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Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science

The UW-L Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science attracts internationally-recognized leaders in computer science for lectures, technical symposia, and workshops. Listed below are the names of individuals who have been selected to participate in this program.

2008

Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita at the T. J. Watson Research Laboratory. Recipient of the ACM's 2006 Turing Award for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.. (Poster / Brochure)

2007

Jeannette M. Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science and the head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. (Poster / Brochure)

2006

Victor R. Basili, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.  He was Executive Director of the Fraunhofer CenterMaryland and founder and principal of the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at NASA/GSFC.  (Poster / Brochure)

2005

Tom DeFanti, Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), director of the Software Technologies Research Center and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Poster / Brochure)

2004

Suzanne Weghorst, research scientist and research director at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab). (Poster)

2003

Henry Fuchs, Fedrico Gil Professor in the Computer Science Department, as well as an adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering and adjunct professor of Radiation Oncology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research includes virtual reality as it relates to medicine through three-dimensional biomedical imaging, as well as head-mounted displays. (Poster)

2002

Yale Patt, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Ernest Cockrell, Jr., Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Researcher in high performance computer implementation generally five to 10 years beyond what industry provides at that point in time. (Poster)

2000

Ken Kennedy, Ann & John Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering and Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

1999

David Harel, William Sussman Professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He is the inventor of the language of statecharts (1983), and was part of the team that designed Statemate (1984-1987) and Rhapsody (1997).

1998

Anita K. Jones, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Department of Defense, Director of Defense Research and Engineering from 1992 to 1996.

1997

David Lorge Parnas, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and NSERC/Bell Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1996

Raj Reddy, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.

1995

Andries van Dam, Professor, founder and first Chair of Computer Science Department at Brown University and author of five books on computer graphics.

1993

David Patterson, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, co-author of two books. Led the design of RISC 1 (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) Architecture and RAID Systems.

1992

David Gries, Professor at Cornell University, author of five books on computing, and recipient of Computing Research Assoc. Service Award - 1991.

1991

Richard Stallman, founder of the League for Programming Freedom, President of the Free Software Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

1990

Bertrand Meyer, leading researcher in object-oriented software development, author, creator of the Eiffel programming language, President of Interactive Software Engineering Inc



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