Colloquium

Lorrie Faith Cranor

The Computer Science Department’s Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture Spoofing Operating System Security Interfaces to Study User Security Behaviors Many of the pop-up dialogs that appear in operating systems and application software are intended to provide security-related functions. For example, some are designed to provide a trusted authentication… Continue reading »

Epic Tech Talk: Josh Brauer and Emily Yu ’11

Mobile Development Mobile applications have become an essential part of our daily lives, and healthcare is no exception. In this talk, Josh will discuss many aspects of mobile app development along with some of the core challenges that face today’s mobile developers both inside and outside of healthcare. He’ll also… Continue reading »

Student Summer Talks

The following students will be giving short 5 minute presentations of their summer research/work/internships. Tommy Gaidus: Cloud Based Solutions for Alternative Asset Fund Managers James Wilcox: ChickenCoop: Two Kinds of Inference for a Cooperability Effect System Donny Huang: Dynamic Optimality Daniel Seita: Text Simplification Brianne Mirecki: Unhackable Encoding in Human… Continue reading »

New research on video games presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.

This summer, Associate Professor Morgan McGuire collaborated with colleagues at Vicarious Visions in Albany, NY to develop and present new research on video games in a course at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Creating visual effects that scale with resolution and hardware capabilities is… Continue reading »

First Colloquium of the Semester

The first colloquium of the semester will involve a short organizational meeting. In addition, CoSSAC voting will take place at colloquium. You should feel free to nominate yourself and others (including sophomores) for a council position. Please send nominations to Prof. Danyluk ([email protected]) as soon as possible. As is… Continue reading »

Dr. Nathan Hodas ’04

Using Social Network Data to Understand Human Behavior As a growing fraction of our lives is conducted online, we create ever richer trails of digital breadcrumbs for learning about statistical human behavior. By analyzing different online social networks and citation patterns in papers using the techniques of statistical physics, we… Continue reading »