Friday, April 19
9:00-9:50 Class Lectures 1 – TCL 202 (Symposium Registrants Only)
Nick Arnosti ’11 (Stanford)
Max Ross ’97 (Google)
“Google App Engine: Easy to Use, Easy to Scale, Ridiculously Fun to Work On”
10:00-10:50 Class Lectures 2 – TCL 202 (Symposium Registrants Only)
Nate Foster ’01 (Cornell University)
“Machine-Verified Compilers”
Janet Wiener ’89 (Facebook)
“Scuba: Diving into Data Logs in Real Time at Facebook”
11:00-11:50 Class Lectures 3 – TCL 202 (Symposium Registrants Only)
Todd Gamblin ’02 (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
“Making Simulations Run Fast on Millions of Cores: How Parallel Computing Enables Big Science”
Ethan Katz-Bassett ’01 (USC)
“Reverse Traceroute”
12:00-1:00 Lunch on your own.
1:00-1:50 Career Panel 1: Graduate School and Beyond – Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Nate Foster ’01 (Cornell University)
Lisa Masterman Michaud ’95 (Merrimack College)
Jon Riecke ’86 (Google)
Rudy Spraycar ’71 (KEYW Corportation)
2:00-2:50 Career Panel 2: Computer Industry – Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Zina Cigolle ’12 (Amazon.com)
Michael Gnozzio ’07 (Cogo Labs)
Gerald Kanapathy ’93 (Splunk)
Janet Wiener ’89 (Facebook)
3:00-3:50 Career Panel 3: Entrepreneurship and Startups – Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Dan Fasulo ’94 (Pattern Genomics)
Ian Finley ’85 (Gartner)
Sean Gillispie ’04 (IBM)
Prosper Nwankpa ’04 (Peanut Labs, Inc.)
Shimon Rura ’03 (PatientsLikeMe)
Erik Sebesta ’91 (Cloud Technology Partners)
4:15-5:15 Invited Talk, co-sponsored by Sigma Xi – Bronfman Auditorium
Richard Ketcham ’87 (The University of Texas at Austin)
“Doing Earth Science with Computers, with a Dash of Williams Philosophy 101”
Computers pervade nearly all aspects of scientific research, and geology is no exception. But, what does it mean to actually “do science” with a computer? This talk steps back to consider how computers uniquely allow us to pose the central questions of science: “Taken together, do my data and assumptions all make sense?” and “How will I know if I’m wrong?” These questions are particularly apt for geology, where time scales are longer, and spatial scales larger, than can be addressed directly with laboratory experiments. Following the answers using computation can lead almost anywhere, with examples discussed including: how hot it gets when you go deeper into the Earth, how quickly radiation damage heals, what temperatures a given rock has experienced, and what controls how fast crystals nucleate and grow. Underlying everything, however, is the basic Socratic notion that our conclusions are inevitably contingent on our assumptions, in this case how thoroughly we understand the natural systems and processes we are trying to model. With computers, we are both leveraging and testing this understanding.
6:00 Banquet at the Faculty House (Symposium Registrants Only)
Keynote Speaker:
Kim Bruce
Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Williams College
Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Professor of Computer Science, Pomona College
“Computer Science in Liberal Arts Colleges: the Past, the Present, and the Future”
Saturday, April 20
9:00-9:50 Faculty Research Talks – Bronfman Auditorium
Jeannie Albrecht
“Smart*: An Open Data Set and Tools for Enabling Research in Sustainable Homes”
Brent Heeringa
“Sometimes Pretty Good is Good Enough”
Morgan McGuire
“Computational graphics: When ‘special’ effects are the expected case.”
10:10-10:50 Student Research Talks – Bronfman Auditorium
April Shen ’13
James Wilcox ’13
11:00-12:00 General Talks I – Bronfman Auditorium
Josh Ain ’03 (Google)
“Telling Google about Your Structured Data”
Kathi Fisler ’91 (WPI)
“Bootstrap: Teaching Videogame Programming to Reinforce Algebra”
Jess Scott ’01 (Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.)
“Interdisciplinary Programming in the Video Game Industry”
12:00-12:50 Box Lunch (Symposium Registrants Only)
12:30 Group Photograph
1:00-2:00 General Talks II – Bronfman Auditorium
Alexandra Constantin ’07
“Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Anatomic, Physiologic, and Metabolic Imaging Data”
Laura Effinger-Dean ’06 (Carleton College)
“Programmer vs. Compiler: Problems with Parallelism”
Art Munson ’01 (Context Relevant)
“Dear Computer: Find the tank. Are you sure?”
2:10-3:00 Career Panel 4: Other Careers – Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Neal Hannan ’03 (Attorney, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP)
Jodie Hearn Wilson ’99 (Journalist)
Joshua Frankel ’02 (Animator)
Israel Mirsky (Annalect Group)
Ashok Pillai ’05 (CS and Math Teacher, Middlesex School)
2:10-3:00 Panel 5: CS Education – TCL 202
Kim Bruce (Pomona College)
Andrea Danyluk (Williams College)
Benjamin Goldberg ’82 (NYU)
Henry Walker ’69 (Grinnell College)
3:10-4:00 Poster Session – Science Center Atrium
Aashish Nath Adhikari ’07 (University of Chicago)
“Unifying Framework for the Prediction of Protein Folding Pathways
and Tertiary Structure from the Amino Acid Sequence”
Aaron Bauer ’11 (University of Washington)
“Automated Visualization and Redesign of Gameplay Properties”
John Dingee ’10 (Relsci.com)
“Semantic Web Lessons for Enterprise Data Modeling”
Timothy Durham ’09 (Broad Institute)
“An Efficient Pipeline for Post-Sequencing Processing, Review, and Submission of Data”
Andrew Lorenzen ’12 (Google)
“Building Platforms to Empower Compelling Video Advertisers”
Ville Satopää ’11 (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
“A Fully Bayesian Approach to Modeling Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Hospital Mortality Rates”
Antal Spector-Zabusky ’12 (University of Pennsylvania)
“Random Testing of Security and Correctness for Information-Flow Control”
Travis Vachon ’06 (Utah Street Labs/copious.com)
“We Build Stuff!”
Brent Yorgey ’04 (University of Pennsylvania)
“Combinatorial Species and Algebraic Data Types”
4:15-5:15 Invited Talk, co-sponsored by the Class of 1960 – Bronfman Auditorium
A.J. Bernheim Brush ’96 (Microsoft Research)
“Home Automation: Is It Finally Ready for the Mainstream?”
Abstract: Ever wondered why you see fancy smart homes in the movies, but not in real life? We did! Drawing on two years of research and development, I will describe barriers to mainstream adoption
uncovered through interviews with current smart home users, and the design and implementation of HomeOS, a platform for home automation that helps you find devices and services you might
actually want in your house.
6:00 Dining Philosophers’ Dinner – Greylock (Symposium Registrants Only)
An informal celebratory dinner, featuring demonstrations and videos by students and alumni, cake and speaker Joshua Frankel ’02 presenting “Whysaurus”.
Sunday, April 21
9:00-10:00 Farewell Continental Breakfast – Science Center Atrium (Symposium Registrants Only)