CS Seminars

CS Seminars are hosted by the Boise State University Computer Science department. The seminars are open to all students.

Seminar speakers hold various industry and university positions. They love to share their experience and passion with Boise State students.

Historical CS Seminars table. Use the search field to filter table content.

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Date	Semester	Presenter, (Title)	Organization	Title
2023/04/14	Sp' 23	Trevor Spielman		What it takes to be a successful Engineer after Graduation
2023/04/07	Sp'23	Jon Herke	TigerGraph	Recommender Systems
2023/03/31	Sp'23	Jerry Fails	Boise State University	What is grad school? Should I consider going?
2023/03/17	Sp'23	John Brooks	Visual Concepts Entertainment
2023/03/10	Sp'23	Bas Neto	PreFab Logic
2023/03/03	Sp'23	Clay Barks	Micron	Curiosity and How It Can Advance Your Career
2023/02/24	Sp'23	Ryan Watson	HireVue	DevOps and SRE current practices
2023/02/17	Sp'23	Todd Fletcher	Crowdstrike	Cyberpsychology
2023/02/10	Sp'23	Taso Kinnas	AFR	Microsoft ERP Development - C/AL
2023/02/03	Sp'23	Kristin Jackvony	Paylocity	What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care
2023/01/27	Sp'23	Jeremy Morris	Tovuti	Creating Web-Based Games to Increase User Engagement
2023/01/20	Sp'23	Keith Smith	Snowflake	Driving Dashboard Adoption Through Better Data Visualization and Design
2022/12/02	Fa'22	Ryan Watson, Senior Infrastructure Engineer	Hirevue	DevOps & SRE Current Practices
2022/11/11	Fa'22	Jonathan Wagner	Directus	Open Data Platform
2022/11/04	Fa'22	Trevor Spielman	InTime Tec	What it Takes to be a Successful Engineer After Graduation
2022/10/21	Fa'22	Clay Barks	Micron	Curiosity and How it can Advance your Career
2022/10/14	Fa'22	Kochava		A Crash Course on Cloud Computing
2022/10/07	Fa'22	McKenzie Steenson	TigerGraph	Bridging the Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Emerging Communities
2022/09/30	Fa'22	Dr. Jerry Fails	Boise State Computer Science	What is grad school? Should I consider going?
2022/09/23	Fa'22	Kristin Jackvony	Paylocity	What is Software Testing, and Why Should you Care?
2022/09/16	Fa'22	Keith Smith	Snowflake	Driving Dashboard Adoption Through Better Data Visualization and Design
2022/09/02	Fa'22	Dr. Amit Jain	Boise State Computer Science	Jobs, Careers, and Culture
2022/04/15	Sp'22	Michael Krause	Tovuti	Online Learning Innovation
2022/04/08	Sp'22	Trevor Spielman	InTimeTec	What you need to know to be successful as a software engineer after graduation
2022/04/01	Sp'22	Brian Eccles	IBM	Quantum Computing
2022/03/18	Sp'22	Mark Wunsch	Kochava	A Crash Course on Cloud Computing
2022/03/11	Sp'22	Kristin Jackvony	Paylocity	What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care?
2022/03/04	Sp'22	Jerry Fails, Associate Professor	Boise State Computer Science	What is grad school? Should I consider going?
2022/02/25	Sp'22	Clay Barks	Micron	Curiosity and how it can advance your career
2022/02/18	Sp'22	Steve Cutchin, Associate Professor	Boise State Computer Science	OpenPipe: A federated solution for shared digital art curation
2022/02/11	Sp'22	Amit Jain, CS Dept Chair and Professor	Boise State Computer Science	Jobs, Careers, and Culture
2022/02/04	Sp'22	Keith Smith	Snowflake	Curious, Methodical, Analytical - Helping Companies Succeed in the Data Cloud
2022/01/21	Sp'22	Abby Fereday	Athlos	A Rapid-growth, Boise-based EdTech Startup
2022/01/14	Sp'22	Gerry Ens	GoWest Robotics	Modern Software Development for Industrial Robotics
2021/12/10	Fa'21	Michael Krause	Tovuti	Online Learning Innovation
2021/11/19	Fa'21	Jeremiah Grossman	Whitehat Security	The Real Reasons All Companies Still Get Hacked
2021/11/12	Fa'21	Mark Wunsch	Kochava	A Crash Course on Cloud Computing
2021/10/29	Fa'21	Jedidiah Smith	Curbnturf Inc.	Microservices vs. the Monolith
2021/10/22	Fa'21	Clay Barks	Micron Technology Inc.	Curiosity and How it Can Advance Your Career
2021/10/15	Fa'21	Trevor Spielman	InTimeTec	What you need to know to be successful as a software engineer after graduation
2021/10/08	Fa'21	Steve Cutchin, Associate Professor	Boise State Computer Science	OpenPipe: A federated solution for shared digital art curation
2021/10/01	Fa'21	Kristin Jackvony	Paylocity	What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care?
