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2001-2002 Colloquia Schedule
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PhD Thesis Defense: Using Background Knowledge to Improve Text Classification |
Sarah Zelikovitz , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Haym Hirsh (Chair), Craig Nevill-Manning, Lou Steinberg, Tom Mitchell (CMU) |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Real Time Algorithms for Visual Surveillance |
Larry Davis , Univ of Maryland
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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PhD QUALIFYING EXAM: Establishing Stateful Enterprise-Wide Policies |
Mihail Ionescu , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Naftaly Minsky (Chair), Thu Nguyen, Ricardo Bianchini, Lou Steinberg |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Using Trust Management to Build Public Key Infrastructure |
Trevor Jim , AT&T Research
Host: Naftaly Minsky |
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PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Incremental Algorithms for Enumerating Extremal Solutions of Monotone Systems of Submodular Inequalities and Their Applications |
Khaled Elbassioni , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Leonid Khachiyan (Chair), Vasek Chvatal, Michael Fredman, Farid Alizadeh (RUTCOR) |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Directed Diffusion: A Data-Centric Communication Paradigm for Wireless Sensor Networks | Chalermek Intanagonwiwat , Univ of Southern California / Information Science Institute |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Text Mining: Opportunities and Challenges |
Ronen Feldman , ClearForest Corporation
Host: Haym Hirsh |
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PhD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION: Perceptual and Artistic Abstraction of Photographs |
Anthony Santella , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Doug DeCarlo (Chair), Casimir Kulikowski, Dimitris Metaxas, S. Muthu Muthukrishnan |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: A Graphical Bayesian View of Single and Multi-Sequence Modeling |
Vladimir Pavlovic , Boston University
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Multi-Modal High-Dimensional Search -- Applications in Model-Based Estimation of Monocular 3D Deformable and Articulated Motion |
Cristian Sminchisescu , INRIA
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Security in Distributed Computation |
Rebecca Wright , Yale University
Host: Naftaly Minsky |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Building Better Branch Predictors |
Daniel Jimenez , University of Texas
Host: Richard Martin |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Building Compressed Database Systems |
Zhiyuan Chen , Cornell University
Host: Badri Nath |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Level Set Models for Computer Graphics |
David E. Breen , Californit Inst of Technology
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Decision-theoretic Image Retrieval |
Nuno Vasconcelos , MIT
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Distributed Firewalls |
Steven Bellovin , AT&T Research
Host: Naftaly Minsky |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Frequent Value Phenomenon and its Applications |
Jun Yang , University of Arizona
Host: Ricardo Bianchini |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Real-time Algorithms for Visual Surveillance: Efficient Kernel Density Estimation for Detection and Tracking |
Ahmed Elgammal , Univ of Maryland
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: From Movies to 3D Models: the Structure-from-Motion Problem Abstract: I describe some of my recent results on Structure from Motion (SFM) |
John Oliensis , Univ of Mass / NEC
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Recognizing Objects when the Lighting Changes |
David Jacobs , MIT / NEC
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Local Surface Parameterizations |
Emil Praun , Princeton University
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Information-Centered Methods for Recommendation |
Chumki Basu , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Haym Hirsh (Chair), Craig Nevill-Manning, Matthew Steon, William W. Cohen (Whizbang! Labs) |
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PhD QUALIFYING EXAM: Modeling 3D Textured Surfaces Using B-directional Feature Histograms |
Oana G. Cula , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Casimir Kulikowski (Chair), Kristin Dana, Dimitris Metaxas, Peter Meer, Ulrich Kremer |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Direct Volume Rendering Techniques for Unstructured Grids |
Claudio Silva , AT&T Labs - Research
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: From XML Schema to Relations: A Cost-Based Approach to XML Storage |
Juliana Freire , Bell Labs - Research
Host: Dimitris Metaxas |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: The Boosting Approach to Machine Learning |
Robert Schapire , AT&T Labs
Host: Haym Hirsh (DCIS) and David Madigan (Statistics) |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Improving the Performance of Storage Servers |
Yuanyuan Zhou , Princeton University / Storage Networks
Host: Ricardo Bianchini |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Indirect Reinforcement Learning: An Analysis of the Exploitation-Exploration Tradeoff and an Application to Human-Computer Interaction |
Satinder Singh Baveja , Univ of Massachusetts / Syntek Capital
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Planning and Learning with Hidden State |
Michael Littman, AT&T Labs - Research
Host: Haym Hirsh |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Tailoring Memory Management and Communication for Cluster-Based Servers |
Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University
Host: Tomasz Imielinski |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Information Dissemination and Resource Sharing in Mobile, ad hoc Networks |
