2018-2019 Distinguished Lecture Series

This series annually showcases a handful of outstanding thinkers in the field of computer science, giving them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.

2018-2019 Distinguished Lecture Series

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Donald Knuth
Professor Emeritus of
The Art of Computer Programming
Stanford University

All Questions Answered

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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Vitalik Buterin
Creator of Ethereum
Cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Combining
Mechanism Design and Computation

Monday, March 25, 2019

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Margo Seltzer
Canada 150 Research Chair
in Computer Systems
University of British Columbia

Systems Research — Construed Broadly

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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Barbara Liskov
ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate
Institute Professor 
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Multicore Programming

Thursday, June 13, 2019

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Barbara Liskov's lecture begins at 6:00 and runs until 42:30

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Shafi Goldwasser
ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate
RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT

Cryptography for Safe Machine Learning

Thursday, June 13, 2019

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Shafi Goldwasser's lecture begins at 46:30 and runs until 1:42:25