"Swarm of Mosquitoes? Nope, a Quad Rotor"
Check out the GRASP Lab being featured on NBC 10 News!
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"With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple’s iCloud"
Benjamin Pierce's research, the Unison file synchronizer, discussed in this Wired article.
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"Penn researchers work to make federal agents' radios more secure"
Matt Blaze and doctoral candidate, Sandy Clark's research featured in the Inquirer.
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS...
Spring WICS TechNights!
Feb 6th (Canceled)...Re-scheduled for February 13th at 7pm
Upcoming...March 12th and April 9th at 7pm
Register for WICS TechNight
Parent Consent Form
(No experience necessary!)
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(co)-Best Paper Award at CEAS 2011
Congratulations to Andrew West, et. al. for winning co-Best Paper at the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011), Sept 1-2, 2011, Perth, WA, Australia. "Link Spamming Wikipedia for Profit,'' Andrew G. West, Jian Chang, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee .
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CWA International Screenwriting Contest Winner
Congratulations to Jason Merrin, DMD ’13, for winning the Creative Concept Award in the CWA International Screenwriting Contest for his film, Sleepwalkers.
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2nd Place at SIGCOMM'11
Congratulations to Wenchao Zhou, advised by Boon Thau Loo, for being awarded 2nd place at the ACM Student Research Competition held at SIGCOMM'11, for his work on the Formally Safe Routing (FSR) toolkit.
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Honorable Mention at SCA 2011...
Congratulations to Joe Kider, Kaitlin Pollock and Alla Safonova for winning an Honorable Mention award for one of the top papers at SCA,
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2011. The paper was titled: "A Data Driven Model for Human Fatigue"
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ACM-W Scholarships to attend SIGGRAPH 2011...
Our students, Kaitlin Pollock, along with summer REU, Kelsey Hurley, have been awarded ACM-W scholarships to attend SIGGRAPH 2011. Congratulations to them and to Norm Badler for his mentoring!
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WICS HIGH SCHOOL DAY FOR GIRLS
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
...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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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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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"! |
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Congratulations to Aravind Joshi and Mitch Marcus for being selected as ACL Fellows, which recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. We would also like to congratulate our CIS Alums who were also chosen: Michael Collins, Julia Hirschberg and Kathleen McKeown. |
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Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2012 |
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Congratulations, Kaitlin! You make us proud! For more about Kaitlin, see the fall 2011 CIS newsletter. Kaitlin Pollock was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing
Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2012. |
| CIS Welcomes New Faculty!!! |
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Aaron Roth
Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor |
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Benedict Brown
Lecturer |
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17th Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium |
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Ani Nenkova will be one of the presenters at the 17th annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held by the National Academy of Engineering. Read More in Engineering News. |
NSF CAREER Award |
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Ben Taskar was awarded an NSF CAREER award entitled "Computation and Approximation in Structured Learning". Read More in Engineering News. |
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CIS Alum and Lecturer, Patrick Cozzi. has written a new book "3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes" |
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Geometric Methods and Applications |
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Geometric Methods and Applications for Computer Science and Engineering, Second Edition
Jean Gallier, Springer-Verlag, TAM Vol. 38 (to appear in 2011). |
NSF CAREER Award |
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Andreas Haeberlen, the Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor in CIS, received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his proposal, "Evidence in Federated Distributed Systems." NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify....Read More |
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