Heart-on-a-Chip Receives First Prize at 2012 World Embedded Software Competition
This winning team included 2 CMPE students (Varun Sampath and Sriram Radhakrishnan) and a CIS PhD student (Zhihao Jiang).
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Best Paper Award at IEEE RTSS 2012
This joint paper (with KAIST) received the best paper award at IEEE RTSS (Real-Time Systems Symposium) 2012: Hoon Sung Chwa, Hyoungbu Back, Sanjian Chen (CIS PhD), Jinkyu Lee, Arvind Easwaran, Insik Shin and Insup Lee, Extending Task-level to Job-level Fixed Priority Assignment and Schedulability Analysis Using Pseudo-deadlines.
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Apple iOS Women in Technology Scholarship
Lauren Shapiro, a junior in Penn Engineering's Digital Media Design (DMD) program, is the recipient of the prestigious Apple iOS Women in Technology Scholarship.
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Yahoo! Academic Career Enhancement Award
Dr. Aaron Roth, CIS Assistant Professor, and Nate Foster, CIS Alum now at Cornell, have been named winners of the Yahoo! ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) Award for 2012- 2013.
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MIA/Animation 2012
DMD senior Jason Merrin has won the "Pitch to the Industry" animated series contest at the Miami International University of Art and Design. A full description of the contest can be found here.
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Grace Hopper 2012
PhD students Katie Gibson and Laurel Emurian received Yahoo Scholarships to attend the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference. CIS is a Silver Academic Sponsor of the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference, with 15 students attending!
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Best Student Paper Award
Zhuoyao Zhang (advisee of Boon Thau Loo) received the best student paper
award for "Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs
for Meeting Service Level Objectives" at the 9th ACM International
Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) 2012. This paper is co-authored
with HP Labs.
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PennApps Awards
PennApps first place prize went to the J.A.M. team, Java Auto Music, an app able to read a .wav file or a recording and to produce a sheet of music. JAM team members are CS juniors from left: Jocelin Lee, Digital Media Design (DMD), Angela Yu, Computational Biology, and Ana Mei, DMD.
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EMNLP 2012
Annie Louis (right) and Ani Nenkova received the Best Paper Award for "A Coherence Model based on Syntactic Patterns" at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference (EMNLP), July 12 – 14 in Jeju Island, Korea.
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Tapestry@Penn
Teachers...Check out the resourses from the Tapestry Workshop!
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Graduate Teaching Prize
Brent Yorgey awarded the 2012 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
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"The best FPGA papers of all time!"
Andre DeHon is author on 5 of the list of the 25 most important Field-Programmable Gate Arrays papers published in the field.
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WICS HIGH SCHOOL DAY FOR GIRLS
Friday, April 20, 2012
...introducing girls to the exciting field of Computer Science!
View Program and Photos from the WICS High School Day for Girls 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011!
WICS is supported in part by the Trustees Council of Penn Women.
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12 Philadelphia Area High School Girls honored with the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award at Penn Engineering on 3/21/12.
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Congratulations to Benjamin Pierce, CIS Profesor, and Leonid Libkin, Wenfei Fan, and Klara Nahrstedt, CIS Alum, being named as ACM 2012 Fellows. |
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JoshiFest: A Celebration of the Work of Aravind Joshi,
October 22nd, 9 AM to 5 PM
Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall |
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| CIS Welcomes New Faculty!!! |
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Chris Callison-Burch
Assistant Professor, joining CIS in January, 2013. |
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Joseph Devietti
Assistant Professor |
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Thomas Farmer
Lecturer |
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Ladislav Kavan
Assistant Professor, joining CIS in January, 2013.
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Linh Thi Xuan Phan
Assistant Research Professor |
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Congratulations to Boon Thau Loo for winning an AFOSR Young Investigator Award for his proposal "A Unified Algebraic and Logic-based Framework towards Safe Routing Implementations"! Penn News Article |
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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kearns for being elected to the2012 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read More... |
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Congratulations to Dr. CJ Taylor for being awarded the University of Pennsylvania's Faculty award, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback for Distinguished Teaching! |
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Congratulations to Kostas Daniilidis for being named a 2012 IEEE Fellow for his contributions to visual motion analysis, omni-directional vision, and three-dimensional robot vision. |
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