CS200 Undergraduate Colloquium

What is CS200?

The undergraduate colloquim which meets weekly on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45 in Gates B08. Two speakers (usually from our faculty, sometimes grad students or industry folk) are invited each week to give a talk about their work, interests, and research. In addition to getting an overview of some of the exciting projects going on here, you also get insight into the people that are making it happen: why they do what they do, how they got to where they are, what advice might they offer to you, and so on. CS200 is valuable for sophomores who are trying to find an advisor, as well as juniors and seniors who are thinking about getting involved in research. But really it's designed for anyone who would like to know more about what our faculty are up to around here.

How can I find out more about the faculty?

  • List of all faculty web pages
  • Listing of faculty research interests
  • Profiles of on-going research projects
  • Regular departmental seminars

    • Resources for undergraduate research

  • A little bit of info on SURF (scroll down to Surf section within this document). SURF is Stanford's program for summer undergradate research fellowships. You apply to SURF during winter quarter!
  • At the annual CS undergrad meeting in fall, several professors advertisted various research projects they would be interested in having undergrads join. If you'd a copy of that list, e-mail Claire Stager (stager@cs). You need to be declared as CS or CSE for her to send it to you.
    Note: From 1/14 onward, CS200 will meet in TCseq 102(in the fancy new teaching center across the street from Gates.)

    Winter Quarter 1999 Schedule

    Date Topics
    Th 1/7 Introduction and adminstration
  • Handout #1: Fact Sheet
  • Handout #2: Student Survey
    • Th 1/14
  • Prof. Eric Roberts, Associate chair of CS (eroberts@cs.stanford.edu)
    Perspectives on advanced degrees and the graduate admission process
  • Steve Freund, PhD student in programming language theory (freunds@cs.stanford.edu)
    The WHAT and WHY of PhD life, thoughts from a Stanford undergrad turned PhD student
    • Scribe Krishna Yeshwant's summary
    • Th 1/21
  • Prof. Terry Winograd (winograd@cs.stanford.edu)
    Human-Computer Interaction
  • Prof. Arthur Keller, Sr Research Scientist (ark@cs.stanford.edu)
    Infomaster
    • Th 1/28
  • Roy Goldman, PhD student in databases (royg@cs.stanford.edu)
    LORE and XML
  • Tamara Munzner, PhD student in graphics (munzner@cs.stanford.edu)
    Information visualization
    • Th 2/4
  • Prof. Armando Fox (afox@cs.stanford.edu)
    Next generation Internet applications
  • Wilburt Labio, PhD student in databases (wilburt@cs.stanford.edu)
    Data warehousing
    • Th 2/11
  • Richard Chen , MD/PhD student in medical informatics (rchen@smi.stanford.edu)
    Bioinformatics
  • Prof. John Mitchell (mitchell@cs.stanford.edu)
    Security
    • Th 2/18
  • Mehran Sahami, PhD, at Epiphany (sahami@cs.stanford.edu)
    What a PhD can do for you: Machine Learning in Academia & Industry
  • Prof. Christoph Bregler (bregler@cs.stanford.edu)
    Analyzing and Animating People
    • Scribe Brent Fitzgerald's summary
    • Th 2/25
  • Prof. Nils Nilsson, Emeritus (nilsson@cs.stanford.edu)
    Robotics and maching learning
    • Th 3/4
  • Glenn Durfee, PhD student in cryptography (gdurf@cs.stanford.edu)
    Factoring integers and breaking cryptosystems
  • Prof. Daphne Koller (koller@cs.stanford.edu)
    Artificial Intelligence
    • Scribe Dave Weinstein
    • Th 3/11 Dead Week, no class meeting

    Interview write-ups

    Those of you who had dinner or a meeting with a prof will contribute a short write-up to share with others what you were able to learn.

  • Xuanming Su on Prof. Angel Puerta, Medical Informatics
  • Austin Che on Prof. John Mitchell, Programming languages and security
  • Chris Hong on Prof. Pat Hanrahan, Graphics
  • Eric Chan on Prof. Dan Boneh, Cryptography


    Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Send mail to: zelenski@cs.