Basser Seminar Series

2008 Seminars

• Towards Effective and Efficient Behavior-based Trust Models, Professor Kelmens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Engineering Agile Systems, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Noncoding sequence, noncoding gene and noncoding RNA, Professor Runsheng Chen, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Two remarks about logspace, Taso Viglas, School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Technologies to Advance Research in the Learning Sciences: From Agent-based Models in Computational Science to Intelligent Agent-augmented Multi-user Virtual Environments, Michael J. Jacobson, Professor and Chair of Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney
• PhD and Teaching Research
  Professor Vance Gledhill, Honorary Associate, School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Evaluating similarity measures a large-scale study in the Orkut Social Network, Associate Professor Ellen Spertus, Mills College, Oakland, California and Google
• Efficient Algorithms for Graphics Hardware, Jacob Munkberg, PhD student, Lund University
• Snapshot Isolation and Serializable Execution, Alan Fekete and Michael Cahill, School of IT, the University of Sydney
• Online Event Processing, Themis Palpanas, University of Trento
• Toward Visual Knowledge Discovery and Analytics, Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Ohio State University (OSU)
• Database Sampling and Applications, Associate Professor Gautam Das, Science and Engineering Department, The University of Texas, USA
• The iPlant Collaborative for Empowering a New Plant Biology: MIS Research Opportunities, Professor Sudha Ram, McClelland Professor of MIS, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona
• Developments in phylogenetic estimation, Dr Michael Charleston, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
• Recent Trends in FPGA Architectures and Applications, Professor Philip Leong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Greenfoot - A Highly Graphical IDE for Learning Object-Oriented Programming, Professor Michael Kölling, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
• Making Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Robust, Professor H. J. Siegel, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University
• The Initiative for Open Innovation: Creating a worldwide patent informatics cyberinfrastructure to increase transparency, efficiency and equity in science-enabled innovation, Dr Richard A. Jefferson, Founder & CEO of CAMBIA
• SenseCam, Somniloquy and Force Sensing: An overview of research projects in the Sensors and Devices Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Dr James Scott, Sensors and Devices Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Finding anomalies in graph/relational data, Professor David B. Skillicorn, School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
• Combinatorial Fusion Analysis: To Combine or Not To Combine - Figure skating, internet search, virtual screening and drug discovery, Professor D Frank Hsu, Fordham University, New York, USA
• High Level Mathematical Modeling and Simulation with Modelica and OpenModelica in Model-driven development, Professor Peter Fritzson, Linkoping University, Sweden
• FOXHOLES: News from the Front Line of the Browser Wars, Dr Rob O'Callahan, Mozilla Developer
• A Trial of Groupware to Support an Intelligent Productive Work using a Hundred Data: Middleware, Groupware and Evaluation, Associate Professor Takaya Yuizono, Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advance Institute of Science and Technology
• Engineering Informatics - Lifecycle Management, Standards and related activities at NIST, Professor Sudarsan Rachuri, George Washington University & National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Being There Together: The Future of Social Interaction in Virtual Environments, Ralph Schroeder, James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
• e-Research: Social Challenges in Developing Tools for Distributed Knowledge Production, Ralph Schroeder, James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
• Area Proportional and Minimum Area Venn/Euler diagrams, Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria, Canada
• System Support for Pervasive Computing, Professor Christian Becker, Chair of Information Systems II, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Building a Computer Science Lab In India - The Microsoft Research India Experience, P. Anadan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India