Colloquium Archive

What The Dormouse Said

John Markoff, The New York Times

04/24/2008

How a political counterculture converged with the microprocessor during the 1960s and early 1970s around Stanford University to create personal computing.

New Training Methods For Neural Networks

V. Scott Gordon, California State University, Sacramento

05/01/2008

Neural networks attempt to learn solutions to problems by emulating simplified neurons. They are becoming increasingly popular for helping solve complex problems such as vehicle guidance, face identification, handwritten text recognition, and spam filtering. This talk presents research into new neural network training methods such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and neighbor annealing, combined with a divide-and-conquer approach, which may enable neural networks to solve even larger problems.

Effective Software Testing

Sukanya Sreehari, IBM

05/08/2008

This presentation covers the lifecycle of software testing, beginning with the gathering and capturing of requirements in a process called Business Driven Development, all the way to runtime performance testing. The objective is to show that Rational® software quality solutions and best practices can provide programmers with the framework and tools needed to use excellence in software testing as a strategic business advantage.

Spring 2008 Short Presentations Of Student Research

END OF SEMESTER CELEBRATION & AWARDS

05/15/2008

Short presentations of research carried out by Sonoma State Computer Science Students

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