CIS News and Events
2008 releases
Wong, Vigfusson and Sirer's work Slashdotted this week
June 2, 2008
Bernard Wong, Ymir Vigfusson, Alex Slivkins, and Gun Sirer's work on the peer-to-peer overlay Cubit was slashdotted this week more
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Lieben-Nowell and Kleinberg's work featured
June 1, 2008
Cornell University's Jon Kleinberg and Carleton College's David Liben-Nowell, backed by the National Science Foundation, Google, Yahoo, and the MacArthur Foundation, studied how chain emails are spread over the Internet more
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Ramin Zabih's first-year students program robots
June 1, 2008
To learn computer science, first-year students program robots more
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Adam Arbree places second in the Guenther Enderle Award
May 4, 2008
Adam Arbree placed 2nd in the Guenther Enderle Award for Best Student Paper at Eurographics 2008 more
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Milos Hasan wins Nvidia Fellowship
May 3, 2008
Milos Hasan won the NVidia 2008-2009 Fellowship more
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Alex Niculescu-Mizil and Yogi Sharma win best paper award
May 2, 2008
Alex Niculescu-Mizil and Yogi Sharma won the Machine Learning Journal Best Student Paper Award for COLT 2008 more
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Bobby Kleinberg Microsoft new faculty fellow
April 25, 2008
CS Professor Bobby Kleinberg has been selected as a 2008 recipient of a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship more
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Jon Kleinberg and David Liben-Nowell in Science
April 25, 2008
With hundreds of degrees of separation, the Internet doesn't always resemble a 'small world' more
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New In the Classroom series at Cornell launched with CS 211
February 25, 2008
CS 211: Object-oriented programming and data structures more
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Jon Kleinberg elected to the National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2008
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education." more
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Wojciech Moczydlowski wins Sacks Prize
January 25, 2008
Dr. Wojciech Moczydlowski won the Sacks Prize from the Association for Symbolic Logic for his thesis Investigations on Sets and Types more
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Lillian Lee named ISS Faculty Fellow
January 18, 2008
Lillian Lee has been named a Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) Faculty Fellow for the Fall 2008 semester more
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2007 releases
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and CIS present: Gaming for
the Masses - How Nintendo is making Video Gaming Mainstream."
November 4, 2007
The event will featuring Reginald Fils-Aime ALS'83 , President/CEO, Nintendo of America, Inc. Come hear from the Regginator himself about the story of his success and about Nintendo!
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Fred Schneider elected to CRA Board of Directors
May 8, 2007
CS Professor Fred Schneider has been elected to the CRA board of directors. http://www.cra.org/elections/
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Adam Siepel receives Microsoft fellowship
May 8, 2007
Adam Siepel, Cornell assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology, has been named one of five awardees for Microsoft Research's 2007 New Faculty Fellowship Program. More
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Jon Kleinberg elected to AAAS
April 30, 2007
CS Professor Jon Kleinberg has just been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! See the list of new members at http://www.amacad.org/news/classsec2007.aspx.
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John Hopcroft receives CRA Award
March 28, 2007
The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce that Professor John Hopcroft is a 2007 recipient of the CRA Distinguished Service Award. More
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Social and information networks projects at Cornell
February 14, 2007
Ivars Peterson's column in Science News recently featured Cornell research on social and information networks.
