Past Events and Videos

Many of these podcasts are also available on Youtube.

Recent Talks at DCS

• Dr. Thomas M. Grothues (RU Marine Field Station, Tuckerton, NJ) presents  It's not a Glider: A propelled autonomous underwater vehicle available to Rutgers engineers and scientists. (October 22, 2018) (recorded using the remote-talk system.)  Here's his slides (pdf), here's audio-only (mp3), and here's from a quaint video camera in the back of the room. (mp4)
   
• Rutgers DCS hosted the 2018 Summit on Scalability and Diversity in Computer Science Education.
   
• Dr. David Stork presents Rigorous computer image analysis in the study of fine art (April, 2018), or if you prefer, audio-only.
   
• Dr. Craig Yu presents Human-centered Computational Design driven by Perceptual Data and Creative AI (January, 2018), or if you prefer, audio-only.  Here also is the remote-connection view.
   
• Dr. Pranjala Asasthi presents Interactive Machine Learning (CC, January, 2018), or if you prefer, audio-only.
   
• Dr. Canturk Isci of IBM's Watson Research Center presents Operational Visibility and Analytics Designed for Cloud (December 2017) -- or, if you prefer, audio-only.
   
• Dr. Paul Messina on The US D.O.E. Exascale Computing Project -- Goals and Challenges (with -- CC, October, 2017) -- or, if you prefer, audio-only.
   
• Computational Astrocyence by Dr. Konstantinos Michmizos (December, 2017) -- or, if you prefer, audio-only.
   
• Learning to Manipulate Objects by Dr. Abdeslam Boularias (December, 2017) -- or, if you prefer, audio-only.

• Dr. Brian Kernighan presents "Computer Science and the Digital Humanities" (February 2017)
  
  • Audio of Talk (mp3),
  • Slides synchronized to audio(mp4),
  • Slides synchronized to audio with closed-captioning (mp4),
  • Slides (pdf).

• Dr. Zvi Galil presents "Georgia Tech's Online MOOC-based Master Program" (February 2017)
  
  • Slides (pdf)
  • Video of talk (mp4)
  • Audio of talk (mp3)
  • Slides synchronized with audio coming soon (mp4)
  • Movie shown by Dr. Galil in presentation -- "media1.mp4" (mp4)

• Dr. Geoff Hinton from the University of Toronto presents "Introduction to Deep Learning and Deep Belief Nets" (January 2015)
  
  • Slides (pdf)
  • Audio (mp3)
  • Questions and Answers(mp3)
  • Audio and Slides Synchronized(1080p)
  • Audio and Slides Synchronized(720p)
  • Audio and Slides Synchronized(480p)
  • Audio and Slides Synchronized closed-captioned.

• Dr. Lance Fortnow of the Georgia Institute of Technology presents Bounding Rationality by Computational Complexity (November 2013) - mp4,  mp4 (with cc), slides.
  

   

• Dr. Dan Garcia of UC Berkeley presents The Beauty and Joy of Computing (bjc), Advanced-Placement CS Principles, and the CS 10K Effort, a follow-on to his earlier talk on the High School Computing Landscape (January 2012)
  
  • Handouts, from three different pdfs [1], [2], [3]
  • Dr. Garcia's talk, audio-only (mp3)
  • Dr. Garcia's talk, slides synchronized with audio, 640x480, or 320x240.
  • Questions and Answers after Dr. Garcia's talk 640x480, or 320x240.
  • Dr. Garcia's talk, slides synchronized, closed-captioned.

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• Dr. Daniel A. Spielman presents Algorithms, Graph Theory, and the Solution of Laplacian Linear Equations (December 2011)
  
  • Slides (pdf)
  • The Lecture (audio with synchronized slides), introduced by Dr. Allender 640x480 (mp4), 320x240 (mp4), audio-only (mp3)
  • The Lecture with closed-captioning (mp4)
  • Questions and Answers 640x480 (mp4), 320x240 (mp4), audio-only (mp3).

• Dr. David J. Farber presents The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet -- A Personal Perspective (December 2011)
  
  • Slides (pdf)
  • The Lecture (audio with synchronized slides), introduced by Dr.Wright 640x480 (mp4), 320x240 (mp4), audio-only (mp3)
  • The Lecture closed captioned.
  • Questions and Answers 640x480 (mp4), 320x240 (mp4), audio-only (mp3).

