FCRC 2011:

David A. Ferrucci:
IBM's Watson/DeepQA 

Ravi Kannan:
Algorithms: Recent Highlights and Challenges 

Luiz Andre Barroso:
Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade 

Luis von Ahn: 
Solving Problems with Millions of Humans and Computers

Maja Mataric:
Robots Among Us? Human-Robot Interaction Methods for Socially Assistive Robotics 

Leslie G. Valiant:
(Turing Award Lecture)


SPAA 2010:

Anastasia Ailamaki:
Database Systems in the Multicore Era

Geoffrey Fox:
Algorithms and Applications for Grids and Clouds


SPAA PODC 2009:

Sarita V. Adve:
Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware

Bruce Hendrickson:
Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Parallel Computing: The Cretaceous Redux?

Robbert van Renesse:
Refining the Way to Consensus


SPAA 2008:

Hagit Attiya:
When parallel met distributed

Charles Leiserson:
Cilk++

Kunle Olukotun:
Towards pervasive parallelism

Arnold Rosenberg:
Where is your dog's belly button?

Burton Smith:
Parallel Computing at Microsoft

Leslie Valiant:
???


FCRC 2007:

Chuck Moore:
A Framework for Innovation.

David Culler and Deborah Estrin:
Wireless Sensing - The Internet's Front-Tier.

Avi Wigderson:
The Art of Reduction.

Guy Steele: 
Designing by Accident.

Edward Lazowska:
Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future.

Christos Papadimitriou:
The Algorithmic Lens: How the Sciences are Being Transformed by the Computational Perspective.

Bob Colwell:
Future of Computer Architecture '07.

Randall Bryant:
Data-Intensive Super Computing: Taking Google-Style Computing Beyond Web Search.

Scott Shenker:
We Dream of GENI: Exploring Radical Network Designs.

Fran Allen:
(Turing Award Lecture)


SPAA 2006:

Geoff Lowney: 
Why Intel is Designing Multi-Core Processors.

Jaime H. Moreno: 
Chip-level Integration: The New Frontier for Microprocessor Architecture.


SPAA PODC 2005:

Elias Koutsoupias:
The Price of Anarchy of Congestion Games and Coordination Mechanisms


SPAA 2004:

NONE


FCRC 2003:

Michael Rabin:
Provably Unbreakable Encryption: Theory and Implementation.

Michael Flynn:
Computer Architecture and Technology: Some Thoughts on the Road Ahead.

Barbara Liskov:
Issues in Peer-to-Peer Computing.

Hector Garcia-Molina:
WebBase: Building a Web Warehouse.

James Kurose:
Networking... successes, new challenges, and an expanding waist, as the field approaches 40.

Miklos Ajtai:
Random Lattices 
(Knuth Prize lecture)

Leonard M. Adleman, Ronald L. Rivest and Adi Shamir:
- Pre-RSA.
- The Early Days of RSA -- History and Lessons.
- Cryptography: State of the Science.
(Turing Award Lectures)


SPAA 2002 

Andrew Chien:
???


STOC SPAA ICALP 2001:

Christos H. Papadimitriou: 
Algorithms, games, and the internet. 

Boris A. Trakhtenbrot: 
Automata, circuits and hybrids: facets of continuous time.

Ahmed Bouajjani: 
Languages, Rewriting Systems, and Verification of Infinite-State Systems. 

Martin Große-Rhode: 
Integrating Semantics for Object-Oriented System Models. 

Mogens Nielsen: 
Modelling with Partial Orders - Why and Why Not? 

Ingo Wegener: 
Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms. 

Uriel Feige:
Reflections on the PCP theorem and its consequences.
(Godel Award Lecture)

Andrew C. C. Yao:
Some Perspectives on Computational Complexity.
(Turing Award Lecture)


SPAA 2000:

Bradley C. Kuszmaul:
Fabricating an 8-Issue Ultrascalar Processor in a 0.18 micron Copper Technology 

Thomas H. Cormen:
FFT in Four Styles: Teaching Paradigms of Parallel Programming 

Cynthia A. Phillips:
Parallel Branch and Bound for Mixed-Integer Programming 

Daniel Lewin:
???