Cisco Research Center sponsors symposia, lectures, academic visitors and research related events in an effort to increase collaboration and coordination between Cisco and the research community. The goal is to establish a partnership between Cisco engineers, eminent researchers and scholars to continue foster the growth of innovation.
Cisco hosts research scholars widely recognized and noted for their contribution to, and impact on, education and research. The Distinguished Lecture Series is a forum through which eminent thought leaders in the field of engineering and Computer Science are invited by Cisco Research to speak to a wide Cisco audience. Cisco Research invites upto four such leaders in a year to share their insights about the current research, emerging trends and technology future aligned with Cisco's technology vision. The Cisco Research Center and Cisco Engineering Learning host the Distinguished Lecture Series program.
Distinguished Lectures
Sandy Pentland, MIT, "Designing Networks to Promote Productivity"
Joe Paradiso, MIT," Living with Ubiquitous Sensing and Dynamic Responsive Media"
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, "A Computer Scientist Looks at the Energy Problem"
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley "Brilliant but Evil? Why the Google Book Settlement Must Be Rejected"
Neil Gershenfeld, MIT "Programming Bits & Atoms"
Victor Zhu, Director, MIT – "On Organic Interfaces"
Larry Smarr, UC San Diego – "Enhanced Telepresence and Green IT--The Next Evolution in the Internet"
Past research awardees and other notable researchers are invited to share information on their current research discoveries and/or initiatives to select Cisco audiences. The visits include a technical talk and sometimes a group discussion with a technology group within Cisco whose research interests are aligned with that of the scholar.
Lectures
Dr. Marcus Katz, University of Oulu - "Mobile Clouds (key enabler of Wireless Social Networks"
Eero Tervo (CEO, Evocativi Ltd.) - realXtend (virtual reality platform) and Mobile Clouds (key enabler of Wireless Social Networks)
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA Photonics based Telemedicine Technologies toward Smart Global Health Systems
Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto Application-Layer Error Correction Codes for Wireless Multicast
Rajendra Shinde, Stanford Similarity Search using TCAMs
Jeffery Jaffe, W3C The Next Generation Platform for the Web
Jeff Chase, Duke University Making Smart Grid Smarter
John Villasenor, UCLA – "Defending Against Hardware Attacks"
Robin Sommer, UC Berkeley – "Exploiting Multi-Core Processors For Parallelizing Network Intrusion"
Hannah Chua, Univ of Michigan – "Human Behavior in the Context of Cultures and Groups: Implications for Collaboration & Human Network bridging Psychology and Engineering"
Francois Gagnon, Carlton University – "NSSTG on NL: A Hybrid Approach to Operating System Discovery"
Michael Genesereth, Stanford University – "Collaborative Data Management"
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen – "A Case Study On The Dynamics And The Effects of Spontaneous Pair Programming When New Developers Join A Team"
Tajana Rosing, UC San Diego – "Energy Efficient Computing"
Research Symposia are a forum for Cisco engineering and academic researchers to address and discuss short and long term research problems and provide meaningful exchanges on issues of mutual concern and interests. A symposium typically includes a select group of Cisco engineers and academic researchers with recognized subject matter expertise.
*Attendance for symposia are by invitation only
Symposia
Adaptive Streaming Video Symposium
Architecture and Algorithms for *aaS clouds and grids - Towards Building Scalable Distributed Systems
