Fall 2017 seminars
| Date | Lecturer & affiliation | Topic & resources | 
| September | ||
| 9/7 | 
 Vivek Goyal Boston University  | 
 A Few Good Photons: Active imaging with a little signal and a lot more noise  | 
| 9/14 | 
 Sridhar Tayur Ford Distinguished Research Chair & Professor of Operations Management  | 
 MI6 and Q-Branch: A Playful Introduction to Operations Management (OM)  | 
| 9/21 | 
 Lisa Wu PostDoc Research Fellow  | 
 Stories, not Words: Accelerating the Processing of Similarly Structured Data  | 
| 9/28 | 
 Christopher Ré Stanford University  | 
 Snorkel: Beyond hand-labeled data  | 
| October | ||
| 10/5 | 
 Ramesh Karri New York University  | 
 Towards securing biochips  | 
| 10/12 | 
 Mehrdad Jazayeri Massachusetts Institute of Technology  | 
 Internal models of sensorimotor integration regulate cortical dynamics  | 
| 10/19 | 
 Gauri Joshi Carnegie Mellon University  | 
 Efficient Redundancy Techniques to Reduce Delay in Cloud Systems  | 
| 10/26 | 
 Monica Lam Stanford University  | 
 Keeping the Internet Open with an Open-Source Virtual Assistant  | 
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| 11/2 | 
 Benjamin C. Lee Duke University  | 
 Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory  | 
| 11/9 | 
 Giulia Fanti Carnegie Mellon University  | 
 Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network  | 
| 11/16 | 
 Michael Marcus Marcus Spectrum Solution LLC  | 
 Opening 95-450 GHz to civil use: opportunities and sharing challenges  | 
| 11/30 | 
 Sharad Goel Stanford University  | 
 Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness  | 
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| 12/7 | 
 Kalyan Sunkavalli Adobe Research  | 
 Recovering Illumination from a Single Image  |