ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Wenchao Zhou, CIS alumni, for receiving Honorable Mention for the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013). Zhou’s thesis is titled "Secure Time-aware Provenance for Distributed Systems". His doctoral advisor was Boon Thau Loo.
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FCCM20
As part of the 20th Anniversary Celebration, the ACM/SIGDA Technical Committee on FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing has identified the 25 most significant papers from the first 20 years of the conference. Congratulations to Andre DeHon, CIS Secondary Faculty, and Raphael Rubin, CIS PhD Alumni, for being included.
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Sloan Research Fellow
Congratulations to Fei Sha, CIS PhD and GRASP Alumni, and Bjoern Hartmann, DMD and MSE CIS alumni, for being selected as a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow.
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SDN / Network Programmability Hackathon (1st Place)
Penn masters students Pratikkumar Patel, Tianming Zheng, Jiehua Zhu won the 1st place at the Software-defined Networking (SDN) / Network Programmability Hackathon. The event was organized by Juniper Networks and AT&T Foundry, and held on Jan 24 - Feb 2 in Juniper Networks OpenLab in Bridgewater, NJ. The team was advised by Prof. Boon Thau Loo.
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ICDE 2013 Influential Paper Award
Associate Professor Zachary G. Ives, along with Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu, and Igor Tatarinov, was awarded the ICDE 2013 Influential Paper Award for their most influential paper published in the conference 10 years ago, 2003 ICDE paper, "Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems".
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MSR Graduate Fellowship
Mingchen Zhao, CIS PhD student under Dr. Andreas Haeberlen, was awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. A two-year fellowship program for outstanding PhD students nominated by their universities, read more...
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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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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 Rajeev Alur for being awarded a Simons Investigator Position! The Simons Foundation provides funding to mid-career scientists in Math, Theoretical Physics, and Theoretical Comp Sci. |
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Congratulations to Boon Thau Loo, who was awarded tenure in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania! |
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Congratulations to Benjamin Pierce, CIS Profesor, and Leonid Libkin, Wenfei Fan, and Klara Nahrstedt, CIS Alumni, being named as ACM 2012 Fellows.
Benjamin Pierce also received the 20-year Test of Time award from the IEEE Logic in Computer Science conference for his paper "Typing and Subtyping for Mobile Processes," with Davide Sangiorgi. |
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"A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces" coauthored by Dr. Jean Gallier, CIS Professor, and Dianna Xu, former CIS Ph.D and presently Chair of CS at Bryn Mawr, has been published by Springer-Verlag. |
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JoshiFest: A Celebration of the Work of Aravind Joshi,
See JoshiFest event photos and videos!!!
October 22nd, 9 AM to 5 PM
Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall |
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Congratulations to Aaron Roth, CIS Assistant Profesor, for being awarded an NSF CAREER Award, "The Algotithmic Foundations of Data Privacy". |
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| CIS Welcomes New Faculty!!! |
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Chris Callison-Burch
Assistant Professor, joining CIS in September, 2013. |
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Joseph Devietti
Assistant Professor |
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Thomas Farmer
Lecturer |
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Ladislav Kavan
Assistant Professor
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Linh Thi Xuan Phan
Assistant Research Professor |
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PClassic for HS Programming Teams!
Monday, April 8th
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WICS HIGH SCHOOL DAY FOR GIRLS
Friday, April 19, 2013
...introducing girls to the exciting field of Computer Science!
View Program and Photos from the WICS High School Day for Girls '08, '09, '10, '11 and 2012!
WICS is supported in part by the Trustees Council of Penn Women.
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CIS is Hiring New Faculty!!!
Check out the available positions here...
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View video of Admired Undergraduate Professor Max Mintz
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View Video overview of CIS Master's programs
...CIS/MSE, MCIT, CGGT, Robotics, & EMBS Master's Programs
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Spring Colloquium Lecture Series
GRASP SEMINAR
Sangbae Kim
Friday, May 17th at 11am
Wu & Chen Auditorium
"Toward Highly Dynamic Locomotion : Actuation, Structure and Control of the MIT Cheetah Robot"
Faculty research presentations
Precise Seminar
Theory Seminar
PRiML Seminar
Programming Languages Seminar
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Academic Calendar
May 12th
Baccalaureate
May 13th
Commencement
May 20th - Jun 28th
Summer Session I
May 27th
Memorial Day - No Class
Jul 2nd - Aug 9th
Summer Session II
July 4th
Holiday - No Class
August 28th
Fall Term Begins
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