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CISH-6900 CIS Seminar
Class Meetings and Seminar Speakers:

September 9, 2005

 Host: Roger Brown, DoES 
Topic: Introduction to CS Seminar
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Speaker: Cecilia Dalzell, Instructional Services Librarian 
Topic: Welcome from the Cole Library
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October 21, 2005

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November 18, 2005

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December 16, 2005

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January 20, 2006

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February 17, 2006

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CIS Seminar Speakers from Previous Years:

September 10, 2004

Host: Prof. Heidi Ellis, DoES 
Topic: Introduction to CS Seminar
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Speaker: Cecilia Dalzell, Instructional Services Librarian 
Topic: Welcome from the Cole Library
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Speaker: Lorraine Jacques  
Topic: "Keeping the Minimum Spanning Tree Minimal"
  2004 award winner, Most Original Paper
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October 15, 2004

Speaker: John Day 

Topic: "A Primer on Network Naming and Addressing"
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November 12, 2004

Speaker: Demetrius Davis

Topic: "To JNI or not to JNI"

2004 Most Outstanding Presentation
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December 10, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Houman Younessi, Professor, DoES, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford, CT

Topic: "Recombinant Programming, A Brief Introduction"

January 14, 2005

Speaker:   Dr. Lynn DeNoia

Topic:  "The Challenge of Valuing IT"
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February 11, 2005

Speaker:  Dr. Bulent Yener

Topic:  "Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks"

March 11, 2005

Speaker:  Dr. Greg Hislop, Associate Professor, Drexel University

Topic:  "Do Software Metrics Measure Up?"

September 5, 2003

Speaker: Mary Dixey, Director of the Cole Library 
Topic: Introduction to Seminar resources in our Library
Speaker: Bryan Morris, Pratt and Whitney  
Topic: "Fisheye State Routing Protocol and Its Effectiveness for SWARM UAVs"
2003 Most Outstanding Presentation
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October 17, 2003

Speaker: Brian Henderson-Sellers, ScD; University of Technology, Sydney 

Topic: "Agent-oriented Methodologies - A Framework for Future Collaboration"

November 14, 2003

Speaker: Cheng Hsu, PhD; Professor DSES, RPI, Troy

Topic: "Participatory Global Query: A First Step toward Market-Style Enterprise Resource Allocation"

December 12, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Greg Hislop, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University

Topic: "Software Process Improvement: Creativity, Coercion, and the Nature of Software Engineering"

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January 30, 2004

Speaker:   Dr. Chris Bystroff, Assistant Professor of Biology, RPI

Topic:  "Five Hierarchical Levels Of Sequence-Structure Correlation In Proteins"

February 27, 2004

Speaker:  Mr. Robert Strechay, Sandial Systems Inc.

Topic:  "Enterprise Storage Environments: Hype vs. Reality"

March 19, 2004

Speaker:  Ms. Lori Reed-Fourquet, Good Health Network

Topic:  "Framework for a Trusted Health Information Infrastructure"


 

September 6, 2002

Speaker: Lynn DeNoia  
Topic: Introduction to Computer Science Seminar
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Speaker: Tom Blough, Royal Precision Inc.  
Topic: "A Passive Real-Time Semantic Web Framework for Information Gathering "
2002 Most Original Paper AND
2002 Most Outstanding Presentation
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October 18, 2002

Speaker: Murray Campbell, Ph.D.; IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Topic: "Deep Blue: Five Years Later"

November 15, 2002

Speaker: Jim Napolitano, Ph.D.; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

Topic: "Physics on the Grid: New Models for Scientific Computation"

December 13, 2002

Speaker: David L. Brown, Ph.D., CSQA, CSQE; DLB Software Quality Consulting

Topic: "Standardized Defect Statuses"

January 17, 2003

Speaker:   Patricia Pia, Ph.D.; Software Frameworks, Inc.

Topic:  "Design Patterns, Pattern Languages, and Frameworks"

February 14, 2003

Speaker:  Kourosh Parsa, Ph.D.; Parsa Wireless Communications

Topic:  "Past, Present, and Future of Mobile Communications"

March 14, 2003

Speaker:  Tom Rando, Ph.D.; Electric Boat Corp.

Topic:  "Information Interoperability"


 

September 7, 2001

Speaker: Paula Neagus, Reference/Serials Librarian R@H Library, neagusp@rh.edu
Topic: Research Services at the RaH Library

Speaker: Heng-Yi Lai 
Topic: "Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimization in Computer Network Applications" ;
2001 Most Original Paper

Speaker: Robert Languedoc 
Topic: "A Comparison of Tools Used to Impart Assertions in the Java Language" ;
2001 Most Outstanding Presentation

October 19, 2001

Speaker: Dr. Mike Brenner and Ed Housman, MITRE

Topic: "Applications of Braid Groups to Robotics: Semantics, Cryptography, Dataflow"

November 16, 2001

Speaker: Dr. Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Topic: "A Configurable Application View Storage System"

