Computer Systems Colloquium (Fall 2012)

Harry Shum explains how the Bing search engine was developed and what he sees as some of the major challenges facing all search engines given the current architecture. (December 5, 2012)

Ken Salisbury talks about several haptic systems that he is helping to develop that will improve rendering and even allow for improved medical procedures. (November 28, 2012)

Peter Norvig explores the evolution of online education and what developments he thinks will be important in the future. (November 14, 2012)

Rhiju Das presents the video game his laboratory uses to take advantage of crows-sourcing and use it to improve the scientific method. (October 31, 2012)

Richard Palmer discusses the future of networking in a developing environment and how virtual servers will have to adapt to deal with new challenges. (October 24, 2012)

Robert Clapp discusses the oil industry's use of big data and how different techniques are being used to improve the industry and make timely operations quicker. (September 26, 2012)

Steve Yegge talks about Grok, a large scale code analysis tool that is being developed at Google and the challenges encountered by cross-language issues. (October 10, 2012)