This year's team consisted of Hooyeon Lee, Anand Bhaskar and Dustin Tseng, and was coached by CS PhD student Lars Backstrom. Two other Cornell teams placed 11th and 16th. See the Cornell Chronicle article for the full story.
Three Cornell CS undergraduates, Kareem Amin; Siu Yu Cherie Kwan; and Tyler Steele, all received Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition for 2008. Congratulations!
Cornell was one of only six teams to finish the final race (out of 35 at the qualifiers and 11 that started the final race). It was a student-led team primarily composed of undergraduates. Faculty advisors are Dan Huttenlocher and Ephrahim Garcia.
Read more at http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov07/DarpaUrban.final.ws.html
PhD students Michael Clarkson (CS) and Rajeev Dokania (ECE) have each been awarded a 2007-2008 Intel Foundation PhD fellowship. Michael works on compiler technology in software technology and design.
Congratulations, Michael and Rajeev!
CS Professor Fred B. Schneider's paper "Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: a tutorial" of ACM Computing Surveys 22(4):299-319, Dec. 1990, has been selected as a winner of this year's SIGOPS "Hall of Fame" award (http://www.sigops.org/awards/hall-of-fame.html).
The award was established in 2005 "to recognize the most influential Operating Systems papers that have appeared in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten years in the past."
A Cornell CS paper received a best paper award at SOSP'07 this year: "Secure Web Applications via Automatic Partitioning," by Stephen Chong, Jed Liu, Andrew Myers, Xin Qi, K. Vikram, Lantian Zheng, Xin Zheng. This paper shows that it is possible to automatically and securely partition web applications into client-side JavaScript code and server-side Java code.
CS Professor Carla Gomes is Program Co-chair (with Dieter Fox) of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008).
CS Professor Jon Kleinberg has been chosen as one of Smithsonian magazine's "37 Under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences."
From the Web site and special issue, the list consists of "37 people under the age of 36 who are helping to shape the world. Those honored are scholars, singers, writers, scientists, musicians, painters, activists --- and more than one public-spirited computer maven."
See http://images.smithsonianmag.com/content/innovators/ and http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/kleinberg.html for more information.
Cornell Computer Science Professer Gun Sirer has been selected as one of Popular Science's 6th Annual Brilliant Ten.
Popular Science magazine selects each year ten of the most impressive and creative young scientists in the US; the most important research and the individuals making it happen.
See http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/8986e1bddf565110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/8.html for more information.
