past World of Science Seminars
1984
January 21: Dr. Terry Eisinger
"Lead Astray - History, Biochemistry, and Measurement of
Environmental Lead Disease"
February 18: Dr. G. L. Miller
"Robotics in Imagination and Robotics in Reality"
March 3: Dr. Bela Julesz
"Textons - Fundamental Elements of Vision"
March 31: Dr. Doug Osheroff
"Physics near Absolute Zero"
May 5: Dr. Paul Flerry
"Lasers and Spectroscopy"
1985
January 19: Kurt Nassau
"Plates, Quakes, Volcanoes, and Mount St. Helens"
February 2: Louis Manzione
"Engineering Research and Telecommunications"
March 2: Lynn Jelinske
"Solving the Mystery of Macromolecules"
April 20: Marty Feldman
"Lasers, Computer Chips, and Funky Winkerbean"
May 18: Max Mathews
"Making Music with your Personal Computer"
1986
January 18: Fred Grampp
"Rotor Machines in Cryptography"
February 1: Lou Manzione
"Engineering Careers in High Technology"
March 1: Russell Becker
"The Tunneling Microscope"
March 28: Tom Graedel
"Corrosion Research at the Statue of Liberty"
1987
January 17: Dr. Louis Lanzerotti
"Physics at Long Distance: Physics in Outer Space"
February 17: Robert Pike
"How To Build Computers out of True and False"
March 7: Dr. Suzanne Nagel
"Fiber Optics in Communications"
March 28: Dr. David Tank
"How Neurons Work"
1988
January 16: Dr. Robert C. Dynes
"Superconductivity - What's All the Fuss About"
January 30: Dr. Murray Gibson
"The Social Behavior of Atoms on Foreign Soil: Electron Microscopy
of Deposited Layers"
February 27: Dr. Walter Brown
"Ion Beams & Materials Science: From Integrated Circuits to Hip
Prosthetics"
March 26: Dr. Gerald Holzmann
"On Image Processing and Digital Photography"
1989
January 21: Dr. Alan Huang
"Optical Digital Computing"
February 4: Drs. Bruce van Dover & Lynn Schneemeyer
"Superconductivity: What's Hot?"
February 25: Dr. Pierre Hohenberg
"Chaos and Predictability"
March 4: Dr. Ron Graham
"Searching for the Shortest Network"
1990
January 20: Dr. Doug McIlroy
"Bad Bytes: The Fight Against Computer Infections"
February 3: Dr. Loren Pfeiffer
"Growing the World's Best GaAs Crystals, or How to Give Those
Electrons Mobility"
February 24: Dr. Jim West
"The Sound Solution: Acoustics Research at Bell Laboratories"
March 3: Dr. Lou Lanzerotti
"Our Amazing Solar System: The Voyager Expedition"
1991
January 19: Dr. George Wenger
"CFC Alternatives: Plugging the Ozone Hole to Save Our Skin"
February 2: Dr. Robert Lucky
"Bits and Pictures - Where Communications is Headed"
February 23: Dr. Gary Bernstein
"Watching the Birth of the Universe"
March 2: Dr. Jon Bentley
"The Traveling Salesman Problem: Impossible, Easy or Both?"
March 23: Dr. Christine Gerveshi and Dr. Joan Backenko
"Silicon and Speech Recognition"and "Computer Speech"
1992
January 18: Dr. Anthony Tyson
"Dark Matter in the Universe: Our First Images"
February 1: Dr. Amy Muller
"Detective Stories in Analytical Chemistry"
February 22: Dr. Gregory Blonder
"Fiber to the Home: What Does it Mean?"
March 7: Dr. Anthony Johnson
"Lasers and Ultrafast Optical Phenomena"
March 21: Dr. Margaret Wright
"You Can't Top This: Using Mathematics to Find What's Best"
1993
January 16: Dr. Eric Betzig
"A Magnifying Glass for the Twenty-first Century"
January 30: Dr. Susan N. Coppersmith
"What Do Theoretical Physicists Do?"
February 13: Dr. Jorge L. Valdes
"Electrochemistry for a Cleaner and Safer Environment"
February 27: Dr. Henry S. Baird
"Teaching Computers to Read: Optical Character Recognition"
March 6: Dr. David W. Tank
"Seeing the Brain in Action: New Ways to Image Neurons and
Networks"
1994
January 29: Dr. Robert W. Wilson
"Future Wireless Communications"
February 26: Dr. Paul Kolodner
"The Physics of Patterns"
March 12: Dr. Mark McCormack
"Metallurgy: From Battle Swords to Electronic Components"
March 26: Dr. Steve Levinson
"Giving Computers Ears and Mouths"
April 16: Dr. Ingrid Daubechies
"What Do Mathematicians, Physicists and Engineers have in common?
Wavelets!"
1995
January 21: Messrs. A.E. Kaplan, S. Keshav, N.L. Schryer and J.H.
Venutolo
"Networked Toys are Us"
February 4: Ms. Patricia E. Parseghian
"Cruising the Information Superhighway"
February 18: Dr. Steve G. Grubb
"Optical Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers, Powering the Information
Superhighway"
March 4: Dr. Gregory S. Boebinger
"Physics at High Magnetic Fields"
March 18: Dr. Richard A. Gottscho
"Inside the Looking Glass"
1996
January 20: Dr. S. Kicha Ganapathy
"Virtual Reality: Past, Present and Future"
February 3: Dr. Amy J. Muller
"Cyber-struck: The Futures of Telecommunications"
February 17: Dr. Gerard J. Holzmann
"Trains, Planes and Protocol Design"
March 2: Dr. Cynthia A. Volkert
"How to Build a Computer Chip"
March 16: Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti
"Galileo Probe Measurements of Jupiter's Atmosphere"
1997
February 8: Dr. Alice E. White
"Optical Amplifiers: Revolutions in Optical Communications"
February 22: Dr. Dennis M. Ritchie
"What's Going on Inside My Computer"
March 8: Dr. Jim E. West
"What's New in Multimedia Communications"
March 22: Dr. Joseph E. Griffith
"Scanning Probe Microscopy: How to See Tiny Things with a Needle"
April 5: Dr. Christine Podilchuk
"Seeing Through the Eyes of a Computer"
1998
February 7: Dr. Mark R. Pinto
"The Ever Amazing Transistor
-- How Much Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Can We Go?"
February 21: Dr. Gordon A. Thomas
"How a Light Beam Can Laugh"
March 7: Dr. David J. Bishop
"Can Silicon Micromachines Make It Big?"
March 21: Dr. William L. Wilson
"More Bytes for the Buck: Advances in Optical Storage Technologies"
April 4: Dr. Ingrid B. Carlbom
"The Real World of Virtual Worlds"
1999
February 6: Bill Cheswick
"The Internet: What It Looks Like, How It Works
and How People Abuse It"
February 20: Lloyd Harriott
"Why Chips Keep Getting Better, Faster, and Cheaper"
>March 6: Ralph Taylor-Smith
"The Greening of Industry: Environmentally-Conscious Manufacturing"
March 27: Jane LeGrange
"Flying Photons"
April 17: Tony Tyson
"Dark Matter in the Universe"
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