Paul G. Allen School Courses

Statistical Learning - Robert Schapire, Microsoft Research

Explore statistical learning with Robert Schapire, covering strong/weak learning, boosting, and confidence in machine learning algorithms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Bandits - Kevin Jamieson - University of Washington

Explore bandit algorithms and their applications in machine learning, from drug development to content recommendation, with a focus on regret minimization and stochastic models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Statistical Learning IV - Robert Schapire, Microsoft Research

Explore statistical learning with Robert Schapire, covering expected value theorems, ghost samples, PAC learning, and finite hypothesis spaces in this comprehensive lecture.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Money, Circuits, Mythic Figures, and More - Theory in the Allen School

Diverse theoretical computer science research: algorithms, data structures, complexity, combinatorics, and economics. Insights from UW Allen School's theory group on cutting-edge topics.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Languages and Software Engineering at the Allen School

Explore cutting-edge research in programming languages and software engineering, covering topics like automated coding, static analysis, distributed systems debugging, and web development optimization.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Designing Fast and Programmable Routers

Explore cutting-edge router design combining high performance and programmability. Learn about innovative primitives enabling line-rate programmable routers, including packet scheduling, stateful processing, and flow-based statistics measurement.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Systems & Networks Seminar - Andrew Bauman - Komodo: Using Verification to Disentangle Secure-Enclave Hardware from Software

Explores Komodo, an alternative to Intel SGX for secure enclaves, using verified software to implement isolated execution environments with improved flexibility and security guarantees.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PLSE Seminar Series - Alessandra Gorla - Mining Android Apps for Anomalous Behavior

Techniques for detecting suspicious behavior in Android apps by clustering based on advertised functionality and identifying outliers in API usage, with applications in malware detection.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

UW CSE Robotics - Nicholas Roy, "Planning to Fly and Drive Aggressively"

Explore advanced algorithms for autonomous aerial and ground vehicles, enabling aggressive navigation in unknown environments through rapid decision-making and obstacle avoidance techniques.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robotics - Gaze Mechanisms for Situated Interaction with Embodied Agents

Explore gaze mechanisms for embodied agents and social robots, covering design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive gaze behaviors to enhance human-robot communication and collaboration.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Making Software More Reliable by Uncovering Hidden Dependencies

Uncovering hidden dependencies in software to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness. Explores techniques for reducing testing time, detecting dependencies, and specifying data-related test oracles.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

UW CSE Robotics - Emo Todorov, "Goal-Directed Dynamics"

Explore goal-directed dynamics in robotics, featuring a novel control framework with built-in optimization. Learn about soft-constraint physics models and their applications in various robotic control scenarios.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PLSE Seminar Series - Eva Darulova - Programming with Numerical Uncertainties

Explore automated techniques for verifying and improving numerical software accuracy, addressing challenges in finite-precision arithmetic and error estimation for scientific computing applications.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Devices and Services with P

Explore P, a framework for designing and validating event-driven asynchronous systems. Learn key concepts, real-world applications, and open research problems in this innovative programming approach.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Recognizing Human Intent for Assistive Robotics

Explore assistive robotics and human intent recognition through nonverbal behavior. Learn how robots can provide social and physical assistance by understanding human goals and intentions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video