BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:Data::ICal 0.16 VERSION:2.0 X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-CALNAME:UW CSE Colloquium Calendar X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Charles will compare his first and second spaceflights with res pect to what was the same and what was different. The repeatability of pra ctices shows an encouraging maturity in manned space technologies. The dif ferences show the value of experience in space\, an environment that is fa r from benign. The talk will include a detailed description and a video of returning from orbit in a Soyuz capsule.\n\nBio:\nCharles Simonyi is a Hu ngarian-American computer software executive who\, as head of Microsoft's application software group\, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company\, Intentional Software\, with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional progr amming. In April 2007\, aboard Soyuz TMA-10\, he became the fifth space to urist and the second Hungarian in space. In March 2009\, aboard Soyuz TMA- 14\, he made a second trip to the International Space Station. DTEND:20091001T163000 DTSTART:20091001T153000 LOCATION:Microsoft Atrium\, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Eng ineering SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Charles Simonyi (Intentional Software): Return t o the Final Frontier UID:20091001T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=849 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:During the last decade haute cuisine has undergone a scientific revolution. Leading chefs have taken an interest in the science of cookin g and in scientific tools found more commonly in research laboratories. Ce ntrifuges\, freeze dryers\, digitally-controlled water baths and liquid-ni trogen filled Dewar flasks are just a few examples of technologies that ha ve transformed the modernist kitchen. \n\nThe computer remains an underut ilized tool for exploring the how's and why's of cooking. In our experimen ts at the Intellectual Ventures lab\, we've found that computationally int ense heat-transfer calculations can reveal the subtle factors that influen ce the success or failure of a cook's efforts in the kitchen. The results have surprised even us. In our talk\, we will discuss the virtues of our c omputational cooking\, and demonstrate some of the novel techniques and cr eations made possible when science informs the culinary arts . DTEND:20091006T010000 DTSTART:20091006T000000 LOCATION:Microsoft Atrium\, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Eng ineering SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young (Intellectual Ve ntures): Cooking in Silico: Understanding heat transfer in the modern kitc hen UID:20091006T000000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=842 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Desktop software\, in the form of web browsers\, browser featur es\, and OS distributions\, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google. This talk will give an overview of this work\, looking in detail a t Native Client as an example project in the space. Native Client is an op en-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applicati ons\, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality\, OS portability \, and safety that people expect from web apps. It supports performance-or iented features generally absent from web application programming environm ents\, such as thread support\, instruction set extensions such as SSE\, a nd use of compiler intrinsics and hand-coded assembler. We combine these p roperties in an open architecture designed to leverage existing web standa rds\, and to encourage community review and 3rd-party tools. Overall\, Goo gle's desktop efforts seek to enable new Web applications\, improve end-us er experience\, and enable a more flexible balance between client and serv er computing. Google has open sourced many of our desktop efforts\, in par t to encourage collaboration and independent innovation.\n\nAbout the spea ker:\n\nJ. Bradley Chen manages the Native Client project at Google\, wher e he has also worked on cluster performance analysis projects. Prior to jo ining Google\, he was Director of the Performance Tools Lab in Intel's Sof tware Products Division. Chen served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1994-1998\, conducting research in operating systems\, computer archi tecture and distributed system\, and teaching a variety of related graduat e and undergraduate courses. He has published widely on the subjects of sy stems performance and computer architecture. Dr. Chen has bachelors and m asters degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon U niversity. DTEND:20091008T010000 DTSTART:20091008T000000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Brad Chen (Google\, Inc.): The Desktop: Frontier s in Systems Research UID:20091008T000000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=867 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This talk will NOT be broadcast or streamed live!\n\nComp utational research transforms the sciences (physical\, mathematical\, life or social) not just by empowering them analytically\, but mainly by provi ding a novel and powerful perspective which often leads to unforeseen insi ghts. Examples abound: quantum computation provides the right forum for qu estioning and testing some of the most basic tenets of quantum physics\, w hile statistical mechanics has found in the efficiency of randomized algor ithms a powerful metaphor for phase transitions. In mathematics\, the P vs . NP question has joined the list of the most profound and consequential p roblems\; in economics\, considerations of computational complexity revise predictions of economic behavior and affect the design of economic mechan isms such as auctions. Finally\, in biology some of the most fundamental p roblems\, such as understanding the brain and evolution\, can be productiv ely recast in computational terms.