Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecturer Series
The Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecturer Series has been bringing eminent researchers from all over the world to speak at CSL since 1979. It is just one of the lasting legacies of the former CSL director who started the lecture series.
Speaker | Date | Title |
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Dr. Steven Lavalle University of Oulu |
Oct. 11, 2023 | "Robot planning and the path to minimalism" |
Dr. Kristin Pettersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) |
March 23, 2023 | "Snake robotics research to a new class of marine robots" |
Dr. Andrea Goldsmith Princeton University |
April 26, 2022 | "Imagining the Next Generation of Wireless Networks" |
Dr. Christos Papadimitriou Columbia University |
Feb. 9, 2022 | "How does the brain beget the mind?" |
Dr. Michael Levin Tufts University |
Nov. 17, 2021 | "Basal Cognition Outside the Brain: the future of regenerative medicine, AI, and synthetic living machines" |
Dr. Claire Tomlin University of California, Berkeley |
Feb. 10, 2021 | "Safe Learning in Robotics" |
Dr. Jon Kleinberg Cornell University |
May 8, 2019 | "Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness" |
Dr. Maja Mataric University of Southern California |
February 27, 2019 | "Automation vs. Augmentation – Assistive Robots and the Future of Work" |
Dr. Dina Katabi Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
April 27, 2018 | "Passive In-Home Health Monitoring: From Wearables to Invisibles" |
Dr. Stephen Boyd Stanford University |
October 13, 2017 | "Convex Optimization" |
Dr. H. Vincent Poor Princeton University |
April 26, 2017 | "Smart Grid: Energy Meets Information" |
Dr. Jean Walrand University of California, Berkeley |
March 7, 2017 | "Scheduling Surgeries" |
Dr. Andrew Chien University of Chicago |
Sept. 6, 2016 | "Zero-Carbon Cloud: Can Dispatchable Computing Loads Shrink Computing’s Rapidly Growing Carbon" |
Paola Pirjanian iRobot |
Sept. 9, 2015 | “Robotics and Entrepreneurship” |
Stéphane Mallat CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique |
October 17, 2014 | "Learning Signals, Images and Physics with Deep Neural Networks" |
John N. Tsitsiklis Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
April 29, 2014 | "On the Power of (Even a Little) Resource Pooling and Flexibility" |
A. Robert Calderbank Duke University |
October 1, 2013 | "Big Data at Duke" |
Maurice Herlihy Brown University |
April 9, 2013 | "Type-Specific Synchronization for Software Transactional Memory" |
Vijay Kumar University of Pennsylvania |
April 8, 2013 | "Aerial Robot Swarms" |
Gottfried Ungerboeck University of Notre Dame |
November 12, 2010 | "PHY Layer Technologies: Evolutions in Transmission Rates, Transmission Efficiencies and Signal Processing" |
Charlie Sodini Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
November 13, 2009 | "Silicon mm-Wave Imaging Arrays" |
Dr. Karl Aström Lund University, Sweden |
November 4, 2009 | "The Future of Control" |
K. Mani Chandy California Institute of Technology |
March 10, 2009 | "An Attempt at Integrating Ideas from Distributed Control, Temporal Logic and Game Theory" |
Dr. Yannis Tsividis Columbia University |
November 11, 2008 |
"Analog-Inspired DSP" |
Dr. Martin Wikelski Princeton University |
October 22, 2008 | |
Dr. Shekhar Borkar Intel Fellow |
April 11, 2006 | "Extending and Expanding: Moor's Law Challenges and Opportunities" |
Professor Nancy Lynch Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
April 12, 2005 | “Virtual Node Infrastructures For Mobile Wireless Networks” |
Dr. Steven M. Bellovin AT&T Labs-Research |
December 1, 2004 | “Nuclear Weapons, Permissive Action Links, and the History Of Public Key Cryptography” |
Professor Chenming Hu University of California, Berkeley |
October 8, 2004 | “How Much Longer CMOS?” |
Professor Nancy Leveson Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
May 4, 2004 | “A New Model of Accident Causation” |
Professor Joachim Hagenauer Institute of Communications Engineering Munich University of Technology |
February 25, 2003 | “The Turbo Principle in Communications Systems" |
Professor Yale N. Patt University of Texas at Austin |
December 5, 2002 | “The High Performance Micro-processor” |
Professor Ronald W. Schafer Georgia Institute of Technology |
November 9, 2000 | “DSP Research and Education: Past, Present, and Future” |
Professor Mischa Schwartz Columbia University |
April 12, 2000 | “Multimedia Wireless Networks of the Future – Some Research Issues To Be Addressed" |
Professor James L. Massey Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
March 29, 2000 | “Prognosis for 21st Century Cryptography” |
Dr. James F. Kaiser Duke University |
February 25, 1999 | “Engineering vs. Science in Problem Solving—A Perspective” |
Professor Alberto Isidori University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy and Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
September 15, 1997 | “Nonlinear Feedback Design” |
Dr. Tsuneo Nakahara Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. |
December 6, 1996 | “Fiber Optic Industry in a Borderless Economy” |
Dr. Samuel H. Fuller Digital Equipment Corporation |
October 29, 1996 | “Future of Information Systems: Technology Drivers, Trends, and Possibilities" |
Dr. Stephen W. Director Carnegie Mellon University |
November 14, 1995 | “A Formal Basis for Design Process Planning and Management" |
