September 19, 2000
Joseph Hellerstein
University of California, Berkeley
Adaptive Dataflow: Eddies and Rivers
October 17, 2000
Richard Karp
University of California, Berkeley
Algorithms for Congestion Control, Data Distribution
and Multicast on the Internet
October 24, 2000
Geoffrey E. Hinton
University College London
Products of Experts
October 31, 2000
Prabhakar Raghavan
Verity
Networks and Sub-Networks in the World-Wide Web
November 7, 2000
Hector Garcia-Molina
Stanford University
How to Crawl the Web
November 14, 2000
Axel van Lamsweerde
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Building Formal Models for Software
Requirements
November 21, 2000
James Lester
North Carolina State University
Intelligent Multimedia Systems for
Knowledge-Based Learning Environments
November 28, 2000
Justine Cassell
MIT
Conversational Agents Embodied and Embedded in
the World:
Integrating Visible Humans and Invisible Computers
December 1, 2000
Margo
Seltzer
Harvard University
Operating System Extensibility to Improve Application
Performance and Functionality
January 16, 2001
Ronald Baecker
University of Toronto
Software Visualization for Programmers and Users
January 18, 2001
Peter Winkler
Bell Labs
Games People Don't Play
January 25, 2001
Margaret Wright
Bell Labs
What's (Genuinely) New in Constrained
Optimization
February 8, 2001
Michael P. Wellman
University of Michigan
Computational Markets, Decentralized Scheduling, and Trading Agents
March 8, 2001
Jim Snyder
AT&T Research
MPEG Advanced Audio Coder: An Overview
March 13th, 2001
Barbara Liskov
MIT
Persistent Object Repositories in Distributed
Systems
April 12, 2001
Garth Gibson
Carnegie Mellon University
Network Storage Architecture
May 8, 2001
John McCarthy
Stanford University
The Path To Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
May 14, 2001
Frederick Brooks
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality?