News Archive

UCSB Cloud Computing to be included in Ubuntu Distribution

March 17, 2009

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UCSB Cloud Computing to be included in Ubuntu Distribution

CS Grad Student wins Symantec Fellowship

March 10, 2009

CS Grad Student wins Symantec Fellowship

IEEE Fellow: Prof. Subhash Suri

January 16, 2009

Xifeng Yan joins CS Department

January 16, 2009

Dr. Xifeng Yan joined our department as an assistant professor. He
holds the Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair in Computer Science. Dr. Yan
was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
between 2006 and 2008. He received a B.E. in computer science from
Zhejiang University, China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in computer science
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006.

Ultimate Champions

December 18, 2008

Last week, the CS Department Ultimate Frisbee team, “I’m Feeling
Lucky”, captured its third UCSB intramural championship. The
intramural league consists of 8 competitive teams from around the UCSB
campus. Matches were played weekly throughout the Fall quarter,
culminating in the finals last Friday.

CS@UCSB Research in the News

December 3, 2008

The research at UC Santa Barbara does not only lead to articles in great conferences and journals, it also has real world impact. Recently, two projects carried out at the Computer Science Department at UCSB received wide-spread media attention.

Three CS groups win Google Research Awards

December 1, 2008

Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful.” To help succeed in this mission,
Google maintains strong ties with academic institutions that are doing
world-class research. As one component, Google has developed the
Research Awards program to provide funding support to researchers at
these institutions.

UCSB to Host Another Top Conference on Cryptography

November 26, 2008

Since 1981, every year in August, UCSB is home to Crypto, the premier
conference on cryptography. For Crypto, nearly 400 cryptographers from
around the world gather at UCSB to introduce new cryptographic
algorithms and protocols, or methods to break previously introduced
ones. Equally important, there is CHES, the conference on
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. At this yearly event,
cryptographic engineers meet to discuss hardware and software
realizations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols. The methods

Prof. Chong delivers the keynote opening the International Conference on Computer Design with the theme of Green Computing.

October 22, 2008

Fred Chong, Director of the CS-led Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing, delivered the keynote opening the 26th International Conference on Computer Design. The keynote was titled Towards More Sustainable Computer Design.

Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC) was a tremendous success!

October 8, 2008

This year’s Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC) was a
tremendous success. With more than 125 attendees, the auditorium was
packed throughout the day, and the workshop can certain rival some
academic conferences. For the program, ten entries were selected as
full papers (out of a total of 22 submission). In addition, ten
posters were presented. The student work was impressive from every
lab in the department. Fang Yu won the Adobe Best Paper Award while
Jonathen Ventura won the Adobe Best Poster Award. Congratulations!

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