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/*Event*/ Game Theory and Human Behavior: Ad Exchanges /*Time and Date*/ 12:00:00 PM on 9/6/2011 /*Location*/ EEB 248 /*Details*/ Speaker: S. Muthukrishnan ...Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Venue: EEB 248 (Electrical Engineering Center: [link]) About the Talk: Title: Ad Exchanges... more »
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/*Event*/ Providing manipulative advice to humans /*Time and Date*/ 11:00:00 AM on 8/4/2011 /*Location*/ PHE 223 /*Details*/ Speaker: Dr. Zinovi Rabinovich Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: In this talk I will describe several methods for effective open manipulation of human action choice. First, a direct manipulation learning will be demonstrated as feasible. That is, human advice-conditioned action choice can be characterised, and, therefore,used to calculate a good manipulative advice. Second, an extension to information disclosure games will be presented to capture multiple action alternatives. In contras...read more at event URL-... more »
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/*Event*/ Optimizing Despite Handicaps by Matthew P. Johnson /*Time and Date*/ 11:00:00 AM on 7/28/2011 /*Location*/ /*Details*/ Event Type: CS Colloqium Time: 11 AM- 1 PM Location: GFS 222 Speaker: Matthew P. Johnson Abstract: Many optimization problems are posed in settings whose salient feature... more »
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/*Event*/ How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies by Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research /*Time and Date*/ 2:00:00 PM on 7/14/2011 /*Location*/ Stauffer Hall - SLH 200 /*Details*/ Speaker: Dr. Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research Host: Prof. Fei Sha Abstract: Major advances in Question Answering technology were needed for Watson to play Jeopardy! at championship level -- the show requires rapid-fire answers to challenging natural language questions, broad general knowledge, high precision, and accurate confidence estimates.... more »
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/*Event*/ Robust Planning of Distributed Robotic Agents by Professor Han-Lim Choi /*Time and Date*/ 3:30:00 PM on 6/30/2011 /*Location*/ SSL 150 /*Details*/ Speaker: Prof. Han-Lim Choi, Division of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST Host: Prof. Milind Tambe Abstract: This seminar presents high-level planning approaches for networked robotic agents when the mission objective is to extract information in a dynamic uncertain environment. The talk discusses methodologies to perform robust distributed task planning for a heterogeneous team of agents performing cooperative missions. We... more »
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/*Event*/ Google Street View: Image Acquisition and Computer Vision at Global Scale by Dr. Luc Vincent, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. /*Time and Date*/ 12:00:00 PM on 4/26/2011 /*Location*/ EEB 248 /*Details*/ Speaker: Dr. Luc Vincent, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. Host: Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, USC... more »
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/*Event*/ Improving Internet Performance and Availability with Reverse Traceroute by Ethan Katz-Bassett (Faculty Candidate) /*Time and Date*/ 3:30:00 PM on 4/12/2011 /*Location*/ SSL 150 /*Details*/ Speaker: Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: The Internet is now central to many aspects of modern society, yet it remains remarkably fragile. Partial outages are common, and performance problems are widespread. Operators would like to address these issues, but poor diagnostic tools hamstring their efforts.... more »
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/*Event*/ Scalable Management of Enterprise and Data Center Networks by Minlan Yu (Faculty Candidate) /*Time and Date*/ 3:30:00 PM on 4/5/2011 /*Location*/ SSL 150 /*Details*/ Speaker: Minlan Yu, Princeton University Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan Abstract: The networks in campuses, companies, and data centers are growing larger and becoming more complicated to manage. Today, network operators devote tremendous time and effort to various management tasks such as customized routing, access control, and troubleshooting. Rather than trying to make today's brittle networks easier to manage, we focus on new network designs that are inherently easier to manage and scale t...read more at event URL-... more »
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/*Event*/ Towards Scalable User-Agnostic Attack Defense by Dr. Zhichun Li /*Time and Date*/ 3:30:00 PM on 3/31/2011 /*Location*/ SSL 150 /*Details*/ Speaker: Dr. Zhichun Li Host: Prof. William Halfond Abstract: Security has become one of the major concerns for today's Internet. End users, however, are slow in adopting new security technologies. Many users cannot do good security management by themselves. On the other hand, IT managers desire efficient and scalable protection mechanisms.... more »
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/*Event*/ Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned by Roger Dingledine /*Time and Date*/ 2:00:00 PM on 3/21/2011 /*Location*/ THH 210 (Taper Hall) /*Details*/ Speaker: Roger Dingledine, Project Leader - the Tor Project Host: Terry Benzel and John Wroclawski - USC/ISI Abstract: Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety. Tor's 2200 volunteer relays carry traffic for several hundred thousand users including ordinary citizens who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private, and soldiers and aid workers in ...read more at event URL-... more »
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