MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Department Events, 1996-97

This archive contains events for the academic year 1996-97. See also:

• Events for earlier years . . 1994-95 . . 1995-96
• Events for later years . . 1997-98 . . 1998-99 . . 1999-00 . . 2000-01 . . Fall 2001 . . Later
• Current events
• 1996 Archive . . 1997 Archive

Monday, July 8, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 11:15 AM (11:00 refreshments)
Avi Wigderson, The Hebrew University
Superpolynomial Lower Bounds on Monotone Span Programs

Monday, September 9, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Mitchell Trott, MIT, EECS, LIDS
Digital Links: Advanced Methods for Wired and Wireless Communication

Tuesday, September 10, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Andrew Goldberg, NEC Research Institute, Inc.
HOT Priority Queues

Thursday, September 12, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Tom Leighton, MIT
How to Pick a Winner Almost Every Time: Provably-Good Algorithms for Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty

Monday, September 16, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Kwabena "Buster" Boahen, CNS Program, Caltech
Retinomorphic Vision Systems: Reverse Engineering the Vertebrate Retina

Monday, September 16, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Sam Pitroda, Chairman, WorldTel; Vicechairman, WorldTelecom Advisory Council of the International Telecommunications Union
Telecommunications and Development

Tuesday, September 17, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Sandip Tiwari, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, New York
Small is Beautiful: The Middle Path Incorporating "Quantum" Effects to Solving Silicon Scaling Problems?

Tuesday, September 17, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Amiram Yehudai, Tel-Aviv University
MASS - A Hierarchical Activation Oriented specification language for Real-time Reactive Systems

Thursday, September 19, 1996 . . . Abstract
BAMS Seminar
Grier Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM
Steven B. Leeb, MIT
Polymer Gel Actuators and Sensors

Thursday, September 19, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
David Williamson, IBM Watson
Gadgets, Approximation, and Linear Programming.

Friday, September 20, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 1:00 PM (12:45 refreshments)
David Williamson, IBM Watson
The Primal-Dual Method for Approximation Algorithms

Thursday, September 26, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Nancy Lynch, MIT
Implementing Sequentially Consistent Shared Memory Using Broadcast and Point-to-Point Communication.

Friday, September 27, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation / Physics of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 3:30 PM (3:15 refreshments)
Lov K. Grover, AT&T Bell Labs
Quantum Mechanical Searches are Faster than Classical Searches

Monday, September 30, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Physics Department and RLE
Bose-Einstein Condensates: A New Form of Quantum Matter

Tuesday, October 1, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Zong Long Liau, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts
Mass Transport, Wafer Fusion and Precision Microoptics: Novel Approaches to Integrated Optoelectronics

Tuesday, October 1, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Sorin Istrail, Sandia National Laboratories
Protein Folding: Combinatorial Problems and Algorithms

Thursday, October 3, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Dana Ron, MIT
Testing Graph Properties

Monday, October 7, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Henrique S. Malvar, Director of Research, PictureTel Corp.
Engineering Problems in Videoconferencing

Tuesday, October 8, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Leo D. Yau, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon
From University R&D to Pentium

Thursday, October 10, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Eric Schenk, University of Toronto
The Robustness of the Consensus Hierarchy

Thursday, October 17, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 1:45 PM (1:30 refreshments)
Roy Armoni, Hebrew University
Discrepancy Sets and Pseudorandom Generators for Combinatorial Rectangles

Thursday, October 17, 1996 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:15 refreshments)
Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Cryptology, Technology, and Politics

Friday, October 18, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 10:30 AM
Johan Hastad, Royal Institute of Technology
Some Optimal Inapproximability Results

Monday, October 21, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium and CAES Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Jack M. Wilson, Dean of Undergraduate and Continuing Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Using Networked Computing and Communications Tools to Bring Continuous Education to Scientists and Engineers

Monday, October 21, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation/Physics of Computation Seminar
NE43-3rd floor lounge, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University
Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation

Tuesday, October 22, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Hon-Sum Philip Wong, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Technology and Device Scaling Considerations for Active Pixel CMOS Image Sensors

Thursday, October 24, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Aske Plaat, MIT
The Death of an AI Search Algorithm

Monday, October 28, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Hamid Nawab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Approximate Signal Processing

Tuesday, October 29, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Sam Shichijo, Texas Instruments, Inc.Dallas, Texas
DRAM Technology: 1 Gbit and Beyond

Thursday, October 31, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
David Karger, MIT
Random Sampling in Cut Problems

Monday, November 4, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
G. David Forney, Jr., Vice President, Motorola, and Bernard M. Gordon Adjunct Professor, MIT
Approaching the Channel Capacity of Bandlimited Channels

Tuesday, November 5, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Dale L. Hetherington, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Chemical Mechanical Polishing: Meeting Planarization Requirements in ULSI Manufacturing

Thursday, November 7, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Charles Leiserson, MIT
Algorithmic Multithreaded Computing

Tuesday, November 12, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Kang L. Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Perspective of Devices and Integration for the Next Century

