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

2018-2019

Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Syntax-guided Program Synthesis November 02, 2018

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University "Does This Vehicle Belong to You?" Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations April 09, 2019

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

2016-2017

Nick Feamster, Princeton University Information Control in the Digital Age October 07, 2016

Rahul Mangharam, Universitiy of Pennsylvania 3 Challenge Problems with Cyber Physical Systems and IoT November 18, 2016

Alex Aiken, Stanford University Programming Heterogeneous, Distributed Parallel Machines January 25, 2017

Moshe Vardi, Rice University The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back February 24, 2017

Carla P. Gomes, Cornell University Challenges for AI in Computational Sustainability March 10, 2017

2015-2016

Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology Security Overlay: Data Protection via User-Intent Monitoring March 02, 2016

David Blei, Columbia University Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior March 21, 2016