Distinguished Lecture Series

This annual series showcases outstanding researchers, scholars and thinkers in the field of computer science and related disciplines, and gives them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.

2024–2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Professor Adam Smith

Adam Smith, Professor
Departments of Computer Science
and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Boston University

Privacy, Learning, and Inference

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302

John Stasko

John Stasko, Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

Reflections on the Value of Visualization

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302

Vinton G. Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

Internet: Past, Present and Future

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
2:30 p.m. • J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities

Nitin Saxena

Nitin Saxena, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Kanpur

The Border and its Demystification

Wednesday, June 19, 2024
10:30 a.m.
• DC 1302

Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz

I.F. Akyildiz
Professor, Telecommunications
President & CTO

Truva Inc.

NETWORKING 2030: Metaverse, Extended Reality, Hologram Type and Mulsemedia Communication Challenges for 6G/Beyond Wireless Systems

Thursday, October 17, 2024
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304  |  Online distinguished lecture

Professor Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica, Professor
EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley
Director, Sky Computing Lab

An AI Stack: From Scaling AI Workloads to LLM Evaluation

Monday, November 4, 2024
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302

Professor Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Fine-Grained Approach to Algorithms and Complexity

Friday, December 13, 2024
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302  |  Online distinguished lecture