Year: 2011
Students Shift to Computer Science
FCC names Henning Schulzrinne Chief Technology Officer
will guide the FCC’s work on technology and engineering issues,
IEEE TPAMI Spotlights CCLS’s “Machine Learning for the New York City Power Grid”
The IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Feb’12 Spotlight Paper
Actual Wisdom: Stephen Edwards
Research.gov highlight: Hirschberg and Rambow’s WordsEye helps K-12 students
generating 3D scenes from written sentences helps improves literature comprehension
Software that Listens for Lies
The New York Times highlights Julia Hirschberg’s lie detecting research.
Junfeng Yang’s Peregrine Improves Software Reliability and Security
Making multithreaded programs deterministic in an efficient and stable way
Can you trust your printer?
Computer Science Professor Salvatore J. Stolfo and and Ph.D. student Ang Cui have uncovered a major vulnerability in HP printers.
Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say
OfficeHop: Stephen Edwards’ Personal Arcade
After Katrina, New Orleans’ Entrepreneurial Boom
Ed Coffman wins Harold Larnder Prize
For international distinction in operational research.
Better multithreading offered by Columbia U researchers
Company uses gaming to teach the world to code
Brilliant Ten: Computational Contortionist
Wordseye Is An Artistic Software Designed To Depict Language
Eitan Grinspun selected as Brilliant 10
Popular Science Magazine selects 2011’s Ten Most Brilliant scientists.
Avec Wordseye, Bob Coyne entend épuiser les ressources du langage
Clear Lake native is electrifying the nation with her dance technology
What Is That? Let Your Smartphone Have a Look
Cliff Stein’s CLRS celebrates 500,000 copies
“Introduction to Algorithms” in its third edition
The global appeal of ‘sticky’ live blogs
The physics behind animation
Information Builders Appoints Gregory Dorman as General Manager of iWay Software Division
Quasirandom Ramblings
Peter Belhumeur receives 2011 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award, for LeafSnap
for significant contributions to the preservation of biodiversity on Earth.
Crypto shocker: ‘Perfect cipher’ dates back to telegraphs
Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs
Steven Bellovin Makes a Cryptologic History Discovery (New York Times)
The one-time pad was known 35 years before its official “invention.”
How I Learned to Stop Worrying by Loving the Smartphone
What’s that tree? Try Smithsonian’s new app to see
Facebook will learn your face unless you tell it to stop
iPhone app Leafsnap identifies trees with picture of leaf
Leafsnap App: Identify Trees With An iPhone Or iPad
Scientists Unveil New Mobile App To Identify Trees
Vishal Misra elected ACM SIGMetrics Vice Chair
The premier ACM group promotes research in techniques and tools for performance analysis.
What’s That Tree? New Leaf-ID App Can Tell You
Janet Lustgarten, CEO at KX Systems, on shampoo apps, databases and founding her own company
The Smartphone as Tour Guide for Central Park
Ziff Davis Expands Executive Team; Appoints Joey Fortuna as Chief Technology Officer
USA Today Features Feiner’s Research
“Feiner, one of the gurus of the field, says augmented reality can exploit all the senses, including touch and hearing.”
Augmented reality has potential to reshape our lives
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LeafSnap iPhone app identifies trees by their leaves
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LeafSnap iPhone app lets you ID trees with camera
Studio 360’s David Leavitt (WNYC) discusses code books with Prof. Steve Bellovin.
The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf
A Tree Expert in Your Back Pocket
What’s That Tree? There’s An App for That!
Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guide
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Leafsnap is a New App to Identify Trees
iPhone Herkent Boom
Advanced threats: Assume the worst
Dan Rubenstein and co-authors win 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics
For “outstanding papers that open new lines of work, envision bold approaches to communication, formulate new problems to solve, and essentially enlarge the field of communications engineering.”
What’s That Central Park Leaf? There’s an App for That
Do It Yourself, or With the Help of Tinkerers Everywhere
Shree Nayar elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members are nation’s most prominent scientists, including more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer laureates.
Mihalis Yannakakis elected to National Academy of Engineering
Recognized for “his contributions to algorithms and computational complexity.”
The New World of Augmented Reality
Kids Take Their Best Shot (and Learn about Electronics in the Process)
Simha Sethumadhavan receives NSF CAREER Award
Simha Sethumadhavan’s research program in hardware security was recognized by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Security experts, DHS, lawmakers react to RSA hack
Julia Hirshberg receives James L Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
for her pioneering contributions to speech synthesis and prosody research
Augmented Reality in Action – maintenance and repair
Final rumours and lies from the RSA show
RSA: Security industry flooded with snake-oil
Pelican shows slim phone-camera prototype
Face Time: How Video Calls Are Changing Our Daily Life
Nice-Guy Bloggers Needn’t Finish Last
Scientific American features research of Shree Nayar and a PhD student, Oliver Cossairt
Draw the Curtains: Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots
About Face: NPR interviews Peter Belhumeur on Face Recognition
Peter Belhumeur discusses his work on face recognition on National Public Radio