News Archive
Ted Kim, a professor in Media Arts and Technology with a joint appointment in Computer Science, is the recipient of the 2014 Harold J. Plous Award. Prof. Kim will give his Plous lecture, entitled “Visual Effects in the 21st Century,” on Monday, May 12, beginning at 4 pm, in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building. It is free and open to the public.
In the Department of Computer Science, and all across campus, Teaching Assistants are pivotal to the success of our undergraduate students. Each quarter we recognize those TAs who went above and beyond to support our students and faculty by presenting them with the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
The recipients of the Outstanding TA Award for Winter 2014 are:
The Third Edition of the Computing Handbook Set, edited by Professor Teo Gonzalez and colleagues, has just been published by Chapman&Hall/CRC. The two-volume handbook contains 3816 pages.
Professor Tao Yang’s paper, “PYRROS: static task scheduling and code generation for message passing multiprocessors,” co-authored with Rutgers Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis, is one of 35 papers that were selected for inclusion in the retrospective volume publication 25 Years of the International Conference on Supercomputing.
A recent article from Dartmouth College describes Prof. Xia Zhao’s research agenda to improve smartphone network connectivity. Prof. Zhao received her PhD in CS at UCSB in June of 2013, advised by Prof. Heather Zhao.
Professor Chandra Krintz has been named to Connected World Magazine’s Women of M2M List, which features some of the most powerful women in the technology sector. Those selected will be honored at a dinner near Chicago on April 10.
M2M (Machine to Machine) refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.
Prof. Matthew Turk is quoted in a recent New York Times story and a Wired article on automatic facial expression analysis, commenting on a recently published study on detecting real vs. fake facial expressions.
Prof. Ben Hardekopf has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award for his research on static analysis of dynamic languages. The CAREER Award is one of the NSF’s most prestigious awards in honor of exceptional junior faculty and will support Prof. Hardekopf’s research with a $500,000, five-year grant. Prof.
As Winter quarter comes to a close, and the 2013-2014 academic year continues to fly by faster than any of us can hope to keep up with, the Graduate Affairs Committee would like to take a moment to look back and recognize those students who were truly exceptional in their positions as Teaching Assistants in Fall quarter 2013:
Daniel Kudrow:
Daniel was nominated by Bryce Boe for his standout efforts in CS 24
Sourav Medya:
Sourav was nominated by Ambuj Singh for his dedication to students in CS 130A
UC Santa Barbara scholars dissect the popular — and polarizing — digital currency. See more at http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014010/pure-speculation-bitcoin-or-bust#sthash.IzwZVk4H.dpuf
UCSB Four Eyes Lab PhD student James Schaffer, researcher John O’Donovan, professor Tobias Höllerer, and colleagues at SA Technologies, the US Army Research Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2014), which took place in San Antonio, TX on March 3-6, 2014.
The Department of Computer Science, along with the Center for Information Technology in Society, present Dr. Judea Pearl on Friday, March 7, as a CS Distinguished Lecture. The talk is at 11:00am in ESB 1001; refreshments are served at 10:30am.
Dr. Pearl is a Turing Award recipient – his bio and an abstract of his talk, entitled ”The Mathematics of Cause and Effect,” are below.
An article in MIT Technology Review, entitled “Augmented Reality Gets to Work,” quotes Prof. Tobias Höllerer on the increasing use and importance of Augmented Reality.
PhD student Madhukar Kedlaya and Professor Ben Hardekopf received a Best Paper Award at the recent Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2014), which took place on March 1-2, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The award was given for the paper “Deoptimization for Dynamic Language JITs on Typed, Stack-based Virtual Machines,” co-authored with Behnam Robatmili and Calin Cascaval from Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley.
Congratulations Madhukar, Ben, and collaborators!
Lara Deek, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department, is conducting research on designing more efficient and powerful wireless systems for emerging wireless networks. Lara has a B.S. in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut.
Click here to learn more about Lara’s research and her plans for being at the forefront of innovation in wireless solutions.
The Spatial Ecology and Telemetry Working Group of The Wildlife Society, an international professional society of roughly 10,000 members focused on wildlife conservation and management, has given an award to CS PhD graduate Viral Shah and his colleague Brad McRae for their Circuitscape software package. Circuitscape is based on Dr. Shah’s PhD thesis work under Professors John Gilbert and Linda Petzold.
Congratulations, Viral!
Dr. Lamia Youseff, who earned her PhD from the UCSB Department from Computer Science in 2009, is featured in an article in the December 2013 issue of IEEE Women in Engineering magazine. The article, entitled “Making it All Compute,” describes the path that led Dr. Youseff to her current position at Google, where she works with the company’s cloud computing division “to bring new and innovative cloud solutions to the world,” as the article states. “It is always amazing to learn how to operate cloud systems at the scale of Google and bring new cloud products to the international market.”
KEYT 3 News reports on the International Capture the Flag hacking competition hosted by UCSB. Click here for the article and video.
