Distinguished Lecture

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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. … Continued

Prof. Dennis Shasha, Courant Institute of New York University – Abstract: Imagine you are a data scientist (as many of us are/have become). Systems you build typically require many data sources and many packages (machine learning/data mining, data management, and … Continued

Prof. Carla Gomes, Cornell University – Abstract: Computational sustainability is a new interdisciplinary research field with the overarching goal of developing computational models, methods, and tools to help manage the balance between environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable … Continued

Prof. Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University – Abstract: In this talk we present the changing objectives of the electric energy systems as complex dynamical systems. We briefly provide the basic landscape in the industry first. We take a broader … Continued

Prof. Pedro Domingos, University of Washington – Abstract: There are five main schools of thought in machine learning, and each has its own master algorithm – a general-purpose learner that can in principle be applied to any domain. The symbolists … Continued

Prof. Srini Devadas, MIT – Abstract: (Work done with Xiangyao Yu) A new memory coherence protocol, Tardis, is presented. Tardis uses timestamp counters representing logical as opposed to physical time to order memory operations and enforce sequential consistency in … Continued

Prof. Mike Hinchey, Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre University of Limerick, Ireland – Abstract: Increasingly software can be considered to be critical, due to the business or other functionality which it supports. Upgrades or changes to such software … Continued