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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 2011
Colloquium16Symposium - China's Revolution in Information Technology: Ethical Issues
Mei Gechlik, Stanford Law School
Eric Priest, University of Oregon Law School
Denis Simon, University of Oregon
Xiong Zhang, Beihang University
June 2011
Colloquium29Distinguished Lecture Series: Design Issues for Implemented Type Theories
Robert Constable, Cornell University
Colloquium28Formal Methods at Intel - An Overview
John Harrison, Intel Corporation
Colloquium22Distinguished Lecture Series: What is a Proof? — Some Challenges for Automated Theorem Proving
Dana Scott, Carnegie Mellon University
Colloquium10Probabilistic-Logical Languages and the Web of Data
Mathias Niepert, University of Mannheim, Germany
Colloquium01Recent advances in active traffic analysis for linking network flows
Amir Houmansadr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
May 2011
Colloquium26Large-Scale Structured Sparse Learning
Jieping Ye, Arizona State University
Colloquium24CIS Department Graduation Photograph
Faculty, Staff & Graduating Students, University of Oregon
Colloquium19Post Doc Colloquium: Active Learning with Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembles
Zhenyu Lu, University of Vermont
Colloquium19Flowers, Bees, and Algorithms
Ran 'RON' Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd College
Career Mentorship Colloquium12Mobile Industry--What is happening now and where is it all going?
Mobile is the widest used platform ever. Do you want to join the action?

Isaac Babbs, Qualcomm
Colloquium05Facing the Machine: Digital Faces and Avatar Computing
Zhigang Deng, University of Houston
April 2011
Colloquium29Shared Autonomy Interfaces for Mobile Manipulation Robots
Bill Smart, Washington University, St. Louis
Colloquium29Biomedical modeling: From 3D images to computational models
Cindy Grimm, Washington University, St. Louis
Colloquium28Bridging the research-design dialog: Persona efficacy and creation
Cynthia Putnam, DePaul University
Colloquium21On the planar disjoint paths problem
Isolde Adler, University of Frankfurt
Colloquium14Rising from stars and lines: About Two graph reconstruction problems
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Career Mentorship Colloquium08Career Mentorship Colloquium: Working on Google Earth team
Zach Vorhies, Google
Colloquium07CPATHi18n: Summer Workshop in Global Distributed Software Development
Andrzej Proskurowski, University of Oregon
Virginia Lo, University of Oregon
Art Farley, University of Oregon
Stuart Faulk, University of Oregon
Michal Young, University of Oregon
March 2011
Oral Comprehensive Exam18Future Internet Architectures
Ghulam Memon, University of Oregon
Colloquium17Probabilistic Models for Analyzing Large Sparse Matrices
Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota
Career Mentorship Colloquium11Career Mentorship Colloquium: Talk - Dan Ellsworth
Dan Ellsworth, Octahedral Softworks
Career Mentorship Colloquium04Career Mentorship Colloquium: Palo Alto Software
Sabrina Parsons, Palo Alto Software
Colloquium03How Smart is Your Home?
Parisa Rashidi, Washington State University
February 2011
Colloquium24End-User Feature Labeling: A Locally-Weighted Regression Approach
Weng-Keen Wong, Oregon State University
Career Mentorship Colloquium22Establishing a Foundation to Financial Independence for CIS Students
James Fox, North Star Resource Group
Career Mentorship Colloquium18Career Mentorship Colloquium: Buzz Monkey
Brian Apgar, Buzz Monkey
Colloquium17Reconfigurable Computing - A Megatrend in the Future
Leibo Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Career Mentorship Colloquium11Career Mentorship Colloquium: IBM
Aaron Henner, IBM
Colloquium10Hoare Logic for the Coinductive Trace-Based Big-Step Semantics of While
Keiko Nakata, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology
Career Mentorship Colloquium04Career Mentorship Colloquium: Pipeworks
Dan White, Pipeworks
Colloquium03Graduate Research Poster Contest Awards
CIS Graduate Students, University of Oregon
January 2011
Career Mentorship Colloquium28Panel Discussion
CIS Students and Alum, University of Oregon
Career Mentorship Colloquium21Resume Workshop
Clarice Wilsey, Career Center, University of Oregon
Career Mentorship Colloquium14Interview Workshop
Jim Allen, Jimmy Hastings, University of Oregon
Colloquium13The University's 40 year old PDP-7 computer is alive again in Seattle
Harlan W. Lefevre, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium06Deptartmental Event
CIS Department, University of Oregon
December 2010
Dissertation Defense07Use of Ontologies in Information Extraction
Daya Wimalasuriya, University of Oregon
November 2010
Colloquium18Answering Reachability Query in Large Directed Graphs
Ruoming Jin, Kent State University
Dissertation Defense11Peer-to-Peer Streaming: Design and Challenges
Nazanin Magharei, University of Oregon
Colloquium11The Future of Service Infrastructure Research
Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs
Colloquium04Asking the Right Questions: New Query Modes in Active Learning
Burr Settles, Carnegie Mellon University
October 2010
Colloquium28Distinguished Lecture Series: Gender and Computing
Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Colloquium28Informal Gathering of Faculty and Students with the Distinguished Speaker
Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Colloquium26Faculty Research Colloquium-An Introduction to Cognitive Modeling for Human-Computer
Interaction, and Recent Research Advances in Understanding Multitasking Behavior
as Revealed Through Cognitive Modeling and Eye Tracking

Anthony Hornof, University of Oregon
Colloquium21Small-step and Big-step Aspects of Computation (A Walk in the Semantic Park)
Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Colloquium19Faculty Research Colloquium-Learning to Learn and Reason Better
Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon
Colloquium14Cloud Computing for Science
Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory
Colloquium12Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition Introduction
Dan Waters, Microsoft
Colloquium07Faculty Research Colloquium
Dejing Dou, Andrzej Proskurowski, University of Oregon
September 2010
Oral Comprehensive Exam15Reconstructing Evolutionary History: Algorithmic, Statistical, and Computational Challenges
Victor Hanson-Smith, University of Oregon