December 14, 2001

Speaker: Craig J. Mathias, Farpoint Group

Topic: "Preparing for Tomorrow's Wireless Technologies: 3G and Beyond"

January 18, 2002

Speaker:   Richard Robinson, ITS Associates

Topic:   "A Software Development Philosophy"

February 15, 2002

Speaker:  Prof. Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut

Topic:  A Reusability Framework for Refactoring

March 15, 2002

Speaker:  Len Silverston, Universal Data Models, LLC

Topic:  Universal Data Models to Jump-Start and Quality-Assure Your Efforts


 

September 8, 2000

Speaker: Barbara Vizoyan, Director R@H Library, barbara@rh.edu
Topic: Research Services at the RaH Library

Speaker: Michael Woo 
Topic: "Bernoulli vs. Exponential / Periodic Path Optimization Schemes for Inter-Switch Handoffs in Wireless ATM Network" ;
2000 Most Original Paper

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen 
Topic: "Approximating Lifting Cylinder Flows With Neural Networks" ;
2000 Most Outstanding Presentation

October 20, 2000
Speaker: Tom Randall
President & CEO, OnSource Consulting, Inc.

Topic: "How to Manage IT Change Effectively"

  November 17, 2000
Speaker: Roger Osmond, Richard Chandler, and Greg Smith
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA

Topic: "Object Oriented Software Development at EMC" 

  December 15, 2000
Speaker:  Lynn DeNoia, Ph.D.

Topic:  "Virtual Private Networks - Changing the Heart of Enterprise Communications"

  January 19, 2001
Speaker:  Chuck Stewart, Ph.D.
Dept. of Computer Science, Rensselaer, Troy, NY

Topic:  "The Retina Project at Rensselaer"

  February 16, 2001
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September 18, 1999

Speaker: Christine Reusch, Reference/Instructional Services Librarian, reusch@rh.edu
Topic: Research Services at the RaH Library

Speaker: Patrick Burton burton@sonalysts.com
Topic: "Synthetic Speech & Dynamic Feedback for Graphical User Interfaces" ; 1999 Most Outstanding Presentation and Most Original Paper

October 15, 1999

Speaker: Dr. Michael Danchak danchm@rpi.edu
Topic: "Andragogical Agents: Your Future Instructors?"
  November 19, 1999
Speaker:  Dr. Susan Smith

Topic: "Bioinformatics?"

  December 17, 1999
Speaker:  Dr. Joseph McCarthy

Topic:  Active Environments

  January 21, 2000
Speaker:  Dr. Houman Younessi

Topic:  Software Engineering Research 

  February 18, 2000
Speaker:  Dr. Fernando Naveda

Topic:  Architectural Design: Designing Before Design

  March 17, 2000
Speaker:  Dr. Dong-Guk Shin

Topic:  Ad Hoc Database Querying and an Integrated Data-Flow Environment


 

September 18, 1998

Speaker: Harsh Jerath
Topic: "Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Systems for Global Personal Communications, " 1998 Most Original Paper

Speaker: Sal Agnello
Topic: "What is an Object Oriented Operating System?" 1998 Most Outstanding Presentation

Speaker: Barbara Vizoyan
Topic: Research Services at the RaH Library

October 16, 1998 

Speaker: Nanette Savage,
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, CT

Topic: "The Projected Development of the PW6000 Engine Controller Under the FAA's DO-178B Certification Framework"

November 20, 1998 

Speaker: Dr. Christopher D. Carothers,
Computer Science Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Topic: "Efficient Optimistic Parallel Simulations Using Reverse Computation"

December 18, 1998

Speaker: Dr. Richard Shuemaker,
Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY

Topic: "PKI: Solving Business Needs with Digital Signatures and Encryption"

January 22, 1999

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Creel,
Technical Resource Connection, Tampa, FL

Topic: "Who's that man on the grassy knoll?"

February 19,1999

Speaker: Roger Osmond,
Amalasoft Consulting, Littleton, MA

Topic: "What are YOU looking at?!"

March 19, 1999

Speaker: Karl R. Wurst,
Mathematics and Computer Science Dept.,
Worcester State College, Worcester, MA

Topic: "Autonomous Physical Performing Agents with External Direction"

April 24, 1999

Speakers: All CIS Seminar Students

Topic: 15 th Annual Computer Science Conference!


 

October 24, 1997 

Speaker: Richard Bielak, CAL FP, Inc. 

Topic: Protecting Objects - Adding Access Rights to an Object-oriented Database

November 21, 1997

Speaker: Dr. Diane M. Strong 
Management Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Topic: Information Quality Benchmarking: Product and Service Performance

February 20,1998

Speaker: Vic Berecz

Topic: Database Issues in Genealogy Software Products

March 20, 1998 

Speaker: William J. Luddy, Jr. J.D., Lalley School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer at Hartford 

Topic: A New Lawman on the Planet Cyberia

April 3, 1998 

Speaker: Dr. Selmer Bringsjord, Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science and Dept. of Computer Science, Rensselaer Poly Inst., Troy, NY 

Topic: AI and Deep Blue vs. Kasparov

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