Thursday, November 14, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 2:45 PM (2:30 refreshments)
Michael Luby, ICSI, Berkeley
Practical Erasure Resilient Codes

Thursday, November 14, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Michael Kearns, AT&T Laboratories Research
On the Boosting Ability of Top-Down Decision Tree Learning Algorithms

Monday, November 18, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT, EECS and LCS
The Operating System as Protected Extensible Application Libraries

Tuesday, November 19, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Leland Spangler, Ford Microelectronics, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado
Accelerometers for Automotive Passive Restraint Systems

Thursday, November 21, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Vijay V. Vazirani, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
An Efficient Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Trellises for Codes over Finite Abelian Groups

Tuesday, November 26, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 4:30 PM (4:15 refreshments)
Micah Adler, U.C. Berkeley
New Coding Techniques for Improved Bandwidth Utilization

Monday, December 2, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Paul Matsudaira, MIT, Biology and Whitehead Institute
Microstructures in and for Biology:
(I) The Cytoskeleton, a Living Smart Structure;
(II) Initial Forays Into Microanalysis of DNA and Proteins

Tuesday, December 3, 1996 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Julia Tagüeña, Laboratorio de Energia Solar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelos, México
Nanocrystalline Materials: Transport and Optical Properties of Porous Silicon

Thursday, December 5, 1996 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Birgit Pfitzmann, University of Hildesheim
Fail-Stop Signatures

Monday, December 9, 1996 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Gill Pratt, MIT, EECS and AI
Laboratory Experiments and Apparatus for Teaching Modern Computer Architecture

Monday, February 10, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Hermann A. Haus, MIT EECS
Limits on Communication using Photons

Tuesday, February 11, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Deo Singh, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California
Low Power Design, An Industry Perspective

Thursday, February 20, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM
Walter Gander, ETH Zurich
Least Squares Problems in Coordinate Metrology

Monday, February 24, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Moungi G. Bawendi, MIT
Semiconductor Nanocrystallites: Building Blocks for Quantum Dot Structures

Tuesday, February 25, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Steve Purcell, Chromatic Research Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Chromatic Mpact 2 Media Processor for PCs

Thursday, February 27, 1997 . . . Abstract
BAMS Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Alan Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT MicroEngine Project

Thursday, February 27, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Alain Tapp, University of Montreal
Reversible Space Equals Deterministic Space

Monday, March 3, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico, Visiting MIT EECS and AI Laboratory
Immunology and Intrusion Detection

Tuesday, March 4, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Craig L. Keast, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts
Deep-Submicrometer SOI CMOS using Advanced Optical Lithography

Monday, March 10, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs Research
Accuracy Amplification by Top-Down Decision Tree Learning Algorithms

Monday, March 10, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
D. Jed Harrison, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bio-Labs on a Chip: An Explosion of New Directions for Microfabrication

Tuesday, March 11, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Scott Dunham, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Predictive Process TCAD: Will We Ever Catch Up?

Tuesday, March 11, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
David P. Williamson, IBM Watson
Designing Approximation Algorithms via Techniques from Mathematical Programming

Monday, March 17, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM
Richard Larson, EECS, MIT, and Director, CAES, MIT
MIT Council on Educational Technology: A Progress Report

Tuesday, March 18, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Integrated Sensing Systems and Application in Environmental Monitoring

Wednesday, March 19, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Daniel Jackson, Carnegie Mellon University
Using Relations and Symmetry to Find Bugs in Software Specifications

Thursday, March 20, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:15 PM (3:00 refreshments)
Vijay Karamcheti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reducing Communication Overheads in Dynamic Multithreaded Computations

Thursday, March 20, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-518, 4:30 PM (4:15 refreshments)
Nir Shavit, MIT and Tel-Aviv University
Towards a Topological Characterization of Asynchronous Complexity

Wednesday, March 26, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University
On the Universality of the Electron Mobility and Degradation of the Total Gate Capacitance in Scaled Silicon MOSFETs

Thursday, March 27, 1997 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (3:15 refreshments)
Anita Jones, Director of Defense Research and Engineering
Federal Funding of Science and Engineering, or, Adventures in Interesting Times

Friday, March 28, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 2:00 PM (1:45 refreshments)
Steven Rudich, CMU
Reducing the Complexity of Reductions

Monday, March 31, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM
David Mindell, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
From Feedback to Computing: a History of Control Systems

Tuesday, April 1, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Mario J. Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Global Effects of Emissions of Stable Halogenated Organic Compounds

Thursday, April 3, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Matthew Brand, MIT Media Lab
Computing Meaningful Representations of People-Oriented Data

Thursday, April 3, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Ron Kimmel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
Images as Embedding Maps and Minimal Surfaces: A Unified Approach for Image Diffusion

Thursday, April 3, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43-3rd floor lounge, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Erez Petrank, DIMACS
Is Linear Hashing Good?

