News
January 16, 2012
Prof. Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao’s Work Reported by New York Times
A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
A new feature article in the New York Times (January 15, Sunday edition) describes some of the innovative work done at UCSB by our own Professors Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao. The project, led by Professor Zheng in collaboration with Zhao and Professor Amin Vahdat (UC San Diego [...]
January 8, 2012
Boston Globe reported “crowdturfing” in social media discovered by Prof. Ben Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng
A dark force, unleashed online
By Gareth Cook at Boston Global, January 08, 2012
THERE IS a new kind of threat gathering online.
Until now, the story of the Internet wars has been a tale of escalating software. Shadowy criminals (or bored teenagers) design code which infects a computer, or spits out spam, or steals credit card [...]
December 20, 2011
Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers: MIT Tech Review on Prof. Heather Zheng’s Work
Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
A plan to bounce signals off the ceilings inside data centers could solve a major performance bottleneck.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011 BY DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE (via MIT Technology Review)
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still [...]
From 10% to 40% Female CS Majors: The Harvey Mudd College Story
[ January 20, 2012; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. ] UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Reception
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Talk
Engineering Sciences Building, Room 1001
HOST: Subhash Suri
SPEAKER: Maria M. Klawe
President, Harvey Mudd College
Title: From 10% to 40% Female CS Majors: The Harvey Mudd College Story
Abstract:
In 2006, much like at many other institutions, about 10% of HMC’s CS [...]
December 12, 2011
Prof. Divy Agrawal invited as William Mong Visiting Fellow at the Hong Kong University
Prof. Divy Agrawal invited as William Mong Visiting Fellow by the Faculty of Engineering at the Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. (Dec 12, 2011)
