SLS

 
Special Lecture Series in Computer Science 
CS 385
Harney Science Center 235:  The Kudlick Classroom
Mondays or Wednesdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm

Spring 2012 
 

Wed,
Jan 25    
   Dr. Sean Peisert, University of California, Davis 
   "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Sustainable Defenses Against Insider Threats"  
Mon,
Jan 30   
  Jon Rahoi, USF BSCS '96 
  "The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (How to finish things, especially software.)"
   Jon's lecture slides
Wed,
Feb 8   


 Elecia White, Software Engineer, Logical Elegance
 "Applications Matter: Computer Science from preschool toys to a gunshot location system" 
Wed,
Feb 15   
 Dr. Han Song, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Narus, Inc
 "Mosaic: Quantifying Privacy Leakage in Networks"
Wed,
Feb 22   
  
Dr. Phil Rogaway, Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
"Constructing Cryptographic Definitions"
Wed,
Feb 29   
Ian Pye, Head of Analytics, CloudFlare 
"What it takes to scale and manage a database for a fast-growing startup"
Wed,
Mar 7 
  
Dr Cay Horstmann, Professor of Computer Science,
San Jose State University

"Scala for the Impatient"
 Cay's lecture slides
 Cay's lecture video
Mon,
Mar 19
  
Dr. Manas Saksena, Senior Director of Technology, Marvell Semiconductors
"Enabling the next billion smart and connected devices"
Mon,
Mar 26
  
Dan Wagster, Technology Executive, Developer of Song Prediction
Song Prediction: Leveraging digital’s connection between bands and fans to make better music, increase album sales and create viral fan growth
Wed,
Apr 4
  
Dr. Arnav Jhala, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz

Computational Cinematics Research : Expanding the Design Space of Games through Procedural Camera Control
Mon,
Apr 9
  
Dr. Juan Lang, Security Software Engineer at Google
"10 Things I wish I had known"
Mon,
Apr 16
  
Dr. Lauren Barghout, CEO of  Eyegorithm 
Image Segmentation and Natural Computer Vision
Wed.  Apr 25 Dr. Greg Benson, Professor of Computer Science,
University of San Francisco

Trendulate:  Making Time-Series Data Usable by Everyone
Wed. May 2 Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
Application Development Practices Today
Wed. May 9 Senior Team Project and Masters Project classes
CrowdShipper:  A Ride Share for Packages,
LuniSolar Web Calendar, and
LuniSolar iOS Calendar