• Dr. Mark Guzdial of Georgia Tech presents Technology for Teaching the Majority about Computer Science (October 18, 2011)
  
  • Slides (pdf)
  • The Lecture (audio with synchronized slides), introduced by Dr. Littman 640x480 (with CC), 320x240
  • The Lecture (audio only) listen
  • Questions and Answers 640x480, 320x240, audio-only

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• Dr. Kalantari sponsored the DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Mathematical Art: Special Cases and their Applications. The link will provide you with video and audio from the presentations, you may also connect to the Rutgers ITunes-U site to view these.

   

• Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed spoke on March 1, 2008 for the Irons Lecture on New Dimensions in Space and Time. Slides, and audio podcast and an audio-and-synchronized-to-slides video podcast are available at the link.

   

• Richard Stallman gave a talk at Rutgers on March 26, 2007 titled Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks

  I recommend you right-click (or option-click for macs) and download the presentation before viewing. Note that these are presented in Vorbis (audio) and Theora (video) formats at the speaker's request. See the xiph.org download site to obtain viewers or plugins to display them. Audio only; Video and audio; Video and audio (different camera, different microphone than the above).

• Dr. Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck Institute, on Black Holes in Galaxies (2007)
   
• Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, Director of Engineering, Google New York on finding information the Google way (2004).
   
• Celebration of Dr. Saul Amarel, December 2002
   
• Dr. Kulikowski speaks in 1998 on Dr. Amarel's career
   
• Russell Hammer from Sun on Java security (1997)
   
• Dr. Imielinski's "State of the Department" talk to the grad students in 1998
   
• Dr. Madhu Sudan's lecture "Modelling errors and recovery in communication", October 6, 2005 -- these are Dr. Sudan's slides. Also, here's the talk as an mp3

•  Events

• A look at the recent retirement event for Drs. Alex Borgida and Lou Steinberg, long veterans of the Rutgers Computer Science Department

  Congratulations, 2018 grads!  Here's a look at the Graduation Picnic!  (Keep an eye out for the Larsicorn.)

  The Rutgers MS in CS program hosted the Awards for best projects in Spring of 2018 on May 1, 2018.

  The Rutgers "STEAM" (STEM x Arts) student group hosted a panel discussion on "Careers in STEAM" on April 13, 2018.

  Rutgers Computer Science is 50!  A Celebration of it, with talks on the history of the department, and the future of computer science (and the department's place in it.)

  Rutgers Hosted the Greater NY Regional ACM Programming Contest in October of 2010. The event was a great success, with 48 student teams trying to solve computing problems as quickly as possible (in the five hours of the contest) -- the winner going on to the Internationals in March.

  On March 26, 2011, over 100 programmers turned up at Rutgers' Hill Center for a 24-hour programming frenzy in search of actualizations of clever ideas and data manipulation. More info on HackRU can be found here.

  DCS Graduation 2011 - A quick little movie of the event. (May 2011)

  DCS Graduation 2012 - Speeches, and introduction of graduates. (May 2012)

  May 19, 2013 saw the Graduation Ceremony for Computer Science graduates.

  DCS at Rutgers Day 2011! Here's a little bit of a flavor of this very successful showing-off of departmental research to the public. (April 2011)

  Video from the DCS Graduation Ceremonies of 2014 (not including images of the graduates of the graduates receiving their diploma, which have yet to arrive from the photographers. But including "the walk in", "the talk" (by Dr. Nguyen), "the walk out", and "the happy time." The 'diploma' part will be added when those images are available.) (May 2014)

• Open House 2004

  • Technical Lectures

     

    • Internet2: Internet Technology for Instruction
      On March 21, 2007, a symposium on how technology is becoming a more pervasive and critical component within the arts, humanities, and social sciences was held in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden You can view the agenda and slides here, and download and view video and audio podcasts in itunes-u
    • Spam and Email in Computer Science
      A December 5, 2006 presentation by Hanz Makmur of LCSR describing our response to the tsunami of spam. You can view any of the talks in a variety of formats, including podcasts. (These presentations produced by LCSR).
    • Internet2: Internet Technology for Research
      On April 4, 2006, a symposium on the impact of national directions in cyberinfrastructure was held in New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, and Washington DC. You can view any of the talks in a variety of formats, including lecture123 and podcasts. (These presentations produced by LCSR).

