ITA Software's Technical Seminar Series

ITA Software employees have the opportunity to attend Tech Seminar Series talks, which feature engineers, scientists, and mavens from the technology and travel industries. 

Past Talks
March 9, 2011
Speaker: David Tillotson III, CTO for Warfighting Integration Directorate, Washington, DC
Topic: The Role of Business Transformation, Social Media, and Enterprise Systems in the Air Force

March 2, 2011
Speaker: Scott Aaronson, MIT
Topic: Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable

February 9 , 2011
Speaker: Tucker Taft, SofCheck, Inc.
Topic: An Introduction to ParaSail: Parallel Specification and Implementation Language

January 5, 2010
Speaker: Vineet Sinha, Architexa
Topic: Development Practices for Growing Teams

November 10, 2010
Speaker: Brigadier General Earl Matthews, CIO U.S. Transportation Command
Topic: Opening statements followed by a Q&A session

September 1, 2010
Speaker: Tom Morris, Freebase
Topic: Freebase - Google's Newly Acquired Semantic Database - Technical and Community Perspectives

August 4, 2010
Speaker: Tuan Phan, Harvard Business School doctoral candidate
Topic: Experts vs. Aggregators: The Evolution of Endogenous Influence
 

June 2, 2010
Speaker: Tao B, Schardl, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Parallel Breadth-First Search

December 16, 2009
Speaker: Tanya Khovanova, MIT & AMSA
Topic: Integers and Sequences

December 9, 2009
Speaker: Ken Haase, MIT
Topic: Making Computing Meaningful and Meaning Computable

September 23, 2009
Speaker: Joe Bates
Topic: Approximate Computing: Useful Results 100,000x Faster

September 9, 2009
Speakers: John Robston, Ken Jones, and Chas Horvath
Topic: High Availability in Stratus Systems

July 15, 2009
Speaker: Greg Little, MIT CSAIL
Topic: TurKit: Tools for Iterative Tasks on Mechanical Turk

June 17, 2009
Speaker: Silas Boyd-Wickizer, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Multicore-Aware File Cache

April 22, 2009
Speaker: Emmanuel Schanzer
Topic: Teaching Mathematics and Problem-Solving Through Programming

December 17, 2008
Speaker: Rick Hudson, new Intel Architecture x86/ia64 memory model
Topic: IA Memory Ordering

November 19, 2008
Speaker: Daniel Jackson, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Alloy Analyzer

September 10, 2008
Speaker: Jesse Vincent, Best Practical
Topic: Prophet, Your Path out of the Cloud

August 27, 2008
Speaker: Hanan Samet
Topic: Spatial Data Structures

August 20, 2008
Speaker: Peter Gloor, MIT
Topic: Collaborative Innovation Networks

July 16, 2008
Speaker: Adlar Kim, MIT CSAIL & Sloan School
Topic: An Order Flow Model and a Liquidity Measure of Financial Markets

June 25, 2008
Speaker: Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University
Topic: How Cards Changed my View of Access-Control Policies

June 18, 2008
Speaker: Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University
Topic: From Scripts to Programs

June 11, 2008
Speaker: Thomas R. Aten & Dr. Lawrence Wolpert, Aptima
Topic: Understanding and Organizing the Work Domain to Effectively Inform System Design

May 14, 2008
Speaker: Vineet Sinha, Architexta
Topic: Coding with Eclipse: Modern Software Development

May 7, 2008
Speaker: Jeremy Jones, Clozure
Topic: InspireData - How We Did it in Lisp 

April 9, 2008
Speaker: Ivan Krstic, Harvard University, OLPC
Topic: The Dark Future of Desktop Security, And How to Stop It

March 12, 2008
Speaker: Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University
Talk Topic: Modular Approaches to Computer Programs for Lauguage Games

March 5, 2008
Speaker: Jonathan Bachrach, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Spacial Computing in Proto

February 20, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Peter P. Belobaba, MIT
Topic: Airline Revenue Management Systems: Evolution and Recent Developments

February 6, 2008
Speaker: Greg Cooper
Topic: Father Time: A Dataflow Extension of DrScheme

January 30, 2008
Speaker: David Karger, MIT LCS
Topic: Why Everyone Should be Their Own Database Administrator, UI Designer, Application Developer, and Web Site Builder, and How They Can

January 9, 2008
Speaker: Robert Cowen, Internet Travel Guru
Topic: Which Online Travel Websites are Best?

December 19, 2007
Speaker: Damon Poole, Founder & CTO AccuRev Inc.
Topic: Agile Development

November 28, 2007
Speaker: Eitan Bachmat
Topic: Airplane Boarding and Space-Time Geometry  

November 14, 2007

Speaker: Tom Knight, MIT
Topic: An Engineering Technology Based on Biology

November 7, 2007
Speaker: Jeannine Mosely
Topic: Building Menger's Sponge 

October 24, 2007
Speaker: Kevin McCabe
Topic: Location, Location, Location

October 17, 2007
Speaker: Alexy Radul, ITA Software
Topic: Probalistic Language Scheme

October 10, 2007
Speaker: David Wittenberg, Brandeis University
Topic: Steganographic Encodings

October 3, 2007
Speaker: Andreas Hohmann, ITA Software
Topic: Java Development Stacks

September 26, 2007
Speaker: Bob Offutt, Travel Technology Consulting
Topic: Trends in Travel Distribution

September 18, 2007
Speaker: Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software), Founder & CEO Fog Creek Software
Topic: Software Development with FogBugz

August 15, 2007
Speaker: Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
Topic: Behind the Scenes at the MIT Mystery Hunt

August 8, 2007
Speaker: Dan Kunkel, Northeastern University
Topic: Twenty-Six Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube

August 1, 2007
Speaker: David Chase, Sun Microsystems
Topic: The Fortress Language

July 25, 2007
Speaker: Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University
Topic: Authentication Without Identification

June 27, 2007
Speaker: Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems Institute
Topic: Beyond the Complexity Threshold

May 23, 2007
Speaker: David Weinberger, Harvard
Topic: Everything is Miscellaneous

May 18, 2007
Speaker: Jerome Friedman, MIT, 1990 Nobel laureate
Topic: Partide Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

April 11, 2007
Speaker: Gregory Shakhnarovich, Brown University
Topic: Task Specific Similarity

April 4, 2007
Speaker: Bill Woods, Sun Microsystems
Topic: Less Searching More Finding

February 27, 2007
Speaker: Mike Stonebraker, MIT/Vertica
Topic: One Size Does Not Fit All

February 13, 2007
Speaker: Carla Brodley, Tufts University
Topic: Network Covert Channels

February 6, 2007
Speaker: Charlie Strauss, Draper Laboratories
Topic: Res '62

January 23, 2007
Speaker: Hans Huebner, ITA Software
Topic: BKNR

November 28, 2006
Speaker: Bil Lewis
Topic: Java Backward Debugger

September 12, 2006
Speaker: Bill Pugh, University of Maryland
Topic: Using Static Analysis for Software Defect Detection

August 29, 2006
Speaker: Carl de Marcken, ITA Software
Topic: Jet Engines and Global Warming