CSCI 8990                       Research Seminar                      Fall 2009 

                               Schedule of Talks


Friday August 21  --  organizational meeting
  The Guidelines were discussed in detail and the schedule was outlined. 

Friday August 28  --  two 25 min. talks: Man Chon (Kevin) U & Douglas Brewer
  The Apache Filter API (Brewer)
  User-Oriented Document Summarization through Vision-Based Eye-Tracking (Kevin)

Friday September 4  --  two 25 min. talks: Kitae Myoung & Qi Li
  Dreamweaver (Myoung)
  Apache Ant (Li)

Friday September 11  --  two 25 min. talks: Vasim Mahamuda & Jeremy Jones
  Cloud Computing (Mahamuda)
  Programming in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and XNA (Jones)

Friday September 18  --  CS Faculty Retreat (no talk)

Friday September 25   --  two 25 min. talks: Rohit Mullangi & Charu Vijayagopal
  JavaFX (Mullangi)
  ROBOFORM Password manager (Vijayagopal)

Friday October 2  --  50 min. research talk: Vasim Mahamuda
  Computational Metagenomics -- Discovering the "Unculturable" Microbial World

Friday October 9   --  50 min. research talk: Douglas Brewer 
  Combating Click Fraud with Duplicate Detection

Friday October 16  --  50 min. research talk: Rohit Mullangi
  Scalable Decentralized Search for Peer-to-Peer Systems

Friday October 23  --  50 min. research talk: Man Chon (Kevin) U
  Nonlinear Forecasting for Financial Markets 

Friday October 30  --  Fall Break (no classes; no talk) 

Friday November 6  --  50 min. research talk: Kitae Myoung
  Question Answering in the Semantic Web

Friday November 13  --  no talk today

Friday November 20  --  50 min. research talk: Jeremy Jones
  Brain-Computer Interfaces

Friday November 27  -- Thanksgiving holiday (no classes; no talk)

Friday December 4  --  50 min. research talk: Qi Li
  SINA -- Scalable Incremental Processing of Continuous Queries in
          Spatio-temporal Databases

Tuesday December 8  --  50 min. research talk: Charu Vijayagopal
  Partitioned Scheduling with Fewer Processors