Ken Birman speaks at Harvard
Ken Birman was an invited speaker at the Harvard Computer Science Colloquium Series on November 13th, and for the Triangle Distinguished Lecture Series at UNC Chapel Hill on November 24th.
Date Posted: 12/11/2008
Jon Kleinberg's one of Discover's 50 Most Important
Jon Kleinberg is part of Discover Magazine's list of "The 50 Most Important, Influential, and Promising People in Science", which is featured in its December 2008 issue.
And
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/20-best-brains-under-40/article_view?b_start:int=2&-C=
Date Posted: 12/11/2008
Fred B. Schneider in the News
Fred Schneider has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2009, with the following citation: "for contributions to trustworthy computing, fault-tolerance and formal methods."
Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow.
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Fellows_Class_of_2009.html
Also in the news...
Professor Schneider gave the keynote address at NSF/IARPA/NSA Workshop on the Science of Security in Oakland, California in November 2008.
Date Posted: 12/11/2008
Hopcroft on Microsoft Advisory Board for Research in Asia
John Hopcroft attended meetings in Bangalore and Beijing as a member of Microsoft's Technical Advisory Board for Research in Asia. He was a guest of the Chinese government at the Beijing Nobel Laureates Forum 2008 held in Beijing this November lecturing in the People's Great Hall and at the Beijing Institute of Technology where he was recognized with an honorary professorship.
Date Posted: 12/08/2008
Tal Rusak wins CRA award
Tal Rusak (CS has been selected the winner of the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award (male) 2009. The award includes a cash prize of $1,000 and a plaque. A copy of the announcement as it will appear in the January 2009 issue of Computing Research News will be posted on CRA's website (www.cra.org). With the 2009 award, Cornell has won the third time, tying MIT and CMU for the most awards won.
Date Posted: 12/08/2008
VanRenesse VIP guest at MSR Beijing
Robbert VanRenesse was one of four VIP guests invited to attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of MSR Beijing. He gave the keynote at the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Internet Services and Cloud Computing, also in Beijing on Nov 6.
Date Posted: 11/24/2008
Database group members win at DB/IR Day
Database group members, including students Lyublena Antova, Nitin Gupta, and Ben Sowell win 1st and 3rd prizes (tie) in poster competition, Spring'08 DB/IR Day at Columbia University.
Date Posted: 11/08/2008
Gomes quoted in Nature on new Institute
Carla Gomes was quoted in Nature about the new Institute for Computational Sustainability.
See http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2008/081030/full/nj7217-1276b.html
or pdf: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2008/081030/pdf/nj7217-1276b.pdf
Date Posted: 11/07/2008
Nitin Gupta wins first place in ACM Student Research Competition
Nitin Gupta, with co-author Neha Singh of IIT Bombay, won first place in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals for their work on XML processing.
Date Posted: 11/05/2008
Ramin Zabih named Editor-in-Chief
CS Professor Ramin Zabih has been named Editor-in-Chief for the Journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
For more information see http://www.computer.org/tpami
Date Posted: 11/05/2008