| Jun 3, 2009 | Andreas Terzis
Johns Hopkins University | Elements of a wireless sensor architecture |  |
| May 27, 2009 | John Sosoka
Vita Robotica (past CTO of Ubobe Lifeforms) | The Rise and Fall of a Companion Robot
Lessons Learned from Pleo | |
| May 20, 2009 | Bob Metcalfe
| Internet Lessons for Solving Energy | |
| May 13, 2009 | Mike Flynn
Maxeler (and Stanford emeritis) | Accelerating computation with FPGAs with a seismic data processing example | |
| May 6, 2009 | Volker Strumpen
IBM Austin Research Laboratory | The Spiral Cache: A self-organizing memory architecture | |
| Apr 29, 2009 | Eric Weinstein
| Systems Architecture, Kabuki Capitalism, and the Economic Manhattan Project | |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Jim Morris
CMU West | Can Hi-tech hitchhiking work? | |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Chris Grier
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | The Gazelle Browser | |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Michael C. Mace
Principal, Rubicon Consulting | App stores and software ecosystems | |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Trevor Blackwell
Anybots | Learning in Humans and Robots | |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Tim Roughgarden
Stanford Computer Science | Algorithmic Game Theory
Two Vignettes | |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Bill McKeeman
Mathworks and Dartmouth College | Executable Grammars: Seeking the minimal extensible self-compiling compiler | |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Daniel Kreiss
Department of Communications
Stanford University | Developing the Good Citizen: Digital artifacts, peer networks, and formal organizations in contemporary political campaigning | |
| Feb 18, 2009 | John Koza
Consulting Professor
Stanford University | Automated Design of Analog Circuits, Optical Systems, Controllers, Antennas, Quantum Computers, Mechanical Systems, and Other Complex Structures Using Darwinian Evolution and Genetic Programming | |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Barbara Simons
Election Assistance Commission (Advisory Board)
ACM (Past President) | Voting Machines & Audits
It Ain't how your Grandparents Voted | |
| Feb 4, 2009 | Paul Saffo
Saffo.com | Farewell information, welcome Media
No video is available for this talk, which presents work in progress. Enrolled students who
did not view the tallk live should choose one of the
four alternative talks , view it, and do the normal assignment for that talk. | |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Andy Rappaport
August Capital | Semiconductor Value in the Post-Fabless Era | |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Todd C. Mowray
CMU (visiting at Stanford) | Pario: the Next Step Beyond Audio and Video | |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Richard L. Sites
Google, Inc. | Statistical Language Detection in Web Pages | |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Robert B. Laughlin
Physics, Stanford University | The Crime of Reason | |
| Dec 3, 2008 | Serge Saxonov and Alexander Wong
23andme.com | Inventing Personal Genomics: Behind the Scenes at 23andMe | |
| Nov 26, 2008 | 
| Thanksgiving Break -- No Class | |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media | Watching the Alpha Geeks: What Hackers and Enthusiasts Tell Us About the Shape of the Future | |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Al Fazio
Intel Fellow
Director, Memory Technology Development
Intel Corporation | Future Computer Memory | |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Guido van Rossum
Google | Google App Engine
Run your web application on Google's infrastructure | |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Chuck House
Stanford Media X and HSTAR | Exploring Synergy with Industry: Media X research at Stanford | |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Carl Hewitt
MIT EECS (Emeritis) | Scalable Privacy-Friendly Client Cloud Computing: a gathering Perfect Disruption | |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Jane McGonigal
Institute for the Future | How to invent the future by playing online games: The SuperStruct Game | |
| Oct 8, 2008 | Ted Selker
Media Lab, MIT | Excubate: A new model of new technology business development | |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Richard Kaufmann
HP HPC | Issues in Mainstream Clusters | |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Jonathan Appavoo
IBM | Towards a Global Scale Public Computer | |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Chuck Moore
AMD | The Role of Accelerated Computing in the Multi-Core Era
Alternative to Saffo lecture of February 4, 2009 | |
| May 7, 2008 | Steve Yegge
Google | Dynamic Languages Strike Back: Addressing the tools and performance issues head-on
Alternative to Saffo lecture of February 4, 2009 | |
| Jun 6, 2007 | Rick Wesson
support-intelligence.com | Botnets: Anticipating Failure
Alternative to Saffo lecture of February 4, 2009 | |
| May 2, 2007 | Maurice Herlihy
Brown University | Taking Concurrency Seriously: New Directions in Multiprocessor Synchronization
Alternative to Saffo lecture of February 4, 2009 | |