Basser Seminar Series

2010 Seminars

• All your database belong to us, Dr Jim Webber, Neo Technology
• The Microsoft Biology Foundation, an Open Source Framework for Bioinformatics, Dr Simon Mercer, Director of Health & Wellbeing, Microsoft Research
• How can we use clinical corpora to assist the clinician, her managers and clinical research?, Associate Professor Hercules Dalianis, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, (DSV), Stockholm University, Sweden
• New trends in Web development: Connecting the physical realm to the digital world, Associate Professor Paulo F. Pires, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte / Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
• Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks , Associate Professor Flávia C. Delicato, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte / Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
• Global Software Engineering Research in a Small Country, Professor Kevin Ryan, Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
• Scaling issues in intelligent learning environments for intercultural skills, Dr W. Lewis Johnson, President and Chief Scientist, Alelo, Inc.
• Challenge Identification for Network Resilience
  Professor Michael Fry, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
• Scalable Data Processing for High-Throughput Genomics, Dr Uwe Roehm, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
• Foundations for Cluster Validity, Professor Vladimir Estivill-Castro, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University
• A Collaborative Monitoring Mechanism for Making a Multitenant Platform Accountable, Dr Ying Zhou, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
• Another Go at Language Design, Rob Pike, Distinguished Engineer, Google
• Trees, Enzymes, Computers: Challenges in Bioinformatics, Professor Greg Butler, Computer Science and Enginnering, Concordia University
• Accountability as a Service for the Cloud, Jinhu Yao, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney
• CSHelp: Automatic Self-healing for Multiple Application Instances in a Virtual Machine Environment, Associate Professor Bing Bing Zhou, School of IT, University of Sydney
• Combinatorial Rigidity: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Professor Naoki Katoh, Kyoto University
• Dynamics of Network Structure and Content in Social Media, Professor Ramayya Krishnan, School of Information Systems and Management Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
• The Anatomy of a Graph Visualization System, Professor Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia
• Learning Local Lessons in Software Engineering, Dr Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
• SGViewer: a faceted search interface that blends aggregate views with point distributional views that reveal clusters and outliers, Dr Mark Sifer, University of Wollongong
• Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, Professor Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
• The "Physics" of Notations: Towards a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering, Dr Daniel Moody, Senior Consultant, Ajilon Australia
• Power Allocation and Task Scheduling on Multiprocessor Computers with Energy and Time Constraints, Professor Keqin Li, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York
• iTCM: IT meeting TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Dr Josiah Poon, School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Data Cleansing as a Transient Service, Dr Mukesh Mohania, STSM and Senior Manager, IBM Research, India
• Advances in Digital Business Service Ecosystems, Associate Professor Youakim Badr, French National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA)
• Feature Selection and Caching: Extensions of the Relevant-Set Correlation Model, Professor Michael E. Houle, Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
• Build intelligence from the physical world, Dr Xing Xie, Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia
• Practical and Effective symbolic analysis for buffer overflow detection, Dr Lian Li, Sunlabs, Oracle
• Aspects of research in VANETS: Information dissemination and Next Generation Mobile Networks: Cooperative Interactions, Professor Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus
• The Cyborg Experiments, Professor Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, UK
• Algorithmic Turán-type Problems and Graph Drawing, Professor Peter Eades, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
• Who ‘Dat? Identity resolution in large email collections, Associate Professor Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
• Ruminations about the US Smart Grid project, Len Bass, Senior Member of Technical Staff,
  Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University
• Information Technology Workforce Skills for the Future, Dr Kate M Kaiser, Marquette University
• e-Science Central - Science as a Service, Professor Paul Watson, Professor of Computer Science, Newcastle University UK