Date Posted: 3/01/2005

* Claire Cardie
"Machine Learning for Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution" Universitaet des Saarlandes


* Carla Gomes
"Exploiting Heavy-Tailed Phenomena in Computation" Session on "The pervasiveness of extreme events in science, economics,
and engineering", Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science


* Joe Halpern
"Redoing the foundations of decision theory: Decision theory with subjective state spaces" Brown and Hebrew University


* John Hopcroft
"Future directions in theoretical computer science" Yale

* Oren Kurland
"Corpus Structure, Language Models, and Ad Hoc Information Retrieval" UMass Amherst

* Thorsten Joachims
"Learning Retrieval Functions from Implicit Feedback" Swedish Institute of Computer Science and "Support Vector Machines for Structured Outputs" Plenary speaker, 29th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society

* Andrew Myers
"Programming with Explicit Security Policies " Invited speaker, 2005 European Symposium on Programming

* Eva Tardos
"Network Games and the Price of Stability or Anarchy" University of Pittsburgh

* Ramin Zabih
"Graph Cut Algorithms for Computer Vision and Medical Imaging" Columbia University and USC