2009 Archive
Congratulations to the the CUCS ACM programming teams!
November 24, 2009
Two teams sent by Columbia University's department of computer science have ranked among the top of competitors in the Greater New York Region of the 2009-2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The teams ranked 2nd and 6th out of 51 teams. full story
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.
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.
Prof. Feiner receives Microsoft Research Award to explore multitouch user interfaces.
September 04, 2009
Prof. Feiner and his students received a gift from Microsoft Research, including a Microsoft Surface, to explore multitouch tabletop computing. full story
NSF funds Prof. Junfeng Yang, Prof. Gail Kaiser, and Prof. Jason Nieh to explore new software checking mechanisms
August 12, 2009
Prof. Junfeng Yang, Prof. Gail Kaiser, and Prof. Jason Nieh won a 4-year NSF grant titled "A Thousand hands with a Thousand eyes for Distributed Software Checking!" full story
Prof. Carloni was elevated to "Senior Member" of IEEE and ACM
August 12, 2009
Prof. Carloni was elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). full story
Prof. Stolfo receives NSF grants to explore fundamental means of measuring the security
August 12, 2009
Prof. Stolfo won NSF grants titled "Measuring the Security Posture of Large Financial Enterprises:The Human Factor" full story
NSF funds Prof. Feiner to explore using augmented reality to explain everyday tasks
August 06, 2009
Prof. Feiner won a 4-year NSF grant, complementing a second grant to Prof. Barbara Tversky (Teachers College), with whom he will collaborate. full story
Prof. Keromytis receives a Google research award
July 15, 2009
Prof. Keromytis won a Google research award for the project titled "Measuring the Health of Internet Routing: A Longitudinal Study". full story
Prof. Gravano and Prof. Nieh win a Google research award
July 15, 2009
Prof. Gravano and Prof. Nieh's research, "Google Desktop Meets DejaView: Display-Centric Desktop Search", won a Google research award. full story
NSF supports research of Prof. Nieh and Prof. Keromytis into exploiting software elasticity
July 10, 2009
Prof. Nieh and Prof. Keromytis won a 3-year NSF grant titled "Exploiting Software Elasticity for Automatic Software Self-Healing". full story
NSF funds Prof. Keromytis to track information flows
June 30, 2009
Professor Keromytis won a 3-year NSF grant titled "An Information Accountability Architecture for Distributed Enterprise Systems". full story
NSF funds Prof. Schulzrinne to investigate security service architectures in mobile networks
June 30, 2009
Prof. Schulzrinne, along with Patrick McDaniel (Pennsylvania State University and Matt Blaze (UPenn) received a National Science Foundation grant under the Trustworthy Computing program. The project will investigate security policies, make security enhancements to the Android mobile operating system and improve the resilience of telecommunication networks under overload. full story
National Science Foundation funds Prof. Allen's work on robotic hands
June 27, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be funding a project on new kinds of robotic hands led by Prof. Peter Allen, Prof. Rob Howe from Harvard University and Prof. Marco Santello from Arizona State University. full story
Prof. Itsik Pe'er wins National Science Foundation CAREER award on genomics
June 24, 2009
Prof. Itsik Pe'er has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award with the project "Computational Infrastructure for Full-Sequence Association Studies with Pooled Individuals". The CAREER is "most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations." full story
Blake Shaw and Prof. Jebara win best paper award at major machine learning conference
June 19, 2009
The paper "Structure Preserving Embedding", co-authored by Blake Shaw and Tony Jebara, won the Best Paper Award from the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), which took place from in June 2009 in Montreal, Canada. ICML is the leading international machine learning conference, attracting annually about 500 participants from all over the world. The paper was selected as the best paper out of approximately 600 submissions. full story
Prof. Feiner receives Google Research Award
June 18, 2009
Prof. Feiner's lab will explore augmented reality on Android. full story
NSF supports research of Prof. Bellovin into learning security policies
June 14, 2009
Prof. Steve Bellovin and Prof. Norman Sadeh of CMU have received a new 3.5 year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "User-Controllable Policy Learning". full story
Prof. Hirschberg and Owen Rambow to convert text into 3D scenes
June 10, 2009
Prof. Julia Hirschberg and Dr. Owen Rambow, along with Richard Sproat of the Oregon Health and Science University, have been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to develop new theoretical models and technology to automatically convert descriptive text into 3D scenes representing the text’s meaning. full story
Prof. Keromytis to give keynote at International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS)
June 10, 2009
Prof. Angelos Keromytis was invited to give a keynote talk on VoIP security at the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), to be held December 16-18, 2008 in Kolkata, India.