2021/09/24	Fa'21	Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor	Boise State Computer Science	What is grad school? Should I consider going?
2021/09/17	Fa'21	Keith Smith	Snowflake, Inc.	Curious, Methodical, Analytical... Helping companies succeed in the Data Cloud
2021/09/03	Fa'21	Amit Jain, Chair and Professor	Boise State Computer Science	Jobs, Careers, and Culture
2021/04/30	Sp'21	Trevor Spielman	In Time Tec	How to be a Successful Software Developer after Graduation
2021/04/09	Sp'21	Casey Kennington, Assistant Professor	Boise State Computer Science	Understanding Understanding
2021/03/31	Sp'21	Caleb Cook	Paylocity	Writing Code for Other Developers (and General Career-Starting Advice)
2021/03/25	Sp'21	Geetanjali Srivastava	Micron	Visualization Culture: Art and Science of Data
2021/03/17	Sp'21	Ariel Marvasti	Clearwater Analytics	A Brief Introduction to Test Contravariance and a Demo of Test Containers
2021/03/12	Sp'21	Vincent Martino	VisitPay
2021/03/03	Sp'21	Mark Wunsch	Kochava	A Crash Course in Cloud Technologies
2021/02/24	Sp'21	Kristin Jackvony	Paylocity	What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care?
2021/02/19	Sp'21	Katie Coil	Clearwater Analytics	Practical Machine Learning for Software Developers
2021/02/10	Sp'21	Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor	Boise State Computer Science	What is grad school? Should I consider going?
2021/01/22	Sp'21	Amit Jain, Dept Chair & Professor	Boise State Computer Science	Jobs, Careers, and Culture
2020/12/11	Fa'20	Rob Tuft and Trevor Spielman	In Tim Tec	What I Need to Know to be a Successful Software Engineer
2020/12/03	Fa'20	Matthew Harris, Intuit	Intuit	Coding for Innovation - Applying Design Thinking Principles to Software Engineering
2020/11/19	Fa'20	Alecia Murray, Senior Director of Digital Products	Lovevery	Software Development for D2C
2020/05/01	Sp'20	Stephanie Labastida (BSU CS alumni)	Paylocity	Fresh (ish) Out of Your Shoes - Advice and Lessons Learned
2020/04/24	Sp'20	Ryan Miller	Jelli	How to Apply to Tech Jobs During a Pandemic
2020/04/17	Sp'20	Alecia Murray, Senior Director of Digital Products	Lovevery	eCommerce and my journey to Lovevery
2020/04/10	Sp'20	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
2020/04/03	Sp'20	Craig Hecock	Clearwater Analytics	Random Things to Think About as Developers
2020/03/20	Sp'20	Cancelled
2020/03/13	Sp'20	Dr. Alark Joshi	University of San Francisco
2020/03/06	Sp'20	Caleb Cook, Associate Software Engineer in New College Graduate program	Paylocity	Functional programming – what it is and how you use it?
2020/02/28	Sp'20	Jillian Bentley, Director HR & Recruiting	Kochava	Data Lifecycle Management in the Cloud
2020/02/21	Sp'20	Nate Monnig, Senior Data Scientist	Kount	How to Stop Bad Guys with Computers? Data Science and Machine Learning for Real-Time Fraud Prevention
2020/02/14	Sp'20	Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator	CS department at BSU	What is Grad School?
2020/01/31	Sp'20	Rob Tuft, VP of Client Delivery	In Time Tec	What I Need to Know to be a Successful Software Engineer
2020/01/24	Sp'20	Sarah L. Hoffmann, Richie A. Carmichael, Chris Beasley	Biomark	Machine Learning for Fishes
2019/12/06	Fa'19	Doug Hamilton	Clearwater Analytics	Building Reactive 3D Web Applications with ClojureScript
2019/11/22	Fa'19	Robert Hillier, CIO	Idaho National Laboratory	An Overview of Idaho National Lab and Career Opportunities within
2019/11/19	Fa'19	Professor Char Sample, Chief Cybersecurity Research Scientist for the Cybercore division	Idaho National Laboratory	Culture and Cyber: Insights Gained Through Interdisciplinary Research
2019/11/15	Fa'19	Daniel Avery, Software Engineer	Clearwater Analytics	Deriving a Streaming ETL
2019/11/08	Fa'19	Mark Wunsch, Lead Software Engineer	Kochava	Kick-starting your career as a software engineer
2019/11/01	Fa'19	Warren Rutledge, Sr Manager, IT Database Operations	Micron	Large Scale Databases
2019/10/25	Fa'19	Rachael Zahn, Cyber Security Analyst	Micron	What is Cyber Security. What you can expect in Cyber. A day in the life of Micron Cyber.
