Colloquium

Student Thesis Talks – Part I

Parker Finch – Static Coalescing of Race Checks Much of our computing infrastructure utilizes multicore processors and multiprocessor hardware. Such systems can concurrently execute many software threads of control to improve responsiveness and performance, but the potential for unintentional interference between concurrent threads makes it difficult to ensure the… Continue reading »

Faculty Research Talks

Faculty will be giving short presentations on their research. Students interested in participating in a summer research project are encouraged to attend to hear about their options. As a reminder, the due date to submit the application form for summer science research is February 18, 2014.  … Continue reading »

Mark Crovella

Inferring Invisible Internet Traffic The Internet is at once an immense engineering artifact, a pervasive social force, and a fascinating object of study. Unfortunately many natural questions about the Internet cannot be answered by direct measurement, requiring us to turn instead to the tools of statistical inference. As a detailed… Continue reading »

David Kauchak

Learning To Simplify Text One Sentence at a Time The complexity and readability of text can vary widely. Compare, for example, a research article and a popular media article on the same topic. The articles may discuss the same material, but their usefulness for the reader can vary widely due… Continue reading »