The Distinguished Lecture Series Explores the Latest in CS Research

The Distinguished Lecture series brings computer scientists to Columbia to discuss current issues and research that are affecting their particular fields. This year, eight experts covered topics from machine learning, cryptography, privacy, algorithms, ethics, and computer vision.

Below are a couple of the lectures from prominent faculty from universities across the country.

• • Lifting Lower Bounds, Communication, and Proofs
    Toniann Pitassi, University of Toronto

• • Controlling the Black Box: Learning Manipulable and Fair Representations
    Richard Zemel, University of Toronto

• • Towards anonymous and metadata private communication at Internet scale
    Srini Devadas, MIT

• • From Ethical Challenges of Intelligent Systems to Embedding Ethics in Computer Science Education
    Barbara Grosz, Harvard University

• • Using Sound to Help You See and Sight to Help You Hear
    Bill Freeman, MIT

• • Divergences in Neural Machine Translation
    Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland

• • Learning Language Through Interaction
    Hal Daume, University of Maryland