Program for the CSAIL Student Workshop, 2008 

 

8:30 AM	Bus leaves Stata Center
9:45	Registration
10:10	Opening Remarks
10:20	Session 1: Learning
11:20	Break
11:30	Session 2: Semantic Systems
12:30 PM	Break
1:00	Lunch
3:00	Session 3: Systems
4:00	Break
4:15	Invited Talk by an ITA representative
4:45	Session 4: Theory
5:35	Break
6:30	Dinner
7:30	Faculty Panel
8:15	Closing Remarks
8:45	Return to Cambridge

 

 

Session Chair: Albert Huang

 

Talk | Bias Variance Machines (Xiaoqian Jiang, Xiaoli Gao) 

 

Talk | A Vision‐Based Navigation Assistant (Oliver Koch, Seth Teller) 

 

Short talk | Learning the Uncertainty Propagation in Nonlinear Systems for Informative Path 

Planning (Sooho Park, Nicholas Roy) 

 

Short talk | Learning Visual Senses of Polysemous Words (Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell)

 

 

Session Chair:

 

Talk | Linking Natural Languages and Programming Languages (Gregory Marton) 

 

Talk | The Point of View Axis: Varying the Levels of Explanation within a Generic RDF Data 

Browsing Environment (Oshani Seneviratne, Tim Berners‐Lee) 

 

Wild and Crazy Ideas | A Byproduct of Home Water Heaters (Dave Wentzlaff)

 

Wild and Crazy Ideas | Achieving Intra-disk Parallelism via Redundancy (Jonathan Ragan Kelley)

 

Wild and Crazy Ideas | Retrieving Compass Direction from a Single Cellphone Image (Jiawen Chen)

 

 

Session Chair: David Wentzlaff

 

Talk | H‐Store: Building a Really Fast, Specialized, Database  (Evan Jones, Daniel Abadi, Sam Madden, Michael Stonebreaker, Yang Zhang) 

 

Talk | The Organic Template Library: A Parallel Runtime‐Adaptive C++ Library

 (Jonathan Eastep, Harshad Kasture, Anant Agrawal) 

 

Short Talk | Abstractions for Decentralized Data Synchronization (Jacob Strauss, Chris

Lesniewski-Laas, Bryan Ford, Robert Morris, Frans Kaashoek)

 

Short Talk | Real-Time Hand-Tracking as a User Input Device (Robert Wang)

 

 

Session Chair:

 

Talk | Fully Persistent Hash Tables (Eric Price, Erik Demaine, Stefan Langerman) 

 

Talk | Connectivity Service for Mobile Ad‐Hoc Networks (Alex Cornejo, Nancy Lynch) 

 

Short Talk | A Pseudopolynomial Algorithm for Alexandrov's Theorem (Greg Price, Erik Demaine, Daniel Kane)

 

 

James R. Russell, VP of Pricing and Shopping Systems, ITA

 

James is responsible for the development and delivery of ITA Software's premier management system for airfare pricing and shopping, bringing over 20 years of experience in software development and management to the role. Prior to joining ITA, James held executive positions in Lotus and WebSphere divisions of IBM Software, delivering innovative technology for the Notes, WebSphere and Workplace platforms. Prior to that, he served as Director of Software Technology and other positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. James has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and S.B. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT.

 

 

Invited Faculty:

 

Prof. Regina Barzilay	Prof. Eric Grimson
Prof. Sam Madden	Prof. Martin Rinard

 

Panel Moderator: James Cowling