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CSAIL Colloquium Title: Epidemics in Technological and Social Networks: The Downside of Six Degrees of Separation Speaker: Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research Date: Thursday, May 8 2008 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Location: 32-G449(Patil) During the past decade, complex networks have become increasingly important in information technology, communication and commerce. Vast, self-engineered networks, like the Internet, the World Wide Web, and instant messaging networks and online social networks, have facilitated the flow of information, and served as media for social and economic interaction. Unfortunately, many of the properties that facilitate information transmission also facilitate the spread of viruses in both technological and social networks. In this talk, I will mathematically analyze probabilistic models to explain these epidemics and to examine strategies for their containment. more >>
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm Outsourced Storage and Compact Proofs of Retrievability (Cryptography and Information Security Seminars, Hovav Shacham) 2:00 am - 3:00 pm Adaptive Energy Functionals for Image Segmentation (Biomedical Imaging and Analysis, Ghassan Hamarneh) 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Sparrow System, an Industrial-strength Static Bug-Finder for C (Professor Kwangkeun Yi) Fri 9	Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows 2008 Russell Tedrake Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science CSAIL researcher Russell Tedrake works on computational and machine learning approaches to control system design for robots that walk, run, swim, and fly more like real animals. He believes that, to succeed, both the mechanical design of the robots and the algorithms for controller design must exploit the natural, nonlinear dynamics of locomotion. In the next few years, he aims to build bipedal robots that can walk and jump across piles of rocks, and robotic birds with flapping wings that can gracefully land on a perch. Two Faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences Two CSAIL members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continued achievements in original research. The new academy members from CSAIL are Frank T. Leighton, professor of applied mathematics, and Jack L. Wisdom, professor of planetary sciences. For more information see: NAS Announcement MIT News Office