Claire Cardie received an Outstanding Achievement in Education from UMass, Amherst CS department for her key role in integrating computing and information science into education, research, and scholarship in engineering, the social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

David Steurer received honorable mention in the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition for this thesis entitled, "On the Complexity of Unique Games and Graph Expansion". The citation reads, "Steurer uses a novel algorithm for expansion of graphs across different scales that sheds light on an optimization problem called Unique Games, and applications beyond this hard-to-approximate problem."

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

The paper "You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability", by PhD student Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, CS undergrad Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee, has been featured in The New Scientist, NPR's All Things Considered, CBC's The Afternoon Edition, The Independent, and NBC's The Today Show, among other venues, and over 11,000 people have tried the associated online quote-memorability test. The paper will appear at ACL 2012.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

PhD students Amit Sharma and Chenhao Tan were recipients of the 2012 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program award. The Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate student researchers who have the greatest potential to make significant contributions and become thought leaders in their research fields. The award includes $5000 of unrestricted seed funding. Amit was honored in the Microeconomics and Social Systems area, Chenhao in the Search Experiences area. 30 awards were given overall.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

Colin Ponce won a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship. This is a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of fifteen supported disciplines. NDSEG confers high honors upon its recipients, and allows them to attend whichever U.S. institution they choose. NDSEG Fellowships last for three years and pay for full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 a year in medical insurance.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

Tim Langlois and Joshua Moore were selected for the 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

Professor Robert Kleinberg was selected to receive the 2012 Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Professor of the Year Award. This is a Teaching Award which includes a $1,500 prize.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler and Ramin Zabih received the "Test of Time" award at the 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), for their paper on graph cuts that appeared in 1999. This award has been given to four papers in total, and is designed to recognize work with long term impact on the field. Olga was a Cornell CS PhD student and Yuri was a postdoc when the paper was written.

Date Posted: 5/9/2012 | Permalink

The two-day workshop is in honor of the 60th birthday of Dexter Kozen, an American theoretical computer scientist. More information can be found at the symposium website.

Date Posted: 4/24/2012 | Permalink

Noah Snavely has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant for support of the project, entitled "CAREER: Sensing the World with the Distributed Camera".

Date Posted: 3/20/2012 | Permalink

Fred Schneider was recently profiled in the Cornell Daily Sun.

Date Posted: 3/20/2012 | Permalink

Nate Foster and Noah Snavely were both awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships, which are given to early career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars in their fields.

Date Posted: 2/16/2012 | Permalink

Joshua Walsky, CTO of Broadway Technology, who earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science with a focus on machine learning and applied mathematics from Cornell University, is named in Institutional Investor's Trading Technology Top 30.

Date Posted: 2/16/2012 | Permalink

Sigal Oren has been selected as one of the recipients for this year's Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. The 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. The fellowship recipient award will cover 100 percent of the tuition and fees for two academic years. A stipend is provided to cover living expenses while in school; and a conference and travel allowance is provided for recipients to attend professional conferences or seminars. All recipients are also offered the opportunity to complete one salaried internship over the duration of the year following the award.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Carla Gomes and Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) wildlife corridor design research are being featured in Inside Science, an independent research news and information service on science, engineering, mathematics, and related fields intended for general audiences. The article looks at the importance of connecting fragmented species and the computational difficulty in developing these tools for use with multiple species.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Ashutosh Saxena won a Google Faculty Research Award for his work on 3D Scene Understanding. The purpose of the Google Faculty Research Awards program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Google funds Research Awards unrestricted and retains no intellectual property from the research. We prefer if the results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Awards through this program are for one year in the range from $10K-$150K.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Robert Escriva was selected as one of two recipients of the VMWare Graduate Fellowship for 2012/13. The new VMware Graduate Fellowships are awarded to outstanding students pursuing research related to VMware's business interests. A small number of academic departments are invited to nominate up to two of their Ph.D. candidates for consideration, and a total of two awards will be granted. The fellowship includes a cash award to cover tuition and stipend for 12 months.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Each year the CRA (Computer Research Associates) gives out awards for undergraduate research. Justin Cheng '12 is a 2012 winner of the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Alec Story and Eunsol Choi both got an Honorable Mention.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Joe Halpern has been named a Fellow of the IEEE (starting in January, 2012). IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

David Easley and Jon Kleinberg have been awarded the 2011 Lanchester Prize by INFORMS, the professional society for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, for their book "Networks, Crowds, and Markets". The Lanchester Prize is awarded annually "for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English. The prize includes a commemorative medallion and a US $5,000 cash award. The award is given each year at the National Meeting if there is a suitable recipient.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Tanzeem Choudhury's research on using mobile devices to enhance mental health was featured in the Chronicle last fall.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

Johannes Gehrke is one of the two faculty winners of the 2011 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists; he won for his work on datamining and database security. The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists acknowledge and celebrate 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. Each winner in the faculty category was endowed with $25,000 in unrestricted funds.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

John Hopcroft was presented with an Honorary doctoral degree from Beijing Institute of Technology Oct 27.

Date Posted: 2/6/2012 | Permalink

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