Computer Science, Rutgers University:


June 13	DCIS Colloquium: Internet Quarantine: Requirements for Containing Self-Propagating Code
June 13	Geoffrey M. Voelker , UCSD Faculty Host: Richard Martin

May 30	DCIS Colloquium: Hyper-Q Learning of Mixed Stragegies in Multi-Player Normal Form Games
May 30	Gerald Tesauro , IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Faculty Host: Michael Littman

May 28	DCIS PhD Defense: Mobility Sensitive QoS Provisioning in Wireless cellular networks
May 28	Samrat Ganguly , Rutgers University Defense Committee: Badri Nath (chair), Muthu Muthukrishnan, Richard Martin, Tom La Porta (PSU)

May 13	DCIS Qualifying Exam: Combinatorial PCA for classifier improvement using un-labelled data
May 13	Andrei V. Anghelescu , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. C. Kulikowski (chair), Dr. H. Hirsh, Dr. S. Muthukrishan, Dr. M. Grigoriadis

May 13	DCIS Qualifying Exam: Clustering multi-source overlapping data - Its application to comparative genomics
May 13	Akshay Vashist , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Casimir Kulikowski (Chair), Dr. Haym Hirsh, Dr. Mathew Stone, Dr. Ahmed Elgammal

May 2	DCIS Colloquium: Computer Science Research at Telcordia Technologie
May 2	Marek Rusinkiewic , Manager of Information and Computer Sciences Research Laboratory at Telcordia Technologies in Morristown, NJ Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

April 29	DCIS Qualifying Exam: Optimal partitions of clusters into core and tail and their application to clustering algorithm analysis
April 29	Dmitriy Fradkin , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Casimir Kulikowski, Haym Hirsh, Muthu Muthukrishnan, Vladimir Pavlovic

April 25	DCIS Colloquium: Data Mining Evolved: Challenges, Applications, and Future Trends
April 25	Marek Rusinkiewic , General Manager of Information and Computer Sciences Research Laboratory at Telcordia Technologies in Morristown, N Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

April 23	DCIS PhD Defense: On Traversal Sequences, Exploration Sequences and Completeness of Kolmogorov Random Strings
April 23	Michael Koucky , Rutgers University Defense Committee: Eric Allender (chair), Lance Fortnow (NEC), Michael Saks, Mario Szegedy

April 11	Qualifying Exam Presentation: Compiler-Driven Resource Management Techniques for Battery Powered Systems
April 11	Jerry Hom , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Ulrich Kremer, Ricardo Bianchini, Thu Nguyen, Eric Allender

April 09	DCIS Colloquium: Linux on the iPAQ and CRL Metro Project
April 09	James Hicks , Compaw/HP Cambridge Research Lab Faculty Host: Ulrich Kremer

April 07	DCIS Colloquium: A Directed graph representation for the 3D Medial Axis and Shape -- Computational aspects and applications
April 07	Frederic Leymarie , Brown University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

April 04	DCIS Colloquium: The Role of Prediction in Creating Dependable Software
April 04	Elaine J. Weyuker , AT&T Labs - Research Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

March 31	DCIS Colloquium: A Socially Adaptive Reinforcement Learning Ageny
March 31	Charles Isbell , Georgia Tech Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh

March 28	Memory Management for High-Performance Application
March 28	Emery Berger , Univ of Massachusetts Faculty Host: Daniel Jimenez

March 26	PhD Thesis Defense: Learning in the Presence of Rarity: The Effect of Small Disjuncts and Class Distribution on Classifier Learning
March 26	Gary M. Weiss , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Dr. Haym Hirsh (chair), Dr. Casimir Kulikowski, Dr. Louis Steinberg and Dr. Foster Provost

March 26	Qualifying Exam: On a Conjecture of Chvatal
March 26	Xiaomin Chen , Rutgers University Qualifying Exam Committee: Vasek Chvatal, Eric Allender, Mario Szegedy, Endre Szemeredi

March 25	DCIS Colloquium: Mining Dynamics of Data Streams in Multidimensional Space
March 25	Jiawei Han , University of Illinois Faculty Host: Tomasz Imielinski

March 12	PhD Qualifying Exam: Using Firewalls to Enable the Enforcement of Enterprise-wide Security Policies
March 12	Zhijun He , Rutgers University Committee: Thu D. Nguyen, Richard P. Martin, Naftaly Minsky, Vasek Chvatal

March 07	DCIS Colloquium: Usage Control: A Foundation for Next Generation Access Control
March 07	Ravi Sandhu , George Mason University Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

February 27	Qualifying Exam: The theory, dynamics, and polynomiography of root-finding algorithms
February 27	Yi Jin , Rutgers University Qualifying Exam Committe: Bahman Kalantari (chair), Bill Steiger, Haym > Hirsh, Gerard Richter

February 27	Qualifying Exam: Multi-Resolution State Retrieval in Sensor Networks
February 27	Budhaditya Deb , Rutgers University Qualifying Exam Committe: Dr. Badri Nath (Chair), Dr. Richard Martin, Dr. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Dr. Casimir Kulikowski

February 24	DCIS Colloquium: Evalutating Fault Model Enforcement as a Strategy for Improving System Availability
February 24	Richard Martin , Rutgers University Faculty Host: Tomasz Imielinski

February 20	DCIS Colloquium: User-Level Communication in Cluster-Based Network Servers
February 20	Ricardo Bianchini , Rutgers University Faculty Host: Tomasz Imielinski

February 19	Qualifying Exam: Providing distributed control for RMI communication
February 19	Constantin Serban , Rutgers University Examining Committe: Naftaly Minsky(chair), Thu Nguyen, Liviu Iftode, Dimitris Metaxas

