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Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CS Department Colloquium Series 		Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: Moses Charikar
From Potential to Promise - Developing Scholars, one Eureka moment at a time
Rajiv Gandhi, Rutgers University, Camden
[view abstract].

Thursday, October 3, 2013, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talk 		Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
(Hosted by Student ACM Club)
Khan Academy Tech Talk
John Resig, Khan Academy
[view abstract].

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Talk 		Computer Science 302
Host: Laurent Vanbever
Towards combining the advantages of SDN and distributed routing protocols
Stefano Vissicchio, University of Louvain
[view abstract].

Thursday, October 10, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CS Department Colloquium Series 		Friend Center 006
Host: Michael Freedman
Medical Device Cyber Security: The First 164 Years
Kevin Fu, University of Michigan
[view abstract].

Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Distinguished Colloquium Series Speaker 		Friend Center 006
Host: David Blei
On the Computational and Statistical Interface and
Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
[view abstract].

Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CITP Event 		Computer Science Large Auditorium (Room 104)
Taking Education Online: A Unique Opportunity for the New Millenium
Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University

In the early years of the third millenium, most professors are still teaching in virtually the same way they were taught and their teachers were taught, stretching back centuries. This situation is likely to change, and soon. Technology is transforming (if not threatening to overwhelm) higher education, as MOOCs and online content become widely available. University students seeking to learn a topic who now have little if any choice are about to be presented with a vast array of choices. What student would not want to swap a tired professor writing slowly on a chalkboard for a well-produced series of videos and associated content, given by a world leader in the field? We are on the verge of a transformation on the scale of the transformation wrought by Gutenburg. This imminent change raises a host of fascinating and far-reaching questions.

Robert Sedgewick is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems.

Professor Sedgewick�s research interests revolve around algorithm design, including mathematical techniques for the analysis of algorithms. He has published widely in these areas and is the author of sixteen books, including a well-known series of textbooks on algorithms that have sold over one-half million copies. His other recently published books are �An Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach� (with K. Wayne) and �Analytic Combinatorics� (with P. Flajolet). He is currently actively engaged in developing web content and online courses based on these books.


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Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CS Department Colloquium Series 		Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: Zeev Dvir
Colloquium Speaker: Sergey Yekhanin
Sergey Yekhanin
[view abstract].

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Distinguished Colloquium Series Speaker 		Friend Center 006
Host: David Blei
Distinguished Colloquium Speaker: Susan Dumais
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
[view abstract].

Thursday, November 21, 2013, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CS Department Colloquium Series 		Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: David Walker
Colloquium Speaker: Arjun Guha
Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
[view abstract].

Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
CS Department Colloquium Series 		Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: Brian Kernighan
Colloquium Speaker: David Malan
David Malan, Harvard University
[view abstract].