CS Distinguished Lecture Series

Fall 2025 Distinguished Lectures

September26

Online Display Advertising: Market Design with Competing Intermediaries

Paul R. Milgrom

2020 Economics Nobel Laureate, Stanford University

11:00 AM

Calit2

Abstract: As many consumers shifted their reading from offline to online publications, ad tech intermediaries emerged to enable online advertising. Some of the new technologies…

October3

CS Seminar Series

The Long and Winding Road to Energy Efficiency Using Customized Computer Architectures

Dr. Scott Mahlke

Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Sciences in the EECS Department at the University of Michigan

11:00 AM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Customized computer architectures are specially designed processors and accelerators that match the hardware capabilities with the underlying computation, memory, and control behavior of a…

Spring 2024 Distinguished Lectures

April5

CS Seminar Series

Distinguished Lecture: Fast and Simple Sorting Using Partial Information

Robert E. Tarjan

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University

11:00 AM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: We consider the problem of sorting a set of items having an unknown total order by doing binary comparisons of the items, given the…

Fall 2023 Distinguished Lectures

September29

CS Seminar Series

Distinguished Lecture Series: “Testing Quantumness in the NISQ Era”

Umesh Vazirani

Strauch Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Quantum Computing Center

11:00 AM

Calit2 Auditorium, Calit2

Abstract: We are well into the NISQ era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Computers. Four years on from Google’s “quantum supremacy” experiment, we have a…

November21

CS Seminar Series

Distinguished Lecture: All-day Augmented Reality Glasses: Promises and Problems

Henry Fuchs

Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00 PM

Donald Bren Hall

Many of us foresee of a future in which AR eyeglasses are worn all day, replacing, and enhancing of our current prescription eyewear. That future…