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Eva Tardos elected to NAE
February 13, 2007
Eva Tardos, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is recognized for her contributions to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms for network problems. More
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Kavita Bala and Bobby Kleinberg receive CAREER awards
February 9, 2007
The CS department is pleased to announce that Kavita Bala and Bobby Kleinberg have both been awarded Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). More
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Cardie gives keynote speech at ICCPOL January 23, 2007
Claire Cardie was a keynote speaker at the 21st International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. More
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Conway and Herbst honored by CRA
January 23, 2007
Both of Cornell's nominees for the 2007 CRA undergraduate award, the annual continent-wide competition recognizing "demonstrated excellence of computing research ability", were honored this year. More
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CTC in NYS Grid
January 22, 2007
Cornell Theory Center and other founders of NYSGrid link to share and crunch huge amounts of data. More
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2006 releases
Cornell Professor Jeff Hancock studies online lying
November 15, 2006
From harmless fibs to whoppers that can destroy a corporation (think: Enron), humans are adept at the art of deception. Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research. More
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CS professor involved in social science cyberinfrastructure project receives 2006 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize September 5, 2006
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, received the 2006 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, for his "deep, creative and insightful contributions to the mathematical theory of the global information environment." More
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Cornell National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Researchers win best paper award July 6, 2006
Researchers from Cornell University's National Science Digital Library group, Carl Lagoze, Dean Krafft, Tim Cornwell, Naomi Dushay, Dean Eckstrom and John Saylor have won the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) held in Chapel Hill, NC.> More
Cornell Theory Center aids social science researchers June 14, 2006
A two-year National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded cyberinfrastructure project (2006-2008) titled “Very Large Semi-structured Datasets for Social Science Research” is being supported by the efforts of the Cornell Theory Center (CTC).> More
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Visualization Representations Of Data exhibit opens at Mann Library: Cornell Theory Center's Visualization of 2004 Tsunami on display June 13, 2006
Cornell Theory Center’s visual representation of the December 26, 2004, tsunami that crashed into the Indian Ocean is one of many illustrations of data that are part of the "Visualizing Meaning" project.> More
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arXiv Founder Paul Ginsparg named recipient of Paul Evan Peters Award Feb. 22, 2006
Paul Ginsparg, physicist and Internet scholarly communications pioneer, is the latest recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award, announced today by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE.> More
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Cornell gets $25 million grant to build William H. Gates Hall Jan. 25, 2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $25 million to Cornell University to support the construction of the signature building for a planned information campus that will bring together the several units of the university’s Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS).> More
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2005 releases
DSS joins CIS November 21, 2005
The Department of Statistical Science (DSS) began the 2005-2006 academic year as a department of Cornell University 's Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS). Previously, it was affiliated with Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). The change recognizes that the research and objectives of DSS mesh with the mission of CIS.> More
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Hopcroft earns prestigious IEEE Harry M. Goode award October 20, 2005
John Hopcroft has been awarded the IEEE Harry M. Goode award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the study of algorithms and their applications in information processing. He will accept the award at a ceremony in Philadelphia on November 3, 2005, at which time he will be presented with a bronze medal and $2,000. > More
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NSF funds cybertools project September 28, 2005
A team of Cornell University researchers has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop advanced Web tools for social sciences research.> More
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Jon Kleinberg wins MacArthur Award September 20, 2005
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today (Sept. 20) named Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, among the 25 new MacArthur Fellows -- the so-called "Genius Awards" -- for 2005. He will receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years.> More
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CS Professor Graeme Bailey in the news August 18, 2005
If you look up "peripatetic" in the dictionary, you should find a description of Graeme Bailey. Although the word properly refers to walking, Bailey also skis, skates, motorcycles and otherwise meanders between music, sports and his official job as a professor of computer science, with each area inspiring and motivating the others.> More
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CS 40th Anniversary Symposium September 1, 2005
Cornell's Department of Computer Science (CS) will mark its 40 anniversary with a Symposium on Leadership in Research and Education on Saturday, October 1, 2005, from 8:30 to 5:00 in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The event is free and open to members of the Cornell community and invited guests. For more information, visit http://www.cs.cornell.edu/events/40years/ or call 607-255-0983.> More
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Five Best Paper awards October 31, 2005
Two computer science professors and several students earned best paper awards at the premier machine learning conferences this year. The acceptance rate for papers is typically between 20 and 30 percent. From these, conference organizers choose the best.> More
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Gomes and Selman in Nature Fall 2005
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Fred B. Schneider in The Chronicle of Higher Education Fall 2005
A recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has a feature article on computer security issues which includes some incisive remarks (and a great photograph) of Professor Schneider.> More
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Concentration in Computing and the Arts Fall 2005
Undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences are now able to get a concentration (a.k.a. minor) in Computing and the Arts. This was made possible by the work of Graeme Bailey and colleagues in a number of of other departments. One of the others was Steve Stuckey, Professor of Music and recent Pulitzer Prize Winner http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20050405/localnews/2105494.html > More
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Carl Lagoze to speak at U. of Pittsburgh in April Fall 2005
CS Senior Researcher Carl Lagoze will give an invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Science later this month: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/updates/colloquia/04_21_2005.html The title of his presentation is "A Network Overlay Architecture for Contextualized Digital Libraries".
