| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | September | 10 | - | General Discussion |
| 17 | Hila Becker | Local Event Detection | |
| 24 | Yang Ye | The Claremont Report | |
| October | 1 | Matthew Solomon | Entity Extraction via Ensemble Semantics Marco Pennachiotti and Patrick Pantel, Yahoo! Labs | Friday 9th At 1:00 P.M. |
Julia Stoyanovich Thesis defense |
Search and Ranking in Semantically Rich Applications Julia Stoyanovich. Adviser: Kenneth Ross |
15 | Pablo Barrio | Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova, Alon Halevy |
29 | Hila Becker | Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, and Jon Kleinberg, from KDD2009 |
November | 5 | Yang Ye | Social Influence Analysis in Large-scale Networks Jie Tang, Jimen Sun, Chi Wang, Zi Yang |