September 8 Steve Skiena
What is Computational Biology?
September 15 Anita Wasilewska
Proving the uncertain
September 22 Debate: Programming language wars
September 29 Joe Mitchell
Applications of Computational Geometry:
Virtual Reality, 3D Graphics, and Route Planning
(Note: will take place in Lounge instead of Seminar Room.)
October 6 David Smith
Compiling Hardware
October 13 Terry Swift
Tabling, Search, and Negation
October 20 Gene Stark
A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD
October 27 Amitabh Varshney
Virtual Worlds
(Note: will take place in room 2116 instead of Seminar Room.
Room 2116 is next to the library and almost in front of the new UG lab.)
November 3 Scott Smolka
The Concurrency Factory
November 10 Graduate Research Conference
(Originally scheduled for Tzi-cker Chiueh)
November 17 Leo Bachmair
A Taste of Rewrite Systems
November 24 Thanksgiving
December 1 Arthur Bernstein
High Performance Transaction Processing Systems