N. Rama Rao Chair supports a Distinguished Lectures Series in Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur by eminent Computer Scientists from all over the world.

Schedule for 2005-06 II Semester (Jan-April, 2006)

• Prof. V. Rajaraman (April 12, 2006)
  Honorary Professor, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
  Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
  Towards a Computing Utility

• Dr. Manindra Agrawal (Feb 8, 2006)
  Professor and Head,Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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• Dr. John Hopcroft (Jan 17, 2006)
  Professor,Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Computer Science Theory for the Future

• Dr. Keshav Pingali (Jan 16, 2006)
  Professor,Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Is global search necessary in self-optimizing software systems?

• Prof. S. Keshav (Jan 5, 2006)
  Associate Professor,Cheriton School of Computer Science
  University of Waterloo
  Delay Tolerant Networking: Concepts and Extensions

• Prof. Arvind (Jan 4, 2006)
  Professor,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
  Member, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Is Hardware Innovation dead?

 

Schedule for 2005-06 I Semenster (Aug-Nov , 2005)

• Prof. David Gries(Nov 16, 2005)
  Professor,Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Teaching program development

• Prof. Sandeep Sen(Nov 11, 2005)
  Department of Computer Science & Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  Constructing optimal size spanners of weighted graphs in linear time

• Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb(Act 3 , 2005)
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  Optimization : An Indispensable Companion for Researchers and Practitoners

• Prof. Amit Kumar(Sep 8 , 2005)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  Multi-processor scheduling to minimize flow time with epsilon resource augmentation

• Prof. Ashok Agrawala(Aug 09, 2005)
  Director, MIND Lab and
  Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Maryland
  College Park, USA
  Inonovative Technologies from MIND Lab

 

Schedule for 2004-05-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2004)

• Prof. Rajeev Sangal (Sep 15, 2004)
  Language Technologies Research Centre
  International Institute of Information Technology
  Hyderabad, AP, India
  Shakti Machine Translation System

• Sajal K. Das (Aug 04, 2004)
  Director, Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  The University of Texas at Arlington
  Arlington, TX, USA
  Mobility and Resource Management in Smart Home Environments

 

Schedule for 2003-04-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2004)

• Prof. Charles Van Loan (Feb 19, 2004)
  Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, USA
  Computational Multilinear Algebra

• Prof. Charles Van Loan (Feb 19, 2004)
  Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, USA
  Block Matrix Computations and the Singular Value Decomposition

 

Schedule for 2003-04-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2003)

• Prof. V Arvind (Aug 26 and 27, 2003)
  Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Chennai, India
  The Graph Isomorphism Problem

 

Schedule for 2002-03-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2003)

• Prof. Jayant Haritsa (Mar 27, 2003)
  Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC)
  and
  Department of Computer Science & Automation (CSA)
  Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
  Reducing Query Optimization Overheads Through Plan Recycling

• Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Mar 5, 2003)
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  Chennai, India
  As Telecom Poises for Growth - Opportunity for India

• Dr. Prathima Agrawal (Jan 10, 2003)
  Assistant Vice President, Internet Architecture Research Lab
  Executive Director, Computer Networking Research Department
  Telcordia Technologies, NJ
  Mobile and Wireless Internet and ITSUMO

• Prof. Vishwani D Agrawal (Jan 09, 2003)
  Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  Minimum Dynamic Power CMOS Circuits

• Prof. Satish Tripathi (Jan 03, 2003)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Bourns College of Engineering
  University of California, Riverside
  Secure and Reliable MANETs: Making the Right Tradeoffs

 

Schedule for 2002-03-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2002)

• Prof. Gautam Barua (Sep 23, 2002)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  Production and Storage of Digital Documents in an Office Environment

• Prof. Bijendra N Jain (Sep 06, 2002)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  QoS Aware Path Protection Schemes for MPLS Networks

• Prof. Vijay K Garg (Aug 23, 2002)
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
  and
  N Rama Rao Professor,
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
  Slicing to Detect Global Conditions in Distributed Computations

• Prof. Manindra Agarwal (Aug 14, 2002)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  Primes is in P

• Prof. Kishor S Trivedi (Aug 01, 2002)
  Hudson Professor,
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
  and
  Poonam and Prabhu Goel Professor,
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
  Software Aging and Rejuvenation: Modeling and Analysis

 

Schedule for 2001-02-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2001)

