All CS students are invited and encouraged to come!

All CS students are welcome to attend. Please stop by to meet the new CS students and enjoy some tasty ice cream.

Doug Turnbull will talk about Discover the Music You Want: Building a Music Search Engine Using Audio Content and Social Context.

Joshua Stough will talk about Image appearance models for automatic medical image segmentation.

Come have pizza with Aaron Clauset and hear about grad school at U. New Mexico.

Aaron Clauset will talk about A quantitative evolutionary theory for the distribution of species body size.

Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College, will talk about Gender and Computing: What are the Issues?. Tea at 4:15pm.

Audrey Lee will talk about Geometric Constraint Systems and Pebble Game Algorithms. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

Andy Danner will talk about TerraStream: From Elevation Data to Watershed Hierarchies. Cookies and beverages at 3:30pm.

Vadim Lyubashevsky will talk about Constructing an Efficient, Provably-Secure Digital Signature Scheme. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

Janardhan Iyengar will talk about Research in Internet Transport Protocols. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

Doron Swade will present a talk about Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine No. 2 on Wednesday, October 24th, at 7:30pm in the Science Center room 101. All are welcome to this Delaware Valley Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science talk.

Are you thinking about applying to graduate school in computer science? If so, you should attend the CS Graduate School Information Panel next week on Wednesday Oct 10 at 12:25pm. The CS faculty will give a brief overview of what graduate school in CS is like and how to apply, then open the discussion up to questions. Pizza will also be provided. If you plan to attend, please let us know so we can order the proper amount of pizza. All CS students are welcome.

William J. Rapaport, from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), will give a talk about the Philosophy of Computer Science. This event is at Bryn Mawr College and is free and open to the public.

Daniel Rockmore, associate professor of mathematics and computer science at Dartmouth College, will give a talk titled The FFT - An Algorithm the Whole Family Can Use.

Lori Pollock will give a talk titled Applying Natural Language Processing Analysis of Programs to Aid in Software Maintenance and Evolution.

Ani Hsieh will give a talk titled Are We There Yet? The development of robotic swarms for real world applications.

Toniann Pitassi, a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto will give a talk titled Proof complexity and inapproximability results for NP-complete problems.

Dr. Lee Spector, a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College will give a talk titled Strange Bits: Quantum Computing and the Search for New Quantum Algorithms.

The cs97-Senior Conference class will be presenting their final projects.

The CS department will present a lunch-time discussion about graduate school in CS -- what it is like, getting in -- this Monday, October 30th, at 12:30. Pizza and soda will be available at 12:15. All CS students are welcome. Even if you don't think you are going to graduate school, it might be interesting. It should be especially valuable for Juniors and Seniors considering the possibility of graduate school. Faculty will make short presentations and then we will open the floor for questions and discussion.

The Sigma Xi Poster Session will be this Thursday from 6-8pm and this Friday from 1-3pm in the Science Center Commons. All Swarthmore students that did research this past summer will present their work. Fruit and cookies will be served.

All CS students are invited and encouraged to come!

Andrew Danner will talk about Scalable Algorithms for Terrain Analysis and GIS. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Chuck Groom '00 will be holding a workshop on skills useful in getting hired, such as interviewing, resume creation, and company targeting.

Joshua Steinhurst will talk about Practical Photon Mapping in Hardware. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Dr. Marian Petre will talk about Expert Software Designers: How They Imagine and Visualize Software. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Daniel Bilar will talk about Playing around with information (Quantitative Security Risk Analysis). Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Brent Heeringa, from the University of Massachusetts, will talk about Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Elaine Huang ('98) will be here from Georgia Tech to give a talk about Making Things Fit: Large Shared Displays for Supporting Workgroup Interactions. The talk starts at 3pm, with cookies and beverages after the talk at 4pm.

David Hovemeyer will be giving a talk about FindBugs--a static bug-finder for Java programs. Cookies and beverages at 4pm.

Vic Zandy, a research scientist at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences, will present An Introduction to Plan 9.

Aravind Srinivasan from the University of Maryland will be here to give a talk titled An Invitation to Randomized Algorithms.

David Liben-Nowell, from Carleton College, will present a talk about "small-world phenomena" with the title GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS.

Pat Miller, Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, will talk about old models of programming and new petaflop architectures (machines with hundreds of thousands of processors). He will discuss Livermore's Petascale Simulation Initiative which is developing new MPMD programming models; pyMPI, his parallel tool for interacting with thousands of processors; and his hobby project -- Science by FlashMob, which lets scientists cheaply and quickly create small to moderate sized parallel computer clusters.

Ben Kuperman will talk on useful things that you can do in vim that you might not already know. He will focus on basic editing and programming tools. We'd like it to be interactive, so bring those questions and "gee, I wish I could make it do X" issues and we'll get it solved! Vim users of any experience level should feel free to attend and join in to both learn and share.

Bring your lunch and come hear talks by CS faculty and students. First one is Sept. 5: Meet the SysAdmins. See Tia's CS Lunch page for more details and the fall 2005 schedule.

Come meet the CS department faculty and staff. Join us for root beer floats and ice cream. All students in or interested in CS are welcome. If it's raining, we'll meet in the main CS lab (240).

If you're a CS student that is new to unix, come learn what you need from the sysadmins. The first week we'll cover the basics (Using Unix 1), and the second week we'll cover a bit more (Using Unix 2). See our Using Unix page for more info.

All students and faculty are invited to join the CS97 Senior Seminar class this Tuesday at 1:15 for a guest lecture by Noah Smith... [more info]

Women in CS classes are invited to attend a study break this Thursday night at 9pm in the CS seminar room. See here for more details.

Michael Dickinson is the Zarem Professor of Bioengineering at Caltech. The title of Michael's talk is How Flies Fly. More details are given in this abstract.

Susan Landau is Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where she concentrates on the interplay between security and public policy. The title of Susan's talk is "National Security on the Line: Electronic Communications in an Age of Terror". Susan will also be available after the talk to discuss what math and cs types do at Sun that is NOT coding. More details are given in this abstract.

Paul Hudak is known for his work on on the development of programming languages including Scheme and Haskell. See here for more details.

The CS faculty will describe their research projects and provide information about applying for summer stipend money. All students are welcome to attend. See here for more details.

Hal graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989, and was one of the CS department's first few sysadmins. He is now an independent computer security consultant and lecturer. The title of Hal's talk is "The Consensus Approach to World-Wide Computer Security Improvement". More details are given in this abstract.

Hal will also join us today (Nov 22) for informal discussion at the CS lunch in Sharples room 4.

Ben earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Swarthmore College in 1996. He is now a researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab. The title of Ben's talk is "Analog Logic: Building machine learning with analog, continuous-time computers". More details are given in this abstract.

Join us this Friday for some food and fun! Come hang out with CS folks (faculty, staff, and students) for root beer floats and croquet. Any student in a CS course, CS majors and minors, and students just interested in CS are all welcome.

Swarthmore alum David Clark will be giving a talk this Wednesday afternoon. David is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. The title of David's talk is "Why Network Security is even harder than you thought". More details are given in this abstract.