Horizon Days

The Indiana University Computer Science Department Horizon Days are a series of one day mini-symposia in each of which three prominent speakers present the department and its guests with a perspective of a cutting edge area of computer science.

Horizon Day for 2000-01:

March 10, 2000, Beauty is in the "I" of the Beholder: Intelligence, Information, Interaction, with talks by:

• Susan Dumais, Bringing Order to the Web and Beyond, Senior Researcher, Decision Theory & Adaptive Systems Group, Microsoft Research
  
• Michael Berry, Which Comes First? The Software or the Search? Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
  
• William Hargrove, Linking Computers to Solve Environmental Problems: Optimistic Clairvoyance from an Applied Perspective, Geographic Information and Spatial Technologies Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  

Horizon Day for 1998-99:

November 6, 1998: Programming Languages for Real-World Software, with talks by:

• Matthias Felleisen, Building Extensible Software: A Programming Language Perspective, Rice University
• Guy L. Steele Jr., Growing the Java Programming Language, Sun Microsystems Labs
  
• Gregor Kiczales, Aspect-Oriented Programming: Going Beyond Objects for Better Separation of Concerns in Design and Implementation, Xerox Parc
  

Horizon Day for 1997-98:

March 27, 1998: Horizons in Software Development, with talks by:

• John Vlissides, Tutorial: Design Patterns" and Patterns: The Top Ten Misconceptions,
• David Garlan, Software Architecture: Practice, Potential, and Pitfalls,
• Daniel Jackson, Abstract Design: A Constructive Approach

Horizon Days for 1996-1997:

• February 7 1997: Cyberspace and the Future of Community, with talks by William Mitchell, Geoffrey Nunberg, and Langdon Winner, and commentary by Rob Kling and Gregory Rawlins.
• March 8 and 9, 1997: Horizons in Computer Music, with talks by Max Mathews, Charles Dodge, and Roger Dannenberg. March 8 events will start at 1:30pm in Sweeney Lecture Hall 015, Simon Recital Center. A March 9 concert will start at 2:00 in Auer Recital Hall, Simon Recital Center.

The following Horizon Days were held in 1995-1996:

• Sep 8 1995: Programming Systems and High Performance Computing, with Ken Kennedy, K. Mani Chandy, and Guy Blelloch.
• Oct 13 1995: Programming Languages and Types, with Luca Cardelli, Benjamin Pierce, and Mitchell Wand.
• Jan 12 1996: Representation, with Rodney A. Brooks, Melanie Mitchell, and Brian Cantwell Smith.

Last update: 18 February 2000
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