Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) is an ongoing program in the Department of Computer Science (CS) where distinguished leaders are invited to present lectures to the computing community. Since it began in the Fall of 2000, the DLS has successfully hosted many prominent computer scientists.

Past DLS Lectures

2017-2018

Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University Transcriptome Assembly: Computational Challenges of Next-Generation Sequence Data November 01, 2017

Nir Shavit, MIT High throughput connectomics: the making of a brain scope November 17, 2017

Noah Smith, University of Washington Syncretizing Linguistic and Learned Representations in Natural Language Processing February 09, 2018

Lydia Kavraki, Rice University From Robots to Biomolecules: Computing meets the Physical World March 02, 2018

Jon Oringer, Shutterstock The Art, Science, and Commerce of Image Search April 20, 2018

Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University Super-Human AI for Strategic Reasoning: Libratus Beats Top Pros in Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em May 04, 2018