N. Rama Rao Chair supports a Distinguished Lectures Series in Computer Science
and Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur by eminent Computer Scientists from
all over the world.
* **Prof. V. Rajaraman** (April 12, 2006)
Honorary Professor, [Supercomputer Education and Research Centre][1]
[Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore][2]
_[Towards a Computing Utility][3]_
* **Dr. Manindra Agrawal** (Feb 8, 2006)
Professor and Head,[ Department of Computer Science and Engineering][4]
[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur][5]
_[Click here for furhter details.][6]_
* **Dr. John Hopcroft** (Jan 17, 2006)
Professor,[Department of Computer Science][7]
[Cornell University][8]
_[Computer Science Theory for the Future][9]_
* **Dr. Keshav Pingali** (Jan 16, 2006)
Professor,[Department of Computer Science][7]
[Cornell University][8]
_[Is global search necessary in self-optimizing software systems?][10]_
* **[Prof. S. Keshav][11]** (Jan 5, 2006)
Associate Professor,[ Cheriton School of Computer Science][12]
[University of Waterloo][13]
_[Delay Tolerant Networking: Concepts and Extensions][14]_
* **[Prof. Arvind][15]** (Jan 4, 2006)
Professor,[Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department][16]
Member, [Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory][17]
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology][18]
_[Is Hardware Innovation dead?][19]_
* **[Prof. David Gries][20]**(Nov 16, 2005)
Professor,[Computer Science][7]
[Cornell University][21]
_[Teaching program development][22]_
* **[Prof. Sandeep Sen][23]**(Nov 11, 2005)
[Department of Computer Science & Engineering][24]
[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur][25]
_[Constructing optimal size spanners of weighted graphs in linear time][26]_
* **[Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb][27]**(Act 3 , 2005)
[Department of Mechanical Engineering][28]
[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur][29]
_[Optimization : An Indispensable Companion for Researchers and
Practitoners][30]_
* **[Prof. Amit Kumar][31]**(Sep 8 , 2005)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering][32]
[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi][33]
_[Multi-processor scheduling to minimize flow time with epsilon resource
augmentation][34]_
* **[Prof. Ashok Agrawala][35]**(Aug 09, 2005)
Director, [ MIND Lab][36] and
Professor, [Department of Computer Science][37]
[University of Maryland][38]
College Park, USA
_[Inonovative Technologies from MIND Lab][39]_
* **[ Prof. Rajeev Sangal][40]** (Sep 15, 2004)
[ Language Technologies Research Centre ][41]
[ International Institute of Information Technology ][42]
Hyderabad, AP, India
[ _Shakti Machine Translation System_ ][43]
* **[ Sajal K. Das ][44]** (Aug 04, 2004)
Director, [ Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN)][45]
[ Department of Computer Science and Engineering ][46]
[ The University of Texas at Arlington ][47]
Arlington, TX, USA
_[Mobility and Resource Management in Smart Home Environments][48]_
* **[ Prof. Charles Van Loan ][49]** (Feb 19, 2004)
[ Department of Computer Science ][7]
[ Cornell University ][21]
Ithaca, New York, USA
[ _Computational Multilinear Algebra_ ][50]
* **[ Prof. Charles Van Loan][49]** (Feb 19, 2004)
[ Department of Computer Science ][7]
[ Cornell University ][21]
Ithaca, New York, USA
[ _Block Matrix Computations and the Singular Value Decomposition_ ][51]
* **[ Prof. V Arvind ][52]** (Aug 26 and 27, 2003)
[ Institute of Mathematical Sciences ][53]
Chennai, India
[ _The Graph Isomorphism Problem_ ][54]
* **[ Prof. Jayant Haritsa ][55]** (Mar 27, 2003)
[ Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) ][1]
and
[ Department of Computer Science & Automation (CSA) ][56]
[ Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ][2] Bangalore
[ _Reducing Query Optimization Overheads Through Plan Recycling_ ][57]
* **[ Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala ][58]** (Mar 5, 2003)
Department of Electrical Engineering
[ Indian Institute of Technology Madras ][59]
Chennai, India
[ _As Telecom Poises for Growth - Opportunity for India_ ][60]
* **[ Dr. Prathima Agrawal ][61]** (Jan 10, 2003)
Assistant Vice President, [ Internet Architecture Research Lab ][62]
Executive Director, Computer Networking Research Department
[ Telcordia Technologies, ][63] NJ
[ _Mobile and Wireless Internet and ITSUMO_ ][64]
* **[ Prof. Vishwani D Agrawal][65]** (Jan 09, 2003)
