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events
Tuesday, February 9th
12:30 pm - CS Lounge
"Ice Cream Social"

Monday, February 15th
11:00 am - Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia Vision and Graphics Center (CVGC) Distinguished Lecture Series
Maneesh Agrawala, University of California, Berkeley
"Design Principles for Visual Communication"

Monday, February 15th
4:00 pm - 452 CSB (CS lounge)
Columbia Computer Architecture Colloquium
Prof. Emery Berger, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Grace: Safe Multithreaded Programming for C/C++"

Tuesday, February 16th
11:00 am - CS Conference Room
"Info Session: Career Opportunities with AT&T Security"

Tuesday, February 16th
1:00 pm - Open Meeting Area (CSB 477)
"Interview/Networking Workshop"

Wednesday, February 17th
11:00 am - Interschool Room, 7th Floor, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia Vision and Graphics Center (CVGC) Distinguished Lecture Series
Dinesh Manocha, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Interactive Sound Rendering"

Friday, February 19th
3:00 pm - CS Conference Room
"Columbia College Open House"

Monday, March 1
11:00 am - CS Lounge
"UG Brunch"

Tuesday, April 13th
11:00 am - CS Lounge
"UG Brunch"

news
Security Group leading multi-institutional IARPA-funded effort to protect large-scale software systems
Professors Keromytis, Yang, and Stolfo will lead a consortium that includes Stanford University, George Mason University, and Symantec Corp. to More...
Ashutosh Dutta wins best-paper award at IMSAA 2009
Ashutosh Dutta, a PhD student working with Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, received a 3rd best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Internet More...
Prof. Rocco Servedio Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Congratulations to Prof. Rocco Servedio, who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.More...
Postdoc Sean White named 2009 Tech Award Laureate
Postdoc Sean White was named one of this year's 2009 Tech Award Laureates for his work addressing environmental issues.More...
Congratulations to the the CUCS ACM programming teams!
Two teams sent by Columbia University's department of computer science have ranked among the top of competitors in the Greater New York Region of the More...
Prof. Jebara receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Tony Jebara won a Google Research Award for his project titled "NetTrailMix".More...
Prof. Gravano receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Luis Gravano won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Finding and Characterizing the World's Event Media."More...
Prof. Malkin receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Malkin won a Google Research Award for her project titled "Efficient Routing by Oblivious Nodes".More...
Prof. Misra receives a Google research award
Prof. Misra won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Incentivizing Managed Peer to Peer Systems: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach”More...
Prof. Nayar's Little Camera Is a Big Idea for Children Around the World
Prof. Shree Nayar has developed a new camera, called Bigshot, that has been designed to More...
Prof. Jebara Delivers Keynote Speech at the 21st ICTAI Conference
Venue: 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence Talk Title: Learning from Data using Matchings and GraphsMore...
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009 Alumni Achievement Award
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009 Alumni Achievement AwardMore...
Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices
Also appeared in ACM Tech News: A scan of the Internet by Columbia University researchers searching for vulnerable embedded devices has found that More...
Ilias Diakonikolas wins Honorable Mention in the 2009 Nicholson Competition of the INFORMS society.
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management More...
Steve Henderson receives best paper award at IEEE ISMAR 2009
PhD student Steve Henderson received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2009, held in Orlando, FL.More...
Prof. Stolfo to Chair National Cyber Defense Financial Industry Workshop
The National Cyber Defense Industry Workshop will take place on October 28-29, 2009 at the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, DC. The More...
Prof Yemini Delivers Keynote Speech at the IEEE/IFIP IM2009 conference
Title: Can Genomic Networks Teach Integrated Network Management?More...
Prof. Ross is Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Avoiding Contention on Multicore Machines
Prof. Kenneth Ross has been awarded an NSF grant to study how to effectively use multicore machines to perform data intensive computations typical of More...
Prof. Feiner receives Microsoft Research Award to explore multitouch user interfaces.
Prof. Feiner and his students received a gift from Microsoft Research, including a Microsoft Surface, to explore multitouch tabletop computing.More...
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