Current 2023 GBC/ACM IEEE Computer Society Joint Seminar Announcements
The recording of Kevin Esvelt's talk on "Securing global DNA synthesis without disclosing information hazards" is streamable from here .
The recording of Neil Thompson's talk on "Specialization and the End of Moore's Law" is streamable from here .
The recording of Neil Gershenfeld's talk on "Bits and Atoms" is streamable from here .
The recording of Jared Spool's talk from January 19 is now available on YouTube here .
The recording of Dick Sites' talk on performance analysis of complex systems is streamable from here .
The recording of Daniel Jackson's talk on "How to become a great software designer" is now streamable from here .
The recording of Gerald Sussman's talk on "Programming is (should be) fun!" is streamable from here .
They are large files (over 1 GB), so you probably don't want to download them.
The slides from ChongLim's indroductory talk on " Neural Networks and Deep Learning" are now online here .
The recordings of this spring's talks by Yaneer Bar-Yam, the founder of NECSI, on "COVID-19 Pandemic Status and Prognosis" and Dana Chisnell on "Will voting by mail save democracy?" are available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wFFy4NcqJE&t=1s , and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU6Qfx1ILQ4&feature=youtu.be .
The recording of Sandy Pentland's talk on "Rebuilding After Covid-19" is available at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/pentlandtalk102220.mp4 .
A video recording of Silvio Micali's talk on Algorand, Block Chains and Distributed Ledgers is online at
https://replay.csail.mit.edu/recordings/852 .
The slides from John Methot's talk on "Next Generation Sequencing: Underlying Technology and Applications to Cancer" are available online at John Methot slides. Note that this is a downloadable pptx file and is not automatically displayed. Be careful about downloading it multiple times; it's 167 MB.
The viewgraphs from Hy Hartman's April 12 presentation are now online at ribosome evolution .
The slides from Georges Grinstein's talk on data visualization are available online at Weaving a Visualization
A video recording of Tim Kraska's talk about how data base systems can take advantage of really fast networks is online at
https://replay.csail.mit.edu/recordings/319 .
Tim Mattson's talk on BIGDAWG (the big data working group project) is also online at
https://replay.csail.mit.edu/recordings/481
Past Talks
- Mike Stonebraker on "DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System" Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7-8:30 pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center and online using Zoom
- Jared Spool on "Outcome-Driven UX Metrics" Thursday, January 18, 2024, 6-7:30 pm at Microsoft Burlington and online using Zoom or Teams
- Sandy Pentland on "Engineering Ecosystems with AI" Thursday, November 30, 2023, 7-8:00 pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center and online using Zoom. Thi recording of this talk is now available online. Register as usual to get access.
- Kevin Esvelt on "Securing global DNA synthesis without disclosing information hazards" Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 6:30-8:00 pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center and online using Zoom
- Yael Tauman Kalai on "Efficient Verification of Computation" Thursday, May 18, 2023, 6:40-8:20 pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center and online using Zoom
- Neil Thompson on "Specialization and the End of Moore's Law" Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7:00-8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Neil Gershenfeld on "From Bits to Atoms" Thursday, February 16, 2023, 7:00-8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Jared Spool on "Using Outcomes as a Spark for UX" Thursday, January 19, 2023, 7:00-8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Gerry Sussman on "Programming is (should be) fun!", Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7 pm online using Zoom
- Dick Sites on "KUtrace: Where does every nanosecond go in complex latency-sensitive software?
", Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7 pm online using Zoom
- Swarup Bhunia on "Innovations in IoT for a Safe, Secure, and Sustainable Future", Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 6 pm online using Zoom
- Daniel Jackson on "How to become a great software designer", March 24, 2022, 7 - 8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Patrick Boyle on "Cell Development Kits (CDKs) - SDKs for Biology" Thursday, February 24, 2022, 7 - 8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Jared Spool on how to "Reframe Agile to Deliver Great UX" Thursday, January 20, 2022, 6:50-8:30 pm online using Zoom
- Ellie Pavlick will give a talk on Implementing Symbols and Rules with Neural Networks" on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 7pm
- CL Kim gave a talk entitled Neural Networks and Deep Learning - a Practical Overview" on Thursday, July 15, 2021, at 7pm
- Ben Reis, the director of the Predictive Medicine Group in the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, will talk about "Vaccine Effectiveness and the Mass Vaccination Experience in Israel" Thursday, May 6, 2021, 1pm online using Zoom (Note Time!)
