Category: Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Milind Tambe, University of Southern California – Abstract: With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. I will focus on the problems of public safety and security, wildlife conservation…

Andreas Zeller, CISPA Helmholtz Institute for IT Security – Abstract: Software has bugs. What can we do to find as many of these as possible? In this talk, I show how to systematically test software by generating such tests automatically, starting with simple random “fuzzing”…

Jack Edmonds, – Abstract: NP and P have origins in “the marriage theorem”: A matchmaker has as clients the parents of some boys and some girls where some boy-girl pairs love each other. The matchmaker must find a marriage of all the girls to distinct…

Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany – Abstract: Stochastic models have a long history in information retrieval (IR). For modeling sequences of interactions, different variants of Markov models have been proposed by a number of researchers. Here a user moves stochastically between different model states,…

Andrew Myers, Cornell University, USA – Abstract: Programming concurrent, distributed systems that mutate shared, persistent, geo-replicated state is hard. To enable high availability and scalability, a new class of weakly consistent data stores has become popular. However, some data needs strong consistency. We introduce mixed-consistency…

Giancarlo Guizzardi , Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy – Abstract: In the years to come, we will experience an increasing demand for building Reference Conceptual Models in critical domains in reality, as well as employing them to address classes of problems, for which sophisticated conceptual…

On May 11th, at 11am, INESC-ID will promote the 11th session of IST Distinguished Lecture Series entitled “Radio Analytics: The Future Platform for Wireless Positioning, Tracking and Sensing”. The lecture will be given by Professor K. J. Ray Liu, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the University of…

Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich – Abstract: The memory system is a fundamental performance and energy bottleneck in almost all computing systems. Recent system design, application, and technology trends that require more capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and predictability out of the memory system make it an even…

Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics – Abstract: I am mostly interested in algorithms for difficult combinatorial and geometric problems: What is the fastest tour from A to B? How to optimally assign jobs to machines? How can a robot move from one location to another…

Prof. Don Norman, University of California – Abstract: At the new Design Lab at UC San Diego, Design is a way of thinking, understanding people real, fundamental needs, and designing systems that fulfill those needs in an understandable, enjoyable manner. Does it matter? Yes. Medical…