Category: Colloquia

We are very excited to announce the first colloquium of this semester. Jeff Rovner, a legal professional with nearly 25 years of experience leading IT organizations at global law firms. Though he had no formal training in information technology, he has led IT teams at global law firms for nearly 25 years. Jeff will discuss […]

We’re very excited to announce that Amy Occhialino, director of Open Source Software Engineering at Intel, will be giving a colloquium as part of this semester’s colloquium series! Amy has spent 20 years at Intel, primarily driving semi-conductor design, manufacturing, and innovation. In 2017, Amy switching into delivering open source software at Intel and currently […]

Our very own Julia Somers, class of 2019 (Watzek DI Hall of Fame, 2019), will be returning to give a colloquium about her work in the fields of bioinformatics and cancer research! Join us in the Watzek Classroom Wednesday, October 16 at 4, for snacks and discussion!

Professor Brian House, of the Lewis & Clark Art Department, will be giving the first ACM colloquium of the semester. Brian’s background in both computer science and sound informs his research-based artistic practice—recent interests include extractive industries and urban rats. Join us in the Watzek Classroom on Wednesday, October 2 at 4:00 PM. Light refreshments […]

Biodiversity data can take many forms, from photographs of bird feathers from museums to 3D CT-scans of extinct animals. Natural History Museums and Botanical Gardens have been digitizing their collections for over ten years yielding billions of data points culminating in one of the most exciting data resources the world has to offer. Evolutionary Biologist, […]

Medical Informatics is an applied research field that seeks to answer questions of interest to medical professionals through computer science, anthropology, statistics, industrial engineering, biology, and many other fields. This talk will serve as an introduction to medical informatics, give a sense of the day to day work of an informatics research assistant, and present […]