Colloquium

An important, open vision problem is to automatically describe what people are doing in a sequence of video. This problem is difficult for several reasons.

Managing large and growing collections of information is a central goal of modern computer science. Data repositories of texts, images, music, and genetic information have become widely accessible, necessitating good methods of retrieval, organization, and exploration.

Over the last few years, product groups at Microsoft have increasingly relied on automated defect detection tools to find software failures before releasing products to customers.

User Interfaces for Information Visualization"* *Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely underutilized by current graphical user interfaces.

Large-scale distributed systems are hard to deploy, and distributed hash tables (DHTs) are no exception. To lower the barriers facing DHT-based applications, we have created a public DHT service called OpenDHT.

Network models for game theory and economics provide a powerful framework for studying strategic interactions in large population settings. The semantics of these networks are that nodes represent parties (e.g. players or consumers) and edges represent strategic or economic interactions.

Today's Internet is at risk. A single misbehaving router--whether through misconfiguration or malicious intent--can hijack routes, bringing down over a third of the Internet.

A central open question of computational neuroscience is to identify the data structures and algorithms that are used in mammalian cortex to support successive acts of the basic cognitive tasks of memorization and association.

Golan Levin is an artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.