- Jeff Lou of Ginkgo Bioworks on "A Highly Automated System for COVID-19 Testing" Thursday, March 18, 2021, 7-9pm online using Zoom
- Jared Spool on "The UX Leaders' Secret Guide to Innovative, UX-Driven Product Roadmaps" Thursday, January 21, 2021, 7-9pm online using Zoom
- Irwin Jungreis and Manolis Kellis on "COVID-19 math: gene content, mutations, and clinical trial analysis" Thursday, Jauary 14, 2021, 7-9pm online using Zoom
- Sandy Pentland on "Rebuilding After Covid-19" Thursday, October 22, 2020, 7-9pm online using Zoom
- Dana Chisnell on "Will Voting By Mail Save Democracy?" Thursday, May 21, 2020, 7-9pm online using Zoom
- Yaneer Bar-Yam on "COVID-19 Pandemic Staus and Prognosis" Thursday, April 16, 2020, 7-9pm:
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- Leslie Valiant on "What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning?" Thursday, November 21, 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Charles E. Leiserson on "The Resurgence of Software Performance Engineering" Thursday, October 17 , 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Stephen Bach on "Weakly Supervised Machine Learning at Industrial Scale" Thursday, June 20 , 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Sundar Sundaramurthy on "Understanding the Riemann Hypothesis" Thursday,May 23 , 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G463 (Star) in the Stata Center
- Mike Stonebraker on "Kyrix: A Detail-on-Demand Visualization System" Thursday, April 18, 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Alan Edelman on "Julia Programming -- Humans compose when software does" Thursday,March 28 , 2019, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Jared Spool on "Why Is Hiring Great UX Professionals So Damn Challenging?" Thursday, January 17, 2019, 6:30-9pm in at Vistaprint in Waltham
- Bruce Schneier on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" Thursday, December 6, 2018, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Robotics and Visual Computing Lab tours at Brown University's CS department, Providence, RI: Thursday, November 1, 2018, 7-9pm Center
- Tomaso Poggio on "The Science and Engineering of Intelligence" Thursday, September 20, 2018, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Shane Clark and Kyle Usbeck on "Drones: Where are We Now, Where Are We Headed?" Thursday, June 21, 2018, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Hyman Hartman on "Von Neumann and the Origin of Life" Thursday, May 17, 2018, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Silvio Micali on "ALGORAND: A Truly Distributed Ledger" Thursday, April 5, 2018, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Theo Giannakopoulos on "Probabilistic Programming" Thursday, December 7, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Jared Spool on "Optimizing Your Organization To Produce Better Designs" Thursday, January 18, 2018, 6:30-9pm in at Vistaprint in Waltham
- Guy Steele on "It's Time for a New Old Language" Thursday, November 16, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Margo Seltzer on "Data Provenance: From Theory to Practice" Thursday, October 26, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Stavros Papadopoulos on "The TileDB Array Storage System" Wednesday, September 16, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-G449 (Kiva) in the Stata Center
- Raman Prasad on "Dataverse: Building a Digital Repository" Wednesday, June 22, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room E51-335 in the Tang Center
- Butler Lampson on "Personal Control of Digital Data"" Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT room 32-123 (Kirsch Auditorium in the Stata Center
- Jake Beal on "Engineering Complex Behaviors in Biological Organisms"" Thursday,
ay 11, 2017, 7-9pm in MIT E51-325
- Hyman Hartman on "Evolution of the Translational Apparatus and implications for the origin of the Genetic Code"" Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 7-9pm at the Broad Institute in Cambridge
- John Methot on "Next Generation Sequencing: Underlying Technology and Applications to Cancer"" Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7-9pm at the Broad Institute in Cambridge
- Jared Spool on "Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of the Authentication User Experience" Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 7-9pm in Waltham
- Jared Spool on "Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of the Authentication User Experience" Thursday, January 19, 2017, 7-9pm at MIT
- George Church on "The Future of Synthetic Biology" Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7-9pm
- Mike Stonebraker on "Database Decay and What To Do About It" Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 7-9pm
- Tim Mattson on "BigDAWG Polystore: programmer productivity for complex, heterogeneous big data applications" Thursday, September 22, 2016, 7-9pm
