Shmuel Winograd's 70th Birthday Colloquium
Tuesday July 25, 2006


IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

A colloquium in honor of Shmuel Winograd's 70th birthday will be held at the auditorium of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, on Tuesday July 25, 2006, starting at 1:00 PM.



Program:
1:00 - 1:15 Opening remarks
1:15 - 2:15 Prof. Richard M. Karp, University of California at Berkeley
Determination of a Partial Order Using Membership Queries
2:15 - 2:45 Dr. Barry M. Trager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Burst Error Correction for Reed-Solomon Codes
2:45 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:15 Prof. Michael O. Rabin, Harvard University
Provably Unbreakable Encryption in the Limited Access Model and Everlasting Secrets


Outside visitors are advised to pre-register by email to mariami@us.ibm.com