Launched in 2008, this series features prominent computer scientists from academia and industry addressing topics of broad interest. Distinguished Lectures enrich Brown's academic environment by contributing to the education of our students, motivating our undergraduates to get involved in research, and bringing together students, faculty, alums, and industry partners for lively interaction and discussion.
Upcoming Distinguished Lectures
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Previous Distinguished Lectures
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| 11/17/2019 | Collaboration as a Lens for Inclusive Technical Innovation | Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research) |
| 04/18/2019 | Building Machines That Learn And Think Like People | Josh Tenenbaum (MIT) |
| 10/03/2018 | AI and Security: Lessons, Challenges and Future Directions | Dawn Song (UC Berkeley) |
| 09/26/2018 | Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking | Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University) |
| 02/08/2018 | Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Tech) | |
| 11/30/2017 | Case Studies from the Real World: The Importance of Measurement and Analysis in Building Better Systems | Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) |
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10/15/2015 |
Susan Dumais (Microsoft) |
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10/06/2015 |
Laura Haas (IBM) |
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03/05/2015 |
Daniela Rus (MIT) |
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02/12/2015 |
Eva Tardos (Cornell) |
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12/08/2014 |
Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft) |
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11/06/2014 |
Barbara Liskov (MIT) |
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05/01/2014 |
Towards Theoretical Models of Natural Inputs: Aiming to Bridge the Theory/AI Divide |
Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon) |
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03/13/2014 |
Deborah Estrin (Cornell) |
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02/20/2014 |
Tom M Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon) |
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02/06/2014 |
Greg Morrisett (Harvard) |
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04/18/2013 |
Richard Szeliski (Microsoft) |
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04/11/2013 |
Kevin Knight (USC) |
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02/21/2013 |
A Software Crisis? Please, sir, may I have some more?Abstract |
David Notkin (University of Washington) |
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05/05/2011 |
Joseph Hellerstein (Berkeley) |
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11/10/2011 |
Margo Seltzer (Harvard) | |
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10/01/2011 |
Michael Jordan (Berkeley) |
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09/08/2011 |
Algorithms, Graph Theory, and the Solution of Laplacian Linear Equations |
Daniel Spielman (Yale) |
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11/18/2010 |
Fernando Pereira (Google) |
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11/04/2010 |
Shree Nayar (Columbia) |
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09/23/2010 |
Strong LP Formulations and Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms |
David Shmoys (Cornell) |
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04/22/2010 |
Theory and Applications of an Algorithm for Playing Repeated Games |
Rob Schapire (Princeton) |
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04/19/2010 |
Jeannette Wing (NSF) |
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04/08/2010 |
Jennifer Tour Chayes (Microsoft) |
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03/11/2010 |
An Evolution of General Purpose Processing: Reconfigurable Logic Computing |
Joel Emer (Intel) |
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03/04/2010 |
Information Integration: From Clio to Integration Independence |
Renee Miller (University of Toronto) |
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10/29/2009 |
Michael Littman (Rutgers University) |
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10/20/2009 |
Michael Goodrich (University of California at Irvine) |
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| 04/29/2009 | John Savage (Brown) | |
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04/29/2009 |
Probabilistic Models for Complex Systems: From Cells to Bodies |
Daphne Koller (Stanford) |
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02/26/2009 |
Michel Goemans (MIT) |
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10/16/2008 |
John Maeda (President of RISD) |
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09/25/2008 |
Simple Techniques for Eliminating Fatal Errors in Software Systems |
Martin Rinard (MIT) |
