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Prof. Jebara receives a Google Research Award
November 20, 2009
Prof. Tony Jebara won a Google Research Award for his project titled "NetTrailMix". full story
Prof. Gravano receives a Google Research Award
November 18, 2009
Prof. Luis Gravano won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Finding and
Characterizing the World's Event Media." full story
Prof. Malkin receives a Google Research Award
November 17, 2009
Prof. Malkin won a Google Research Award for her project titled
"Efficient Routing by Oblivious Nodes". full story
Prof. Misra receives a Google research award
November 17, 2009
Prof. Misra won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Incentivizing
Managed Peer to Peer Systems: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach” full story
NSF Grant to Traub and Wozniakowski
November 05, 2009
Joseph F. Traub and Henryk Wozniakowski have received an NSF grant for "Tractability of High Dimensional Problems for Quantum and Classical Computers". The grant is for $473,000.
This makes 39 years that Joe has had every proposal to NSF funded. full story
Prof. Nayar's Little Camera Is a Big Idea for Children Around the World
November 04, 2009
Prof. Shree Nayar has developed a new camera, called Bigshot, that has been
designed to improve the way children learn about science and about one
another. The camera comes as a kit that students assemble while being exposed
to various science and engineering concepts. full story
Prof. Jebara Delivers Keynote Speech at the 21st ICTAI Conference
November 02, 2009
Venue: 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Talk Title: Learning from Data using Matchings and Graphs full story
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009 Alumni Achievement Award
October 27, 2009
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009
Alumni Achievement Award full story
Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices
October 26, 2009
Also appeared in ACM Tech News:
A scan of the Internet by Columbia University researchers searching for vulnerable embedded devices has found that nearly 21,000 routers, Webcams, and VoIP products are vulnerable to remote attack. full story
Ilias Diakonikolas wins Honorable Mention in the 2009 Nicholson Competition of the INFORMS society.
October 23, 2009
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student. Ilias Diakonikolas received an Honorable Mention Award in the 2009 Nicholson Competition for his paper "Small Approximate Pareto Sets for Biobjective Shortest Paths and Other Problems", coauthored with Prof. Mihalis Yannakakis. The paper is published in the SIAM Journal on Computing.