\nMy talk is structured around four vign ettes exemplifying this pattern. DTEND:20091009T163000 DTSTART:20091009T153000 LOCATION:EEB-125 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley): The Algori thmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective is Transforming the Sciences UID:20091009T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=880 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Open Data Kit is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citizen science\, public health\, and environmental monitoring com munities. These groups share the fact that they all have limited resource s and tend to be behind the technology curve. ODK's goals are three-fold: (1) make tools highly modular and customizable so that they can be easily composed and/or specialized into appropriate arrangements for the task at hand\; (2) exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are no t "silo-ed" into monolithic enterprise-level packages that are difficult t o understand and maintain\; and (3) get these communities to take advantag e of evolving technologies including powerful mobile clients (e.g.\, Andro id)\, flexible and scalable server infrastructure (e.g.\, AppEngine) so as to reach a wider base of developers and avoid early obsolescence. In thi s talk\, I will describe our current status and our research and developme nt plans. This work was supported by Google while I was on sabbatical lea ve over the past year. DTEND:20091013T163000 DTSTART:20091013T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Gaetano Borriello (UW CSE): Open Data Kit: Open Source Mobile Data Collection UID:20091013T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=868 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Cognitive Developmental Robotics (CDR) aims to provide new unde rstanding of how human's higher cognitive functions develop by means of a synthetic approach that developmentally constructs cognitive functions. Th e core idea of CDR is "physical embodiment'' that enables information stru cturing through interactions with the environment\, including other agents . The idea is shaped based on the hypothesized development model of human cognitive functions from body representation to social behavior. Along wit h the model\, I will introduce studies of CDR and related works in my talk \, and discuss the model and future issues.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nProfessor Min oru Asada is the Director\, JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Proje ct. He received the B.E.\, M.E.\, and Ph.D. degrees in control engineerin g from Osaka University\, Osaka\, Japan\, in 1977\, 1979\, and 1982\, resp ectively. In April 1995\, he became a Professor of the Osaka University. Since April 1997\, he has been a Professor of the Department of Adaptive M achine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering\, Osaka University. F rom August 1986 to October 1987\, he was a Visiting Researcher of Center f or Automation Research\, University of Maryland\, College Park\, MD. Dr. Asada received many awards including the Best Paper Award of IEEE/RSJ Inte rnational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS92) and the Co mmendation by the Minister of Education\, Culture\, Sports\, Science and T echnology\, Japanese Government as Persons of Distinguished Services to en lightening people on science and technology. He was the President of the I nternational RoboCup Federation (2002-2008). Since 2005\, he has been the Research Director of "ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project" of ERATO (Ex ploratory Research for Advanced Technology by Japan Science and Technology Agency). IEEE Fellow since 2005. DTEND:20091015T163000 DTSTART:20091015T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Minoru Asada (Osaka University): Cognitive Devel opmental Robotics: An approach to understand ourselves and to design robot s like us UID:20091015T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=882 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Over one billion cellular devices are now shipped each year to over\nfour billion subscribers worldwide. More than half will soon support \nwide-area broadband access to the Internet with devices that are\nincrea singly more powerful\, more compact\, and lower cost. Dr. Jacobs\nwill tou ch on the history of Qualcomm and then explore further\ndevelopments in wi reless technology\, devices\, and applications.\n DTEND:20091015T113000 DTSTART:20091015T103000 LOCATION:Microsoft Atrium\, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Eng ineering SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm co-founder): From Cell Ph ones to Smart Phones to Smart Books - An Exciting Journey UID:20091015T103000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=832 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Mainstream computer venders have announced two dramatic changes in their future architectures. First\, the increase in clock frequency we 've experienced over the past decades will cease to continue and the relat ive amount of cache memory per processor will decrease. Second\, there wil l be exponentially increasing number of processor cores on a chip.\n\nThes e changes present two unprecedented challenges to the software stack. Name ly\, how does the software 1) deal with the stagnation of single threaded performance and cache memory\, and 2) utilize the additional capabilities provided by multiple cores on a chip? \n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss th ese issues and argue why these challenges present great opportunities for software optimization and suggest some approaches to address these fundame ntal problems.\n\nBio:\nMichael Hind is a Research Staff Member and Senior Manager of the Programming Technologies Department at IBM's T.J. Watson R esearch Center.\n\nMichael received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1991. From 1992-1998\, Michael was an assistant and associate professor of computer science at the State University of New York at New Paltz and an Academic Visitor at IBM Research. In 1998\, Michael became a Research Staf f Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center\, working on the Jalapeno project\, the project that produced the open source Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM). In 2000\, he became the manager of the Dynamic Optimizatio n Group at IBM Research\, and in 2007\, became Senior Manager of the Progr amming Technologies Department at IBM Research.