Computer Science

Departmental Seminars 1996

Room 212, Pearson Building

4pm followed by tea at 5pm

The departmental seminar series is open to all.

Abstracts are available for highlighted titles.

Summer series

Autumn series

Other years are available from the page for the current year

Spring

16 January: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Robin Hirsch, UCL R.Hirsch@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Building representations using games

23 January: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Vicky Hardman, UCL V.Hardman@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Robust-Audio for the Mbone (RAT)

30 January: Chair: Janet McDonnell; Speaker: Bill Langdon, UCL W.Langdon@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Scheduling Planned Maintenance of the UK National Grid

6 February: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Sean Holden, UCL S.Holden@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Estimating the error probability of machine learning algorithms

13 February: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Mel Slater, UCL M.Slater@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments

20 February: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Jon Crowcroft, UCL J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Copyright, Patent and Software - Applicability to Interfaces and Internals

27 February: Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Woody Barfield, University of Washington; Research in Virtual Environments, Computer Graphics, and Augmented Reality

5 March: Chair: Jon Crowcroft; Speaker: Adil Qureshi, UCL A.Qureshi@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Evolving agents

12 March: Chair: Vicky Hardman; Speaker: David Parrish, Loughborough University; Concealment of image errors due to cell loss in an ATM network.

19 March: Chair: Vicky Hardman; Speaker: Chris Adams, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; TBA

Summer

5 June: Chair: Steve Wilbur

Autumn

5 September: Chair: Peter Kirstein; Speaker: Doug Hughes, Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education (CANARIE), Canada

19 September: Chair: Jon Crowcroft; Speaker: Steven McCanne, University of California, Berkeley. mccanne@ee.lbl.gov; Low Complexity Layered Video Compression for the Internet

26 September: Chair: Stephen Hailes; Speaker: Alfarez Abdul-Rahman, UCL F.AbdulRahman@cs.ucl.ac.uk; A Distributed Trust Model

3 October: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: David Fulton; So many methodologies, so little time ...

10 October: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Mark Handley M.Handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Reliable Multicast - not quite an oxymoron

17 October: Chair: Chris Clack; Speaker: Lee Braine, UCL L.Braine@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Software - The Next Generation: Object-Oriented Functional Programming

24 October SPECIAL SEMINAR FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: John Nicholles, UCL Careers Services; Employers and recruitment

31 October: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Alan Penn, Bartlett School of Architecture & Planning, UCL; Virtual Reality and The Built Environment

7 November: Chair: Vicky Hardman; Speaker: Isidor Kouvelas, UCL I.Kouvelas@cs.ucl.ac.uk; Synchronising Multicast Audio and Video

14 November: Chair: Jon Crowcroft; Speaker: Joe Touch, ISI/University of Southern California.; Protocol Performance for Distributed Object Interaction

21 November: Chair: Peter Kirstein; Speaker: Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts; Optimal Smoothing of Stored Video: Impact on Network Resources.

28 November SPECIAL SEMINAR FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: John Nicholles, UCL Careers Services; Postgraduate Studies - Options and Funding

5 December: Chair: Robin Hirsch; Speaker: Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Birmingham.; Model checking quantitative temporal properties.

12 December: Chair:; Speaker: Steve Freeman, OTI.; The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce.

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