Visiting Professor, [ Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering
][66]
[ Rutgers University, ][67] New Brunswick, NJ
[ _Minimum Dynamic Power CMOS Circuits_ ][68]
* **[ Prof. Satish Tripathi ][69]** (Jan 03, 2003)
[ Department of Computer Science and Engineering ][70]
[ Bourns College of Engineering ][71]
[ University of California, Riverside ][72]
[ _Secure and Reliable MANETs: Making the Right Tradeoffs_ ][73]
- **Prof. Gautam Barua** (Sep 23, 2002)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.iitg.ernet.in/engfac/cse/public_html/)
[Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati](http://www.iitg.ernet.in)
[*Production and Storage of Digital Documents in an Office Environment*](lec/2002.09.23.html)
- **[Prof. Bijendra N Jain](http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~bnj/)** (Sep 06, 2002)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in)
[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi](http://www.iitd.ac.in)
[*QoS Aware Path Protection Schemes for MPLS Networks*](lec/2002.09.06.html)
- **[Prof. Vijay K Garg](http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~garg)** (Aug 23, 2002)
[Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering](http://www.ece.utexas.edu)
[University of Texas, Austin,](http://www.utexas.edu) TX, USA.
and
N Rama Rao Professor,
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in)
[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.](http://www.iitk.ac.in)
[*Slicing to Detect Global Conditions in Distributed Computations*](lec/2002.08.23.html)
- **[Prof. Manindra Agarwal](/manindra)** (Aug 14, 2002)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/)
[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur](http://www.iitk.ac.in/)
[*Primes is in P*](lec/2002.08.14.html)
- **[Prof. Kishor S Trivedi](http://www.ece.duke.edu/~kst)** (Aug 01, 2002)
Hudson Professor,
[Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering](http://www.ece.duke.edu)
[Duke University,](http://www.duke.edu) Durham, NC, USA.
and
Poonam and Prabhu Goel Professor,
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in)
[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.](http://www.iitk.ac.in)
[*Software Aging and Rejuvenation: Modeling and Analysis*](lec/2002.08.01.html)
- **[Prof. Samir K Brahmachari](http://www.cbt.res.in/Director.htm)** (Oct 15, 2001)
Director,
[Centre for Biochemical Technology](http://www.cbt.res.in)
Functional Genomics Unit
(CSIR), New Delhi
[*Functional Genomics in Silico*](lec/2001.10.15.html)
- **Prof. Abhay Karandikar** (Sep 06, 2001)
[Department of Electrical Engineering](http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in)
[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay](http://www.iitb.ac.in)
[*Packet Scheduling Algorithms for QoS in Next Generation Routers*](lec/2001.09.06.html)
[Presentation slides](lec/2001.09.06.ps) (PS: 212KB)
- **Dr. Manoj Kumar, Director** (Aug 31, 2001)
[IBM India Research Lab](http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/irl)
IIT Delhi campus, New Delhi
[*Electronic Markets*](lec/2001.08.31.html)
- **[Prof. Jean-Claude Latombe](http://robotics.stanford.edu/~latombe)** (August, 2001)
[Computer Science Department](http://www.cs.stanford.edu)
[Stanford University](http://www.stanford.edu)
1. Aug 20, 2001 [*An Efficient Motion Planner Based on Random Sampling*](lec/2001.08.20.html)
2. Aug 28, 2001 [*Motion Planning With Visibility Constraints*](lec/2001.08.28.html)
- **[Dr. Pravin Bhagwat](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pravin)** (Aug 07, 2001)
[Reefedge, Inc.](http://www.reefedge.com)
Fort Lee, NJ, USA
[*New Advances in Short Range Wireless Networking*](lec/2001.08.07.html)
- **[Prof. Jayant Haritsa](http://dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~haritsa)** (Feb 16, 2001)
[Department of Computer Science & Automation](http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in)
[Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore](http://www.iisc.ernet.in)
[*Turbo-charging Vertical Mining of Large Databases*](lec/2001.02.16.html)
- **[Prof. Fredric Cazals](http://www.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/cazals)** (Feb 12, 2001)
[INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France](http://www-sop.inria.fr/eng/welcome.html)
[*Voronoi-based Surface Reconstruction Algorithms*](lec/2001.02.12.html)
- **[Prof. Keshav Pingali](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/annual_report/Pingali.htm)** (Jan 17, 2001)
