Sam Thomas Computer Science Colloquium Friday, September 27 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium Towards a Practical Secure Memory for Modern Deployments Applications expect values stored in memory to be in the same state when they are fetched for correct execution. Unfortunately, memory is an imperfect device; physical device vulnerabilities allow… Continue reading »
Hannah Gommerstadt Friday, 9/20 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium Concurrent Communication Contracts A concurrent system is a system where multiple processes collaborate on a computation by exchanging messages. A communication contract represents a property of the computation that should remain true throughout the computation. Monitors can be used… Continue reading »
Bryan Perozzi Friday, September 13 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123) Giving your Graph a Voice: Graph Representations and Large Language Models Graphs are powerful tools for representing complex real-world relationships, essential for tasks like analyzing social networks or identifying financial trends. While large language models (LLMs)… Continue reading »
Starting this fall, Laura South will be joining the Williams CS department as a Visiting Professor for the 2024-2025 school year. Laura joins us from Northeastern University, where she recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Michelle Borkin. Laura’s area is human-computer interaction, with a focus on… Continue reading »
Colloquium: Thesis Defenses May 13th & 14th 9:00am – 11:30am Wege (TCL 123) Earn up to four colloquium credits for attendance (2 each day). Continue reading »
Colloquium Friday, May 10 2:35pm in Wege Presentations by students nominated for the 2024 Rich Ward Prize for Best Student Project in Computer Science. CS colloquium credit for attendance! *To be followed by CS celebration on the Science Quad*… Continue reading »
CS Colloquium Friday, May 03 2:35pm in Wege How did we get here?: The Rise of Large Language Models and the Problem of Evaluation Large Language Models (LLMs) have permeated almost every field, but given their rapid rise and… Continue reading »
Friday, April 26 2:35pm Wege Auditorium (TCL 123) *CS Colloquium Credit for attendance* Groups, Individuals, Indistinguishability, and Loss: 15 years of Algorithmic Fairness in Under and Hour Launched nearly fifteen years ago, the flourishing study of the theory of algorithmic fairness draws on cryptography, privacy, the philosophy of probability, machine… Continue reading »
Thursday, April 25 7:30pm in Bronfman Auditorium (Wachenheim B11) – Reception to follow – *CS Colloquium Credit for attendance* It’s in Your Phone. It’s in Your Browser. It’s in Your Redistricting Data! … It’s Differential Privacy. “Anonymized data aren’t.” Either they are not really anonymized or the anonymization process destroys… Continue reading »
Friday, April 19 @ 2:35pm Wege Auditorium TCL 123 Learn about Computer Science courses offered Fall 2024. Talk to professors about their classes. Meet other Computer Science students. … Continue reading »