This lecture series honors Paris Kanellakis, a distinguished computer scientist who was an esteemed and beloved member of Brown CS. Paris joined us in 1981 and became a full professor in 1990. His research area was theoretical computer science, with an emphasis on the principles of database systems, logic in computer science, the principles of distributed computing, and combinatorial optimization.
Upcoming Lecture
Details about the next Kanellakis Lecture will appear here when available.
Previous Lectures
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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
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| 2024 | Robustly-Reliable Learners for Unreliable Data | Avrim Blum (Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago) |
| 2023 | Monitoring Health and Diseases Using Radio Signals and Machine Learning | Dina Katabi (MIT) |
| 2022 | Balls, Bins and Server Farms | Eli Upfal (Brown CS) |
| 2020 | Back to basics – the future of Search | Sridhar Ramaswamy (Neeva, Greylock Partners) |
| 2019 | Learning from Censored and Dependent Data | Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) |
| 2018 | Algorithms: Theory meets Practice | Robert E. Tarjan (Princeton) |
| 2017 | Below P vs. NP: Conditional Quadratic-Time Hardness for Big Data Problems | Piotr Indyk (MIT) |
| 2016 |
Professor Donald Knuth Days At Brown: A Celebration Of Computer Science |
Donald Knuth (Stanford) |
| 2015 |
Shafi Goldwasser (MIT) |
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| 2014 |
Daniel Spielman (Yale) |
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| 2013 |
Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: A Glimpse of Some On-Line Social Phenomena at Global Scales |
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell) |
| 2012 |
Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft) |
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| 2011 |
Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University) |
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| 2010 |
Moshe Vardi (Rice University) |
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| 2009 |
Safety on the Wild and Wooly World-Wide Web: Sandboxing Untrusted JavaScript |
John C. Mitchell (Stanford) |
| 2008 |
A Survey of Some Recent Research at the Border of Game Theory and Theoretical Computer Science |
Anna Karlin (University of Washington) |
| 2007 |
A hardware-design inspired methodology for parallel programming |
Arvind (MIT) |
| 2006 | Eugene Myers (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) | |
| 2005 |
Geiometric Optics, Linear Programming and Congestion in Sensornets |
Richard Karp (UC Berkeley) |
| 2004 |
Michael Rabin (Harvard) |
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| 2003 |
Reconfigurable Atomic Memory for Dynamic Networks |
Nancy Lynch (MIT- delivered by Alex Shvartsman) |
| 2002 | Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley) | |
| 2001 | Mihalis Yannakakis (Avaya Laboratories) |
