Department of Computer Science

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, PhD 2012, Won the Best Paper Award at WWW 2013

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, PhD 2012, and his Stanford co-authors won the best paper award at WWW 2013. The paper was entitled, "No country for old members: User lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities" and was written with Robert West, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, and Chris Potts. The conference received 831 submissions this year with an acceptance rate of 15%, and 3 papers were nominated for the best paper award. Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Margaret Martinosi Received Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

Cornell CS Alumna and Princeton CS Professor Margaret Martinosi was selected as one of the four 2013 Undergraduate Research Mentor award recipients at the NCWIT Summit. To learn more about Margaret: Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Changzi Zheng Named one of "30 under 30", Forbes Magazine

Changxi Zheng, who was a student of Doug James, graduated last year, and is now on faculty at Columbia, was named by Forbes Magazine as one of "30 under 30" innovators in science and healthcare. Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Multiple News Coverage on Koppula/Saxena's Work on Anticipating Future Human Actions

Koppula/Saxena's work on anticipating future human actions has been covered in Los Angeles Times, Wired, CNet, Kurzweil AI, NBC News, CBS News, National Geographic, KVEU TV (ABC), and will be aired on FOX news on Studio B with Shepherd Smith!

LA Times link: Click Here
Kurzweil AI link: Click Here
Fox News link: Click Here

The papers will be presented at ICML 2013 and RSS 2013 in June, and the RSS 2013 paper is currently among the five finalists for best paper award as well as best student paper award.

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Tanzeem Choudhury Featured in the Economist

Tanzeem Choudhury was featured in an article in the Economist. Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Ken Birman Quoted on American Public Media's Marketplace Program

Ken Birman was quoted on American Public Media's Marketplace program, as broadcast on NPR, for a piece on "Why PRISM is powered by private-sector technology". Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Announcement of the "Virtual Notary" System was Slashdotted

The announcement of the "Virtual Notary" system by Cornellians Aditya Kelkar, Joseph Bernard, Shweta Joshi, Sudharsan Premkumar, and Gun Sirer was slashdotted. Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Bobby Kleinberg Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

The Board of Trustees approved the promotion of Bobby Kleinberg to Associate Professor with Tenure

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Eva Tardos elected by Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Eva Tardos was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Click Here

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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Eva Tardos and Juris Hartmanis elected to NAS

Three computer scientists were elected to the NAS this year, and two of them were Eva Tardos and Juris Hartmanis. (The third was Avi Wigderson from the Institute for Advanced Study.) Click Here

The election of Juris Hartmanis and Eva Tardos to the National Academy of Sciences means that Cornell CS is tied with MIT for the most people (4) who are members of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences --- especially noteworthy since Cornell is roughly a third of MIT's size.

Date Posted: 8/13/2013

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