Thursday, November 14     (Time: 11:00 am)                   (Location : SB 113)	Dr. Abdur Chowdhury, Search and Navigation Architect for America Online & Researcher at Information Retrieval Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology   Operational Laws Applied: Architecture Assessment for Information System
Monday, November 11     (Time: 11:00 am)                   (Location : SB 111)	Dr. Philip R. Troyk, Associate Professor, Pritzker Institute Of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology Developing an Intra-cortical Visual Prosthesis

Monday, November 04     (Time: 11:00 am)                   (Location : SB 239)

Dr. Bhaskar DasGupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago   Several Geometric Tiling and Packing Problem With Applications To Nonoverlapping local alignments, DNA microarray designs and Homology Searches

Monday, October 28     (Time: 11:00 am)                   (Location : SB 239)

Dr. ChengXiang Zhai, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Text Retrieval as Risk Minimization