News Archive
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.
The department’s annual Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC 2013) will be held on Friday, October 4th in Corwin Pavilion. This is an important and exciting event in the life of the department, and all students, faculty, and visitors are invited to attend. The workshop is free and open to all.
The workshop will include talks and posters by UCSB graduate students, an industry panel, and a keynote talk by Mike Brzozowski of Google on “Beyond Big Data: Understanding Users at Scale.”
Is the world’s first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not? An October article in Wired Science sought Prof. Wim van Dam’s opinions on a new quantum computer by D-Wave Systems.
Read the article here.
UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Room 1132 Harold Frank Hall
HOST: Amr El Abbadi
SPEAKER: David Lomet
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Title:
LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware (joint work with Justin Levandoski and Sudipta Sengupta)
Abstract:
UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Reception
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Talk
Engineering Sciences Building, Room 1001
HOST: Subhash Suri
SPEAKER: Daphne Koller
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-Founder and co-CEO, Coursera
Title:
The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits
Abstract:
PhD student Byungkyu Kang, Research Scientists John O’Donovan, and Professor Tobias Hollerer received a Best Paper Award at the 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013) for their paper entitled “Understanding Information Credibility on Twitter” (PDF).
A Popular Science article reports on UCSB’s Security Lab:
Schools across the country are offering courses where students learn how to stop malicious hackers. Step one: learn their ways.
Prof. Diana Franklin has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s fifth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium, to be held October 27-30 in Irvine, California.
Prof. Diana Franklin received an Undergraduate Research Mentoring award from the National Center for Women and Information Technology. The annual NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award recognizes American Academic Alliance representatives for their outstanding mentorship, high-quality research opportunities, recruitment of women and minority students, and efforts to encourage and advance undergraduates in computing-related fields.
UCSB has been ranked as the U.S. university with the third highest earning potential for Computer Science majors, according to a new report from PayScale. According to their data, the median mid-career pay for a CS major from UCSB is $120,000.
For more information, follow this link.
Dr. Aydin Buluç, who received his PhD in 2010 with advisor John Gilbert, has received a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award. This article describes Dr. Buluç’s research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that aims to develop new data-mining algorithms to discover new biofuels.