[Computer Science Department, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)
[*Fractal Symbolic Analysis for Restructuring Programs*](lec/2001.01.17.html)
- **[Prof. Sanjiva Prasad](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~sanjiva)**(Nov 14, 2000)
[CSE Department, IIT Delhi](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/)
[*Is your protocol safe?*](lec/2000.11.14.html)
- **[Prof. Sanjeev Kapoor](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~skapoor)** (Nov 07-08, 2000)
[CSE Department, IIT Delhi](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/)
1. *[Shortest Paths in Euclidean Spaces](lec/2000.11.07.html)*
2. *Constrained Shortest Paths for Quality of Service Routing in Networks*
- **Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala** (Oct 09, 2000)
[Electrical Department, IIT Chennai](http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/)
1. *Technology and Business in India [PPT Slides](lec/2000.10.09-jj1.ppt)*
2. *Enabling India through Telecom and Internet [PPT Slides](lec/2000.10.09-jj2.ppt)*
- **[Prof. Ketan Mulmuley](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in:8000/~ketan)** (Aug 02, 2000)
[CSE Department, IIT Bombay](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/)
*Geometric Complexity Theory*
- **Dr. P J Narayanan** (Apr 18, 2000)
[Center for Artificial Intelligence and Research, Bangalore](http://www.cair.res.in/)
[*Virtual Reality and Beyond*](lec/2000.04.18.html)
- **Prof. P P Chakrabarti** (Apr 04, 2000)
[Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur](http://144.16.202.162:8081/)
[*Heauristic Search*](lec/2000.04.04.html)
- **[Prof. Sunita Sarawagi](http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in/~sunita/)** (Mar 08, 2000)
[KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay](http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in)
*I3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of Multi-dimensional Data cubes*
- **Prof. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan** (Oct 25-29, 1999)
[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai](http://www.tifr.res.in)
[*Schedule of lecture series*](lec/1999.10.25.html)
- **[Prof. Anurag Kumar](http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/~anurag/Anurag_Kumar.html)** (Oct 13, 1999)
[Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore] (http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in)
[*Measurement Based Source Shaping for Connection Admission Control in Packet Networks*](lec/1999.10.13.html)
- **[Prof. D. Janaki Ram](http://marimba.cs.iitm.ernet.in/pages/deps/cs/profs/djram)** (Sep 15, 1999)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras](http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in)
*Beyond Object Orientation: Making Objects Introspective*
- **[Prof. Arvind](http://foothill.lcs.mit.edu:8001/Users/arvind/)** (Aug 24, 1999)
[Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, USA](http://www.lcs.mit.edu)
and
[N. Rama Rao Professor](nRamaRao.html) in
[Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur](/)
*Tutorial on Lambda Calculus*
- **[Prof. Krithi Ramamritham](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in:8000/~krithi)** (Aug 04, 1999)
[Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in)
[*Reading Consistent and Current Data "Off thr Air"*](lec/1999.08.04.html)
- **Prof. Satish Tripathi** (Mar 30, 1999)
Dean, Bourns College of Engineering, Univ of California, Riverside
*Quality of Service Routing: Research Directions*
- **Prof. P. S. Thiagarajan** (Mar 25, 1999)
SPIC Mathematical Institute, Chennai
*Timed Automate: Basic theory and some new subclasses*
- **Prof. Huzur Saran** (Mar 10, 1999)
Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Delhi
*Effect of Buffer Policies for Fairness in TCP Flows*
- **Prof. S. Sudarshan** (Feb 25, 1999)
Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Mumbai
*Multi-Query Optimization*
- **Prof. R. K. Shyamsundar** (Feb 18, 1999)
School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR, Mumbai
*Reactive Programming Paradigms and Hardware Modelling*
- **Dr. Mathai Joseph** (Feb 11, 1999)
Tata Consultancy Services, Pune
*Timing and Fault-Tolerance in Real-time Systems*
- **Prof. Arvind** (Jan 07, 1999)
MIT and N. Rama Rao Professor in Computer Science, IIT Kanpur
*Start Voyager: A Scalable Commodity Supercomputer*
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