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Intel donates equipment to Intelligent Software Systems group Fall 2005
The Intel Corporation has donated $40,000 of computer equipment to the Intelligent Software Systems group led by Keshav Pingali. The long-term goal of this group is to develop compiler technology that will permit programmers to focus on high level algorithmic issues without having to worry about coding for efficiency or fault-tolerance. The Intel grant is in support of an ongoing project on the use of analytical models in self-optimizing software systems, being done jointly with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Sandy Payette and Fedora in XML Cover Pages Fall 2005
The Fedora Project, led by CS Researcher Sandy Payette, was in the news recently. There is an article in the XML Cover Pages that does a great job describing Fedora and its broader impact ( http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-18-a.html ). Sandy will also be giving the keynote presentation at the upcoming DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on digital repositories for e-learning and e-research ( http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/delos-rep-workshop/intro.html ), which will be held on May 11-13, 2005 in Heraklion, Crete.
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New book by Ken Birman: Reliable Distributed Systems Fall 2005
Ken Birman's new text, Reliable Distributed Systems, has just been released: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40290-22-43949072-0,00.html?changeHeader=true The book reflects Ken's sweeping knowledge of the area and his experience teaching CS 514, Intermediate Computer Systems.
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New book by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos: Algorithm Design Fall 2005
CS Professors Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos have recently completed their new text, Algorithms Design. http://www.aw-bc.com/info/kleinberg/ http://www.aw-bc.com/info/kleinberg/quotes.html This text is the result of years of teaching in CS 482, our undergraduate algorithms course.
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CS Assistant Professor Golan Yona and Biozon March 2005
Not long ago a biologist had to understand Latin and memorize the vast array of Latin names for plants and animals. Today a biologist has to understand computer databases and work with the names and numbers that describe thousands of known genes and proteins and their functions in living things. > More
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Cornell CS professors in the news Spring 2005
CS Assistant Professor Rich Caruana was quoted in an October 2004 article in California Computer News Magazine titled "Internet Data-Mining." He spoke about an NSF ITR grant for which he is co-PI, along with Mirek Riedewald and staff of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, saying that the new techniques developed will allow modeling of long-term population trends, geospatial abundance patterns, and seasonal or irruptive species movements that will result in a revolutionary infrastructure for the environmental community and beyond. http://www.ccnmag.com/news.php?id=2856 > More
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Upcoming invited talks by CS professors Spring 2005 > More
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David Gries to present Course Management System at SIGCSE 2005 January 2005
CS Professor David Gries will present "Supporting workflow in a course management system," by Dora Abdullah, Kathy Carpenter, David Gries, Dexter Kozen, Andrew Myers, David Schwartz, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, and 13 students, on February 25 at SIGCSE 2005 in St. Louis. > More
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CS professors give talks at Harvard and University of Florida January 2005
CS Professor Fred B. Schneider will be speaking at Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and Society, giving a lecture titled "Divide and Be Conquered: Separation of Concerns for Trustworthiness," on April 14, 2005. According to the Web site, "During 2004-2005 the Center will host a series of public talks by leading thinkers who will explore a wide-range of areas." The other speakers are Butler Lampson, Louise Richardson, Al Spector, and Barbara Simons. http://www.crcs.deas.harvard.edu/news.html
CS Professor Juris Hartmanis spoke on January 14 as part of the Dean's Lecture Series at the University of Florida. The topic was " A Global View of Computer Science and Information Technology."
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Technology Research News "Top Picks of 2004" January 2005
Technology Research News magazine's "Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004" (December 29, 2004/January 5, 2005 issue includes several appearances by Cornellians present and past: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/122904/TRN%27s_Top_Picks_122904.html