News
October 25, 2009
Prof. Divy Agrawal chairs SIGMOD 2010
Prof. Divyakant Agrawal is serving as Program Chair for SIGMOD 2010, which will be held on June 6-11, 2010 in Indianapolis, USA. The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is the most prestigious international conference for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.
Our database professors [...]
October 20, 2009
Professor Fred Chong Co-chairs the 2009 National Cyber Leap Year Summit
The Summit is composed of a “dream team” of computer security experts gathered to develop “game-changing” national IT strategies for the Obama administration.
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, under guidance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and [...]
October 11, 2009
Women in Computer Science (WiCS), Fall 2009
The Department of Computer Science Women in Computer Science (WiCS) group
hosted its third annual Fall potluck in October 2009 to welcome its new
female graduate students. The Department of Computer Science’s graduate
program is currently almost 24% female, well above the national average of
about 20%. Welcome to all of our new students and we encourage [...]
Kruegel and Yan Appointed to the Aas and Venky Endowed Chairs
Prof. Christopher Kruegel and Prof. Xifeng Yan are the first scholars appointed to
the Eugene Aas Endowed Chair and the Venkatesh Narayanamurti Endowed Chair
in Computer Science. A special inaugural celebration will be held October
22, 2009. Details are available on our Endowed Chairs webpage.
Christopher Kruegel received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical [...]
October 6, 2009
Getting an Edge at High Speeds: Randomized Algorithms and Networking Hardware
[ October 14, 2009; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
3:30 – 4:30
Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132
HOST: Subhash Suri
SPEAKER: GEORGE VARGHESE
Computer Science, UC San Diego
Title: Getting an Edge at High Speeds: Randomized Algorithms and
Networking Hardware
Abstract:
Even commercial router vendors have adopted randomized algorithms in a
few cases because they are simple, fast, and memory-efficient. Further,
because of [...]
