Intel Corporation has donated $267,000 worth of Intel SandyBridge Xeon X7560 processors and computing equipment in support of Visual Computing research at Cornell University. The resources will help support Cornell graphics and vision researchers involved in the new Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing, which includes professors Kavita Bala, Donald Greenberg, Doug James, Stephen Marschner, and Noah Snavely. The equipment will be used to tackle problems from physics-based sound rendering and vision-based modeling of homes and urban environments, to scalable visual rendering and virtual characters, and game-driven content creation.

Date Posted: 12/20/2011 | Permalink

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation will honor Johannes Gehrke and six other faculty finalists for the 2011 Blavatnik Awards at the Academy's 8th Annual Science & the City Gala on November 14 in New York City. The winners will be announced at that time. The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists were created in 2007 to acknowledge the excellence of our most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Awards recognize highly innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering with unrestricted financial prizes for both finalists and awardees.

Date Posted: 10/21/2011 | Permalink

The "AI vs. AI" chatbot video created as a demo for CS4700 by MAE PhD student Igor Labutov, CS PhD student Jason Yosinski, and professor Hod Lipson went viral, attracting over 2 million views to date on youtube. For more information, please see the YouTube video and some explanation of the underlying technology, as well as an NPR interview and a Cornell Chronicle article.

Date Posted: 10/21/2011 | Permalink

Johannes Gehrke was a 2011 IEEE Technical Achievement Award Recipient. He was cited for "pioneering contribution to novel data mining techniques and distributed query processing techniques". These awards are given "for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past ten, and not more than fifteen years", and include an honorarium.

Date Posted: 10/21/2011 | Permalink

Dexter Kozen was one of the winners of the 2011 LICS Test of Time Award for his paper: A Completeness Theorem for Kleene Algebras and the Algebra of Regular Events.

Date Posted: 9/16/2011 | Permalink

Johannes Gehrke, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee are each recipients of the 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Awards. The Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Through this program, academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists via visits to Yahoo!, access to our data and funds for their research.

Date Posted: 9/16/2011 | Permalink

Technology Review magazine has named Noah Snavely, assistant professor of computer science, one of its 2011 "TR35," the magazine's selection of top technology innovators under age 35.

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

Carla Gomes has been selected as a 2011-2012 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

Hakim Weatherspoon wins award from the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Development Program for his project "CAREER: Towards Inter-Datacenter Communication for Next-Generation Networks."

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

The New York Times carried an article on the opinion-spam detection research of CS PhD student Myle Ott, CS PhD student Yejin Choi (now an assistant professor at SUNY Stonybrook), CS/IS faculty Claire Cardie, and Comm/IS faculty Jeff Hancock. STS/IS faculty member Trevor Pinch is also quoted in the article.

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

The August 13, 2011 issue of The Economist covers the SIGGRAPH paper of CS PhD students Shuang Zhao and Wenzel Jakob and faculty Steve Marschner and Kavita Bala in an article entitled "Fabricating fabric: How to generate more realistic images of clothes".

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

Doug James received a best paper award at the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2011) this August 5-7 in Vancouver, BC. The paper on "Physics-based Character Skinning using Multi-Domain Subspace Deformations" was co-authored with Theodore Kim, a former Cornell post-doc and now assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara.

Date Posted: 9/9/2011 | Permalink

Michael Hay won the ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award that recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

Doug James is scheduled to be a part of the radio program, The Art of Water Music, which is being broadcast this Thursday, August 11th on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30 a.m.

Doug James will also be the last segment on the second hour of this week's NPR Science Friday.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

Noah Snavely is the recipient of a 2011 Microsoft Faculty Fellowship. The prestigious Microsoft Research Faculty fellowships are given to researchers who advance computing science in novel directions, with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field. The fellowship includes a cash award of $200,000 given over two years and access to Microsoft resources such as software, invitations to conferences and engagements with Microsoft Research.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

Nate Foster and Gun Sirer were awarded a grant from the NSF for their project "High Level Language Support for Trustworthy Networks."

