Colloquium

Colloquium 4/12 – Christine Bassem, Wellesley

Christine Bassem CS Colloquium Friday, April 12 2:35pm in Wege   Towards Mobility Coordination in Participatory Crowdsensing Platforms With the recent advances in mobile crowdsensing, participating self-motivated crowds already roaming in a mobility field can assist in the collection of sensing data. One of the main challenging aspects of… Continue reading »

Friday 4/05 Colloquium – Tim Randolph ’18

Friday, April 05 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123)   Algorithmic Approaches to Subset Sum (and Other Hard Problems) The Subset Sum problem is the most fundamental NP-complete problem concerned with adding numbers together. However, progress on exact algorithms for this problem has been slow: Since Horowitz and Sahni’s… Continue reading »

Colloquium 3/08: Grad School Panel

Friday, March 08 2:35pm in Wege Thinking about graduate school? CS faculty will discuss everything you need to know about graduate school including; deadlines, personal statements, finding an advisor, research, application process, and choosing the right school. CS Colloquium credit for attendance. Continue reading »

Colloquium 3/01: Alexa VanHattum, Wellesley

Alexa VanHattum Computer Science Colloquium Friday, March 01 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123) Lightweight, Modular Verification for Systems Compilers Language-level system guarantees—like runtime isolation for WebAssembly modules—are only as strong as the compiler that produces a native-machine-specific executable. Subtle wrong-code bugs in the compiler can introduce serious security flaws. Continue reading »

2/23 Colloquium: Ethan Zuckerman ’93

Ethan Zuckerman Computer Science Colloquium Friday, February 23 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123)   How Big is YouTube? Social media and user-generated content have thoroughly transformed the media landscape, giving birth to powerful companies, transforming news and political participation. Despite the influence of platforms run by Google… Continue reading »