Benjamin Van Doren won Best Paper Award at the Computational Sustainability track at AAAI 2013

Benjamin Van Doren, a CALS student who learned to program as a freshman in CS1110 Spring 2013, helped create the dataset for a paper he co-authored that won Best Paper Award at the Computational Sustainability track at AAAI 2013. The paper title was, "Approximate Bayesian Inference for Reconstructing Velocities of Migrating Birds from Weather Radar".Van Doren has been a bird lover since third grade and was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search.

Also, the first author on the paper, Dan Sheldon, received his PhD from the Cornell CS Department, and the track was co-chaired by Carla Gomes. Click Here

Date Posted: 9/06/2013

Doug James will Receive Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize

Doug James will receive the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize and deliver a public lecture at 4 p.m., Sept. 12. His Academy Award-winning computer graphics innovations have enhanced more than two dozen popular movies. Katayanagi prizes honor the best and the brightest in the field of computer science and are presented by Carnegie Mellon University in cooperation with the Tokyo University of Technology. Click Here

Date Posted: 9/06/2013

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