University of Toronto
Department of Computer Sciences Colloquia

A Series of Distinguished Lectures on Computer Science:
Its Theory, Practice, Applications and Implications


September 1996 to May 1997

All lectures take place on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon. Lectures in the fall will be held in Galbraith 248, 35 St. George St. Lectures in the spring will be held in in Sandford Fleming 1105, 10 King's College Road. Refreshments will be served in the area outside of the lecture room from 12 to 12:30.



November 26, 1996
Chris Brown, University of Rochester
Modern Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, and Interactive Modeling

December 3, 1996
Ric Hehner, University of Toronto
Boolean Formalism and Explanations

December 10, 1996
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton
Randomness and Pseudo-Randomness in Discrete Mathematics

January 21, 1997
Jonathan Rose, University of Toronto
How to Make Hardware Soft with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

January 28, 1997
Jeff Ullman, Stanford University
Designing Data Warehouses

February 4, 1997
Bart Selman, AT&T
Facing Computational Challenges in AI: Stochastic Search and Reasoning Strategies

April 1, 1997
Charles van Loan, Cornell University
Applications of the Kronecker Product

April 22, 1997
Stephen Omohundro, NEC Research Institute
Learning Stochastic Grammars




This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and by the Information Technology Research Centre of the Province of Ontario.


Updated October 21, 1996. This page is maintained by Michiel van de Panne