | N/A |
|
01-18-2011 Tuesday 11:30AM |
Techniques for analysis and visualization of large-scale LIDAR scan data of urban environments | Dr. Patrick Flynn,
Notre Dame University (CSE) Alexandri Zavodny, Notre Dame University (CSE) |
| 01-24-2011 | NO CLASS | N/A |
| 01-31-2011 | NO CLASS | N/A |
| 02-07-2011 | From contextual search to automatic content generation: Scaling human editorial judgment | Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University (EECS) |
| 02-14-2011 | Defending against Pollution Attacks in Network Coding Systems for Wireless Mesh Networks | Dr. Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University (CS) |
| 02-21-2011 | NO CLASS | N/A |
|
02-23-2011 Wednesday 11:30AM |
Harvesting the opportunity of GPU-based acceleration | Dr. Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia (ECE), Canada |
| 02-28-2011 11:00AM SB 213 |
Ranking in Context: Search and Exploration of Large Semantically-Rich Datasets | Dr. Julia Stoyanovich, University of Pennsylvania |
| 03-04-2011 11:00AM |
Forgery in the Digital Frontier: Protecting the Genealogy of Bits with Secure Provenance | Dr. Ragib Hasan, John Hopkins University |
| 03-07-2011 11:00AM |
Database Querying through Direct Manipulation | Bin Liu, University of Michigan |
| 03-14-2011 | NO CLASS | N/A |
| 03-21-2011 | Exploiting Dark Silicon in Server Design | Dr. Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University (EECS) |
| 03-28-2011 | TBA | Student Presentations |
| 04-04-2011 | Technology in the Financial Sector | Andrew Brimer |
| 04-08-2011 Friday 11:00AM SB 113 |
Networking and Distributed Systems in High-Energy Physics at Fermi National Laboratory | Dr. Gabriele Garzoglio and
Dr. Dave Dykstra, Parag Mhashilkar, Fermi National Laboratory |
| 04-08-2011 Friday 1:30PM SB 111 |
Meet the CTOs | Ira A. "Gus" Hunt, CIA and Sairam Rangachari, optionsXpress |
| 04-11-2011 |
Canceled Flash Memory Management for Embedded Systems |
Dr. Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 04-18-2011 10AM SB 204 |
Mining High-Throughput Biological Data | Xiang Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 04-18-2011 | Scaling Up Subversion | Jon Trowbridge, Google |
| 04-22-2011 Friday 11AM SB 113 |
Allocation, Isolation, & Predictability for Compositional Real-Time Systems | Nathan Fisher, Wayne State University |
| 04-22-2011 Friday 1PM - 4PM SB 113 |
Industry Seminar | Chen Fu, Accenture Technology Laboratory Jeff Yakey, Motorola Richard Powell, Cook County Treasurer Office |
| 04-25-2011 11AM |
Canceled HPC 2.0 - Trends, Drivers and Solutions of High Performance Computing |
Dr. Frank Lee, IBM |
| 04-29-2011 Friday 12PM SB 201 |
Nature, Architecture, Mathematics and the Digital | Bob Krawcyzk, IIT (College of Architecture) |
| 05-02-2011 SB 107 |
Mobile Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks | Dr. Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University |
| 05-04-2011 Wednesday 12PM Herman Hall West Ballroom |
We're Smarter than we Think: Accelerating Discovery by Outsourcing the Mundane | Dr. Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory |
| August 29th, 2011 | HPC 2.0 - Trends, Drivers and Solutions of High Performance Computing | Dr. Frank Lee, IBM |
| TBA | Flash Memory Management for Embedded Systems | Dr. Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Required Texts
None
Prerequisites
PhD student
Mailing lists
There is a course mailing list; you can send mail to the list by
sending email to
cs695-s11@datasys.cs.iit.edu. Please see
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs695-s11 for more
information about the course mailing list.
Grading Policies:
• Attendance: 25%
• Participation: Questions during presentations: 25%
• Participation: Summary write-ups for presentations: 25%
• Presentation: 25%
In the Fall 2011 semester, I will be teaching CS 595, Data-Intensive Computing.