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All of these talks are open to the public, and will provide some insight into various research activities here and at other institutions.

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August 2010
Colloquium31On the Computational Complexity of Degenerate Unit Distance Representations of Graphs
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Prague
June 2010
Oral Comprehensive Exam11Semantic Data Mining
Haishan Liu, University of Oregon
Directed Research Project09Using the Mean Shift Algorithm to Make Post Hoc Improvements to the Accuracy of
Eye Tracking Data Based on Probable Fixation Locations

Yungfeng Zhang, University of Oregon
Directed Research Project07Personalized Requirements Elicitation Using a Domain Model
Mahshid Yar Mohammadi, University of Oregon
Colloquium03Rubik's Cube, Groups, and Computational Complexity
Eugene Luks, University of Oregon
May 2010
Directed Research Project28Observing and Measuring Internet Quakes
Scott Brooks, University of Oregon
Colloquium27CIS Department Photograph
Faculty, Staff & Graduating Students, University of Oregon
Colloquium21Towards Mutual Understanding - An Overview on Ontologies, Ontology-Matching,
and their Applications

Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama
Colloquium20Copyright Piracy and the Creative Industries in China
Eric Priest, University of Oregon School of Law
Colloquium06Basic Code-Breaking and Deciphering
Beverly Ann Cox, Department of Defense
Colloquium03A Sampler of Self-Stabilizing Algorithms
Stephen Hedetniemi, Clemson University
April 2010
Colloquium30Distinguished Lecture Series: Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future
part of the CIS 40th Anniversary Celebration Weekend

Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington and Chair, Computing Community Consortium
Colloquium29CIS Departmental Birthday Party Colloquium
CIS Faculty, Computer & Information Science, University of Oregon
Colloquium23Preemption Sealing for Efficient Concurrency Testing
Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research (MSR)
Colloquium22A Brief History of Software - from Bell Labs to Microsoft Research
Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research (MSR)
Colloquium15Resolving and Exploiting the k-CFA Paradox
David Van Horn, Northeastern University
Colloquium08Distinguished Lecture Series in Computing, Creativity, and the Digital Imagination:
Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet

Steven Seitz, University of Washington and Google
March 2010
Directed Research Project29Supporting Automatic Performance Tuning
Arash Shamaei, University of Oregon
Colloquium09Paris Traceroute: An Improved Traceroute
Timur Friedman, UPMC Paris Universitas
Career Mentorship Colloquium05Working at IBM
Aaron Henner, IBM
Colloquium04From classical logic to delimited control in the hierarchy, via separation
Alexis Saurin, INRIA pi.r2
Career Mentorship Colloquium02Tech Trends - Careers in Technology
Dan Waters, Microsoft
Colloquium01Faculty Search Colloquium: Leveraging Emerging Storage Functionality for New Security Services
Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University
February 2010
Career Mentorship Colloquium26Being a Computer Scientist at Google
Amanda Camp, Google
Colloquium25Building a utopia of visual media
Feng Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Directed Research Project25An Improved A* Heuristic for Automated Flight Planning
Aran Clauson, University of Oregon
Career Mentorship Colloquium19Game Development at Buzz Monkey
Brian Apgar, Buzz Monkey
Colloquium18Faculty Search Colloquium: Mapping the World's Photos
David Crandall, Cornell University
Career Mentorship Colloquium16Rubicon International Internship Info Session
, Rubicon International
Colloquium16Learning from Structured Data: Models and Applications
Yan Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research
Career Mentorship Colloquium12Video Game Studio Life
Shelby Wills, Pipeworks
Colloquium11TaskTracer: Machine Learning Applied to Improve Desktop Computing
Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University
Career Mentorship Colloquium05Game Programming- The Big Picture
Dan White, Pipeworks
Colloquium03CIS-Peking University Joint SE Course and Summer School Invitation to Participate
Art Farley, Stuart Faulk, Ginnie Lo, Andrzej Proskurowski, Michal Young, University of Oregon
Roger Adkins, UO Study Abroad Programs
Colloquium02Panel Discussion Colloquium
Current Students, University of Oregon
January 2010
Oral Comprehensive Exam28Financial Forecasting with Multiple Learning Models and Data Sources
Han Qin, University of Oregon
Colloquium26Distinguished Lecture Series - A Cryptic Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Lawren Smithline, The Center for Communications Research, Princeton
Colloquium22Independent Software Consulting
Anthony Testi, Lion Crest Software Services
Colloquium15Testing Planarity of Partially Embedded Graphs
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Prague
Colloquium14Securing Network Access in Wireless Sensor Networks Supporting Industrial Control System
Kun Sun, Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Oral Comprehensive Exam14Computational Models for Scientific Workflow
Dan Keith, University of Oregon
December 2009
Colloquium21Efficient Decision-Theoretic Assistance Through Relational Hierarchical Models
Sriraam Natarajan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Defense09Ontology Databases
Paea LePendu, University of Oregon
Dissertation Defense03A software framework for simulation-based scientific investigations
Adnan Salman, University of Oregon
November 2009
Colloquium30Can Lisp Be Saved?
Drew McDermott, Yale University
Colloquium12Adversarial Machine Learning
Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon
October 2009
Colloquium16Why people don't use help
David Novick, University of Texas at El Paso
Colloquium15Meeting the Faculty
CIS Faculty, University of Oregon
Colloquium08Meeting the Faculty
CIS Faculty, University of Oregon
Colloquium01Meeting the Faculty
CIS Faculty, University of Oregon