The Fall 2016 CS Colloquium series, organized by Hess Fellow Sravana Reddy, featured talks on everything from tools for social scientists and data scientists, computer security, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

Friday, Nov 4: Jordan Suchow, UC Berkeley
Experiment design, algorithm design, and automation in the behavioral and social sciences

Tuesday, Nov 8: Andrea Parker, Northeastern University
Community Wellness Informatics: Creating Technology for Health Equity

Friday, Nov 11: Abhi Shelat, Northeastern University
Secure Stable Matchings

Monday, Nov 14: Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech
Awareness, Coordination and Trust in the Peer Economy

Friday, Nov 18: Su Lin Blodgett ’15, UMass Amherst
Dialectal variation in social media: A case study of African-American English

Wednesday, Nov 30: Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Continuous Vector Representations of (Spoken and Written) Words

Friday, Dec 9: Emma Tosch ’08, UMass Amherst
Programming Language and Systems Research for Data Scientists

In addition, the department hosted a panel on graduate school in computer science with Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, graduate student in CS and HCI at Stanford University (yes you may recognize those last names!), and Vicky Zeamer MAS ’15, currently a student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.

Marissa Avila ’07 led a discussion of the Where’s Wellesley app.