KEYT 3 News reports on the International Capture the Flag hacking competition hosted by UCSB. Click here for the article and video.
Prof. Gustavo Alonso, who received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara in 1992 and 1994, has been named an IEEE Fellow. Prof. Alonso is in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and works in distributed systems, databases, middleware, and system aspects of software engineering. See his web page for more information on his research and other activities.
Prof. Gustavo Alonso, who received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara in 1992 and 1994, has been named an IEEE Fellow. Prof. Alonso is in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and works in distributed systems, databases, middleware, and system aspects of software engineering. See his web page for more information on his research and other activities.
Congratulations to Professors Amr El Abbadi, Kevin Almeroth, and Elizabeth Belding for their elevation to the status of IEEE Fellow!
Congratulations to Professors Amr El Abbadi, Kevin Almeroth, and Elizabeth Belding for their elevation to the status of IEEE Fellow!
Congratulations to CS alumni Chris Grzegorczyk and Vic Iglesias and the rest of the team from Eucalyptus Systems for winning Best Portability Enhancement in the 2013 Netflix Cloud Prize competition. Eucalyptus is a Goleta-based open source start-up company founded by students and faculty from research originating in the Computer Science department.
Congratulations to CS alumni Chris Grzegorczyk and Vic Iglesias and the rest of the team from Eucalyptus Systems for winning Best Portability Enhancement in the 2013 Netflix Cloud Prize competition. Eucalyptus is a Goleta-based open source start-up company founded by students and faculty from research originating in the Computer Science department. More about the competition and the award can be seen in announcements from Netflix, ">
The Science Coalition released its “Sparking Economic Growth 2.0″ report focusing on 100 companies that trace their roots to federally-funded university research. Among the companies featured in the report is Eucalyptus Systems, which was co-founded by UCSB CS professor Rich Wolski. Each of the featured companies serves as a strong example of how university research is a necessary companion to scientific innovation, job creation, and economic growth.
Professor Tevfik Bultan is serving as a Program Committee Co-Chair of the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013), which will be held at the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto, California during November 11 – 15. The ASE conference series is one of the premier research forums in the area of software engineering.
A message appears on a profile of a popular social network in a country suffering from political unrest. Seconds later it is repeated on another profile, and then another, and another. Within minutes the message spreads to hundreds, even thousands of profiles, from a core group of closely related users, to loosely affiliated contacts. Before the day is out, people are in the streets chanting for the end of the regime and those in power are seriously considering their next steps.
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A message appears on a profile of a popular social network in a country suffering from political unrest. Seconds later it is repeated on another profile, and then another, and another. Within minutes the message spreads to hundreds, even thousands of profiles, from a core group of closely related users, to loosely affiliated contacts. Before the day is out, people are in the streets chanting for the end of the regime and those in power are seriously considering their next steps.
Professor Ben Zhao has received a three-year, $499,992 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue research on analyzing and modeling social network structure, growth, and dynamics. The grant also includes Prof. Heather Zheng as co-principal investigator.
Professor Ben Zhao has received a three-year, $499,992 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue research on analyzing and modeling social network structure, growth, and dynamics. The grant also includes Prof. Heather Zheng as co-principal investigator.
UC Santa Barbara is ranked #20 in the world in Engineering & Technology, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. UCSB also places #20 in Physical Sciences.
UC Santa Barbara is ranked #20 in the world in Engineering & Technology, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. UCSB also places #20 in Physical Sciences.
Prof. Kevin Almeroth has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research to maximize the available bandwidth in next generation wireless local area networks (WLANs). The grant, for $101,088, also involves Prof. Elizabeth Belding as co-Principal Investigator.
Prof. Kevin Almeroth has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research to maximize the available bandwidth in next generation wireless local area networks (WLANs). The grant, for $101,088, also involves Prof. Elizabeth Belding as co-Principal Investigator.
If it’s in the realm of social networks, Internet security and privacy, and the modeling and mining of enormous graphs, you can bet Ben Zhao is on the cusp of something big.
Prof. Tobias Höllerer has received a grant of $320,461 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support the deployment of a high-fidelity Mixed Reality (MR) simulator in the UCSB AlloSphere.
Prof. Ben Hardekopf has been awarded a three-year, $466,875 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research to improve the safety of web browser addons.
Browser addons are downloaded by millions of users to extend the functionality of their web browsers in many ways. However, browsers addons have high privileges and consequently require a high level of scrutiny; for example, malicious addons can easily steal users’ private information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, browsing history, etc.
Prof. Ben Hardekopf has been awarded a three-year, $466,875 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research to improve the safety of web browser addons.
Browser addons are downloaded by millions of users to extend the functionality of their web browsers in many ways. However, browsers addons have high privileges and consequently require a high level of scrutiny; for example, malicious addons can easily steal users’ private information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, browsing history, etc.