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We are celebrating our 25th year of Distinguished Lectures at the University of Washington. Here is a complete list of all Lecturers, in reverse chronological order:
- 2/8/2007
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo Research (formerly University of Wisconsin)
"Community Systems: The World Online"
- 1/18/2007
Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary
"Enhancing Creativity through Toolkits"
- 11/9/2006
Larry Peterson, Princeton University
"PlanetLab: Evolution vs Intelligent Design in Global Network Infrastructure"
- 10/26/2006
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
"Taking Concurrency Seriously: New Directions in Multiprocessor Synchronization"
- 1/12/2006
Daphne Koller, Stanford University
"Probabilistic Models for Complex Domains: Cells, Bodies, and Webpages"
- 1/5/2006
John Guttag, MIT
"Shortening the Control Loop in the Management of Chronic Disease"
- 12/8/2005
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
"Satan's Computer - Revisited"
- 12/1/2005
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft
"Helping Kinsey Compute: Statistics with Secrecy"
- 10/4/2005
Owen Astrachan, Duke University
"On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science Redux"
- 1/25/2005
Terry Winograd, Stanford University
"Designing for Fluent Interaction"
- 12/9/2004
David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz
"Using Evolution to Explore the Human Genome"
- 12/7/2004
Michael Collins, MIT
"Discriminative Machine Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing"
- 11/30/2004
Jan Cuny, University of Oregon
"Broadening Participation in Computer Science: Pipe Dreams for the Pipeline"
- 2/24/2004
Leslie Pack Kaelbling, MIT
"Life-Sized Learning"
- 2/12/2004
Shree Nayar, Columbia University
"Computational Camera: Redefining the Image"
- 12/11/2003
Michael Jordan, UC-Berkeley
"Graphical Models, Kernel Methods and Statistical Learning Algorithms"
- 12/2/2003 POSTPONED
Scott Charney, Microsoft
"Critical Infrastructure Protection"
- 11/20/2003
Udi Manber, Amazon.com
"All The World's Information at Everyone's Fingertips"
- 11/21/2002
Moshe Vardi, Rice University
"On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science"
- 11/14/2002
Deborah Estrin, UCLA
"Sensor Networks Research: From Rhetoric to Rigor"
- 10/31/2002
Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University
"Programming Languages: The Essence of Computer Science"
- 2/26/02
Jim Gray, Microsoft Research
"The World Wide Telescope as a Prototype for the New Computational Science"
- 12/6/2001
Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research
"Seeing Through the Clutter"
- 10/18/2001
Rosalind Picard, MIT
"Machines with Emotional Intelligence"
- 10/11/2001
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
"The Structure of Information Networks"
- 10/4/2001
Judea Pearl, UCLA
"Reasoning with Cause and Effect"
- 11/30/2000
Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University
"Animating Human Motion"
- 11/16/2000
Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon University
"The Interdisciplinary Challenge of Building Virtual Worlds"
- 10/26/2000
Clifford Nass, Stanford University
"How People Treat Interfaces Like People: Social Psychology and Design"
- 10/5/2000
Tony DeRose, Pixar
"Behind the Scenes at Pixar"
- 12/2/1999
David Tennenhouse, DARPA
"Proactive Computing"
- 11/4/1999
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
"Approximation Algorithms for Some Clustering and Classification Problems"
- 10/14/1999
Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan
"Schools Don't Want Technology, Schools Want Curriculum"
- 10/7/1999
Hal Varian, UC-Berkeley
"Five Forces in the Network Economy"
- 3/4/1999
David Clark, MIT
"Internet Telephony: Will it kill the telephone companies, the Internet, or both?"
- 12/3/1998
Randy Katz, UC-Berkeley
"Beyond Third Generation Cellular Networks"
- 11/12/1998
Michael Stonebraker, Informix Software
"A DBMS View of Middleware"
- 10/8/1998
James Foley, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
"There's More to Computing than Computer Science"
- 2/19/1998
Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
"Formal Methods: Past, Present and Future"
- 11/13/1997
Forest Baskett, Silicon Graphics
"Scalable Computer System Architecture"
- 11/6/1997
Christos Papadimitriou, UC-Berkeley
"Computational Aspects of Organizational Theory"
- 10/19/1997
Dave Patterson, UC-Berkeley
"Intelligent RAM (IRAM)"
- 10/24/1996
Randy Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University
"Multipliers and Dividers:Insights on Arithemetic Circuit Verification"
- 10/17/1996
Randall Davis, MIT
"IP Meets IT: The Problems and Opportunities of Intellectual Property in the Information Age"
- 10/10/1996
Bob Sproull, Sun Microsystems Labs
"Tradeoffs in a Graphics System Design"
- 10/3/1996
Paul Hudak, Yale University
"An Algebraic Approach to Multimedia Programming"
- 10/26/1995
Shafi Goldwasser, MIT
"On the Theory and Applications of Probabilistically Verifiable Proofs"
- 10/19/1995
Donald Norman, Apple Computer
"Trends in the Computer Industry: Life-Long Subscriptions, Magical Cures, and the Search for Profits Along the Information Highway"
- 10/12/1995
Vinton Cerf, MCI Data & Information Center
"Harvesting the Internet Windfall"
- 10/5/1995
James Allen, University of Rochester
"Conversational Planning Agents"
- 5/11/1995
Maria Klawe, University of British Columbia
"Electronic Games and Interactive Multi-Media: A Power-Up for Math and Science Education?"
- 5/4/1995
Nils Nilsson, Stanford University
"Artifical Intelligence: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?"
- 4/27/1995
Ed Catmull, Pixar
"The Problems of Lighting in Computer Graphics"
- 4/20/1995
David Johnson, Bell Laboratories
"The Traveling Salesman Problem"
- 1/27/1994
Fred Brooks, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality?"
