UCSB Computer Science Prof. Wim van Dam describes latest progress in quantum algorithms.

In the February 2010 issue of Communications of the ACM, UC Santa Barbara’s Wim van Dam and Dave Bacon of the University of Washington give an overview of the recent progress in the design of new quantum algorithms. Unlike our current computers, the behavior of a quantum computer cannot be described by classical physics and therefore also require non-classical algorithms.

Professor Teofilo Gonzalez from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara was inducted as an IASTED Fellow for his contributions to Multicasting Dissemination Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Computing, as well as for his decade long commitment to PDCS and IASTED.
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Prof. Tevfik Bultan and M.S. student Zachary Stengel identified a flaw in a novel operating system developed by Microsoft Research called Singularity. Although Singularity operating system has been developed with the goal of improving dependability, due to this flaw, Singularity processes were vulnerable to deadlocks.

UCSB faculty Matthew Turk, Tobias Höllerer, Chandra Krintz, and Rich Wolski, along with Media Arts and Technology professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, have received $1.25M in infrastructure funding from the National Science Foundation to equip the first generation AlloSphere, a large, three-story spherical environment for synthesis, manipulation, exploration and analysis of large-scale data sets, with applications in science, design, art, and entertainment. For more information on the AlloSphere, visit http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu.