[PRL] Harvard Seminars

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Feb 20 13:17:31 EST 2007


Several interesting talks in this digest.  --Mitch

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Today's Topics:

  1. [iic-seminars] IIC SPECIAL Seminar- Edward Tufte
     (colloquium at deas.harvard.edu)
  2. CS Collo. 3/8/07 - Robert Austin (colloquium at deas.harvard.edu)
  3. CS Collo - 2/22/07 - Stuart Cheshire (colloquium at deas.harvard.edu)
  4. CS Collo - Monday, Feb. 26 (colloquium at deas.harvard.edu)


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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:14:30 -0500
Subject: [Colloquium] [iic-seminars] IIC SPECIAL Seminar- Edward Tufte

*Initiative in **Innovative **Computing at Harvard*

***Special Event***

*Wednesday, February 21, 2007; 7:00pm*
*Location: **Biolabs Room 1068, 16 Divinity
Avenue*<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=B&series=W>
* *

*Edward Tufte**,* Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and
Computer Science, and Senior Critic in the School of Art at Yale



Title of Talk:

*An Academic and Otherwise Life, An N = 1.*

* *

*Abstract*

Edward Tufte will talk about his education and careers in statistics,
political economy, analytical design, landscape sculpture, book publishing,
and consulting. A question session will follow the talk.

Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street
Garage<http://iic.harvard.edu/contact.php>and the Broadway
Street Garage<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=B&series=M>.
Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Event with Edward
Tufte.

*Emily E. Lohmann*
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Administrative Assistant
emily_lohmann at harvard.edu
617-384-5922





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Subject: [Colloquium] CS Collo. 3/8/07 - Robert Austin
Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Colloquium

Learning from Expert Innovators

Rob Austin
Harvard Business School


Thursday, March 8, 2007
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin G125
(Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)

Abstract
In this seminar I'll present interim results of a multiyear study of the
processes, principles and practices used by people (and groups)
acclaimed as expert innovators within their specific contexts. For the
purposes of this study, we have defined innovation broadly, as activity
that leads to the creation of valuable novelty, leaving open the
criteria by which value is determined. This allows us to consider
empirically whether there are commonalities in the processes, management
principles, and practices in use across a range of fields in which
innovation is considered important, from the arts, to design,
entertainment, media, and even scientific research. Our methodology is
inductive and case-based. Our objective is to advance general
theoretical understanding of work and management approaches that
repeatedly generate valuable novelty, and to relate the emerging theory
to theoretical constructs in adjacent areas of research, such as
business innovation, the psychology of individual creativity, and the
social psychology of creativity. We find numerous categories of
commonality that transcend fields of application.


Host: Professor Michael Smith








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Subject: [Colloquium] CS Collo - 2/22/07 - Stuart Cheshire
Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St.,Cambridge, MA 02138

Colloquium

Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour

Stuart Cheshire
Apple

Thursday, February 22, 2006
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin G125
(Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)

Abstract

While TCP/IP has emerged as undisputed winner for wide area networking,
with the dual "killer apps" of email and the web, local area
communications remain a confused mish-mash of technologies like serial
ports, parallel ports, SCSI, IrDA, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, etc. Stuart
Cheshire speculated that since TCP/IP is such a clear success for wide
area networking, perhaps it could also be the solution for local area
communications too. With the work done at the IETF under the name
"Zeroconf", and at Apple under the name "Bonjour", Apple and other
companies have demonstrated that TCP/IP (running over Ethernet, 802.11
wireless, or any other suitable link-layer technology) can be as easy to
use and hassle-free as any of the dedicated local communication
technologies like USB. Bonjour/Zeroconf was not the world's first
attempt to make TCP/IP easy to use in the LAN environment, but it's the
only one to achieve widespread success in the marketplace. For example,
every network printer sold today from every major printer manufacturer
implements the Zeroconf protocols. Stuart Cheshire will describe the
three simple protocols that go together to create the Zero Configuration
trio, and will then show a sample of some of the many "cool toys" from
Apple and other companies that are built on this foundation. Apple may
have been one of the earliest adopters of the Zeroconf technologies, but
the specifications are open and multiple Open Source implementations
(including one from Apple) exist in a variety of different languages.

Personal web page: <http://stuartcheshire.org/>

Technology page: <http://zeroconf.org/>
(also includes a link to the O'Reilly book)
Host:    Professor Norman Ramsey





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Subject: [Colloquium] CS Collo - Monday, Feb. 26
  Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Colloquium

Lessons Learned From The Internet Project

Dr. Douglas Comer
VP of Research, Cisco Systems

*MONDAY*, February 26, 2006
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin *G115*

Abstract
The Internet ranks among the greatest achievements of  20th century Computer
Science.  The basic technology was so well conceived that it has remained
virtually unchanged
despite completely new applications and dramatic growth in the number of
connected computers and traffic.  This eclectic talk presents a series of
lessons drawn from the Internet  experience that may help us better
understand how to proceed with new research.  It considers the design of
protocols, general principles, technologies, the underlying architecture,
the effect of economics on networking research, and ways that experimental
research projects can be organized to  ensure success.


Speaker Bio:
 Douglas Comer is VP of Research at Cisco systems, and Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University,  where he is currently
on an extended leave.  An internationally  recognized expert on computer
networking, Comer has been involved in Internet research since the late
1970s. His series of ground-breaking textbooks have been translated into 16
languages,
and are used by professional engineers and students around the world.  For
twenty years, Comer was editor-in-chief of the journal Software -- Practice
And Experience.  He is a Fellow of the ACM.

Host:    Professor HT Kung


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