\n\nMichael is an associate editor of ACM TACO\, has served on over two dozen program committees\, gi ven talks at top universities and conferences\, and co-authored over 40 pu blications. His research interests include adaptive optimization\, program analysis\, and software optimizations for multicore processors. DTEND:20091020T163000 DTSTART:20091020T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Michael Hind (IBM TJ Watson Research Center): Th e Impact of Multicore Architectures on Software: Disaster or Opportunity? UID:20091020T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=865 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Though it is not necessarily the view taken by those who design them\, modern computers are deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems\, a nd it is both interesting and useful to treat them as such. In this talk\ , I will describe a nonlinear dynamics-based framework for modeling and an alyzing computer systems. Using this framework\, together with a custom m easurement infrastructure\, we have found strong indications of low-dimens ional dynamics in the performance of a simple program running on a popular Intel microprocessor---including the first experimental evidence of chaot ic dynamics in real computer hardware.\nThese dynamics change completely w hen we run the same program on a different Intel microprocessor\, or when we change that program slightly. All of this raises important issues abou t computer analysis and design. These engineered systems have grown so co mplex as to defy the analysis tools that are typically used by their desig ners: tools that assume linearity and stochasticity\, and essentially igno re dynamics. The ideas and methods developed by the nonlinear dynamics co mmunity are a much better way to study\, understand\, and (ultimately) des ign modern computer systems.\n\nThis is joint work with Amer Diwan and Tod d Mytkowicz.\n\nElizabeth Bradley did her undergraduate and graduate work at MIT\, interrupted by a one-year leave of absence to row in the 1988 Oly mpic Games\, and has been with the Department of Computer Science at the U niversity of Colorado at Boulder since January of 1993. Her research inte rests include nonlinear dynamics\, artificial intelligence\, and control t heory. She is the recipient of a NSF National Young Investigator award\, a Packard Fellowship\, a Radcliffe Fellowship\, and the 1999 student-voted University of Colorado College of Engineering teaching award. DTEND:20091022T163000 DTSTART:20091022T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado): Chao s in Computer Performance UID:20091022T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=858 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:This talk describes a radically different architecture for comp uting called Fleet. Fleet accepts the limitations to computing imposed by physics: moving data costs more energy\, more delay\, and more chip area than the arithmetic and logical operations ordinarily called "computing." Fleet puts the programmer firmly in charge of the most costly resource: communication. Fleet treats arithmetic and logical operations as side eff ects of where the programmer sends data.\n\nFleet achieves high performanc e through fine grain concurrency. Everything Fleet does is concurrent at the lowest level\; programmers who wish sequential behavior must program i t explicitly. Fleet presents a stark contrast to today's multi-core machi nes in which programmers seek concurrency in an inherently sequential envi ronment.\n\nThe Fleet architecture uses a uniform switch fabric to simplif y chip design. A few thousand identical copies of a configurable interfac e will connect a thousand or so repetitions of basic arithmetic\, logical\ , input-output\, and storage units to the switch fabric. The uniform switc h fabric and the identical configurable interfaces will simplify many of t he hard parts of designing the computing elements themselves.\n\nBoth soft ware and FPGA simulators of a Fleet system are available at UC Berkeley. B erkeley students have written a variety of Fleet programs\; their work hel ped to define what the configurable interface between computing and commun ication must do. A simple compiler configures both source and destination to provide flow-controlled communication. We expect work on a higher-lev el language for Fleet to appear soon as a Berkeley PhD dissertation.\n\nLa st year we built a 90 nanometer TSMC test chip\, called Infinity\, at Sun Microsystems. Infinity demonstrated the switch fabric running at about 4 GHz. We now have a new test chip\, called Marina\, also in 90-nanometer T SMC sponsored by Sun. Marina shows correct operation of the configurable switch fabric interface. Together Infinity and Marina give us confidence to build a complete Fleet. We seek participation from sponsors\, computer scientists\, and hardware designers.\nThis work done with Adam Megacz (UC Berkeley).\n\nBIO\nIvan Sutherland is a Visiting Scientist at Portland St ate University where he and Marly Roncken have recently established the "A synchronous Research Center" (ARC). The ARC occupies both physical and in tellectual space half way between the Computer Science (CS) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments at the university. The ARC se eks to free designers from the tyranny of the clock by developing better t ools and teaching methods for design of self-timed systems. Prior to movi ng to Portland\, Ivan spent 25 years as a Fellow at Sun Microsystems. A 1 959 graduate of Carnegie Tech\, Ivan got his PhD at MIT in 1963 and has ta ught at Harvard\, The University of Utah\, and Caltech. Ivan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science s. DTEND:20091027T163000 DTSTART:20091027T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Ivan Sutherland (Portland State U\, Sun Microsys tems): Fleet\, Infinity & Marina UID:20091027T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=877 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: Sensor networks have taken off\, though tuning them to achieve good resource efficiency is difficult. Our group has deployed sensor netw orks for volcano monitoring and rehabilitation medicine\, and each time we find that tuning parameters to achieve the right tradeoff in terms of dat a quality\, battery lifetime\, and bandwidth usage is quite painful. To ma ke things worse\, resource availability fluctuates over time\, as does the load that the application places on those resources. The severely constra ined and decentralized nature of sensor networks makes this problem fairly challenging.