2002 Computer and Information Science Seminar Series


This page provides a list of seminars that will be presented on the dates specified at 1:00pm in the Archway 2 lecture
theatre. Where available, an abstract of the seminar can be displayed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

All dates and speakers should be considered tentative until the week of the seminar!

Please check the current seminar pages if you wish to be added to a mailing list to receive official seminar announcements.
 
 

Semester 2

July


July 12
Review of the State of the Art in Biometrics
Dr Stewart Fleming, Department of Computer Science

July 19
This seminar will be replaced by a "Next Generation Tour" talk and lunch for 300 and 400-level students
Changing Worlds with Computer Science
Professor Harold Thimbleby, University College London Interaction Centre

July 22 (extra seminar)
The computer science of everyday things
Professor Harold Thimbleby, University College London Interaction Centre

July 26
Stereoscopic visual processing by a neurologically plausible "neural network"
Dr Robin Harvey, Department of Computer Science
 

August

August  2
LDAP and centralized authentication for Linux boxes
Brendan Murray, Department of Information Science

August 9
A New Mapping of Decision Trees to Neural Networks
Nathan Rountree, Department of Computer Science

August 16
Interaction Protocols for a Network of Problem Solvers
Dr Maryam Purvis, Information Science

August 23
Race Cars and Databases
Paul Werstein, Department of Computer Science

August 30
Mid-semester break
 

September

September 6
From Theory to Practice: 8 years and just beginning
Tim Penhey, United Kingdom

September 13
Collaborative Augmented Reality
Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab, Christchurch

September 20
Computers CAN find Happiness*!!  Facial Expressions as Denotata of Emotional Categories
Jim Hogan, Queensland University of Technology

September 27
Bring out supercomputing from the ivory tower
Zhiyi Huang, Department of Computer Science
 

October

October 3
D-Forms, Space deformations for close form collisions
Alexis Angelidis, Department of Computer Science

October 4
Having FuNN on a Palm
Sam Moyle, Information Science

October 11
Prof Wiebe van der Hoek, William Evans Fellow