Year: 2012
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