Distinguished lectures from internationally known researchers are sponsored by the Computer Science and Engineering Department and include the following:
- John E. Hopcroft, Tracking Communities and Scientific Ideas in the Digital World
November 5, 2010
- W. Kahan
October18, 2010
Needed Remedies for the Undebuggability of Large-Scale Floating-Point Computations in Science and Engineering
- Barry Boehm
September 25, 2009
Value-Based Integration of Systems and Software Engineering 
- David Maier
May 1, 2009
Next-Generation Data Stream Systems - Sorin Istrail
April 22, 2009
The Regulatory Genome and the Computer
- Jaiwei Han
April 17, 2009
The Power of Links in Network Mining - Bella Bose
April 18, 2007
Error Control Codes and Some Applications to Computer Science
- Amr EL Abbadi
February 28, 2007
Privacy and Fraud Detection in Information Management Systems
- Jack Dongarra
January 29, 2007
An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future - Salim Hariri
November 8, 2006
Autonomic Computing: The Next Era of Computing
- Bruce Shriver
October 25, 2006
Learning About Computer Architecture Through the Patent Literature
- Professor Yale Patt
April 27, 2005
Microprocessor in the Year 2015: Issues, Challenges, Potential Avenues to Solutions
- John D. Musa, IEEE Fellow and Independent Consultant
April 13, 2005
More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper
- Professor Eugene Spafford
November 17, 2004
Information Security: Past, Present and Future
- Professor Wolfgang J. Paul
November 12, 2004
Making Operating Systems Fault Free
- Professor Randal E. Bryant
April 14, 2004
Formal Verification of Infinite State Systems using Boolean Methods
- Professor Avi Silberschatz
March 19, 2004
Next-Generation Information Systems
- Professor Hector Garcia-Molina
September 17, 2003
WebBase: Building a Web Warehouse
- Professor Lotfi Zadeh
February 19, 2003
Precisiated Natural Language (PNL) - Toward a Radical Enlargement of the Role of Natural Language in Scientific Theories
- Professor Harvey Cragon
January 22, 2003
Fifty Years of Microarchitecture
- Professor Michael Flynn
November 13, 2002
Computer Engineering in an Era of Sub Micron Device Technology