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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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July 2012
Colloquium30Understanding strategic adaptation in dual-task situations as cognitively bounded rational behavior
Dr. Chris Janssen, University College London
 25Investigating the Mutual Impact of the P2P Overlay and the AS-level Underlay
Amir Rasti Ekbatani, University of Oregon
June 2012
Oral Comprehensive Exam12Using Computational Cognitive Modeling to Validate and Advance Multitasking Theories
Yunfeng Zhang, University of Oregon
Colloquium07Efficiently Analyzing Large-Scale Molecular Simulation Data with Accuracy Guarantees
Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida
Career Mentorship Colloquium04ACM Student Lecture Series: Regular Expressions, Finite State Machines and Transition Systems, Oh My!
Jim Allen, UO CIS Alum
Dissertation Defense01A Graph-based Approach For Semantic Data Mining
Haishan Liu, University of Oregon
Colloquium01Surfacing an Iceberg: Meaningful Use of Clinical Notes Advances Drug Safety
Paea LePendu, Stanford University
May 2012
Colloquium31Moonshadow Mobile: High Speed Visualization of Big Data
Eimar Boesjes, Moonshadow Mobile
Dissertation Defense29Twig: A Configurable Domain-Specific Language
Geoffrey Hulette, University of Oregon
Dissertation Defense25Ensuring A Valid Source And Destination For Internet Traffic
Toby Ehrenkranz, University of Oregon
Colloquium24Improving text entry in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices with language models
Brian Roark, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health & Science University
Colloquium24Assessing & Understanding the Effects of 'Cognitive Moderators' on Human Performance
Tim Halverson, Air Force Research Laboratory
Career Mentorship Colloquium21ACM Student Lecture Series: Beyond ELIZA: Using Markov chains to build 'intelligent' chatbots
David Ross, UO CIS Undergraduate
Colloquium17Are Internet Anti-piracy Laws efficient?
Rubén Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Colloquium10Inferring Social Life from Everyday Conversations
Izhak Shafran, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health & Science University
Colloquium10Studying Coordination In Software Teams Using a Model of Socio-technical Congruence
Irwin Kwan, Oregon State University
Colloquium08Faculty Search Colloquium: Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colloquium03Markov Logic in Machine Reading
Hoifung Poon, Microsoft Research
April 2012
Colloquium26Computational Behavioral Science: A New Paradigm for Interdisciplinary Research
Jan van Santen, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health & Science University
Colloquium26Recognition of unstructured environmental sounds
Selina Chu, Oregon State University
Colloquium19Secure Software Installation, Digital Signatures, and Tofu
Paul van Oorschot, Carleton University, Ottawa
Directed Research Project17Semantic Artifacts and Control
Paul Downen, University of Oregon
Colloquium05SEEC: A Framework for the Self-aware Management of Goals and Constraints in Modern Computing Systems
Henry Hoffmann, MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Colloquium03Visualization and Analysis of Very Large Scientific Simulations
Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
March 2012
Colloquium05Future Challenges in System Software
Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
Dissertation Defense01Behavior-based Worm Detection
Shad Stafford, University of Oregon
February 2012
Colloquium27CitiSense - Always-on Participatory Sensing for Air Quality
William G. Griswold, University of California, San Diego
January 2012
Colloquium31Poster Contest Award Ceremony
CIS Graduate Students, University of Oregon
Colloquium26A new approach to finding covers of arc-transitive graphs
Marston Conder, University of Auckland
Colloquium19Distributed Data Replenishment
Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University
Colloquium12Title: TBA - Department Event
December 2011
Directed Research Project09Automatic Grading for Summaries by Ontology-based Information Extraction
Fernando Gutiérrez, University of Oregon
Directed Research Project08WalkAbout, a Random Walk Based Framework to Characterize Online Social Networks
Reza Motamedi, University of Oregon
Directed Research Project06Refining NELL's knowledge base with Markov logic networks
Shangpu Jiang, University of Oregon
Colloquium01Faculty Research Colloquium - Understanding Attacks and Data Protection in Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Kevin Butler, University of Oregon
November 2011
Colloquium22Ghost Domain Names: Revoked Yet Still Resolvable
Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China
Dissertation Defense21A Personalized Virtual Environment As A Testbed For Assistive Technologies
Xiangkui Yao, University of Oregon
Colloquium17Faculty Research Colloquium - Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven?
Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon
Colloquium16An Account of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
CIS Students, University of Oregon
Career Mentorship Colloquium10Career Mentorship Colloquium: Working at RDI
Brian Walch, Resource Data, Inc.
Jason Mancuso, Resource Data, Inc.
Colloquium10Faculty Research Colloquium - Internet Routing Anomaly Monitoring and Detection
Jun Li, University of Oregon
Dissertation Defense09Error and Uncertainty in Computational Phylogenetics
Victor Hanson-Smith, University of Oregon
Colloquium03A Proof Pearl with the Fan Theorem and Bar Induction:
Walking through infinite trees with mixed induction and coinduction

Keiko Nakata, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
October 2011
Colloquium27Introduction to Programming with Shift and Reset
Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Oral Comprehensive Exam25Instruction Scheduling, Register Allocation, and Search
Aran Clauson, University of Oregon
Colloquium20Faculty Research Colloquium - Data mining and formal semantics
Dejing Dou, University of Oregon
Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon
Colloquium10Proxemic Interactions: the New Ubicomp?
Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary