Bekey Lecture
The Computer Science Department’s annual keynote lecture has been named for
George Bekey, the roboticist known for the extraordinary versatility and exceptional quality of his work during his long career at the Viterbi School.
Bekey is the 2005 winner of the IEEE Technical Field Award in Robotics and Automation, the highest technical award in its area. He was one of the founders of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the first editor of its Transactions.
Bekey was the chair of electrical engineering/systems at USC when the department was first formed, and a former chair of the computer science department. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.
2012 Speaker
Michael Kearns
University of Pennsylvania
"Experiments in Social Computation"
February 7, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
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Past Speakers
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2011
Michael I. Jordan
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of EECS and Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
"Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics"
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2010
John E. Hopcroft
IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Cornell University
"Computer Science Theory to Support Research in the Information Age"
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2009
Tom Mitchell, Ph.D.
Fredkin Professor of AI & Machine Learning Chair Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
"Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics"
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2007/08 Speaker
Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include Million Book Digital Library Project; Fiber To The Village Project; and Learning by Doing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand in 1984, the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Honda Prize in 2005 and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001.
"Technology and Society"
This talk will present several examples of how Technology, in particular Information Technology, can contribute to a wide range of human activities. In particular we will discuss societal applications of Robotics, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Language Understanding Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.
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2007
Ed Lazowska (inaugural lecture)
"Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future"
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