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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.

Steve Henderson receives best paper award at IEEE ISMAR 2009  
October 22, 2009
PhD student Steve Henderson received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2009, held in Orlando, FL. full story

Prof. Stolfo to Chair National Cyber Defense Financial Industry Workshop  
October 22, 2009
The National Cyber Defense Industry Workshop will take place on October 28-29, 2009 at the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, DC. The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and will be limited to senior experts from the financial services industry, academia and government agencies. The workshop is one in a series organized by the National Cyber Defense Initiative Steering committee with support from several government organizations and leaders.

Prof Yemini Delivers Keynote Speech at the IEEE/IFIP IM2009 conference  
October 05, 2009
Title: Can Genomic Networks Teach Integrated Network Management?

Prof. Gravano receives a Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Gift  
October 05, 2009
Professor Luis Gravano was awarded a Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Gift, for "User-Specific Extraction of Entity Lists and Attributes."

Prof. Ross is Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Avoiding Contention on Multicore Machines  
September 30, 2009
Prof. Kenneth Ross has been awarded an NSF grant to study how to effectively use multicore machines to perform data intensive computations typical of database systems. The project aims to provide a generic, programmer-friendly framework for performing certain kinds of concurrent operations in parallel. The system will automatically detect and respond to hotspots and other performance pitfalls.