- 10/28/1993
Sue Graham, UC-Berkeley
"Language-Based Interactive Environments"
- 10/21/1993
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
"Autonomous Robots"
- 10/14/1993
David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Processing"
- 4/29/1993
Eric Lander, MIT
"Mapping the Human Genome: Biological and Computational Challenges"
- 10/29/1992
John Hennessy, Stanford University
"Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors and the DASH Approach"
- 10/22/1992
Rodney Brooks, MIT
"Intelligence as an Emergent Phenomenon"
- 10/1/1992
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
"Issues in Gigabit Networks"
- 10/24/1991
Manuel Blum, UC-Berkeley
"Designing Programs to Check Their Work"
- 10/17/1991
Barbara Grosz, Harvard University
"Collaborative Planning for Cooperative Human-Computer Communication and Problem-Solving"
- 10/10/1991
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC-Berkeley
"Computer-Aided Design of Electronic Systems: The Playground of the Renaissance Man of the 1990s"
- 10/3/1991
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"A Look at the Evolution of Software for Numerical Linear Algebra"
- 10/25/1990
Barbara Liskov, MIT
"Uses of Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Systems"
- 10/18/1990
Andries van Dam, Brown University
"Electronic Books: User-Controlled Animation in a Hypermedia Framework"
- 10/11/1990
Nancy Lynch, MIT
"Some New Results in the Theory of Real-Time Computing"
- 10/4/1990
Ken Kennedy, Rice University
"Compiling for High Performance on the Intel Touchstone"
- 11/2/1989
Tad Pinkerton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"What's Enough Computing"
- 10/26/1989
Ralph Griswold, University of Arizona
"The Icon Programming Language"
- 10/19/1989
Nico Habermann, Carnegie Mellon University
"Computer Science: Science, Engineering or Management?"
- 10/12/1989
David Benson, Washington State University
"Why Computer Science is Harder than Physics"
- 10/5/1989
W. Kahan, UC-Berkeley
"Floating-Point Exception Handling"
- 11/9/1988
Ivan Sutherland, Sutherland, Sproull and Associates
"Asynchronous Systems"
- 11/3/1988
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
"Can We Build Learning Robots?"
- 10/20/1988
Arvind, MIT
"Can Dataflow Subsume von Neumann Computing?"
- 10/6/1988
Leslie Lamport, Digital Equipment Corporation
"Everything You Need to Know to Reason About Concurrent Programs But No One Ever Told You Because It's So Simple"
- 10/29/1987
Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University
"Object-Oriented Databases: Hot New Idea, or Blast from the Past?"
- 10/22/1987
William Gates, Microsoft Corporation
"Further Computing the Direction of Microsoft"
- 10/15/1987
Alfred Aho, AT&T
"Little Languages"
- 10/8/1987
Michael Duff, University College London
"Image Processing Computers -- The Way Ahead?"
- 10/1/1987
Robert Balzer, USC
"Living in the Next Generation Operating System"
- 10/30/1986
Michael Stonebraker, UC-Berkeley
"The Design of Postgres"
- 10/23/1986
C.A.R. Hoare, Oxford University
"Formal Methods of Software Development"
- 10/16/1986
Charles Thacker, Digital Equipment Corporation
"Firefly: A Multiprocessor Workstation"
- 10/9/1986
Michael Fischer, Yale University
"Trends in the Theory of Distributed Computing"
- 10/31/1985
Richard Karp, UC-Berkeley
"The Complexity of Parallel Computation"
- 10/24/1985
Jack Schwartz, New York University
"Algorithms for Shape Recognition in 2 and 3 Dimensions, and Their Implementation in Neural Nets"
- 10/17/1985
William Wulf, Tartan Laboratories
"Capital Intensive Software Development"
- 10/10/1985
Mani Chandy, University of Texas
"How Processes Learn: A Paradigm for Distributed Algorithms"
- 10/25/1984
Kenneth Batcher, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation
"Parallel Processors and Communications"
- 10/18/1984
Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
"Artificial Intelligence and Robotics"
- 10/11/1984
Michael Rabin, Harvard University and Hebrew University
"Concurrency Control and Synchronization Through Randomness"
- 10/4/1984
David Gries, Cornell University
"Another Look at 'Abstract Data Types' in Terms of Practical Programming"
- 10/27/1983
Herman Goldstine, Institute for Advanced Study
"A History of the Computer"
- 10/20/1983
Stephen Cook, University of Toronto
"The Theory of Parallel Computation"
- 10/13/1983
Marvin Minsky, MIT
"Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense"
- 10/6/1983
E.B. Eichelberger, IBM
"VLSI Design for Testability"
- 10/28/1982
Shmuel Winograd, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"On the Complexity of Matrix Operations"
- 10/21/1982
Jim Gray, Tandem Computers
"The Transaction Concept -- Virtues and Limitations"
- 10/14/1982
Carlo Sequin, UC-Berkeley
"VLSI Multiprocessor Networks"
- 10/7/1982
Ronald Rivest, MIT
"Cryptography: Deciphering the Recent Results"
- 2/18/1982
David Kuck, University of Illinois
"Compilers and Architectures for High Speed Computers"
- 2/4/1982
Alan Kay, Consultant
"Is There Programming After Smalltalk?"
- 1/28/1982
Robert Tarjan, Bell Laboratories
"Complexity of Combinatorial Algorithms"
- 1/21/1982
James Browne, University of Texas
"A Paradigm for the Formulation of Parallel Programs"
- 1/14/1982
Edward McCreight, Xerox PARC
"A View of ADA from Mesa-Land"
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