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  1998

  Division of Computer and Information Sciences Open House: Schedule, audio and pictures

  1996

  1996 Open House (with Audio)

  Other Events

  Graduation! Grad students with degrees in May 2017 meet to celebrate

  Graduation!  Graduating Undergrad students in May 2017 meet to celebrate

  Presentation of honors to graduating seniors, May 2010.

   

  Presentation of honors to graduating seniors, May 2009.

   

• Presentation of honors to graduating seniors, May 2008.

• Presentation of honors to graduating seniors, May 2007.

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• In 2003, the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists hosted a panel discussion on Academic Integrity.

• Demos

• • A demonstration of Aldebaran's Nao robot humanoid in May of 2011.

• The DCS Hackerspace is OPEN!
• Its open in a NEW LOCATION!
• What is it? (mp4 -- no voiceover, just music, so no cc included)
• Makerbot: Information Technology Challenges in Defense and Intelligence". (October 19, 2005.)  (realaudio format only, sorry) video and audio, audio only.
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History of Computing - Video Files of Interest

Here are links to various video files of interest in the history of computer science. If links go bad (because some are linked to youtube, and may go stale), please send mail to help AT cs.rutgers.edu.

• In 1968, Doug Engbard at SRI presented one of the most important -- for computer interaction -- demonstrations ever. In it, he and his associates presented the first example of a computer mouse, AND the first example of a 'chord' keyboard. Mice revolutionized computer interaction (a decade or so later), and we have yet to integrate chord keyboards (so they are presented at least 40 years ahead of their time.) This link will take you to one of several versions of the talk, or if you want, you can jump right to the best one.

   

• An early-1950's promotional film by Remington-Rand for their revolutionay computer (at the time), Univac

   

• Another promotional film, this time from 1960 about Univac

   

• A mid-1960s USAF promotional film on the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) communications/computing system

   

• A promotional film made by IBM UK in 1965 -- "Man and Computer.

   

• a 1990 promotional film, How Computers Work - Journey into the walk-through computer.

   

• A 2002 talk by Steve Wozniac on the history of Apple

   

• A short introduction to Charles Babbage, and his famous mechanical 'difference engine'.

   

• A 1999 discussion of Babbage's Engine

   

• Another (2008) discussion of the Engine

   

• Endgame -- an overview of the history of computer chess.

   

• A 2005 discusion of computer animation in entertainment, Pixar - A human story of Computer Animation

   

• A 2005 panel discussion, From Gutenberg to Galaxy -- accessing cultural assets online.

   

• A 2005 discussion of the 40th Anniversary of Moore's Law.

   

• Recording of a 2006 talk celebrating Seymour Cray and his revolutionary first supercomputer

   

• A 2006 talk about the prehistory of Silicon Valley, The Rise of Silicon Valley, from Shockley Labs to Fairchild

   

• A 2006 discussion of the GRiD Compass, the first laptop, introduced in 1982.

   

• A 2006 discussion of the evolution of social computing.

   

• an evening with Robert Brunner and Jerry Manock, apple industrial designers in 2007.

   

• A 2007 presentation on the computers before electrical or electronic computers -- the human computing banks, "When Computers Were Human"

   

• A 2007 talk on the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64, a personal computer (and a company) that is long gone but quite influential in home computing and television.

   

• A 2007 talk by Peter J. Denning - Great Principals of Computing

   

• a 2007 talk concerning the IBM 360 revolution. Computing can really be thought of divided several ways, including a divide before and after the IBM 360.

   

• Another (2007) talk on Fairchild, The Legasy of Fairchild Semiconductor

   

• A 2008 talk about the rise of Silicon Valley as a computing center, appropriately titled The Secret History of Silicon Valley

   

• A 2008 interview with Jean Jennings Bartik, on of the first programmers of ENIAC

   

• A 2003 discussion of Game Design with Will Wright, designer of SimCity.

   

• A 2004 discussion on Computer Graphics in Games, with Wright, and Rand Miller, designer of Myst.

   

• A 2008 discussion of the 40th anniversary of the DynaBook, including Alan Kay. Please forgive the superfluous political posturing at the beginning.

   

• A 2008 interview with Gordon Moore (as in "Moore's Law").

   

• A 2008 discussion of the role of intellectal property in the digital economy, with Lawrence Lessig.

Some events available via podcasts, or realmedia presentations. Pages engineered by Charles McGrew.  Copyrights held by rellevant entities.