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            Stream Processing Engines -- What Makes Them Tick           | 
                  
            Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Mike Stonebraker, MIT CSAIL & StreamBase Systems, Inc.           | 
                  
            MIT Building 10 (Maclaurin Buildings)           | 
                  
            10-250           | 
              
          
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            Introduction to Grid Computing           | 
                  
            Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Barry Nusbaum of IBM           | 
                  
            IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA           | 
                  
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            Haystack: Putting Users Back in Control of their Information Organization           | 
                  
            Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            David Karger, MIT CSAIL           | 
                  
            MIT Building 2            | 
                  
            2-105           | 
              
          
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            Helping People Find Information Better           | 
                  
            Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Jaime Teevan, MIT CSAIL           | 
                  
            MIT Building 56 (Whitaker Building)           | 
                  
            56-114           | 
              
          
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            A meta-language for system architecting: A case study based on NASA's Apollo Program           | 
                  
            Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Benjamin Koo and Jay Conne           | 
                  
            MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)            | 
                  
            E51-345           | 
              
          
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            New Standards for Elections: A forum on technical and nontechnical requirements for voting systems           | 
                  
            Monday, February 21, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Host: Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Radcliffe Institute Fellow and member of the P1583 committee           | 
                  
            Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (Cronkhite Center)           | 
                  
            Living room           | 
              
          
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            Internet Vulnerabilities and Server Security           | 
                  
            Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte, CriticalSites           | 
                  
            MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)            | 
                  
            E51-315           | 
              
          
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            C# Generics vs. C++ Templates           | 
                  
            Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Richard Hale Shaw           | 
                  
            MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)            | 
                  
            E51-315           | 
              
          
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            What's New With IPV6: Update and Howto           | 
                  
            Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Jamey Hicks, HP Labs - Cambridge Research Lab           | 
                  
            MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)            | 
                  
            E51-325           | 
              
          
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            Engineering Simple Living Systems: Parts, Modularity, and Simplicity for the Biological World           | 
                  
            Thursday, October 21, 2004 - 7:00pm           | 
                  
            Tom Knight, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory           | 
                  
            MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)           | 
                  
            32-123           |