- Andre Oboler on "The Technical Challenge of Hate Speech, Incitement and Extremism in Social Media"" Thursday, August 18, 2016, 7-9pm
- Aaron Paulos on "Advanced Adaptive Applications (A3): Automated Zero-Day Defense"" Thursday, June 23, 2016, 7-9pm
- Peter Carr, MIT Lincoln Labs "The Biomolecular Prototyping Unit (BPU) - Rapidly Asking Questions with DNA" Thursday, May 19, 2016, 7-9pm
- Bary Canton, Ginkgo Bioworks "Balancing flexibility and scale in a synthetic biology foundry" Thursday, April 14, 2016, 7-9pm
- Ron Rivest "Auditability and Verification of Elections" Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 7-9pm
- Bob Frankston "Using Software Defined Relationships to Build the Internet of Things" Thursday, February 18, 2016, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "Beyond the UX Tipping Point" Thursday, January 21, 2016, 7-9pm
- Manolis Kellis "From Genomics to Medicine: Uncovering and targeting the genetic circuits underlying GWAS and cancer" Thursday, October 1, 2015, 6-8pm
- Dana Chisnell & Matthew Weaver "Adventures in the US Digital Service" Thursday, June 18, 2015, 7-9pm
- Tim Kraska "The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign" Thursday, May 21, 2015, 7-9pm
- Vinod Vaikuntanathan "Computing on Encrypted Data" Thursday, April 30, 2015, 7-9pm
- "Big Data versus Big Insight - A Case Study from Healthcare Customer Service" Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "User Interface Design Metrics" Thursday, January 15, 2015, 7-9pm
- Sandy Pentland "Social Physics:from ideas to actions"" Thursday, December 11, 2014, 7-9pm
- Danny Park (substituting for Rachel Sealfon) "Tracing the origin and Transmission of the 2014 Ebola outbreak" Thursday, November 6, 2014, 7-9pm
- Bob Frankston "Net Neutrality & Open Internet Connectivity" Thursday, October 16, 2014, 7-9pm
- Jim Gettys "(In)Security in Home Embedded Devices"" Thursday, June 26, 2014, 7-9pm
- Sam Madden "Big Data at MIT" Thursday, June 19, 2014, 7-9pm
- Joe Decuir "The Cloud meets Bluetooth Smart"" Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 7-9pm
- Bruce Schneier "Internet, Security, and Power"" Monday, May 5, 2014, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "Delightful Content Means Business" Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7-9pm
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi "How We Made the Jenkins Community" Tuessday, January 28, 2014, 7-9pm
- 3D Virtual Worlds and Simulation: The Human-Computer Interface , Monday, October 7, 2013, 7-9pm
- Introduction to PSoC 4 (C) Architecture with support for Arduino (C) Shields , Saturday, September 7, 2013, 9 am - 1 pm
- workshop on Manipulating Waveforms using PSoC and Oscilloscopes , Tuesday,January 29, 2013, 6-9pm
- Jared Spool "It’s a Great Time To Be a UX Designer"" Thursday, January 17, 2013, 7-9pm
- Georges Grinstein "New Insights from Data: Integrating Visualization and Analysis" Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7-9pm
- George Church "Computer-Aided-Biology. Biology-Aided-Computers" Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7-9pm
- Anne Wojcicki "23andMe and Consumer Powered Research" Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 7-9pm
- Dana Chisnell "Democracy is a design problem: How changes in design change the outcome of elections" Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7-9pm
- Shawn Douglas "Nanoscale construction with DNA" Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7-9pm
- J.J. Collins "Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology" Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7-9pm
- workshop on PSoC CapSense Technology, Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6-9pm
- Apurva N. Mody "IEEE 802.22 Standard: Regional and Rural Area Broadband Wireless Access Using Cognitive Radio Technology in Television Whitespaces" Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "The Secret Lives of Links" Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7-9pm
- Peter Carr "Genome Engineering and the Construction of New Genetic Codes" Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7-9pm
- Ron Weiss "Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems" Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7-9pm
- David Reich "Genetic evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans" Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7-9pm
- "Workshop on Combining Analog and Digital Signals in Embedded Systems using PSoC® technology" Sunday, September 25, 2011, 9am -4pm
- Dana Chisnell "Rethinking user research for the social web", June 16, 2011, 7-9pm
- Roy Freed "From Introducing Computer Law in 1960 to the Modern Law of the Mind " Thursday, May 19, 2011, 7-9pm
- Albert-László Barabási "Network Science: From the Web to the Cell" Thursday, April 28, 2011, 7-9pm
- Randy Rettberg "Making Synthetic Biologists - iGEM the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition" Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7-9pm