David Elson recognized for outstanding teaching with Presidential Award
June 02, 2009
PhD candidate David Elson was awarded the 2009 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Graduate Students during the PhD convocation. full story
Prof. Feiner receives Faculty Mentorship Award
May 31, 2009
Prof. Steve Feiner received the 2009 Faculty Mentoring Award at the PhD convocation this May. full story
Prof. Adam Cannon receives first departmental teaching award
May 27, 2009
Prof. Adam Cannon was awarded the first departmental teaching award during the 2009 commencement ceremony. full story
Prof. Julia Hirschberg wins Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
May 19, 2009
Professor Julia Hirschberg was recognized with the 2009 Columbia Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award.
Computer Science and Computer Engineering students receive departmental awards
May 15, 2009
Each academic year, the Computer Science Department presents awards to acknowledge students' academic excellence, outstanding teaching, and exemplary service. full story
Professor Feiner receives ONR grant to develop Augmented Reality for Immersive Training
May 14, 2009
Professor Steve Feiner's Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab will be designing and prototyping wearable augmented reality user interfaces for experiments in immersive training. full story
Professors Bellovin, Keromytis and Stolfo work to improve defenses against botnets
May 13, 2009
Professors Steve Bellovin, Angelos Keromytis and Sal Stolfo will collaborate with research groups at AT&T Research, Yale University and UT Austin on the principled design and development of botnet defenses. The project will be funded for 18 months by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). full story
Miklos Bergou receives Intel Fellowship
May 10, 2009
Miklos Bergou received a 2009-10 Intel PhD Fellowship Award, one of only 40 two-year fellowships awarded annually. full story
Joseph Traub elected SIAM Fellow
April 26, 2009
Joseph F. Traub, the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science has been selected as a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was chosen in the initial class of Fellows. full story
Michele Merler wins Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Award
April 12, 2009
Michele Merler, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, won a Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Award, one of 20 such grants given this year by Yahoo Research. full story
Rubenstein and Colleagues in Electrical Engineering win Vodafone Competition
April 09, 2009
The project "Active Networked Tags for Disaster Recovery Applications" won one of three Vodafone wireless innovation award. The project team consisted of Electrical Engineering faculty Gil Zussman, Peter Kinget, John Kymissis, and Xiaodong Wang and Computer Science Professor Dan Rubenstein. full story
Prof. Pe'er wins 30 billion DNA bases for studying obesity in Micronesia
March 18, 2009
Prof. Itsik Pe'er won second prize, among 200 entries, in a genome sequencing award competition from Applied Biosystems. The company will sequence 30 billion "bases", i.e., letters of DNA. Prof. Pe'er and his collaborators will generate the genomic sequence for individuals from an isolated Pacific population, aiming to provide insights on the genetics of obesity, lipid levels and diabetes. full story
Rebecca Collins receives IBM PhD fellowship
March 17, 2009
Rebecca Collins, a PhD student in the Department, will receive the IBM PhD fellowship, allowing her to pursue research in multi-core processor systems. full story
New compute cluster supports research in traffic analysis, parallel programming, secure computer deployment and virtual machines
March 16, 2009
Professors Simha Sethumadhavan, Angelos Keromytis and Sal Stolfo were awarded a $650,000 equipment grant from the Air Force Office for Scientific Research (AFOSR), titled "SCOPS: Secure Cyber Operations and Parallelization Studies Cluster". full story
Prof. Keromytis to speak at Critical Infrastructure Protection Conference
March 11, 2009
Prof. Keromytis has been invited to give a talk at the Critical Infrastructure Protection Conference, to be held at City College New York in June 2009. full story
Prof. Keromytis gives keynote address at 2nd European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec)
March 10, 2009
Prof. Keromytis will give a keynote address at the 2nd European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec), taking place in Nuremberg, Germany in March 2009. full story
Sean White to speak at Columbia convocation for doctoral candidates on May 18
March 05, 2009
CUCS PhD candidate Sean White will speak on behalf of his fellow candidates at the convocation for doctoral candidates in the schools of Architecture, Business, Engineering, Journalism, Law, Nursing, Physicians and Surgeons, Public Health, and Teachers College. The convocation will be held on Monday, May 18, 2009, at 3:30 PM in the Chapel.
PhD alumni is 2009 Sloan Research Fellow
February 19, 2009
Eleazar Eskin, a 2002 graduate of the Computer Science PhD program and assistant professor at UCLA, has been named a 2009 Sloan Research Fellow. full story
Snehit Prabhu wins Microsoft Research and Live Labs PhD Fellowship
February 03, 2009
Snehit Prabhu, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, won a Microsoft Research and Live Labs PhD fellowship. He is advised by Prof. Itsik Pe'er. full story
DHS supports faculty in anonymizing network traces
January 29, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is supporting a new three-year project titled "Privacy Preserving Sharing of Network Trace Data", in cooperation with BAE Systems National Security Solutions Inc. The project will be lead by Professors Tal Malkin, Sal Stolfo, Tony Jebara, Steve Bellovin, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. full story