Monday, April 7, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Greg Ganger, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
System Software Support for I/O-intensive Applications

Tuesday, April 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Rajeev Alur, Bell Labs and University of California at Berkeley
Advances in Model Checking

Tuesday, April 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Robert Eklund, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
Technology and Device Scaling Constraints for Deep Submicron CMOS Logic

Tuesday, April 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Rahul Sarpeshkar, California Institute of Technology
Efficient Precise Computation with Noisy Components: Extrapolating from an Electronic Cochlea to the Brain

Thursday, April 10, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Madhu Sudan, IBM T.J. Watson
The Approximability of Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Monday, April 14, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Marti A. Hearst, Xerox PARC
Clusters and Categories in Information Access Interfaces

Tuesday, April 15, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Kerry Bernstein, IBM Microelectronics, Essex Junction, Vermont
The Sensitivities of Alternative High Speed Circuit Styles

Wednesday, April 16, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University and IBM Almaden
Nearest-Neighbor Search in High Dimensions

Wednesday, April 16, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 5:00 PM
Ran Raz, The Weizmann Institute, Israel
Sub-Constant Error PCP Characterization of NP

Thursday, April 17, 1997 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Room 26-100, 3:45 PM (3:30 refreshments)
John Warnock, Adobe Systems, Inc.
The Challenges of Managing Innovation

Tuesday, April 22, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Sven Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
Goal-Directed Acting with Incomplete Information

Wednesday, April 23, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Luis Gravano, Stanford University
Querying Multiple Sources across the Internet

Thursday, April 24, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Building NE43, 8th Floor AI Playroom, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Lillian Lee, Harvard University
Similarity-based Approaches to Natural Language Processing

Thursday, April 24, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Scott Decatur, Rutgers University
Learning with Nonuniform Noise and Noisy Decision Tree Induction

Friday, April 25, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS and LCS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 11:00 AM (10:45 light morning snack)
Carlo H. Sequin, U. C. Berkeley
Planning Soda Hall -- and Living with the Result

Monday, April 28, 1997 . . . Program . . . Abstracts
Third floor, Building 36, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
EECS MasterWorks:
A presentation of Master's thesis research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Tuesday, April 29, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Liviu Iftode, Princeton University
Home-based Shared Virtual Memory

Tuesday, April 29, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Frank Murden, Analog Devices, Greensboro, North Carolina
I. F. Sampling A/D Converter for Cellular Basestations

Tuesday, April 29, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, 34-401A, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Suresh Subramaniam, University of Washington
Sparse Wavelength Conversion in Wavelength-Routing Networks

Tuesday, April 29, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Niv Gilboa, The Technion, Israel
Computationally Private Information Retrieval

Thursday, May 1, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Martin Rinard, University of California at Santa Barbara
Commutativity Analysis: A New Analysis Technique for Parallelizing Compilers

Thursday, May 1, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM, (4:00 refreshments)
Luca Trevisan, University of Geneva
Weak Random Sources, Hitting Sets, and BPP Simulations

Thursday, May 1, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
RLE Conference Room, Room 36-428, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Anthony Yezzi, University of Minnesota
Curvature Flows for Image Segmentation, Smoothing, and Enhancement

Monday, May 5, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Kenneth Yip, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Sparse Representations for Fast, One-Shot Learning

Monday, May 5, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Harindran Manoharan, Princeton University
A Journey through New Quantum Phases of Bilayered Electrons

Tuesday, May 6, 1997 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
James J. Hickman, Science Applications International Corporation, Rockville, Maryland
Living Neural Cells as Components in Sensors and Computational Devices

Thursday, May 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 2:00 PM (1:45 refreshments)
Todd C. Mowry, University of Toronto
Thread-Level Data Speculation: Facilitating Automatic Parallelization for Single-Chip Multiprocessors

Thursday, May 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (3:15 refreshments)
David Cheriton, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Gigabit Ethernet, ATM and the Death of Phone Companies

Thursday, May 8, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Anita Flynn, University of California, Berkeley
Ferroelectric Materials for Integrated Machines

Friday, May 9, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-308, 11:00 AM
Christos H. Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
Topological Reasoning in Two Dimensions

Friday, May 9, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
NE43, 3rd floor lounge, 3:15 PM (3:00 refreshments)
Harvey Friedman, Ohio State University
Ramsey's Theorem and Enormous Lower Bounds

Friday, May 9, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Hans J. Berliner, Carnegie Mellon University
Why Static Evaluation Does Not Suffice in Chess

Monday, May 12, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Aravind Srinivasan, National University of Singapore
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Off-line Routing

Monday, May 12, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:15 PM (400 refreshments)
Balaji Prabhakar, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Towards High-speed, High-performance Data Switches

Tuesday, May 13, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Nearly Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Euclidean TSP, Steiner Tree and Other Geometric Problems

Thursday, May 15, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
NE43-8th Floor, AI Playroom, 4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Brown University
Planning and Learning in Uncertain Environments

Thursday, May 15, 1997 . . . Abstract
Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (4:00 refreshments)
Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University
Multibutterflies: The New King of the Hill Among Multistage Networks

Friday, May 16, 1997 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
NE43-8th floor, AI Playroom, 3:00 PM (2:45 refreshments)
Michael I. Jordan, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Graphical Models, Neural Networks and Variational Methods