- Dries Buytaert "The Secrets of Building and Participating in Global Communities" Thursday, March 17, 2011, 7-9pm
- Russ Brami "Client Rules for Visual Design" Thursday, February 17, 2011, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "The Anatomy of a Design Decision" Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9pm
- James Cuff "Expanding Computing Power to Support Research Needs while being environmentally sensitive and energy efficient" Thursday, December 16, 2010, 7-9pm
- Michael Stonebraker "SciDB: Big Analytics on Big Data" Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 7-9pm
- Manolis Kellis "Interpreting the non-coding human genome using chromatin and regulator dynamics in multiple cell types" Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 7-9pm
- George Church "Challenges & opportunities in applying computational & synthetic biology to preventing disease & creating new materials" Thursday, September 16, 2010, 7-9pm
- Bruce Douglass "Real-Time Architectures " Thursday, June 17, 2010, 7-9pm
- Bang Wong "Communicating Science Visually" Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7-9pm
- Prof. Alex `Sandy' Pentland "The Next Net: Reality Mining for Honest Signals" Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7-9pm
- Jim Starkey "Special Relativity and the Problem of Database Scalability" Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7-9pm
- Eirik Bakke "A Common Class of Business-Oriented Database Applications or: How I Hope to Achieve what Microsoft Access Didn't" Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7-9pm
- Jared Spool "Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon" Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7-9pm
- Michael Stonebraker "Task-specific Search " Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7-9pm
- Barbara Liskov "The Power of Abstraction" Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7-9pm
- Bill McKeeman "Growing a Compiler" Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7-9pm
- Nicole Yankelovich "Project Wonderland: 3D Toolkit for Building Virtual Worlds" Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7-9pm
- Rohit Bhardwaj "Give REST and SPARQL to Semantic Web future of service oriented architectures" Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7-9pm
- Jack Dennis "How to Build Programmable Multi-Core Chips" Thursday, May 21, 2009, 7-9pm
- Tom Knight "Life with Four Billion atoms" Thursday, April 23,2009, 6-8pm
- Jeffrey Buzen "The Improbable Success of Probabilistic Models " Thursday, March 19, 2009, 7-9pm
- Donald Eastlake "Making Bridged Ethernet Plug-and-Play More Efficient and Robust: Layer 2 Forwarding Using Link State Routing with RBridges/TRILL " Thursday, February 21,2009, 7-9pm
- Dennis McCarthy & James Turner "It Came From CRM: Rapid Application Development for the Cloud" Thursday, January 15,2009, 7-9pm
- Ben Fry "Computational Information Design" Thursday, December 11, 2008
- George Church "Open-architectures for Reading, Writing & Computing with Genomes" Thursday, November 20, 2008
- Ron Rivest "Security in Voting Systems" Thursday, October 16, 2008
- Gerald Sussman "Evolvability and Robust Design" Thursday, September 18,2008
- Ken Baclawski "Semantic Web Ontologies" Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Ray Kurzweil "Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century" Thursday, May 15,2008
- Thursday,April 17, 2008 : Butler Lampson "Successes, Failures and Futures in Computer Systems Research"
- Thursday, April 3, 2008 : Vineet Sinha "Coding with Eclipse"
The recording of our May talk by Bang Wong on "Communicating Science Visually " is available for viewing online at Bang Wong webcast .
The slides from George Church's talk on "Challenges & opportunities in applying computational & synthetic biology to preventing disease & creating new materials" are available here in PowerPoint format. A short article describing some of the main points from the presentation was published in Seed 20:84-86. Church GM (2009) Safeguarding Biology. and is also available in pdf form.
The slides from Rohit Bhardwaj's talk on "Give REST and SPARQL to Semantic Web future of service oriented architectures " are available here in PowerPoint format and here as a downloadable zip file.
The slides from Donald Eastlake's talk on "RBridges/TRILL" are available here in PowerPoint format.
The slides from Ken Baclawski's talk on "Semantic Web Ontologies" are available here in PowerPoint format.
An overview of the 2008 Boston Usenix conference is online at Usenix Overview.htm.
We have 2 email lists we use to send out talk announcements. Both are self-administered. You can access the forms for these at the following web addresses: mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs and/or mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/gbc-acm.
For more information contact Peter Mager p.mager at computer.org