\n\nIn this talk\, I argue that the software for sensor netwo rks should be designed around the fundamental abstraction of resource-awar e programming. In this model\, the application has direct visibility and c ontrol over resources as a first-class primitive. This requires the appli cation code to take responsibility for its own resource management decisio ns\, since it cannot expect a "bailout" from the OS. This approach enables much more effective adaptations to changing conditions\, and supports a r ich space of resource-management policies.\n\nI will present three related systems that leverage this approach: Pixie\, a new sensor node operating system\; Lance\, a network-wide resource management plane\; and Mercury\, a platform for maximizing data quality in a wearable sensor network. I wil l present examples and evaluations based on our real-world deployments.\n\ nBio:\n\nMatt Welsh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harva rd University\, where he has been on the faculty since 2003. His research interests span many aspects of distributed systems\, operating systems\, a nd programming languages. His current focus is on wireless sensor networks including new OS and language designs to enable efficient\, high-data-rat e applications. Prior to joining Harvard\, he spent one year at Intel Rese arch\, Berkeley. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and his B.S. at Cor nell University.\n\nHere is his visit schedule: http://reserve.cs.washing ton.edu/visitor/week.php?year=2009&month=11&day=02&area=5&room=1461 DTEND:20091102T143000 DTSTART:20091102T133000 LOCATION:CSE403 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Matt Welsh (Harvard University): Resource Aware Programming for Sensor Networks UID:20091102T133000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=883 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special presentation by Craig Mundie\, chi ef research and strategy officer of Microsoft. Craig is one of two senior executives who took over from Bill Gates. He is responsible for the compan y's long-term technology strategy. \n\nCraig will talk about how software and information technology can help solve the most pressing global challen ges we face today. He will demonstrate a number of current and future-look ing technologies that show how computer science is changing scientific exp loration and discovery in exciting ways. Craig will discuss the role of ne w science in solving the global energy crisis\, and answer questions from the audience.\n\nBiography: Mundie biography DTEND:20091105T171500 DTSTART:20091105T161500 LOCATION:120 Kane Hall SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Craig Mundie (Microsoft Chief Research and Strat egy Officer): Rethinking Computing UID:20091105T161500@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=850 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: In 2003\, two land mark cases challenged the University of Mic higan admissions policies\, one focused on Law School admission and the ot her on undergraduate admissions. In Grutter v. Bollinger\, the case focuse d on the Law School\, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the La w School. However\, in the Gratz v. Bollinger\, by a vote of 6-3\, the Cou rt reversed\, in part\, the University's undergraduate admission's policy to provide points for race/ethnicity. Therefore\, the Court decided that r ace could be considered in admission's decision\, but could not be the dec iding factor. Later\, Michigan residents voted to adopt a ban on racial an d gender preferences through Proposition 2. In 2007\, the Supreme Court he ard two cases on race-conscious school placement policies in Louisville an d Seattle. The court struck down the programs in Louisville and Seattle. R ecently\, the University of Texas' admissions process was challenged\, 9 y ears after the Michigan cases. Clearly\, this problem has not been solved. However\, the need to diversify still exists\, as explained by the courts and researchers. How can institutions achieve diversity without giving pr eference to race\, gender\, etc. within the bounds of the law? In an effor t to address these issues\, a data mining tool called Applications Quest\, http://www.ApplicationsQuest.com \, was developed by Dr. Juan E. Gilbert. Applications Quest allows the use of race/ethnicity\, gender or any other attributes to be considered in admissions\, school assignments\, employee hiring or any other application processing area\, such that no preference s are given to race or gender. \n\nSHORT BIO \nDr. Juan E. Gilbert is a Pr ofessor and Chair of the Human Centered Computing Division in the School o f Computing at Clemson University where he leads the Human-Centered Comput ing (HCC) Lab. He is also a National Associate of the National Research Co uncil of the National Academies\, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Senio r Member of the IEEE Computer Society. He was recently named one of the 50 most important African-Americans in Technology.\n DTEND:20091110T163000 DTSTART:20091110T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Juan Gilbert (Clemson University): Diversity Red efined in the New Affirmative Action Era UID:20091110T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=870 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: TBD DTEND:20091203T163000 DTSTART:20091203T153000 LOCATION:EEB-105 SUMMARY:UW CSE Colloquium: Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University): Why are Grap hics Systems so Fast? UID:20091203T153000@colloquia.cs.washington.edu URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=857 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR