25th Anniversary of the Department of
Computer Science
at Columbia University
(Recording)

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Thursday, October 21^st, 2004 - Faculty House
6:00 PM Reception
    8:00 PM Dinner Guest Speaker: Peter Likins, President, University of Arizona(242M)
9:00 PM Comedian(323M)

Friday, October 22^nd, 2004 - James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary

Part I: Opening Remarks, Retrospective and Introduction, Keynote(658M)

　

8:30 am

　

Opening Remarks

　

　

Professor Henning Schulzrinne

　

Dean Zvi Galil

　

9:00 am

　

Retrospective and Introduction

　

Professor Joseph Traub

　

9:15 am

　

Keynote Address

　

Dr. Bob Kahn, President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

　

10:00 am

　

Break

Part II: Faculty from the department speak(622M)

　

10:30 am

　

Faculty from the department speak.
Session Chair: Professor Kathleen McKeown

　

Mihalis Yanakakis		Testing, Optimization and Games
Rocco Servedio		Influences of Variables in Decision Trees
Ravi Ramamoorthi		Computer Graphics at Columbia
Jason Nieh		Secure Remote Computing Services
Julia Hirschberg		Recognizing Emotional Speech

　

12:00 pm

　

Lunch

Part III: Lunch speaker(126M)

12:45 - 1:15 pm

　

Lunch speaker, Introduced by Professor Yechiam Yemini

　

Don Ferguson

The Convergence of Web Services, Grid Service and Business Process Management

Part IV: PhD alumni speakers I (545M)

　

1:30 pm

　

PhD alumni speakers I
Session Chair: Professor Gail Kaiser

　

Dannie Durand		Evaluating Genome Evolution
David Kurlander		Trials and Tribulations Bringing Research to Product
James Kurose		From Queues to QoS to Querying Sensors: What I Learned at Columbia 25 Years Ago Finds New and Continuing Application Every Day
David Lee		Life at Columbia and Beyond

　

2:30 pm

　

Break

Part V: PhD alumni speakers II (437M)

　

3:00 pm

　

PhD alumni speakers II
Session Chair: Professor Steven Feiner

　

Daniel Miranker		Metric-Space Database Management to Support Molecular Biology
Cecile Paris		From New York to Sydney, from Language Technology to Multi-disciplinary Research
Michael Reed		Lead Character Modeling for Feature Animation

　

4:00 pm

　

Break

Part VI: Undergraduate and Masters alumni speakers (504M)

　

4:30 pm

　

Undergraduate and Masters alumni speakers
Session Chair: Professor Peter Allen

　

Joshua Bloch		Has it Really Been 25 Years?
Seth Haberman		What I Learned at Columbia
Christy Lauridsen		University Technology Transfer
Wilfredo Marrero		Brutus: A Model Checker for Security Protocols

　

5:30 pm

　

End

　

6:00 pm

　

Reception and Poster/Demo Session