2019/10/18	Fa'19	Katy Kahla, Product Development Manager	Intuit, Boise	Design For Delight: How Intuit Builds Products
2019/10/11	Fa'19	Dan DeCloss, CEO	PlexTrac	Go Hack Yourself!
2019/10/04	Fa'19	John Koudelka, Team Lead for Complex Systems Visualization	Idaho National Laboratory	Promoting collaboration: An overview of INL and CAES Computing Capabilities
2019/09/20	Fa'19	Steve Jerman	Kloudspot	Getting Value from Network Analytics
2019/05/03	Sp'19	Ayrton Stout	AppDetex	The Adventures of Building a Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator in Rust
2019/03/15	Sp'19	Josh Johnston, Director of AI	Kount	Genuine Lessons from Artificial Intelligence
2019/03/08	Sp'19	Mark Wunsch	Kochava	Disrupting the advertising ecosystem
2019/03/01	Sp'19	Gaby Dagher, CS Department	Boise State University	Intro to Blockchain
2019/02/22	Sp'19	Justin Morken, Senior Product Designer	TSheets (Intuit)	Persuasive UX
2019/02/015	Sp'19	Mike Moser, Software Engineer	Paylocity	Exploring Docker Containers
2019/02/08	Sp'19	Eric Argo, QA Manager	Kount	Open, Honest, Fearless: Kount SDETs
2019/02/01	Sp'19	Carl Fee, Software Engineer	Clearwater Analytics	About a Sub Processor in Bane
2019/01/25	Sp'19	Chris Geiser, CTO	Garrigan Lyman Group	Seeing the full Stack across Core IT and Fast IT
2018/12/07	Fa'18	Justin Mack Nevena Dragovic Barry Zechmann	MarkMonitor	Protecting brands in the digital world: Technical and business problems solved by MarkMonitor
2018/11/30	Fa'18	Tim Ramey, Director of Engineering	Relias	Masking poor performance and calling it a feature
2018/11/28	Fa'18	Dennis Gammel, R&D Director	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories	Control Systems Cybersecurity and Software Defined Networking
2018/11/16	Fa'18	Gregg Nicholas, Team Leader	Clearwater Analytics	Practical Usage of Actors in an Asynchronous Distributed System
2018/11/13	Fa'18	Gerard Ens, Founder and CTO	Go West Robotics	How do you break a robot? Testing autonomous robots
2018/11/09	Fa'18	Dr. Gaby Dagher, CS Department	Boise State University	Overview of Research Activities in Information Security, Privacy & Mining (ISPM) Research Lab
2018/11/02	Fa'18	David Montz, Chief Technology Officer	AppDetex	Brand protection and securing your digital footprint
2018/10/12	Fa'18	Thomas May, software engineer	Clearwater Analytics	Making Software Fast
2018/10/05	Fa'18	Dr. Anton Wiranata, Principle Data Scientist	Hewlett-Packard	Artificial intelligence application in industry
2018/09/28	Fa'18	Dr. Casey Kennington, CS Department	Boise State University	What is Graduate School and What Does it Have to Do With Me and How Might it Change my Life and Does Anything Actually Matter?
2018/09/21	Fa'18	Dr. David L. Millman, assistant professor	Montana State University	Applications of Computational Topology and Geometry
2018/09/14	Fa'18	Ryan Vasso, Associate Director, BSU Venture College	Boise State University	Entrepreneurship, starting your own company, and what the VC can do to support you
2018/09/07	Fa'18	Kelly Honeycutt	Clearwater Analytics	Through the Clearwater Pipeline
2018/08/31	Fa'18	Shane Panter, CS Department	Boise State University	COM Automation - Driving legacy apps
2018/04/27	Sp'18	Chris Campbell, Expert Software Engineer	Hewlett-Packard	Why Docker Matters
2018/04/13	Sp'18	David Barret, CEO and Founder	Expensify	Startups, Silicon Valley, and Succeeding at Life: Ask a VC-Backed CEO Anything
2018/04/06	Sp'18	Josh Johnston, AI Science Manager	Kount	Fighting Fraud with Artificial Intelligence
2018/03/16	Sp'18	Zach Townsend, HR Manager	Verified First	Building a Tech Start-Up on a Budget
2018/03/09	Sp'18	Sandy Dunn, Chief Information Security Officer	Blue Cross of Idaho	Skills and Careers in Cybersecurity (we need more than hackers with leet skilz)
2018/03/02	Sp'18	Dr. Michael Eckstrand, CS Department	Boise State University	Making Information Systems Good for People
2018/02/23	Sp'18	Mark Bastian, senior software developer	Clearwater Analytics	Interactive Development with Reloadable Code
2018/02/16	Sp'18	Rob Tuft, vice president of client delivery	InTimeTec	What I Need to Know to be Successful After I Graduate as a Software Engineer
2018/02/02	Sp'18	Shane Panter, CS Department	Boise State University	COM Automation - Driving legacy apps
2018/01/26	Sp'18	James Penick, Senior Software Engineer	Cradlepoint	Mastering the Technical Interview
2018/01/18	Sp'18	Isaac Howard, QA Manager	Kount	Using the Force: The Power of Testing in a Software Development organization
2017/12/08	Fa'17	Dr. Yantian Hou, CS Department	Boise State University	Interference mitigation in multi-hop wireless networks with advanced physical layer techniques
2017/12/01	Fa'17	Dr. Hoda Mehrpouyan, CS Department	Boise State University	Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems
2017/11/17	Fa'17	Nate McIntrye	TSheets	ComputerScience++;
2017/11/10	Fa'17	David Romeo	Allata	De-CRUDing Apps with Event Sourcing
2017/11/03	Fa'17	John Salvie	Allata	Angular in 2017 – Modern Trends in the ngLandscape
2017/10/27	Fa'17	Mike Jones Jerry Fails	BYU BSU-CS Dept	Why consider grad school?
