Lecture Archives

CSL has a rich history of symposiums and lectures, and offers archival materials for many of these.  Choose from our main lecture tracks below, for more details:

Current CSL Lecture Series

CSL Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series

Dr. Toby Berger            2002   
Dr. Brian Anderson      2003   
Dr. Martin Vetterli         2003   
Dr. Witold Respondek  2004   
Dr. W. M. Wonham       2005   
Dr. Dimitri Bertsekas    2006   
Dr. Don Towsley           2007   

Visitor Lecture Series

Dr. Roberto Tempo       2002    
Dr. Hsueh-Ming Hang   2004    
Dr. Witold Respondek   2004    
Dr. John Schotland       2005    
Dr. Admela Jakan         2005    
Dr. Dimitri Bertsekas     2006    
Dr. Rafail Khasminski   2006    
Dr. Stephen Hanley      2006    
Dr. Roberto Tempo       2009   

Sundaram Seshu Lecture Series

Sundaram Seshu Lecture Series

R.T. Chien Lecture Series

R.T. Chien Distinguished Lecturer Series 

     SPEAKER                                          DATE                                              TITLE

Dr. Charles Sodini                          November 13, 2009                Silicon mm-Wave Imaging Arrays
MIT

Dr. Karl Astrom                               November 4. 2009                  The Future of Control
Lund University, Sweden

Dr. Mani Chandy                             March 10, 2009                      An Attempt at Integrating Ideas from Distributed
California Institute of Technology                                                   Control, Temporal Logic and Game Theory

Dr. Yannis Tsividis                           November 11, 2008                Analog-Inspired DSP
Columbia University

Dr. Shekhar Borkar                         April 11, 2006                        Extending and Expanding Moore’s Law
Intel Fellow                                                                                    Challenges and Opportunities

Professor Nancy Lynch                   April 12, 2005                        Virtual Node Infrastructures for Mobile
MIT                                                                                                Wireless Networks

Dr. Steven M. Bellovin                     December 1, 2004                Nuclear Weapons, Permissive Action Links,   
AT&T Labs-Research                                                                    and the History of Public Key Cryptography

Professor Chenming Hu                  October 8, 2004                    How Much Longer CMOS?
University of California, Berkeley

Professor Nancy Leveson               May 4, 2004                         A New Model of Accident Causation
MIT

Professor Joachim Hagenauer        February 25, 2003               The Turbo Principle in Communications            
Inst. of Communications Engr                                                      Systems
Munich University of Technology

Professor Yale N. Patt                     December 5, 2002               The High Performance Micro-processor
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Ronald W. Schafer          November 9, 2000               DSP Research and Education: Past,
Georgia Institute of Technology                                                    Present, and Future

Professor Mischa Schwartz             April 12, 2000                      Multimedia Wireless Networks of the Future
Columbia University                                                                     – Some Research Issues To Be Addressed
                               
Professor James L. Massey            March 29, 2000                    Prognosis for 21st Century Cryptography
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology                                                                                                                       

Dr. James F. Kaiser                         February 25, 1999                Engineering vs. Science in
Duke University                                                                            Problem Solving—A Perspective

Professor Alberto Isidori                  September 15, 1997             Nonlinear Feedback Design
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Tsuneo Nakahara                      December 6, 1996                 Fiber Optic Industry in a Border-less
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.                                                 Economy

Dr. Samuel H. Fuller                       October 29, 1996                   Future of Information Systems:
Digital Equipment Corporation                                                      Technology Drivers, Trends, and
                                                                                                      Possibilities

Professor Brian Randell                 February 21, 1995                 Fault Tolerance in Concurrent
University of Newcastle upon Tyne                                              Object-Oriented Software through
                                                                                                     Coordinated Error Recovery

Professor E. J. Davison                  May 2, 1994                          Intelligent Control of Complex
University of Toronto                                                                    Systems

Dr. Hiroyuki Sakaki                         April 8, 1994                         Quantum Structure Materials and
University of Tokyo and                                                                Devices for Advanced Electronics -
Japan Research Development Corp.                                           Current Status and Outlook

Professor William A. Wulf               December 9, 1993                Processors are Getting Faster
University of Virginia       

Dr. Pallab Chatterjee                      October 13, 1993                  Impact of Gigachip Technologies
Texas Instruments                                                                        on Future Systems

Professor Bede Liu                         October 6, 1993                   Some Recent Work on Motion
Princeton University                                                                    Compensated Video Coding

Dr. William C. Holton                      September 17, 1993            The Role of the University in
Semiconductor Research Corporation                                        Today’s Economic Environment

Dr. Kenneth L. Davis                       September 17, 1993            University-Industry Research
Motorola Corporation                                                                   Relationships

