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) STOC 2010: David S. Johnson: Approximation Algorithms in Theory and Practice (Knuth Prize Lecture) Tutorials: Ravindran Kannan: Spectral Methods for Matrices and Tensors Michel Talagrand: Are Many Small Sets Explicitly Small? Andrea Montanari: Message Passing Algorithms: a Success Looking for Theoreticians STOC 2009: Shafi Goldwasser: Cryptography without (hardly any) Secrets? (Athena Lecture Award) Valiant 60th Birthday Celebration: Stephen Cook: Pebbles and Branching Programs. Paul Valiant: Leveraging Collusion in Unrestricted Combinatorial Auctions. Michael Rabin: Completely Anonymous, Secure, Verifiable, and Secrecy Preserving Auctions. Vijay Vazirani: Combinatorial Algorithms for Convex Programs Capturing Market Equilibria and Nash Bargaining Solutions. Rocco Servedio: A Quarter-Century of Efficient Learnability. Michael Kearns: Computational Learning Theory and Beyond. Vitaly Feldman: On the Learning Power of Evolution. Mike Paterson: Strassen Symmetries. Jin-Yi Cai: Proving Dichotomy Theorems for Counting Problems. Mark Jerrum: The Permanent: Algorithms. Avi Wigderson: Valiant's Permanent Gift to Complexity Theory. STOC 2008: Jennifer Rexford: Rethinking Internet Routing David Haussler: Computing How We Became Human Ryan O'Donnell: Some Topics in Analysis of Boolean Functions (Tutorial) 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) STOC 2006: Prabhakar Raghavan: The changing face of web search: Algorithms, Auctions and Advertising. Russell Impagliazzo: Can Every Randomized Algorithm be Derandomized? STOC 2005: Lance Fortnow: Beyond NP: The Work and Legacy of Larry Stockmeyer. Larry Stockmeyer Commemoration: Nicholas Pippenger: Larry Stockmeyer’s Work in Computational Complexity Theory. Albert Meyer: What We Were Thinking: A Supervisor’s Reminiscence. Richard Karp: Congestion-Delay Trade-Offs in Geographically Distributed Networks. Anne Condon: What can be Proved to a Finite State Verifier? Larry Stockmeyer’s Contributions to Interactive Proof Systems. Miklos Ajtai: Secure Computing. Christopher Umans: Optimization Problems in the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy. Cynthia Dwork: Larry Stockmeyer’s Last Work et Sequelae. STOC 2004: Andris Ambainis: Quantum Algorithms a Decade After Shor. Eva Tardos: Network Games. Avi Wigderson: Depth Through Breadth, or Why Should We Attend Talks In Other Areas? 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) CCC STOC 2002: Lance Fortnow: The History of Complexity. Peter Winkler: Mixing. John Watrous: Arthur and Merlin in a Quantum World. Christos Papadimitriou: The Joy of Theory. (Knuth Prize Plenary Talk) 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) STOC 2000: ???