1999 CSD Immigration Course Schedule as of 10:00pm Sept 1 /afs/cs/usr/seth/public_html/IC99/schedule.txt =========================================================================== Monday, August 23 WEEK 1 9:00 - 9:15 IC Welcome (Seth Goldstein) 9:15 - 10:15 The Computer Science Department (Randy Bryant) 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 The Computer Science PhD Program (Jeannette Wing) 12:00 - 1:45 New Students' Lunch [Rangos 1 and 2, University Center, 2nd floor] 1:45 - 3:00 Allen Newell Video: Desires and Diversions (Catherine Copetas) 3:00 - 3:15 Building Facilities Introduction (Jim Skees) 3:15 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:45 Departmental Introductions (EVERYONE) 5:00 - 11:00 Doc's Happy Hour [Doc's, Walnut Street] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 24 WEEK 1 9:00 - 10:00 Computing Facilities Introduction (Clauss Strauch) 10:00 - 10:45 Overview Talk: Algorithms and Theory (Gary Miller) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:45 Overview Talk: OS and Networking (Hui Zhang) 11:45 - 1:15 Lunch 1:15 - 2:15 How to Compute Like a Grad Student (Joseph O'Sullivan, John Carol Langford, Robert O'Callahan) 2:15 - 3:00 Overview Talk: AI and Physical Interaction (Reid Simmons) 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:00 Overview Talk: Architecture and Compilers (Seth Goldstein) 4:00 - 4:45 Grad Student Survival (Alma Whitten) 7:00 - 9:00 Introduction to Living in Pittsburgh (Scott Fahlman) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 25 WEEK 1 9:30 - 10:30 What is Research? (Herb Simon) 10:30 - 11:00 Faculty Talk (Herb Simon) 11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:00 Overview Talk: Information & Data Mining (Tom Mitchell) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:15 Overview Talk: Programming Languages (Karl Crary) 2:15 - 3:00 The School of Computer Science (Jim Morris) 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:15 Faculty Talks: (Steve Brookes, Frank Pfenning) 4:15 - 5:00 Overview Talk: Multimedia & Interface Technology (Dan Siewiorek) 7:00 - 9:00 SCS Grad Women Welcome Potluck (Brigitte Pientka) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 26 WEEK 1 9:30 - 11:00 Faculty Talks (Garth Gibson, Satya, Mor Harchol-Balter) 11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:00 Overview Talk: AI and Cognition (Raul Valdes-Perez) 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Faculty Talks (Andrew Moore, Sebastian Thrun, Tom Mitchell) 7:00 - ???? Computer Systems Party (Seth Goldstein) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 27 WEEK 1 9:30 - 10:15 Overview Talk: Software Engineering and Formal Methods (Jeannette Wing) 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Faculty Talks (Todd C. Mowry, Thomas Gross, Seth Goldstein) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Faculty Talks (Christos Faloutsos, Jaime Carbonell, John Lafferty) 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:45 Faculty Talks (Peter Steenkiste, Hui Zhang, Dave Johnson) 5:00 - ???? Welcome (back) TG [Wean Hall 4623] 7:00 - ???? IC Pub Crawl (Chris Palmer) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 30 WEEK 2 9:30 - 11:00 Faculty Talks (Edmund M. Clarke, Randy Bryant, Jeannette M. Wing) 11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:00 E&S Library Introduction and Tour (Missy Harvey) [Meet at E&S Library, Wean Hall, 4th floor] 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Faculty Talks (Mike Lewicki, Dave Touretzky) 4:15 - 5:30 Distinguished Lecture Series [Doherty Hall 2315] 7:00 - ???? Theory party (Manuel Blum, Lenore Blum) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 31 WEEK 2 9:30 - 10:15 Entrepreneurship for Computer Scientists (Eric Cooper) 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:30 Faculty Talks (David Garlan, Mary Shaw) 11:30 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Faculty Talks (Matt Mason, Michael Erdmann, Reid Simmons) 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:45 Faculty Talks (Roger B. Dannenberg, Paul Heckbert, Dave McKeown) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 1 WEEK 2 9:30 - 10:30 Faculty Talks (Alex Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld) 10:30 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 12:15 Faculty Talks (Steven Rudich, Manuel Blum, Avrim Blum) 12:15 - 2:00 SPHINX Lab Lunch [Wean Hall 5409] 2:00 - 3:00 Faculty Talks (Randy Pausch, Dan Siewiorek) 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:15 Panel Discussion (Weng-Keen Wong) 4:15 - 7:00 Scavenger Hunt (David Maltz) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 2 WEEK 2 9:30 - 11:00 Faculty Talks (Raul Valdes-Perez, john anderson, Brad Myers) 11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:15 Faculty Talks (Peter Lee, John Reynolds) 12:15 - 2:00 Stage 3 Lab Lunch [Wean Hall 2306] 2:30 - 3:30 Faculty Talks (Alex Waibel, Scott Hudson) 3:30 - 4:30 How to Successfully complete a CMU CS PhD (Randy Pausch) 7:00 - ???? IC Beer Brewing Night (Belinda Thom) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 3 WEEK 2 9:30 - 10:30 Faculty Talks (Yiming Yang, Howard Wactlar) 10:30 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 11:45 Faculty Talks (Gary Miller, Guy Blelloch) 12:00 - 1:00 Student Seminar Series Lunch [Wean Hall 8220] 1:00 - 2:00 Faculty Talks (Karl Crary, Robert Harper) 2:00 - 2:15 Break 2:15 - 2:45 Faculty Talks (Manuel Blum) 2:45 - 3:15 Faculty Talks (Roy Maxion) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, September 6 WEEK 3 LABOR DAY 7:00 - ???? Programming Systems Party (Robert Harper) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 7 WEEK 3 7:00 - ???? Pirates Game (Angela Brown) [Three Rivers Stadium] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 8 WEEK 3 7:00 - ???? AI Party (Sebastian Thrun) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 9 WEEK 3 7:00 - ???? HCI Party (Bonnie John) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 10 WEEK 3 4:30 - ???? Pretty Good Race (Jim Tomayko) 5:00 - ???? Pretty Good Race TG [Wean Hall 4623] ===========================================================================