Maria Papadopouli , Columbia University
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Autonomous Learning Agents in Dynamic, Multiagent Environments |
Peter Stone , AT&T Labs - Research
Host: Haym Hirsh |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Drawing Upon Visual Form |
Doug DeCarlo , Rutgers University
Host: Tomasz Imielinski |
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DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Implementing Collaborative Conversation |
Matthew Stone , Rutgers University
Host: Tomasz Imielinski |
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PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation: Interpretation of the 3D Visual Environment from Un-calibrated Image Sequences |
Bogdan Georgescu , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Peter Meer (chair), Casimir Kulikowski, Doug DeCarlo, Leonid Khachiyan |
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PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation: PlanetP: A P2P Infrastructure for Information Sharing in Ad-hoc Communities |
Francisco M. Cuenca-Acuna , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Thu Nguyen (chair), Richard Martin, Ricardo Bianchini, and Marvin Paull |
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PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation: A Baseball Scheduling Problem |
Marcelo Mydlarz , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Vasek Chvatal (Chair), Leonid Khachiyan, William Steiger, Gerard Richter |
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PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation: Implementing Communal Policy on CORBA based Distributed Systems |
Nathan Wang , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Naftaly Minsky (Chair), Barbara Ryder, Liviu Iftode, Vasek Chvatal |
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PhD Thesis Defense: Measuring and Pricing the Delivered QoS-enabled Internetworks |
Safiullah Faizullah , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Saul Levy (Chair), Ivan Marsic, Thu Nguyen, Richard Martin, Mohsen Guizani (University of W. Florida) |
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Power and Thermal Management: Models and Formal Techniques |
Kevin Skadron , University of Virginia
Host: Ricardo Bianchini |
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PhD Thesis Defense: Adaptive Algorithms and Structures |
Amr Elmasry , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Michael Fredman (Chair) Vasek Chvatal, Leonid Khachiyan, Jozsef Beck |
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PhD Thesis Defense: Sketching Skeletons of Elongated Objects Using Scan Line Algorithm |
Sukmoon Chang , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Casimir Kulikowski (chair), Stanley M. Dunn, Saul Levy, and Leiguang Gong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) |
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PhD Thesis Defense: Undiscretized Synamic Programming and Ordinal Embeddings |
Rahul Shah , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Martin Farach-Colton (chair), Vasek Chvatal, S. Muthukrishnan, and Sampath Kannan (Univ of Pennsylvania) |
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PhD Qualifying Exam: Time Bounded Kolmogrov Complexity vs. Exponential Time |
Detlef Ronneburger , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Eric Allender (chair), Mike Saks, Mario Szegedy, Saul Levy |
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PhD Qualifying Exam: Protein Structural Domain Parsing by Consensus Reasoning |
HwaSeob Joseph Yun , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Casimir Kulikowski (chair), Haym Hirsh, Craig Nevill-Manning, Robert Vichnevetsky |
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LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
Narain Gehani , Bell Labs
Host: Naftaly Minsky |
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Compiler Optimizations for Low Power and Low Energy |
Ulrich Kremer , Rutgers University
Host: Tomasz Imielinski |
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Barnacle: An Assembly Algorithm for Close-based Sequences of Whole Genomes |
Vicky Choi , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Martin Farach-Colton (Chair), Michael Fredman, Craig Nevill-Manning and Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs |
Andreas Zeller , Universitaet des Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany
Host: Barbara G. Ryder |
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Qualifying Examination: Prediction-based Monitoring in Sensor Networks: Taking Lessons from MPEG |
Samir Goel , Rutgers University
Thesis Committee: Tomasz Imielinski (Chair), Badri Nath, Thu D. Nguyen, Bahman Kalantari |
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Data Abstraction and Analysis Using Qualitative Scaling |
C. Greg Hagerty , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Casimir Kulikowski (chair), Haym Hirsh, Lou Steinberg, Leiguang Gong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) |
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MTCP: Transport Layer Support for Highly-Available Network Services |
Kiran Srinivasan , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Liviu Iftode (chair), Badri Nath, Ricardo Bianchini |
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Scheduling in the Presence of Caches |
Srikrishnan Divakaran , Rutgers University
Examining Committee: Michael Saks (chair), Eric Allender, Michael Grigoriadis, Howard Karloff (AT/&T Labs) |
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Debugging of Optimized Code |
D.M. Dhamdhere , Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Host: Barbara G. Ryder |
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On-line Algorithms and Fast Digital Identity Revocation |
Sachin Lodha , Rutgers University
Thesis Committee: Endre Szemeredi (chair), Michael Fredman, Janos Komlos, Aravind Srinivasan |
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