Monday, May 19 & Tuesday May 20 Wege Auditorium CSCI Thesis Defenses Join us and support your fellow CS majors as they present and defend their theses. One colloquium credit is offered for attending each “block” of presentations listed below. Monday, May 19 Block 1 9-9:30 –… Continue reading »
Friday, May 16 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123) WARD PRIZE PRESENTATIONS A presentation by students nominated for the 2025 Rich Ward Prize for Best Student Project in Computer Science. Nominated students will be announced by email Friday morning. 4:00pm @ Science Quad (EcoCafe as rain backup) ICE CREAM SOCIAL… Continue reading »
Colloquium: Friday, May 09 2:35pm in Wege Stony Brook, NY; Stony Brook University: Steve Skiena, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science Reading Books and People I will talk about two projects my lab works on. The first project concerns NLP on books: How can you quantify the… Continue reading »
Computer Science Class of ’60s Events: Elaine Shi is a professor with a joint appointment in CSD and ECE at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include cryptography, security, mechanism design, algorithms, foundations of blockchains, and programming languages. She is a co-founder of Oblivious Labs, Inc. Her… Continue reading »
Friday, April 25 2:35pm in Wege Computer Science Pre-Registration Info Session Learn about Computer Science classes that will be offered in Fall 2025 and meet the professors. Colloquium credit for attendance. Snacks provided!… Continue reading »
Ellie Pavlick CS Colloquium Friday, April 18 2:35pm in Wege Not-Your-Mother’s-Connectionism: LLMs as Cognitive Models Recent advances in AI have… Continue reading »
Apply to be a Teaching Assistant for Fall 2025! This is a great opportunity to teach other students and to work closely with faculty – it can be a very rewarding experience. Application can be found at: https://csci.williams.edu/tatutor-application/… Continue reading »
CS Colloquium Friday, March 14 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium Effective Evaluations of Large Language Models for Complex Problems Evaluation efforts are central to understanding and improving the capabilities… Continue reading »
CS Colloquium March 07, 2:35pm Wege Auditorium Data Systems at Scale: Scaling Up by Scaling Down and Out Over the past decade, the exponential growth in data generation, acquisition, and storage has made scalability a critical challenge for data systems. This talk describes my work on developing techniques to address… Continue reading »
Computer Science Colloquium Friday, February 28 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123) CS honors students Ina Ocelli, Michael Faulkner, Charlie Tantum, Carter Louchheim, Carolyn Jones, Nathaniel Tunngal, Maddy Andersen, and Valeria Starkova will present their thesis proposals. CS colloquium credit will be… Continue reading »