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

Work by PhD student Myle Ott, Yejin Choi (PhD 2011), Claire Cardie, and Jeff Hancock on algorithms for detecting fake reviews ("opinion spam") has been covered in several news outlets, including ABC News and the LA Times.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

New Scientist offers an article on Hema Koppula's and Abhishek Anand's work (PhD students in Personal Robotics group) with Thorsten Joachims and Ashutosh Saxena.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

Ashutosh Saxena is quoted in Cornell Chronicle, gizmag, and R&D magazine discussing the work of Jae Sung (Cornell CS graduate in Personal Robotics group) with Colin Ponce, Bart Selman and Saxena in robots identifying human activities.

Date Posted: 8/10/2011 | Permalink

The SoNIC Workshop (for SOftware defined Network InterfaCe), led by Hakim Weatherspoon, assistant professor of computer science, brought five students from Howard University and one from the University of Puerto Rico to Cornell June 12-18 for an in-depth look at Weatherspoon's research, which explores how information is encoded into packets of digital bits for transmission and how networking hardware sends and receives those packets.

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

Eva Tardos has been elected as a new Fields Institute Fellow (FIF) in recognition of her involvement with scientific activity of the Institute over many years (in particular, her Coxeter Lecture Series) and her service as a member of their Scientific Activity Panel (2007-2011) and other committees.

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

Fred Schneider has been named recipient of the 2012 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award "for contributions to trustworthy computing through novel approaches to security, fault tolerance and formal methods for concurrent and distributed systems."

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

Nitin Gupta, Lucja Kot, Sudip Roy, Gabriel Bender, Johannes Gehrke, and Christoph Koch received the best paper award at SIGMOD 2011 for "Entangled queries: enabling declarative data-driven coordination".

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

Hussam Abu-Libdeh was one of 19 finalists in the 2011 Facebook Fellowship competition. Another finalist was Johan Ugander, a PhD student in CAM.

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

An article in Nature's News & Comments section features work by CS PhD student Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and CS/IS faculty member Lillian Lee that revealed the existence of linguistic coordination in fictional dialogs, particularly movie scripts. The aim of the study was to shed light on previous hypotheses regarding coordination in real-life dialogs.

The article quotes philologists, professors of communication, psychologists, and Pulp Fiction. "How movies mirror our mimicry" is available online from Nature.com. The paper and detailed data can be found online.

Date Posted: 7/5/2011 | Permalink

The Robot Learning demo / poster session was held in Duffield Hall and organized by Ashutosh Saxena. For more information, see the highlight video and articles at the Cornell Chronicle and ECN Mag.

Date Posted: 5/26/2011 | Permalink

The multi-university Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing was launched this Spring 2011, and will support numerous Cornell research projects led by graphics and vision professors: Kavita Bala, Steve Marschner, Noah Snavely, Doug James, and Donald Greenberg. Projects will address a wide range of long-term problems from scalable visual rendering and virtual characters, to physics-based sound rendering and vision-based modeling of homes and urban environments, and game-driven content creation. For more information, please read the press release, watch some interviews, or visit the website.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Carla Gomes will cochair the Special Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence (CompSustAI) at the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), to be held August 7-11, 2011 in San Francisco. The CompSustAI special track recognizes that Artificial Intelligence can play a key role in addressing challenges in Computational Sustainability.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

NSF awards nearly $4.5 million to innovative projects to participate in NSF / Microsoft cloud computing collaboration including a project by Kenneth Birman - Building Scalable Trust in Cloud Computing.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Doug James was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to support his upcoming sabbatical work on computer sound synthesis. 180 fellowships are given annually to artists, scientists and scholars selected from roughly 3000 applications.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Jon Kleinberg and others elected to National Academy of Science. More information can be found in the following articles at the Cornell Chronicle and the NAS press release.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Theodoros Damoulas, CS research associate, Cornell University, Samuel Henry, Cornell University, Andrew Farnsworth, Cornell University, Michael Lanzone, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Carla Gomes, Cornell University, USA won the Best Paper award at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications conference (ICMLA '10) for "Bayesian Classification of Flight Calls with a Novel Dynamic Time Warping Kernel".

