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2007-08 Dean's Lecture Series Schedule

2006-07 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series
Friday, April 13 , 2007 David M. Weiss, Ph.D.
Director, Software Technology Research
Avaya Labs

"Architecture of Product Lines"

Friday, April 13, 2007 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

Friday, March 30 , 2007 Kathy Hill
Senior Vice President/General Manager,
Ethernet & Wireless Technology Group
Cisco Systems Inc.

"Leading The Experience As Technology Changes The World"

Friday, March 30 , 2007 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

Friday, February 23 , 2007

Paul P. Maglio , Ph.D.
Senior Mamager, Service Systems Research
IBM Almaden Research Center

"Steps Toward Service Science"

Friday, February 23 , 2007 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

Thursday, November 2 , 2006

Richard E. Ladner, Ph.D.
Boeing Professor in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

"MobileASL: Making Cell Phones Accessible to the Deaf Community"

Thursday, November 2 , 2006 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

2005-06 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

Friday – March 17, 2006

Dr. Daniel M. Berry
Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

“Formal Methods, the Very Idea, Some Thoughts”

Friday, March 17, 2006– 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by March 13, 2006 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

Friday – April 7, 2006

Bruce Schneier,
Founder & CIO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.

“Following the Money: Negotiating for Security”

Friday, April 7, 2006– 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by April 3, 2006 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

Friday – May 12, 2006

Dr. John M. Unsworth,
Dean & Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences”

Friday, May 12, 2006– 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by May 8, 2006 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

2005-06 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

Friday – February 10, 2006

Evon Jones, VP & Chief Information Officer
Efrain Rivera, VP & Corporate Treasurer
Praveen Tyle, Sr., VP Research & Development
Bausch & Lomb

“Computing at Bausch & Lomb: R&D, Products, Support and the Bottom Line”

Friday, February 10, 2006– 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by Feruary 6, 2006 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

Friday – January 20, 2006

Susan K. (Kathy) Land,
Software Engineering Section Manager
Northrop Grumman/TASC

“The Real World Application of IEEE Software Engineering Standards”

Friday, January 20, 2006– 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by January 16, 2006 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

Friday – December 9, 2005

Dr. Ernest Prabhakar
Product Manager OS X Operating System Apple Computer, Inc.

"MAC OS X, Open Source and the Future of Unix"

Friday, December 9, 2005 -- 2:00 PM
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 -- Room 1400
(on the RIT Campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by December 5, 2005 to Joyce Hart at 585-475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.
Friday – November 4, 2005

Robert Fabbio,
President and CEO Cesura, Inc.

“Building Technology Isn’t Enough, It Has To Be Applied”

Friday, November 4, 2005 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by October 31, 2005 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.
Friday – October 7, 2005

Dr. Peter Winkler,
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Dartmouth College

"What is Probability?"

Friday, October 7, 2005 – 1:00 pm
B. Thomas Golisano College Auditorium
Building 70 – Room 1400
(on the RIT campus)

A reception will immediately follow in the Atrium.
Kindly RSVP by October 3, 2005 to Joyce Hart at 475-7203
or email DLS@gccis.rit.edu
Please notify if Interpreting Services are needed.

2004-05 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

September 24, 2004

Bill Agresti, Johns Hopkins University

Discovery Informatics—From Data to Knowledge

Society's success in solving problems and making progress depends on our capacity for discovery, and modern computing and analytical sciences and technologies offer great potential to increase this capacity.

October 29, 2004

Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota

Cybersecurity and Its Limitations

Security, not content, is king. E-commerce, cryptography, formal verification methods and the economics of data networks have tremendous possibilities, but more limitations than the myths of the Internet would have us believe.

December 3, 2004

Tim Lister, The Atlantic Systems Guild

Software Risk Management

Are managing risk and increasing productivity always at odds in software development? How to get the most from your people and processes without courting disaster.

January 21, 2005

Joe Hennekey, Monroe County Sheriff's Department

Scott Lupfer, McAfee

Luther Troell, RIT—Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences

Panel discussion on computer security.

March 18, 2005

DavidTurek, IBM

Deep Computing

Deep thoughts require deep computing—products, solutions, and service offerings for high-performance computing needs in extreme scientific fields, financial services, and business intelligence.

April 8, 2005

Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology

Analysis and Testing of Deployed Software

Great, but is it scalable? Investigating scalability issues of regression testing, analysis and testing of imperative and object-oriented software through algorithm development, empirical evaluations and visualization.

2003-04 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

September 26, 2003

John Peters, Performance Technologies Inc.

VP of Development, Hardware

Ethernet Everywhere! How IP and Ethernet are Driving the Converged Market

2003-04 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

November 7, 2003

Aaron Bobick, Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor, College of Computing; Director, GVU Center

Computational Perception and Vision

December 5, 2003

Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University

Distinguished Career Professor Computer Science

Transforming the Culture of Computing (Women in CS)

February 6, 2004

Paychex

Information Technology Management Team

IT: A Real World Perspective

March 12, 2004

Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

Professor of Computer Science

Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

May 7, 2004

Nancy Leveson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Safeware: System Safety and Computers

2003 GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series

January 31, 2003

Jim Janicki, Real Time Enterprises, Inc.

VP of Engineering & Quality

The Importance of Process in Software Development

March 12, 2003

Daniel Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Logical Models of Software and How to Analyze Them

May 16, 2003

Watts Humphrey, Carnegie Mellon University

Software Engineering Institute

Educating Software Professionals

Make sure to visit the Golisano College, Building 70 on the RIT campus, during Imagine RIT's Innovation and Creativity Festival, May 3rd, 2008! The College will be showcasing an array of interesting and innovative displays and exhibits created by our students, faculty.and staff! Rain or shine, we hope to see you here!!!

New York State approves a new Bachelor's Degree in Information Security and Forensics (ISF). For more information on this exciting new degree option, go to: http://nssa.rit.edu/~nssa/nssa/undergrad/isfBS.maml

New master's degree in Human Computer Interaction approved by New York State! Details coming soon!

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