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Best Student Paper Award for Chatterjee

Soumyadeep Chatterjee received the Best Student Paper Award at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2012 for his paper titled "Sparse Group Lasso: Consistency and Climate Applications" authored by Soumyadeep Chatterjee, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Arindam Banerjee, Snigdhansu Chatterjee and Auroop Ganguly. The paper proves statistical consistency bounds for estimators with hierarchical sparse regularizors and shows utility of using such estimators for high dimensional regression problems in climate science. Soumyadeep works on the NSF Expeditions in Computing project entitled "Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach." His adviser is Associate Professor Arindam Banerjee.

CS&E Alumnus and MIT Professor Arvind Wins 2012 IEEE Computer Society Goode Award

CS&E alumnus and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Arvind, a world-renowned leader in computer languages for parallel processing, has been named the winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2012 Harry H. Goode Award. Arvind is an MIT Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He was recognized "for fundamental contributions to research in dataflow computing, memory models, and cache coherence protocols."

The Goode Award was established to recognize achievement in the information-processing field-either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance; or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended period.

Arvind was also recently elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will be inducted into the 232-year-old academy at a ceremony on October 6, 2012 in Cambridge, Mass.

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