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Colloquia

The Computer Science Department hosts outside speakers from time to time to give presentations on computing-related topics of current interest. These presentations are often co-hosted by the ACM Student Chapter. See the following notices of upcoming and past colloquia and for related colloquia at nearby institutions.

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December 7, 2012: Russell Nelson will speak at 3:00 pm in Dunn 206 about his contributions to the open source community.

October 12, 2012: Board of Advisors Members will make presentations to CS department students including:
- Netiquette, Lynne Fisher Kemp
- Resume Writing Skills, Pat Caffery
- Cover Letter Writing, Dana Harris

September 28, 2012: Dr. Leo Porter will discuss his background in computer architecture in Dr. Brian Ladd's Assembly Language class, as well as give a presentation open to the campus community. His presentation covers topics including the Parallelism Crisis, speculative multi-threading, and his paper "Fast Thread Migration via Cache Working Set Prediction". Dr. Porter is an assistant professor of computer science at Skidmore College.

September 21, 2012: Greg Lacey, an IBM recruiter, will meet with SUNY Potsdam Computer Science students about career opportunities at IBM in the Enterprise Computing division.

September 14, 2012: Meg Bain, from Career Services will hold a resume workshop with Dr. Brian Ladd to help students prepare and refine resumes for upcoming career fairs and the IBM recruiting day.

May 4, 2012: Jacob Torrey, a research engineer at Assured Information Security Inc., will present some of the fundamental aspects of computer security and how it interacts with a system's performance.

April, 13, 2012: Mr. Woo will discuss his experiences heading up several start-up companies, as well as software engineering topics and internship possibilities. The talk will be at 3:00 pm in Dunn 206.

February 27, 2012: Leah Worster is a recent graduate of Clarkson University and currently employed at IBM. She will speak on her transition to the professional world and her job at IBM to the ACM student chapter. Her presentation will be at 3:00pm in Dunn 206.

February 15, 2012: Student Anthony Clark will present a workshop on Git for the ACM student chapter. Meet at 3:00pm in Dunn 206.

November 11, 2011: Karla Viglasky will discuss her duties as CIO at ITT and how modern IT departments affect our corporate world today. Her presentation will be at 3:00pm in Dunn 206.

Fall 2011: Bishal Thapa from BBN Raytheon will make discuss networks and routing, particularly as they pertain to jamming network traffic. The presentation will be at 3:00pm in Dunn 206.

Fall 2011: Judson Rosebush from Digital Effects will give a presentation on digital graphics at 3:00pm in Dunn 206.

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