Friday, Oct 06 (Oct 13 is Mountain Day backup) 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium Leveraging ML Predictions for Beyond-Worst-Case Algorithm Design Traditionally, we measure the performance of algorithms in the worst-case model. That is, the algorithms are designed to perform well against an adversarial input sequence. While the worst-case paradigm… Continue reading »
Computer Science Colloquium Friday Sept 29 2:35pm in Wege On the Challenges of Building Privacy-preserving Chatbot Services With the recent rise of data-hungry chatbot technology such as ChatGPT, it has become increasingly important that we critically examine its implications from a privacy perspective. In this colloquium, I will discuss my… Continue reading »
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM Friday, September 22, 2023 2:35 pm in TCL 123 “What I Did Last Summer” (Industry Edition) Short presentations by your fellow CS students about internship experiences in industry. CS Colloquium credit awarded for attendance. Continue reading »
Computer Science Colloquium Tuesday, Sept 19 7:15pm in Wege (TCL 123) Come hear from CS alum Diwas Timilsina ’16 about his trajectory from Williams to AirBnB and ask any questions you may have about life after Williams. CS colloquium credit will be awarded for attendance. Snacks will be served! This… Continue reading »
Friday, September 15 @ 2:35pm Wege Auditorium The data in data science: measuring the impact of data curation on large language model pretraining Large language models like BERT and ChatGPT are fundamentally a reflection of the data used to train them. Putting together millions of documents from diverse sources requires… Continue reading »
Congratulations to the 2023 Computer Science prize winners! Ward Prize for Best Project in Computer Science: Mark Bissell ’23 & David Goetze ’24 Goldberg Prize for Best Thesis Presentation in Computer Science: Jacob Chen ‘23.5… Continue reading »
Tuesday, May 16 1:30-3:30pm Wege (TCL 123) A presentation by students nominated for the 2023 Rich Ward Prize for Best Student Project in Computer Science. CS Colloquium credit awarded for attendance. Presenters: Sanjeev Ashok Kumar and Lauren McCarey: “Sampling Methods in Text Generation” Ye Shu: “A Decentralized, Blocking-Resistant Instant Messaging System” Caleb… Continue reading »
Computer Science Thesis Defenses Monday, May 15 Wege Auditorium – TCL 123 *Colloquium credits offered for attendance: 2 credits for morning session & 2 credits for the afternoon.* 10:00 am: Jacob Chen – “Causal Inference with Outcome-Dependent Missingness and Self-Censoring” 10:40 am: Rachel Nguyen – “Algorithms for Multihoming-Based Website Fingerprinting Defense” 11:20… Continue reading »
Join CS faculty and staff to celebrate the end of Spring semester! When: Friday, May 12 – 2:30-4:00pm Where: Science Quad (rain location: EcoCafe) Who: All CS students and majors! What: Popsicles, ice cream novelties, lawn games & general merriment … Continue reading »
Computer Science Colloquium Friday, May 05 @ 2:35pm Wege Auditorium, TCL 123 Tactile Soft, Compliant Robotic Manipulators When we look to the future of soft robotics and manipulation, we begin to look towards sensory-rich and compliant grasping mechanisms. Not only do we want to capitalize on the significant advantages… Continue reading »
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