Distinguished Lectures


2015 Series

Who Goes There? Applications & Challenges of Face Recognition
Speaker Prof. Anil K. Jain
(University Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 14, 2015 (Mon) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Beauty and the Computer
Speaker Prof. Ching Y. Suen
(Director, Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Concordia University, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 10, 2015 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
WLB210, Wing Lung Bank Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Big Data for Everyone
Speaker Prof. Jian Pei
(Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 18, 2015 (Thu) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Biometric Recognition: Technology for Human Recognition
Speaker Prof. Anil K. Jain
(University Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 22, 2015 (Wed) 3:30 - 4:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Is Computer Vision Pattern Recognition by a Different Name?
Speaker Prof. Rama Chellappa
(Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 26, 2015 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:30 am
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Optimization in Machine Learning
Speaker Prof. Daniel Boley
(Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 11, 2015 (Wed) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

New Challenges in Multi-robot Task Allocation
Speaker Prof. Maria Gini
(Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 11, 2015 (Wed) 10:00 - 11:00 am
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Some Mysteries of Multiplication, and How to Generate Random Factored Integers
Speaker Prof. Richard P. Brent
(Emeritus Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 6, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 4:00 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

The HDL Lola and its Translation to Verilog
Speaker Prof. Niklaus Wirth
(Turing Award Winner)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 27, 2015 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

Computers and Computing in the Early Years
Speaker Prof. Niklaus Wirth
(Turing Award Winner)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 23, 2015 (Fri) 4:00 - 5:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video

The Oberon System on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Speaker Prof. Niklaus Wirth
(Turing Award Winner)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 20, 2015 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos  Slides  Video


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