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Year: 2012

Scientific American Staff Picks: Prof. Belhumeur’s “Leafsnap” among 10 Apps for Your Smart Phone or Tablet

Angelos Keromytis Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Recognized for significant accomplishments in security.

Cliff Stein elected ACM Fellow

recognized for fundamental advances to combinatorial optimization, scheduling, and network algorithms

Changxi Zheng one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” Innovators in Science

Forbes editors worked with panels of experts to choose the brightest stars under the age of 30

Off Hook VoIP Phone Security Vulnerability Affects Some Cisco Models

Custom Chips Could Be the Shovels in a Bitcoin Gold Rush

Itsik Pe’er and colleagues demonstrate new approach to analyze genetic data

Reading History Through Genetics

Security experts are working to thwart a potentially devastating cyberattack

A New Robo Surgeon Requires Just One Incision

Al Aho addresses Dennis Ritchie Tribute at Bell Labs

The Impact of Software on Society

Symposium for Joseph Traub’s 80th Birthday Celebration

will be held on November 9, 2012 at Columbia University.

Trees Explained With The Click Of A (Smart)Phone

Union County trees go high tech with digital ID tags

NJ park offers digital tree guides

NJ parks offers digital tree guides

Trees Explained With The Click Of A (Smart) Phone

Union County installs digital tree identification signs in Lenape Park

Company uses Kathy McKeown’s research to win Startup America/DEMO Competition

natural language processing software to perform legal tasks efficiently and accurately

Leafsnap Scientists

El cabello perfecto tiene “su ciencia”

Big bangs theory: Unlocking the secrets of great hair

Have Hackers Won?

Changxi Zheng joins the department

as a member of the Computer Graphics Group (C2G2) in the Vision and Graphics Center

Making Magic With Computer Science and Art

Vasilis Pappas wins Microsoft’s Blue Hat Honors

for his kBouncer software security technology

Steve Bellovin named FTC Chief Technologist

by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz

Kathy McKeown to direct new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering

with Patricia Culligan to tackle the growing abundance of data

The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference

Hacking attacks on printers still not being taken seriously

Shih-Fu Chang named Richard Dicker Professor of Telecommunications

to support digital communications research

Computer Virus Warning

Prof. Bellovin: Computer Virus Warning (ABC News)

Garden Apps: Blooms Amid the Weeds

Michael Collins a Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

for making fundamental advances in machine learning and natural language processing

Ang Cui wins International Cup special prize from Kaspersky Labs

Killing the Myth of Cisco IOS Diversity: Recent Advances in Reliable Shellcode Design

Faculty win multiple major grants

to investigate security, parallelism, and software testing.

Silver Lining Systems, founded by Profs. Misra & Rubinstein and grad Reich, raises $2 million, has offices in New York and Cambridge

working to demolish data center bottlenecks

Prof. Kaiser awarded NSF grant to achieve software reliability without true test oracles

to detect coding errors even when correct outputs are unknown

Columbia University and Semiconductor Research Corporation Breathe New Life into Scalability by Integrating Voltage Regulators Directly onto ICs

Hirschberg, Collins, McKeown, and Diab win $7M Defense Grant

with team of researchers led by SRI International

In Memoriam: Dave Waltz (1943-2012)

Renowned for his work on areas from computer vision to machine learning

FedEx’s Electric Vehicle Experiment

Bloomberg Businessweek: Ph.D. Cand. Leon Wu on Green Design

and FedEx’s Electric Vehicle experiment

The Human Voice, as Game Changer

Recent grads Bubinski and Sims featured in NY Times

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet

David L. Waltz, Computer Science Pioneer, Dies at 68

A Spelling Champ Whose E-U-O-N-Y-M Should Have Been ‘Joy’

Replacing Passwords with Behavior

CS professors named founding fellows of Association for Computational Linguistics

in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to the field

Xi Chen and Junfeng Yang named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

to support Chen’s work in algorithmic game theory and Yang’s work on software systems

Here’s Looking at You (but I’m Still Texting)

Computer History Museum records history of Joe Traub’s Career

wide-ranging interview of our department’s founding chair

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    Dean Boyce's statement on amicus brief filed by President Bollinger

    President Bollinger announced that Columbia University along with many other academic institutions (sixteen, including all Ivy League universities) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging the Executive Order regarding immigrants from seven designated countries and refugees. Among other things, the brief asserts that “safety and security concerns can be addressed in a manner that is consistent with the values America has always stood for, including the free flow of ideas and people across borders and the welcoming of immigrants to our universities.”

    This recent action provides a moment for us to collectively reflect on our community within Columbia Engineering and the importance of our commitment to maintaining an open and welcoming community for all students, faculty, researchers and administrative staff. As a School of Engineering and Applied Science, we are fortunate to attract students and faculty from diverse backgrounds, from across the country, and from around the world. It is a great benefit to be able to gather engineers and scientists of so many different perspectives and talents – all with a commitment to learning, a focus on pushing the frontiers of knowledge and discovery, and with a passion for translating our work to impact humanity.

    I am proud of our community, and wish to take this opportunity to reinforce our collective commitment to maintaining an open and collegial environment. We are fortunate to have the privilege to learn from one another, and to study, work, and live together in such a dynamic and vibrant place as Columbia.

    Sincerely,

     

    Mary C. Boyce
    Dean of Engineering
    Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor

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