Professor Brian Randell University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
February 21, 1995 | "Fault Tolerance in Concurrent Object-Oriented Software through Coordinated Error Recovery" |
Professor E. J. Davison University of Toronto |
May 2, 1994 |
“Intelligent Control of Complex Systems" |
Dr. Hiroyuki Sakaki University of Tokyo and Japan Research Development Corp. |
April 8, 1994 | “Quantum Structure Materials and Devices for Advanced Electronics - Current Status and Outlook" |
Professor William A. Wulf University of Virginia |
December 9, 1993 | “Processors are Getting Faster. Faster than Memories are Getting Faster" |
Dr. Pallab Chatterjee Texas Instruments |
October 13, 1993 | “Impact of Gigachip Technologies on Future Systems" |
Professor Bede Liu Princeton University |
October 6, 1993 |
“Some Recent Work on Motion Compensated Video Coding" |
Dr. William C. Holton Semiconductor Research Corporation |
September 17, 1993 | “The Role of the University in Today's Economic Environment" |
Dr. Kenneth L. Davis Motorola Corporation |
September 17, 1993 |
“University-Industry Research Relationships" |
Dr. J. Iafrate U.S. Army Research Office |
September 17, 1993 | “Managing Science and Technology" |
Professor Dimitri P. Bertsekas Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
March 22, 1993 | “Auction Algorithms: A New Generation of Linear Network Optimization Methods" |
Professor Robert M. Gray Stanford University |
March 15, 1993 | “Clustering and Classification Trees for Image and Compression Classification" |
Professor Ernest S. Kuh University of California, Berkeley |
November 1, 1991 | “Physical Design in Microelectronics: Past, Present and Future" |
Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy University of California, Berkeley |
April 23, 1991 | “Software Engineering: Status and Trends" |
Professor J. K. Aggarwal University of Texas at Austin |
March 8, 1991 | “Computer Vision: A Perspective" |
Professor Donald L. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis |
October 26, 1990 | “Stargazing with Estimation Theory (Application of Medical Imaging Techniques)" |
Dr. Jerry M. Woodall IBM Research Division T. J. Watson Research Center |
April 10, 1990 | “The Rise and Fall of GaAs. What's Next?" |
Professor Yakov Tsypkin Institute of Control Problems Moscow, USSR |
December 5, 1989 | “When is it Optimal to Mix Online and Batch Data Processing?" |
Professor Thomas M. Cover Stanford University |
November 10, 1989 | “Information Theory and the Stock Market" |
Professor Algirdas Avizienis University of California, Los Angeles |
March 14, 1989 | “Can We Write Software that We Can Trust" |
Professor Michael Brady University of Oxford |
April 21, 1988 | “The Problems of Robotics" |
Professor Robert G. Gallager Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
October 13, 1987 | “Energy Limited Communication Channels: Coding, Multiaccess and Spread Spectrum" |
Professor John Bardeen University of Illinois Nobel Prize winner |
May 12, 1987 | “Recent Developments in Superconductivity" |
Dr. Klaus von Klitzing Max Planck Institute |
October 13, 1986 | “Physics and Applications of the Quantum Hall Effect" |
Dr. John Hopfield California Institute of Technology |
April 9, 1986 | “Collective Computation by 'Neutral' Networks" |
Dr. Robert E. Brayton University of California |
December 6, 1985 | “Algorithms for Optimizing Silicon Compilers" |
Dr. Horst L. Stormer AT&T Bell Laboratories |
September 23, 1985 |
“Two-Dimensional Physics in High Magnetic Fields" |
Dr. Edward J. McCluskey Stanford University |
September 4, 1985 | “VLSI-Oriented Built-In Self Test” |
Prof. Mark A. Aizerman Institute of Control Sciences Moscow, USSR |
March 6, 1985 | “Search for the Better: A Broader View on Optimization" |
Dr. W. Fichtner AT&T Bell Laboratories |
March 5, 1985 | “Supercomputers in VLSI Technology Development and Device Design" |
Professor James L. Merz University of California, Santa Barbara |
February 18, 1985 | “The Visible and the Invisible of Semiconductors: Defects and Other Effects" |
Professor Stewart D. Personick Bell Communications Research, Inc. |
September 12, 1984 | “Optical Fiber Communications Technology and Applications - Present and Future" |
Professor T. C. McGill California Institute of Technology |
April 25, 1984 | “Superlattices and Small Structures for Electronic Devices for the 1990s" |
Professor Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland at College Park |
April 10, 1984 | “Human and Machine Vision” |
Professor Karl Astrom Lund Institute of Technology |
December 5, 1983 | “Theory and Applications of Adaptive Control" |
Dr. J. L. Lions Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et an Automatic |
March 10, 1982 |
“Trends in Homogenization Theory" |
Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi LINKABIT Corporation |
November 3, 1980 | “Some Theoretical Foundations for New Communication Network Services" |
Professor Hans Bethe Cornell University Nobel Prize |
May 6, 1980 | “Nuclear Energy” |
Professor D.O. Pederson University of California, Berkeley |
April 9, 1980 |
“The Status of Computer Aided Design for Integrated Circuits in the U.S., Europe and Japan" |
Professor Herbert Simon Carnegie-Mellon University Nobel Prize |
November 14, 1979 | "Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making" |
Dr. Robert W. Lucky Bell Telephone Laboratories |
October 25, 1979 | “Telecommunication in the Future” |