2:00pm-3:00 pm
Predicting Listener Backchannel: A Probabilistic Multimodal Approach (MIT Machine Vision Colloquium, Louis-Philippe Morency)

4:00pm-5:15 pm
Streaming Computations on Sliding Windows (A&C Seminar, Vladimir Braverman)

4:15pm-5:15 pm
Simulation of Many-Body Hamiltonians using Perturbation Theory with Bounded-Strength Interactions (Barbara Terhal)

CSAIL Professor coaches MIT team to gold medal in "Battle of the Brains

Martin Rinard, a CSAIL professor, coached MIT’s team in the 32nd annual International Collegiate Programming Contest to a second place gold medal. The competition, sponsored by IBM, involved solving eleven computer programming problems in less than five hours. In order to win a place in the finals, the MIT team first competed against 6,700 teams from universities around the world in the regional competition this fall. For more information, see:
MIT News article,
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

CSAIL Professor wins award

CSAIL professor Erik Demaine won the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize. The Prize, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology, is endowed by Japanese entrepreneur Koh Katayanagi and honors promising young researchers in the computer science field. For more information see:
Katayanagi Prize