Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 18 Nov 2010 at 3:40 pm |
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| Location: | Alliant Energy/Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Phone: | 515-294-6516 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Ouri Wolfson's main research interests are in database systems, distributed systems, and mobile/pervasive computing. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (www.nyu.edu). He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science (www.cs.uic.edu) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (www.uic.edu), and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (www.cs.uiuc.edu). He is the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup that was acquired by Fluensee Co. in 2006. Most recently he founded Pirouette Software Inc., and currently serves as its President. The company specializes in Mobile Peer-to-Peer software for local search. He served as a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, to the US Army Research Laboratories, to DARPA, and to the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.