February 17	Masters Defense: Bio-informatics Analysis of Proteins in Fat Regulation
February 17	Zhongjun Luo , Rutgers University Examining Committe: Dr. Casimir Kulikowski, Dr. Ilya Muchnik

January 28	DCIS Colloquium: Digital Libraries for CAD
January 28	William Regli , Drexel University Faculty host: Michael Littman

January 27	Qualifying Exam Presentation: Evaluation and Improvement of Availability in Cluster-Based Internet Services
January 27	Kiran Nagaraja , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Thu Nguyen (Chair), Richard Martin, Ricardo Bianchini,and William Steiger

January 24	DCIS Colloquium: A Tool for Automatic Failure Path Inference
January 24	Armando Fox , Stanford University Faculty Host: Richard Martin

December 6	Qualifying Exam Presentation: Prediction Driven Application Transformations to Conserve Power and Energy
December 6	Taliver Heath , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Saul Levy, Ulrich Kremer, and Richard Martin

December 6	Qualifying Exam Presentation: Power and Energy Conservations for Clusters
December 6	Eduardo Pinheiro , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Uli Kremer, Daniel Jimenez, and Naftaly Minsky

December 6	PhD Thesis Defense: New Techniques in Intelligent Information Filtering
December 6	Sofus A. Macskassy, Rutgers University Examining Committee: Dr Haym Hirsh(chair), Dr Michael Littman, Dr Craig Nevill-Manning, Dr Foster Provost

NOVEMBER 25	The Hi Tech Physician: Status and Prospects
NOVEMBER 25	Kirby G. Vosburgh, PhD Associate Director, Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Hosted By:Dimitri Metaxas


NOVEMBER 18	Intrusion Detection : Anomaly based systems
NOVEMBER 18	Constantin N. Manikopolos, P.E, Ph.D.CONEX Laboratory , NJWINS Center, ECE/NJIT Host: Naftaly Minsky


November 11	Large-Scale Gradient -Based Learning and Application to Computer Vision.
November 11	Yann LeCunNEC Research Institue, Princeton NJ Host:Vladimir Pavolovic


OCTOBER 14	IPTO Vision
OCTOBER 14	Ron Brachman, DARPA Host: Michael Littman

OCTOBER 02	PhD Qualifying Exam: Hardcore Sets for ACo [mod 2]
OCTOBER 02	Sambuddha Roy, Rutgers University Examining Committee: Eric Allender (Chair), Mike Saks, Mario Szegedy, Thorne McCarty

SEPTEMBER 23	PhD Thesis Defense: Online Profiling and Feedback-Directed Optimization of Java
SEPTEMBER 23	Matthew Arnold, Rutgers University Examining Committee: Barbara G. Ryder (Chair), Richard Martin, Donald Smith, Michael Hind (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) and Craig Chambers (University of Washington)

SEPTEMBER 19	DCIS COLLOQUIUM: Software Infrastructure and Resource Management for Cluster-based Data-Intensive Applications
SEPTEMBER 19	Tao Yang, University of California at Santa Barbara Faculty Host: Ricardo Bianchini

SEPTEMBER 13	PhD Qualifying Exam: Recognizing P4 Structures of Triangulated Graphs
SEPTEMBER 13	Jamie Friedman , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Vasek Chvatal (chair), Leonid Khachiyan, William Steiger and Barbara Ryder

SEPTEMBER 11	MS Thesis Defense: TCP Servers: ATCP/IF Offloading Architecture for Internet Servers, Using Memory-Mapped Communication
SEPTEMBER 11	Kalpana S. Banerjee, Rutgers University Examining Committee: Liviu Iftode (Chair), Ricardo Bianchini, Richard Martin

SEPTEMBER 9	DCIS Colloquium: Energy-Efficient Computing for Wildlife Tracking: Design Tradeoffs for ZebraNet
SEPTEMBER 9	Margaret Martonosi , Princeton University Host: Richard Martin

AUGUST 16	PhD Qualifying Exam: Toggling Voice Traffic between GSM and VoIP in GPRS using 3-way Calling
AUGUST 16	Jaewon Kang , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Badri Nath (Chair), S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Richard Martin, Roy Yates, Martin Farach-Colton

AUGUST 08	PhD Thesis Defense: Dataflow Analysis of Software Fragments
AUGUST 08	Atanas Rountev , Rutgers University Thesis Committee: Barbara G. Ryder (Chair), Alex Borgida, Ulrich Kremer, William Groswold (UC San Diego)

AUGUST 06	PhD Qualifying Exam: Exploiting Runtime Exceptions and Static Analyses to Detect Deadlock in Multithreaded Java Programs
AUGUST 06	Fancong Zeng , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Barbara G. Ryder (Chair), Alex Borgida, Richard Martin, Eric Allender

AUGUST 05	PhD Thesis Defense: The Design and Evaluation of Web Cache Prefetching Techniques
AUGUST 05	Brian D. Davison , Rutgers University Thesis Committee: Haym Hirsh (Chair), Ricardo Bianchini, Thu Nguyen, Craig Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Inst)

JULY 30	PhD Qualifying Exam: Learning Prior Models of Object Shape and Appearance for Image Search and Segmentation
JULY 30	Ziaolei Huang , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (Chair), Doug DeCarlo, Peter Meer, Badri Nath

JULY 22	MS Thesis Defense: Epidemic Replication with Environment Context Awareness Prioritie
JULY 22	Yingzhen Tan , Rutgers University Examining Committee: Thu Nguyen (chair), Ivan Marsic (co-chair), Richard Martin, and Naftaly Minsky

2002-2003 Colloquia Schedule