Every academic year the Department of Computer Science hosts a series of talks featuring distinguished scientists from across the country. Renowned experts in their fields, these speakers provide an opportunity for faculty and students to keep abreast of some of the latest developments in the ever-evolving landscape that defines our discipline.
| Current Series - 2009 - 2010 |
November 10, 2009 - Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia
Title: Computational aspects of equilibria.
Host: Bhaskar Dasgupta |
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November 19, 2009 - Leora Morgenstern, IBM Watson
Title: Formal Theories of Business Strategy and Narration for Commercial Applications
Hosts: Bob Sloan & Gyorgy Turan |
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December 3, 2009 - Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford
Title: A Social Site for Academic Course Planning and Evaluation
Host: Philip Yu |
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February 8, 2010 - Martha Pollack, Michigan
Title: Computing Outside the Box
Host: Barbara Di Eugenio |
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April 1, 2010 - Maurice Herlihy, Brown
Title: Transactional Memory Today
Host: Ajay Kshemkalyani |
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April 22, 2010 - John Holland, Michigan
Title: Signals and Boundaries
Host: Leilah Lyons |
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| Past Series - 2008 - 2009 |
Wesley W. Chu, UCLA
A Knowledge-based Medical Digital Library
March 19, 2009, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
A Computational Theory of Clustering
February 6, 2009, 1:00 p.m., Room 636 SEO |
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H. T. Kung , Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Use of Ad-hoc Wireless Networks as Backplanes for High-performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
November 14, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Pierre Boulanger , University of Alberta
An Advanced Collaborative Infrastructure for Real-Time Computational Steering
November 6, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity
October 17, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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C. Mohan, IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientis
Global Technology Outlook (GTO)
September 15, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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| 2007 - 2008 |
Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia
Path-Sensitive Analysis for Security Flaws
March 13, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida
Data structures and algorithms for packet forwarding and classification,
February 14, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University
When Users Do the Programming: Challenges and Opportunities for End User Software Engineering
November 15, 2007, 11:00 am, Room 1000 SEO |
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Bart Selman, Cornell University
The Challenge and Promise of Automated Reasoning
October 16, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Learning to Think about the World
September 27, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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| 2006 - 2007 |
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research
"Web Search - from Information Retrieval to Microeconomic Modeling"
Monday, April 16, 2007,11:00 a.m., Room 1043 ERF |
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Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
"Information Retrieval in Context"
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Victor R. Basili, University of Maryland
"The Role of Empirical Study in High End Computing"
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 236 SEO |
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Jeannette M. Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
"Automatic Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs"
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University
"The Secure Information Sharing Problem and Solution Approaches"
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Parallel Programming Models and Languages"
Friday, September 29, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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| 2005 - 2006 |
Richard M. Stallman, GNU project and Free Software Foundation
"The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System"
Friday, April 28, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 302 SCE |
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David Harel, The Weizmann Institute of Science
"On Comprehensive Biological Modeling: Some Ruminations on the What, the How and the Why"
Monday, April 3, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University
"IS THERE LIFE AFTER THE INTERNET?"
Thursday, March 16, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley
"Geometric Optics, Linear Programming and Congestion in Sensornets"
Friday, December 9, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1043 ERF |
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Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Fellow
"I KNOW WHERE YOU'RE HIDING"
Friday, November 11, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Jared Saia, University of New Mexico
"Secure Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Networks"
Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano
"Towards open, dynamic software processes and products: achievements and challenges"
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Yvonne Rogers, Indiana University
"Grown-Up Science: Enabling Students to Learn How to Become Scientists Through Using Pervasive Technologies"
Thursday, October 20, 2005, 3:30 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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| 2004 - 2005 |
Andrew C. Yao, Tsinghua University
"Quantum Complexity: How Fast Can Quantum Computers Sort?"
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
"Discourse connectives and their argument structure: Some aspects of transition from sentence structure to discourse structure"
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, >11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Moshe Vardi, Rice University
"And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth"
Thursday, February 3, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING RESEARCH: A FAD?"
Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 636 SEO |
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Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research
"Thinking for Programmers"
Thursday, October 21, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Tiziana Catarci, Universit� di Roma
"Searching for good quality data? Trust us"
Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 10:30 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Janet L. Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology
"From Case-Based Reasoning to Learning by Design to Design of Technology for Learning"
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 1043 ERF |
| Past Talks 2008 - 2009 |
Tim Hinrichs, University of Chicago
Collaborative Programming
September 28, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Ed Reingold , Illinois Institute of Technology
Lower Bounds for Cops and Robber Pursuit
September 25, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Dr. Yaser Sheikh, Robotics Lab, CMU
Recovering the Structure of Dynamic Scenes from Moving Cameras
August 8, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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| 2007 - 2008 |
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia
The MOMIS Data Integration System
May 2, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Room SEO 200 |
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Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location Privacy in Location-Aware Computing
April 30, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Gyorgy Turan,
Schwartz Lemma and Applications
February 6, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Room SEO 512 |
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Jose Zagal, Georgia Tech
Supporting Learning about Games
December 11, 2007, 2:00 pm, Room SEO 1000 |
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Leilah Lyons, University of Michigan
Playing Together at the Museum: Preliminary Results on Factors Affecting Participation in a Multi-User Software-Based Exhibit
December 6, 2007, 2:00 pm, Room SEO 1000 |
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Ben Shapiro, Northwestern University
Design Research from the Bottom Up: New Infrastructure for School Reform
December 3, 2007, 2:00 pm, Room SEO 1000 |
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Jared Saia, University of New Mexico
Attack-Resistant Networks
November 30, 2007, 12:00 pm, Room SEO 1000 |
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John Reppy, University of Chicago
Parallel Concurrent ML
November 13, 2007, 11:00 am, Room SEO 1000 |
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Dr. Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Dynamic Load Balancing for Systems Under Heavy Traffic and High Task Variation
November 9, 2007, 2:00 pm, Room SEO 1000 |
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Teresa Przytycka , NCBI/NLM/NIH
Application of combinatorial optimization to prediction of domain-domain interactions
October 17, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Hanan Samet , University of Maryland
SPATIAL DATABASES AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
October 15, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Neil Daswani, Google
Emerging Security Vulnerabilities & the Impact to Business
October 11, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Matthias Trier, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Exploring Patterns of dynamic Networks with event-based Visualization and Analysis
October 9, 2007, 10:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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Mahesh Viswanathan , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Learning to Verify
October 5, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 10000 |
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Amit P. Sheth , Wright State University
Relationship Web: Spinning the Semantic Web from Trailblazing to Complex Hypothesis Evaluation
August 31, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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| 2006 - 2007 |
Carl Landwehr, Disruptive Technology Office, CASL
"Disruptive Technologies for Information Assurance"
Friday, July 20, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton
"MemX: Supporting Large Memory Applications in Xen Virtual Machines"
Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University
"A Systems Biology Approach to Pathway Analysis"
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Mona Singh, Princeton University
"Analyzing and Interrogating Protein Interaction Maps"
Monday, April 30, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information"
Friday, April 27, 2007, 12:00 p.m., Room 512 SEO |
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Thomas Messerges, Motorola Research Main/Labs
"Security for Mobile Financial Applications"
Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Room 1043 ERF |
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Magdi A. Mohamed, Motorola Research Main/Labs
"Computational Intelligence and Q-filter Structures"
Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 1:00 p.m., Room 1325 SEO |
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Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Automatic Verification of Parameterized Systems"
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Room 627 SEO |
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David Zavattero, City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications
"ITS initiatives nationally and locally and the building of the Chicago TMC"
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Chris Quintana, University of Michigan
"Designing for Learning...Learning about Design The Interplay Between HCI and the Learning Sciences"
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Deborah Tatar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Practice Into Theory: from serious work about learning in classroom environments to serious questions about the playful nature of control and coordination in computing"
Monday, January 29, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Ryan S. J. d. Baker, University of Nottingham
"Detecting and Adapting to When Students Game the System"
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Brian K. Smith, The Pennsylvania State University
"Acts into Artifacts: Computational Tools to Support Experience Capture and Reflection"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University
"Human Computation"
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Erik Meijer, Microsoft
"VB IsNot C#"
Thursday, June 29, 2006, 1:00 p.m., Room SEO 1000 |
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| 2005 - 2006 |
Samir Khuller, University of Maryland
"Algorithms for Data Management and Migration"
Monday, April 17, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University
"Dynamic Network Analysis: A Computational Approach to Counter Terrorism Analyses"
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 3:00 p.m., 1000 SEO |
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Edward Reingold, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Determining Plurality"
Tuesday March 7, 2006, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland
"Web-based Social Network Analysis for Socially Intelligent Applications"
Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 2:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Jinbo Xu, University of Chicago
"A Parameterized Algorithm for Protein Structure Alignment"
Monday, November 21, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 236 SEO |
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Der-Horng Lee, National University of Singapore
"Deployment and Innovation of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Singapore"
Thursday, July 14, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1325 SEO |
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| 2004 - 2005 |
Lin Cai, University of Waterloo
"Transport layer protocol design for multimedia wireless Internet"
Friday, April 29, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SE |
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Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc.
"Computer Networking: Recent Developments, Trends, and Issues"
Monday, April 18, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Riccardo Pucella, Cornell University
"A Knowledge-Based Foundation for Security"
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago
"The Complexity of Information Markets"
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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John Langford, TTI-Chicago
"Fast Exact High Dimensional Nearest Neighbors in Arbitrary Dimensions with a Cover Tree"
Tuesday, March 3, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 636 SEO |
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Ray DeCarlo, Purdue University
"Software Release Control using Defect Based Quality Estimation"
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Chris Ding, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Link Analysis and Topic Discovery via Spectral Clustering"
Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 2:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Paul Dan Cristea, University of Bucharest
"GENOMIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING"
Friday, January 28, 2005, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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| 2003 - 2004 |
Tao Jiang, University of California
"Efficient Rule-Based Haplotype Inference on Pedigrees"
Monday, May 3, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"An Introduction to Trust Negotiation"
Friday, April 9, 2004, 4:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of New Mexico
"How to See a Tree for a Forest? Combining Phylogenetic Trees: Reasons, Methods, and Consequences"
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Tiffani L. Williams, University of New Mexico
"Phylogeny Reconstruction and Experimental Algorithmics"
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Collaborative Dynabooks: A Research Agenda on Building Systems to Support Learning through Multimedia"
Tuesday March 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m., Room 1000 SEO |
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