Dr. J. Iafrate                                    September 17, 1993             Managing Science and
U. S. Army Research Office                                                         Technology

Professor Dimitri P. Bertsekas         March 22, 1993                    Auction Algorithms: A New
MIT                                                                                               Generation of Linear Network
                                                                                                     Optimization Methods

Professor Robert M. Gray               March 15, 1993                     Clustering and Classification
Stanford University                                                                        Trees for Image and Compression
                                                                                                      Classification

Professor Ernest S. Kuh                  November 1, 1991                Physical Design in Microelectron-
University of California at Berkeley                                               ics: Past, Present, and Future

Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy         April 23, 1991                       Software Engineering: Status and
University of California at Berkeley                                               Trends
 
Professor J. K. Aggarwal                  March 8, 1991                      Computer Vision: A Perspective
University of Texas at Austin   
 
Professor Donald L. Snyder             October 26, 1990                  Stargazing with Estimation
Washington University                                                                   Theory (Application of Medical
                                                                                                       Imaging Techniques)

Dr. Jerry M. Woodall                         April 10, 1990                       The Rise and Fall of GaAs.
IBM Research Division                                                                  What’s Next?
T. J. Watson Research Center

Professor Yakov Tsypkin                  December 5, 1989                When is it Optimal to Mix Online
Institute of Control Problems                                                          and Batch Data Processing?
Moscow, USSR

Professor Thomas M. Cover            November 10, 1989              Information Theory and the Stock
Stanford University                                                                        Market

Professor Algirdas Avizienis             March 14, 1989                    Can We Write Software that We
University of California, Los Angeles                                             Can Trust

Professor Michael Brady                  April 21, 1988                        The Problems of Robotics
University of Oxford

Professor Robert G. Gallager           October 13, 1987                   Energy Limited Communication
Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                            Channels: Coding, Multiaccess,
                                                                                                         and Spread Spectrum

Professor John Bardeen                   May 12, 1987                         Recent Developments in Super-
University of Illinois                                                                          conductivity
Nobel Prize

Dr. Klaus von Klitzing                        October 13, 1986                    Physics and Applications of the
Max-Plank-Institute                                                                           Quantum Hall Effect

Dr. John Hopfield                               April 9, 1986                           Collective Computation by
California Inst. of Technology                                                            ‘Neutral’ Networks

Dr. Robert E. Brayton                        December 6, 1985                   Algorithms for Optimizing Silicon
University of California                                                                       Compilers

Dr. Horst L. Stormer                          September 23, 1985               Two-Dimensional Physics in High
AT&T Bell Laboratories                                                                     Magnetic Fields

Dr. Edward J. McCluskey                  September 4, 1985                  VLSI-Oriented Built-In Self Test
Stanford University

Prof. Mark A. Aizerman                     March 6, 1985                          Search for the Better: A Broader
Institute of Control Sciences                                                              View on Optimization
Moscow, USSR

Dr. W. Fichtner                                   March 5, 1985                          Supercomputers in VLSI Technology
AT&T Bell Laboratories                                                                       Development and Device Design

Professor James L. Merz                    February 18, 1985                   The Visible and the Invisible of
University of California                                                                         Semiconductors: Defects and
                                                                                                             Other Effects

Professor Steward D. Personick         September 12, 1984                 Optical Fiber Communications
Bell Communications Research, Inc.                                                    Technology and Applications –
                                                                                                              Present and Future

Professor T. C. McGill                          April 25, 1984                           Superlattices ad Small Structures
California Institute of Technology                                                          for Electronic Devices for the 1990’s

Professor Azriel Rosenfeld                   April 10, 1984                          Human and Machine Vision
University of Maryland

Professor Karl Astrom                          December 5, 1983                   Theory and Applications of
Lund Institute of Technology                                                                  Adaptive Control

Dr. J. L. Lions                                        March 10, 1982                       Trends in Homogenization Theory
Institut National de Recherche                   
en Informatique et an Automatic

Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi                             November 3, 1980                    Some Theoretical Foundations for New
LINKABIT Corporation                                                                            Communication Network Services 

Professor Hans Bethe                           May 6, 1980                              Nuclear Energy
Cornell University
Nobel Prize

Professor D.O. Pederson                       April 9, 1980                            The Status of Computer Aided
UC Berkeley                                                                                            Design for Integrated Circuits
                                                                                                                in the U.S., Europe and Japan

Professor Herbert Simon                      November 14, 1979                   Artificial Intelligence and
Carnegie-Mellon University                                                                     Decision Making
Nobel Prize

Dr. Robert W. Lucky                               October 25, 1979                     Telecommunication in the Future
Bell Telephone Laboratories