• Prof. Samir K Brahmachari (Oct 15, 2001)
  Director,
  Centre for Biochemical Technology
  Functional Genomics Unit
  (CSIR), New Delhi
  Functional Genomics in Silico

• Prof. Abhay Karandikar (Sep 06, 2001)
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Packet Scheduling Algorithms for QoS in Next Generation Routers
  Presentation slides (PS: 212KB)

• Dr. Manoj Kumar, Director (Aug 31, 2001)
  IBM India Research Lab
  IIT Delhi campus, New Delhi
  Electronic Markets

• Prof. Jean-Claude Latombe (August, 2001)
  Computer Science Department
  Stanford University
  1. Aug 20, 2001 An Efficient Motion Planner Based on Random Sampling
  2. Aug 28, 2001 Motion Planning With Visibility Constraints

• Dr. Pravin Bhagwat (Aug 07, 2001)
  Reefedge, Inc.
  Fort Lee, NJ, USA
  New Advances in Short Range Wireless Networking

 

2000-2001-II Semester (Jan-April, 2001)

• Prof. Jayant Haritsa (Feb 16, 2001)
  Department of Computer Science & Automation
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  Turbo-charging Vertical Mining of Large Databases

• Prof. Fredric Cazals (Feb 12, 2001)
  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
  Voronoi-based Surface Reconstruction Algorithms

• Prof. Keshav Pingali (Jan 17, 2001)
  Computer Science Department, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  Fractal Symbolic Analysis for Restructuring Programs

 

2000-2001-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2000)

• Prof. Sanjiva Prasad(Nov 14, 2000)
  CSE Department, IIT Delhi
  Is your protocol safe?

• Prof. Sanjeev Kapoor (Nov 07-08, 2000)
  CSE Department, IIT Delhi
  1. Shortest Paths in Euclidean Spaces
  2. Constrained Shortest Paths for Quality of Service Routing in Networks

• Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Oct 09, 2000)
  Electrical Department, IIT Chennai

  1. Technology and Business in India PPT Slides
  2. Enabling India through Telecom and Internet PPT Slides

• Prof. Ketan Mulmuley (Aug 02, 2000)
  CSE Department, IIT Bombay
  Geometric Complexity Theory

 

1999-2000-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2000)

• Dr. P J Narayanan (Apr 18, 2000)
  Center for Artificial Intelligence and Research, Bangalore
  Virtual Reality and Beyond

• Prof. P P Chakrabarti (Apr 04, 2000)
  Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
  Heauristic Search

• Prof. Sunita Sarawagi (Mar 08, 2000)
  KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay
  I3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of Multi-dimensional Data cubes

 

1999-2000-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 1999)

• Prof. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (Oct 25-29, 1999)
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  Schedule of lecture series

• Prof. Anurag Kumar (Oct 13, 1999)
  [Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore] (http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in)
  Measurement Based Source Shaping for Connection Admission Control in Packet Networks

• Prof. D. Janaki Ram (Sep 15, 1999)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
  Beyond Object Orientation: Making Objects Introspective

• Prof. Arvind (Aug 24, 1999)
  Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, USA
  and
  N. Rama Rao Professor in
  Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur
  Tutorial on Lambda Calculus

• Prof. Krithi Ramamritham (Aug 04, 1999)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
  Reading Consistent and Current Data "Off thr Air"

 

1998-99-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 1999)

• Prof. Satish Tripathi (Mar 30, 1999)
  Dean, Bourns College of Engineering, Univ of California, Riverside
  Quality of Service Routing: Research Directions

• Prof. P. S. Thiagarajan (Mar 25, 1999)
  SPIC Mathematical Institute, Chennai
  Timed Automate: Basic theory and some new subclasses

• Prof. Huzur Saran (Mar 10, 1999)
  Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Delhi
  Effect of Buffer Policies for Fairness in TCP Flows

• Prof. S. Sudarshan (Feb 25, 1999)
  Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Mumbai
  Multi-Query Optimization

• Prof. R. K. Shyamsundar (Feb 18, 1999)
  School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR, Mumbai
  Reactive Programming Paradigms and Hardware Modelling

• Dr. Mathai Joseph (Feb 11, 1999)
  Tata Consultancy Services, Pune
  Timing and Fault-Tolerance in Real-time Systems

• Prof. Arvind (Jan 07, 1999)
  MIT and N. Rama Rao Professor in Computer Science, IIT Kanpur
  Start Voyager: A Scalable Commodity Supercomputer

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