Innovative Travel Technology
ITA Software's Technical Seminar Series
ITA Software employees have the opportunity to attend Tech Seminar Series talks, which feature engineers, scientists, and mavens from the technology and travel industries.
Upcoming Talks
August 4, 2010
Speaker: Tuan Phan, Harvard Business School doctoral candidate
Topic: Experts vs. Aggregators: The Evolution of Endogenous Influence
Past Talks
June 2, 2010
Speaker: Tao B, Schardl, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Parallel Breadth-First Search
December 16, 2009
Speaker: Tanya Khovanova, MIT & AMSA
Topic: Integers and Sequences
December 9, 2009
Speaker: Ken Haase, MIT
Topic: Making Computing Meaningful and Meaning Computable
September 23, 2009
Speaker: Joe Bates
Topic: Approximate Computing: Useful Results 100,000x Faster
September 9, 2009
Speakers: John Robston, Ken Jones, and Chas Horvath
Topic: High Availability in Stratus Systems
July 15, 2009
Speaker: Greg Little, MIT CSAIL
Topic: TurKit: Tools for Iterative Tasks on Mechanical Turk
June 17, 2009
Speaker: Silas Boyd-Wickizer, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Multicore-Aware File Cache
April 22, 2009
Speaker: Emmanuel Schanzer
Topic: Teaching Mathematics and Problem-Solving Through Programming
December 17, 2008
Speaker: Rick Hudson, new Intel Architecture x86/ia64 memory model
Topic: IA Memory Ordering
November 19, 2008
Speaker: Daniel Jackson, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Alloy Analyzer
September 10, 2008
Speaker: Jesse Vincent, Best Practical
Topic: Prophet, Your Path out of the Cloud
August 27, 2008
Speaker: Hanan Samet
Topic: Spatial Data Structures
August 20, 2008
Speaker: Peter Gloor, MIT
Topic: Collaborative Innovation Networks
July 16, 2008
Speaker: Adlar Kim, MIT CSAIL & Sloan School
Topic: An Order Flow Model and a Liquidity Measure of Financial Markets
June 25, 2008
Speaker: Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University
Topic: How Cards Changed my View of Access-Control Policies
June 18, 2008
Speaker: Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University
Topic: From Scripts to Programs
June 11, 2008
Speaker: Thomas R. Aten & Dr. Lawrence Wolpert, Aptima
Topic: Understanding and Organizing the Work Domain to Effectively Inform System Design
May 14, 2008
Speaker: Vineet Sinha, Architexta
Topic: Coding with Eclipse: Modern Software Development
May 7, 2008
Speaker: Jeremy Jones, Clozure
Topic: InspireData - How We Did it in Lisp
April 9, 2008
Speaker: Ivan Krstic, Harvard University, OLPC
Topic: The Dark Future of Desktop Security, And How to Stop It
March 12, 2008
Speaker: Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University
Talk Topic: Modular Approaches to Computer Programs for Lauguage Games
March 5, 2008
Speaker: Jonathan Bachrach, MIT CSAIL
Topic: Spacial Computing in Proto
February 20, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Peter P. Belobaba, MIT
Topic: Airline Revenue Management Systems: Evolution and Recent Developments
February 6, 2008
Speaker: Greg Cooper
Topic: Father Time: A Dataflow Extension of DrScheme
January 30, 2008
Speaker: David Karger, MIT LCS
Topic: Why Everyone Should be Their Own Database Administrator, UI Designer, Application Developer, and Web Site Builder, and How They Can
January 9, 2008
Speaker: Robert Cowen, Internet Travel Guru
Topic: Which Online Travel Websites are Best?
December 19, 2007
Speaker: Damon Poole, Founder & CTO AccuRev Inc.
Topic: Agile Development
November 28, 2007
Speaker: Eitan Bachmat
Topic: Airplane Boarding and Space-Time Geometry
November 14, 2007
Speaker: Tom Knight, MIT
Topic: An Engineering Technology Based on Biology
November 7, 2007
Speaker: Jeannine Mosely
Topic: Building Menger's Sponge
October 24, 2007
Speaker: Kevin McCabe
Topic: Location, Location, Location
October 17, 2007
Speaker: Alexy Radul, ITA Software
Topic: Probalistic Language Scheme
October 10, 2007
Speaker: David Wittenberg, Brandeis University
Topic: Steganographic Encodings
October 3, 2007
Speaker: Andreas Hohmann, ITA Software
Topic: Java Development Stacks
September 26, 2007
Speaker: Bob Offutt, Travel Technology Consulting
Topic: Trends in Travel Distribution
September 18, 2007
Speaker: Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software), Founder & CEO Fog Creek Software
Topic: Software Development with FogBugz
August 15, 2007
Speaker: Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
Topic: Behind the Scenes at the MIT Mystery Hunt
August 8, 2007
Speaker: Dan Kunkel, Northeastern University
Topic: Twenty-Six Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube
August 1, 2007
Speaker: David Chase, Sun Microsystems
Topic: The Fortress Language
July 25, 2007
Speaker: Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University
Topic: Authentication Without Identification
June 27, 2007
Speaker: Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems Institute
Topic: Beyond the Complexity Threshold
May 23, 2007
Speaker: David Weinberger, Harvard
Topic: Everything is Miscellaneous
May 18, 2007
Speaker: Jerome Friedman, MIT, 1990 Nobel laureate
Topic: Partide Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
April 11, 2007
Speaker: Gregory Shakhnarovich, Brown University
Topic: Task Specific Similarity
April 4, 2007
Speaker: Bill Woods, Sun Microsystems
Topic: Less Searching More Finding
February 27, 2007
Speaker: Mike Stonebraker, MIT/Vertica
Topic: One Size Does Not Fit All
February 13, 2007
Speaker: Carla Brodley, Tufts University
Topic: Network Covert Channels
February 6, 2007
Speaker: Charlie Strauss, Draper Laboratories
Topic: Res '62
January 23, 2007
Speaker: Hans Huebner, ITA Software
Topic: BKNR
November 28, 2006
Speaker: Bil Lewis
Topic: Java Backward Debugger
September 12, 2006
Speaker: Bill Pugh, University of Maryland
Topic: Using Static Analysis for Software Defect Detection
August 29, 2006
Speaker: Carl de Marcken, ITA Software
Topic: Jet Engines and Global Warming