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2008-2009 Computer Science Outstanding Dissertation Award and Outstanding Publication Award

August 24, 2009

CS Senior wins Tirrell Award

June 24, 2009

Computer Science Senior Christopher Casey Cipriano wins the Tirrell
Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research.

Tim Sherwood wins UCSB Leadership Award

June 22, 2009

UCSB Leadership Awards go to Computer Science department!

CS Grad Student wins Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

June 22, 2009

Ramya Raghavendra, a graduate student in the Computer Science
Department at UC Santa Barbara, wins 2009 Google Anita Borg Memorial
Scholarship!

The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is awarded each year to
female computer science students selected on the basis of academic
excellence and leadership. The scholarships, which carry an award of
$10,000, celebrate the life’s work of the late Anita Borg.

Linda Petzold named SIAM Fellow

June 22, 2009

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently
announced the SIAM Fellows Class of 2009 and the inauguration of the
SIAM Fellows Program. The SIAM fellowship is an honorific designation
conferred on members distinguished for their outstanding contributions
to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. During
this inaugural year of the program, SIAM confers Fellows status on 183
noteworthy professionals, who will be recognized during the 2009 SIAM
Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Undergraduate Capstone Project Award goes to “CrowdWise”

June 5, 2009

The Capstone project gives Computer Science and Computer Engineering students the opportunity to put their education into practice. Students, working in teams, design and engineer innovative software systems using cutting-edge technologies and architectures to tackle problems “donated” by industry leaders. The projects span a wide variety of areas including distributed computing, networking, mobile computing, embedded systems, data mining, and security.

Professor Chandra Krintz Receives 2008/9 Distinguished Teaching Award

June 3, 2009

UCSB Security Group: Spying on Typing

April 29, 2009

UCSB Security Group’s research on spying on typing featured in
Scientific American

The research of a team led by Professor Giovanni Vigna and composed
of Marco Cova (PhD student) and Davide Balzarotti (Post-Doc at the
time, and now Professor at Eurecom) was featured in the May 2009
Edition of Scientific American. The research mentioned is described
in the paper “ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video”,
which was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy Oakland, in 2008.

NSF Grant for Cloud Compting Research at UCSB

April 27, 2009

Today, the National Science Foundation announced it has awarded
nearly five million dollars in grants to fourteen universities
through its Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program to participate in the
IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative. The initiative will
provide the computing infrastructure for leading-edge research
projects that could help us better understand our planet, our bodies,
and pursue the limits of the World Wide Web.

UCSB College of Engineering up in national rankings

April 27, 2009

US News & World Report has just released its 2010 rankings of
America’s Best Graduate Schools, and the news is good for the College
of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. The College as a whole moved up
from 19th in the country to 18th (tied with Princeton and Harvard),
and is the 12th-ranked public graduate engineering school. The
College of Engineering consists of five departments: Computer Science,
Materials, Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Mechanical Engineering. Over the last ten years, UCSB’s College

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