CS Department News Feed

In Memoriam

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The CSE Department recently mourned the loss of Bonnie Klein. Bonnie passed away October 30, 2009 at her home in Richfield after a long battle with cancer. Bonnie worked in the CSE office helping to administer the graduate program. She was also a friendly face working the front desk. She enjoyed meeting people from different areas and cultures and collecting postage stamps from around the world.

Terveen selected as an ACM Distinguished Member

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

CSE Associate Professor Loren Terveen has been selected as an ACM Distinguished Member. The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. Terveen is one of 58 Distinguished Scientists selected for 2009.

Best Paper for Riedl

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

CSE Professor John Riedl and his student, Michael D. Ekstrand, received a best paper award for their work "rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History" at WikiSym 2009, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, in Orlando, Florida. Forty-five papers were submitted, of which 16 were accepted (36%), and one named Best Paper.

Best Paper Award for Weissman

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CSE Associate Professor Jon Weissman and his colleagues received a best paper award at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) in Banff, Alberta, for their paper "Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed Applications and Production Grids." The acceptance rate for the conference was 24%

Best Paper Award for Chandra

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CSE Assistant Professor Abhishek Chandra and his student Dave Boutcher received a best paper award for their paper "Does Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passé?" at HotStorage'09: SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems in Big Sky, MT. The paper was one of three best papers at the workshop, for which the acceptance rate was 21%.

CSE graduate student receives Brain Science Scholarship

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CSE graduate student Vasileios Christopoulos received the "American Legion Brain Sciences Award." The Brain Science Scholarship was created in 1997 to recognize the outstanding achievement of graduate students at the University involved in brain research and are close to graduation. The award was created by the American Legion family's Brain Science Foundation and includes an honorarium of $1000.

CSE Professor's work featured in Forbes

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CSE Assistant Professor Abhishek Chandra's research was featured in a recent article in Forbes magazine. The article describes research in the sorts of deep theoretical questions about virtualization that commercial companies overlook.

See the full article on the Forbes magazine website.

Seventh Biennial Computer Science Open House - Friday, October 9, 2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Please join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for our seventh biennial Open house on October 9, 2009. This year's half-day program features keynote speaker Jamie Thingelstad, entrepreneur and former CTO and Vice President for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. We will present our Distinguished Alumni Award to Bonnie Holub and recognize alumnus Ajay Pandey for his Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals. Industry and research exhibits will give attendees a sneak peek into the latest research and technology.

This event will be held on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the EE/CS building.

Preview our map of exhibits here.

Special Cyber Security Event October 9, 2009

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"Cyber Security Partnership Opportunity" will be presented October 9, 2009 in support of the nationwide Cyber Security Awareness month. The afternoon event will be held in ME 108.

1:30 - 1:45 - Remarks about the growing importance of Cyber Security by Commissioner Khanna
1:45 - 3:00 - Keynote by Dr. Ronald Ross, NIST

The federal administration has made Cyber Security one of its top priorities, as it is increasingly critical to the safety and well being of the nation. The month of October has been declared at the Cyber Security Awareness month, and a number of activities as the state and federal level are ongoing in support of it. Minnesota has a strong tradition of activity in this area, including research and teaching at the University of Minnesota and other colleges, policies and operations in the State Government, and products, services and advice in the Industry. These organizations also have a long-standing tradition of working together on joint programs and projects. Leveraging our expertise and experience towards creating a joint partnership in Cyber Security is the need of the hour. This event will serve as a kick-off towards this effort.

See the DHS website for more information about National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

CSE student work accepted to PLoS Computational Biology

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CSE graduate student Vassilios Christopoulos’ paper, co-written with CSE Associate Professor Paul Schrater, was recently accepted for publication in the highly prestigious journal PLoS Computational Biology. The journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods.

For their paper, titled "Grasping Objects with Environmentally Induced Position Uncertainty," they studied human strategies in grasping objects with position uncertainty and compared human performance against normative predictions. The results provide the first demonstration
that humans compensate for uncertainty in a complex purposive task.