Fall Quarter 2002

(finished--but please join us in Fall 2003!)

"Meet The CS Faculty"
Seminar & Open Discussion
(with refreshments!)

Every Tuesday, 4:00-5:00pm
Main Classroom (Room 381)
Computer Science Dept,
Fall Quarter 2002

  Each week, come hear different CS professors give a 30-minute summary of their research and teaching work, followed by a free-wheeling discussion about the professor’s specialties,  school, the department, work with grad students, research funding, collaboration with others, and more.  In just one quarter, seminar attendees will meet EVERY faculty member in the department, learn what they do and why, and learn how to get started on some fascinating research work.

Date: Professor: Topic:
10/01/2002 Peter Dinda Dynamic Behavior of Distributed Computing Environments
10/08/2002 Larry Birnbaum, 
Kris Hammond		  (Frictionless Information)
10/15/2002  Ken Forbus Bootstrapping Towards Human-level AI
10/22/2002 Don Norman Why Computers should have Emotions  (paper to read)
10/29/2002   Chris Riesbeck Stealth educational reform through authoring tools
11/05/2002   Jack Tumblin, 
Ben Watson		  Computer Graphics, Visual Appearance
11/12/2002 Fabian Bustamante  Distributed Computing: Imagine Computing Power on Tap
11/19/2002  Ming Kao  (Theory, Bioinformatics) 
11/26/2002 Brian Dennis
 Uri Wilensky		 Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia
(Connected Learning, Computer-Based Modeling)
12/03/2002  Ian Horswill  Robotics, or: 'What I Want to Do When I Grow Up'

Everyone is welcome to attend, not just new graduate students.
We want everyone to get to know each other sooner, so ask plenty of questions.

Don’t miss it!  All of the smartest grad. students will be attending
and we think YOU should be one of them!

Background Reading:

For 10/22/02 Seminar by Don Norman: 
    "Affect and Machine Design: Lessons for the Development of Autonomous Machines"

Very Useful Links:

    How to Be a Good Graduate Student -- Marie desJardins' excellent advice for academia
    Advice to a Beginning Grad Student--Manuel Blum's nuggets of wisdom and excellent advice
    Applying to (& doing well) At Ph.D Programs in Computer Science --Good Advice from Mor Hachol-Balter 
                                                                                                                (Blum's student)


    Preparing Future Faculty -- The national program that helps make better new professors.
    Preparing Future Faculty(NU) -- Northwestern University participation in this program

Contact: 

Jack Tumblin
jet@cs.northwestern.edu
 www.cs.northwestern.edu/~jet/
(CS Dept. Colloquium Director)