Paper by Julia Hirschberg and Agustín Gravano earns Best Paper Award
“Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue” is named by International Speech and Communications Association as best paper published in Computer Speech and Language, 2011–2015.
Research & Papers
Computing in Context, a computer science course for liberal arts majors, expands with new SIPA track
Computing in Context has added a new track for the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) to teach computational … Continue reading Computing in Context, a computer science course for liberal arts majors, expands with new SIPA track
Automating the Search for ‘Silent’ Software Bugs
Suman Jana worked with colleagues to create APEx, a tool for automatically finding error-handling bugs in C code.
Nature article cites Yaniv Erlich’s research on privacy risks in sharing genetic information
He previously de-anonymized participants in a large genomic study by cross-referencing their donated genetic information to DNA information in publicly available databases.
Yaniv Erlich featured in Through the Wormhole (Science TV) hosted by Morgan Freeman
In the segment Is Privacy Dead, beginning at 26:00, Erlich demonstrates security gaps in maintaining genetic anonymity.
Student & Alumni News
Alison Chang, CS’16, featured in #PayItForward campaign video for Girls Who Code
This summer, she taught computer science languages and principles to high school girls as part of the Summer Immersion Program, a 7-week, free program that enrolled 1560 girls across the US.
An interview with John Paparizzos: Hunting early signs of pancreatic cancer in web searches
With few warning signs and no screening test, pancreatic cancer is usually not diagnosed until it is well advanced; 75% … Continue reading An interview with John Paparizzos: Hunting early signs of pancreatic cancer in web searches
An interview with Sarah Ita Levitan: When changes in speech can indicate lies
Humans are not good at detecting when someone is lying, doing little better than chance level. More reliable are computational … Continue reading An interview with Sarah Ita Levitan: When changes in speech can indicate lies
Suzanna Schmeelk, CS PhD student, receives seat at Heidelberg Laureate Forum
She is one of only 200 young researchers invited to this event that brings together winners of scientific and mathematics awards (Abel, Fields, Turing, Nevanlinna).
Paper coauthored by Luren Wang, a CS master’s student, proposes more secure password manager
Presented at the IEEE’s ICDCS, the method distributes information for generating a master password to different sources, eliminating a single point of failure.
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