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

First-year Ph.D. student Karthik Raman received a Yahoo Keys Scientific Challenge Award. Yahoo says that the award is given to "outstanding PhD students who we believe are doing research in very important and challenging areas." Among other things, the award includes $5000 of discretionary funds.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Kavita Bala co-chaired the 18th Annual Pacific Graphics Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG 10), September 25-27 2010, held at Hangzhou, China.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

David Gries is giving a keynote speech at the Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic in Salamanca, Spain, 1-4 June 2011. He is also giving the banquet speech at the 17th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Limerick, Ireland, 20-24 June 2011.

Date Posted: 5/11/2011 | Permalink

Fred Schneider, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. This represents one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Schneider was cited for his contributions to the design of trustworthy and secure computer systems. See the Cornell Chronicle for more info.

Date Posted: 4/25/2011 | Permalink

Assistant professors Rafael Pass, Ashutosh Saxena, and Hakim Weatherspoon all were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships. These fellowships are given to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. 118 are given yearly across all of chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, ocean sciences or in a related interdisciplinary field; 16 went to computer scientists this year. More info can be found at the Cornell Chronicle.

Date Posted: 4/25/2011 | Permalink

Jon Kleinberg, together with co-author David Easley (chair of the Cornell Economics Department) received the PROSE award in the category of Computing and Information Sciences from the Association of American Publishers for their book Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. PROSE stands for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.

Date Posted: 4/25/2011 | Permalink

BOOM 2011 has been featured in the Ithaca Journal. Please visit the BOOM website for full information on the event.

Date Posted: 3/14/2011 | Permalink

Joe Halpern is the recipient of the 2011 ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. He is being honored for his substantial and enormously influential contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, in particular, the computational foundations and applications of epistemic logic and reasoning under uncertainty. He will receive the award at the AAMAS-2011 conference in Taiwan, where he will present a plenary talk.

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Johannes Gehrke received a 2010 NEC Labs Data Management University Award for his research on "Data Management for Green Transportation".

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Renato Paes Leme has been awarded the Microsoft Research Fellowship. The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program for outstanding PhD students nominated by their universities. This program supports men and women in their third and fourth years of PhD graduate studies.

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

The 6 candidates for best paper award at the fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011) include a paper by Christina Brandt (Cornell CS B.S. '10, MEng '11, CRA award honorable mention), Thorsten Joachims, Yisong Yue (Cornell PhD '10), and Jacob Bank (Cornell CS A.B. '11, CRA award honorable mention) on "Dynamic Ranked Retrieval".

[Also, two of the other candidate papers have another Cornell alum (Filip Radlinksi, PhD) and Cornell former post-doc (Jure Leskovec) as authors.]

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Research by Bobby Kleinberg and Jon Kleinberg with Steve Strogatz and his student Seth Marvel was featured in the LA Times and Scientific American.

Their paper, from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at the beginning of January, addresses a 50-year-old question in sociology about how shifting group relationships can evolve into polarization and conflict.

More information can be found at the LA Times and a podcast by Scientific American.

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Joe Halpern will give the Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in April.

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Milind Kularni a former PHD student is going to be a contestant on Jeopardy on Feb 10.

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Johannes Gehrke gave a keynote on January 20, 2011, at the opening ceremony for the special research thrust SFB 876: Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data Analysis at the Technical University of Dortmund.

He gave an invited colloquium in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich on December 2, 2010, titled "What Can Database Systems Do For Computer Games and Simulations?"

Johannes Gehrke also gave an invited colloquium in the Department of Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne on November 29, 2010 titled "Scalability for MMOs and Transaction Processing".

Date Posted: 2/4/2011 | Permalink

Eva Tardos will get the Van Wijngaarden Award from CWI on Feb. 10 for her exceptional contribution to mathematics and computer science. Awarded every 5 years beginning in 2006, Eva will be the 2nd recipient.

Date Posted: 1/14/2011 | Permalink

Research by David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Dan Cosley, Sid Suri, Dan Huttenlocher, and Jon Kleinberg was covered by the BBC World Service and New Scientist magazine and an earlier Cornell Chronicle article.

Their paper, from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December, showed how social network links could be inferred from "geographic coincidences" on photo-sharing sites, in which geotagged photos can reveal that two people were in approximately the same place at approximately the same time on multiple occasions.

Date Posted: 1/14/2011 | Permalink

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