2017/10/20	Fa'17	Josh Johnston, AI Science Manager	Kount	Fighting Fraud with Artificial Intelligence
2017/10/13	Fa'17	Robert Whiting	Clearwater Analytics	Cold, alone, and afraid with Adobe InDesign
2017/09/22	Fa'17	Seth Samuels, VP of R&D Eric Mann – Director of Product Engineering	Kochava	Disrupting the Advertising Ecosystem with Real-Time Systems
2017/09/14	Fa'17	Axel Magnuson, Software Engineer	Google	Preparing for Technical Interviews
2017/09/01	Fa'17	Dr. Casey Kennington, CS Department	Boise State University	Advancements and Challenges in Speech-centric Systems
2017/03/10	Sp'17	Suresh Venkatasubramanian	University of Utah	Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making
2017/03/03	Sp'17	Ted Thetford, Principal Product Manager	Amazon	Amazon Recommendations: Who/what is behind the curtain?
2017/02/10	Sp'17	Angel Viña, CEO and President	Denodo Technologies	Harnessing Data Virtualization for Data Management and High Performance Data Delivery with Hybrid Data Infrastructure
2017/02/07	Sp'17	Mike Ritthaler, Senior Software Engineer	Clearwater Analytics	Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for fun and profit
2017/02/07	Sp'17	Dr. Joseph A. Konstan, Distinguished McKnight University Professor	University of Minnesota	Recommender Systems: Beyond Machine Learning
2017/02/03	Sp'17	Seth Samuels, VP of R&D	Kochava	Kochava: Who we are, what we do and why it is working
2017/01/27	Sp'17	Presented by a team of developers	AppDetex	The life of a software developer
2015/10/09	Fa'15	Chris “Whitey” Geiser	Garrigan Lyman Group (GLG)	Architecting for Scale and Security - Performance Matters
2014/12/12	Fa'14	Ben Noland, Software Developer	Clearwater Analytics	Building a Software Product While Working Full-time
2014/11/21	Fa'14	C. Mark Maupin, assistant professor	Colorado School of Mines	Molecular-level Insights through Computations
2014/11/07	Fa'14	Kyle Wheeler, Senior Advanced Memory Software Architect	Micron Technology	Lightweight Multi-Threading
2014/10/24	Fa'14	Mark Shaw, Senior Color and Imaging Architect	Hewlett-Packard	Color and Imaging Science in Embedded Systems
2014/10/17	Fa'14	Josef Wagner, Senior Software Developer	MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc.	Real Usage of Azure Cloud Database
2014/10/10	Fa'14	Russ Whitney, Co-Founder and CEO	IdeaRoom Technologies, Inc.	How to do Real Time 3D in a Web Browser
2014/09/26	Fa'14	Faisal Shah, Founder and CEO	AppDetex	Starting Companies in the Legal Space
2014/09/19	Fa'14	James Price, Director of Product Development	Clearwater Analytics	NoSQL approach in SQL databases
2014/03/07	Sp'14	Clay Barks Diane Emberton David Wicks	Micron Technology	Manufacturing and Infrastructure, developing for internal customers
2014/02/28	Sp'14	Tim Ramey, R&D Manager	WhiteCloud Analytics	Data in the real world: sharing for high availability
2014/02/21	Sp'14	Todd Weible, CFO and CIO	Impact Sales	Industry Specialization and the Art of Language Translation