Events

CS Class of ’60s Colloquium – Cynthia Dwork, Harvard

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 »

Class of ’60s Speaker – Cynthia Dwork, Harvard

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 »

Colloquium 4/12: Christine Bassem, Wellesley

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 participatory crowdsensing is that crowd… Continue reading »

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 »