Department Seminars 2014-2015

Every Friday during the academic year, the department organizes a Friday seminar, for which it typically brings in outside speakers. All seminars are open to anyone who wants to attend, and is followed by a social hour with drinks and snacks. The seminars are an excellent opportunity to be inspired by what others are doing, learn about the state of the art and interact with influential researchers from across the world.

If you missed a talk, or simply want to browse the kinds of topics that Informatics concerns itself with, videos of past talks are available below.

• • June 5, 2015

    AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS and Its Collaborative Research Opportunities

    Michael Carey
    Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
    University of California, Irvine

  • May 29, 2015

    Anonymity, Identity and Location In Online Social Environments

    Veronica Zammitto
    Lead Games User Researcher
    Electronic Arts

  • Anonymity, Identity and Location In Online Social Environments

    Jeremy Birnholtz
    Associate Professor
    Northwestern University

  • May 1, 2015

    Disaster Robotics: Capturing Diverse Human-Robot Interaction

    Robin Murphy
    Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Texas A&M University

    ISR Distinguished Speaker

  • April 24, 2015

    Going Beyond Code Search

    Steven Reiss
    Professor of Computer Science
    Brown University

  • April 3, 2015

    Programs, Test Data, and oracles: Revisiting the Foundations of Software Testing

    Mats Heimdahl
    Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Minnesota

    ISR Distinguished Speaker

  • March 13, 2015

    Beyond the Individual Privacy Paradigm: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Interpersonal and Collective Privacy in Social Media

    Heng Xu
    Program Director
    Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SBE/SES) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • March 6, 2015

    A Comprehensive Framework for the Development of Complex Smart Spaces

    Luciano Baresi
    Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
    Politecnico di Milano

  • February 27, 2015

    The Hearts and Minds of Data Science

    Cecilia Aragon
    Associate Professor, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering
    University of Washington, Seattle

  • February 20, 2015

    The Case for the Three R’s of Systems Research: Repeatability, Reproducibility and Rigor

    Jan Vitek
    Professor, College of Computer and Information Science
    Northeastern University

    ISR Distinguished Speaker

  • February 6, 2015

    Weaving Worlds: Exploring the Intersection between Research and Design

    Asta Roseway
    Principal Research Designer
    Microsoft Research

  • January 30, 2015

    Positive Computing: Technologies for psychological wellbeing and human potential

    Rafael Calvo
    Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Information Engineering
    The University of Sydney

  • January 16, 2015

    Crowdsourcing a Meeting of Minds

    Michael Bernstein
    Assistant Professor, Computer Science
    Stanford University

  • January 9, 2015

    The Transformative Play Lab at UCI Informatics

    Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
    Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics
    University of California, Irvine

  • December 12, 2014

    Utopian by Design: On the Mythologies of Technosocial Practice

    Morgan Ames
    PostDoctoral Researcher, ISTC
    University of California, Irvine

  • December 5, 2014

    Designing for Collaborative Reflection

    Gabriela Marcu
    Assistant Professor, The College of Computing and Informatics
    Drexel University

  • November 21, 2014

    The MOOC Moment

    Elizabeth Losh
    Professor
    University of California, San Diego

  • November 14, 2014

    Designing Tailored Motivators

    Gary Hsieh
    Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering
    University of Washington

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    November 7, 2014

    Public Health, Personal Data

    Kevin Patrick
    MD, MS, Professor Family and Preventive Medicine
    UC San Diego
    Matthew Bietz
    PhD Assistant Project Scientist
    Informatics Department, UC Irvine

  • October 31, 2014

    Prototyping Potential Futures: Researching Virtual Possessions through Design

    William Odom
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
    Simon Fraser University

  • October 24, 2014

    Augmenting Communication for Non-Speaking Youth with New Media and Popular Culture

    Meryl Alper
    Ph.D. Candidate
    University of Southern California

  • October 17, 2014

    Zero-Fidelity Simulation to Improve Team Coordination Learning

    Zachary O. Dugas Toups
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
    New Mexico State University

  • October 10, 2014

    State of the Department

    André van der Hoek
    Chair, Department of Informatics
    Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

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