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Picture of the Month
Visualizing Movement
An image from Ph.D. candidate Mario
Romero's paper“Viz-A-Vis:
Toward Visualizing Video through
Computer Vision" (Romero, Jay
Summet, John Stasko, Gregory
Abowd) was chosen for the cover of
the TVCG: Vis and InfoVis 2008
proceedings. The image is a
visualization of human activity—
specifically a two-hour dinner party at
the Aware Home Research Institute—
across space and time. Space is
depicted as a horizontal plane and
time is vertically stacked on top of the
plane. The intent of the visualization
is to provide an analytical tool to
detect and track patterns of behavior.
October 2
GVU Brown Bag: Jay
Bolter and Ian Bogost
TSRB 132
vcal ical
October 3
Computer Architecture
Colloquium: Paolo
Faraboschi, HP Labs
Klaus 1116W
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October 3
CoC Family Weekend
CoC Commons
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October 6
ARC Colloquium
KACB 1116E
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Research News
Financial Dashboard for August 2008
2009 YTD New Awards
Proposed Contracts for the Month
$8,902,875
Total
$ Amount
CS
11
$4,452,764
71% 17% 12%
IC
CSE
Newly Awarded Contracts
Sponsor
Value
PI
NSF
$686,647
Rich Vuduc
NSF
$345,800
Karsten
Schwan
NSF
$449,999
Charles Isbell
Emtech
Biotechnology
Development
$29,755
Gregory Abowd
NSF
$10,000
David Bader
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Co-PIs
Title
Alexander
Gray
THOR: A New Programming
Model for Data Analysis and
Mining
Greg
Eisenhauer,
Ada
Gavrilovska,
Matt Wolf
Collaborative Research:
Actively Managing Data
Movement with Models
Andrea
Thomaz
HCC-Small: Web Games to
Advance Interactive
Learning Agents
None
Rapid Autism Screening for
Infants: Opportune Testing
of a New Product
Ada
Gavrilovska,
Rich
Vuduc,
Nate Clark
Collaborative Research:
Establishing an I/UCRC
“Center for Multicore
Productivity”
October 10
Drop Day
vcal ical
October 13-14
Fall Recess
vcal ical
October 15
2008 GTISC Security
Summit: Emerging
Cyber Security Threats
Ferst Center for the Arts
vcal ical
October 16
CERCS IAB Workshop
KACB 1116
vcal ical
October 21
ARC2 Distinguished
Speaker: Leslie Valiant
KACB 1116E&W
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October 22
Degree Petitions Due
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October 23
GVU Research Demo
Showcase
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TSRB 2nd & 3rd floors
vcal ical
Army
$125,000
Mark Riedl
NSF
$400,000
Kishore
Ramachandran
NSF
$250,000
Milena Mihail
NSF
$450,000
None
Scenario Adaptation for
Accelerated Continuous
Learning
Irfan Essa
CSR-DMSS, SM: Web on
Demand - Bridging the Gap
none
Flexible Models for Complex
Networks
Mostafa Ammar Ellen Zegura
The Wam Continuum:
Unified Design and
Operation for Wireless and
Mobile
NSF
$370,000
Constantine
Dovrolis
Jeffrey
Streelman
NECO: Towards a Theory of
Network Evolution
NSF
$449,999
Thad Starner
None
HCC-Small: Wristwatch
Interfaces for Microinteractions
NSF
$20,000
Beth Mynatt
None
Workshop: UIST 2008
Doctoral Symposium
NSF
$350,000
Sasha
Boldyreva
None
CT-ISG: New Security
Properties for Hash and
Trapdoor Functions
Grants/Gifts Received
Co-PIs
Description of
Gift/Donation
Donor
Amount
PI
IBM
$40,000
David Bader
Rich Vuduc
CSE-IBM Shared University
Research Award
NVIDIA
$25,000
David Bader
none
CSE-NVIDIA Professor
Partnership Award
Intel
$25,000 Ada Gavrilovska
none
CERCS-Virtual Platforms
People@CoC
Bader Speaks on Petascale Computing
David Bader was an invited speaker at the 37th SPEEDUP Workshop on High-Performance
Computing, held Sept. 8-9 at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Bader spoke about “Petascale
Computing for Large-Scale Graph Problems and Computational Biology” to an audience of
faculty and students primarily from the top Swiss research schools specializing in computation,
such as ETH Zurich, University of Basel and EPF Lausanne. The workshop focused on the data
challenge of HPC.
O’Neill Awarded ARCS Foundation Scholarship
Computer science Ph.D. student Adam O'Neill, who is doing research in cryptography with
adviser Alexandra Boldyreva, has been awarded the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for
College Scientists) Foundation Scholarship. According to the organization’s website, “The ARCS
Foundation provides scholarships to academically outstanding U.S. citizens studying to
complete their degrees in science, medicine and engineering, thereby contributing to the
worldwide advancement of science and technology.” Recipients of the scholarship must be
recommended by their departments and must maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above.
October 24
CoC Advisory Board
Meeting
KACB
vcal ical
October 25
Homecoming Football
Game: GT vs. Virginia
Bobby Dodd Stadium
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October 26
Last day to withdraw
from GT
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October 28
Quarterly Staff
Luncheon & Meeting
KACB 1116E&W
vcal ical
October 29
Spring Registration
Begins
vcal ical
October 29
CoC Distinguished
Lecture: Joseph Traub
Student Services Bldg. 117
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1018
Number of calculations
per second possible by
exascale machine (a
million trillion)
$19M
Initial state allocation
to CoC budget for
FY08-09
0
Number of layoffs
anticipated to achieve
necessary budget cuts
Randall Named to National Research Council
Dana Randall has been named a “National Associate of the National Academies,” a lifetime
appointment recognizing “extraordinary service” to the National Research Council of the
National Academies. According to the organization’s website, “The mission of the NRC is to
improve government decision making and public policy, increase public education and
understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in matters
involving science, engineering, technology and health.”
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This month various groups
at CoC are pursuing
partnerships with the
following companies:
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Google
IBM
Computing Paper Wins Award at Software Engineering Conference
A paper by Ph.D. student Raul Santelices, former visiting researcher Pavan Kumar
Chittimalli, alumnus Taweesup Apiwattanapong and Professors Alessandro (Alex)
Orso and Mary Jean Harrold—all of the School of Computer Science—received a
“Distinguished Paper Award” at the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
Software Engineering (ASE 2008), held in L'Aquila, Italy, Sept. 17-19. The paper title is: “Testsuite Augmentation for Evolving Software.”
David McCoy Blogs about Technology, Life and More
CoC Advisory Board member David McCoy is now blogging on his “personal views on life,
technology and process management—not necessarily in that order.” In his first few blog
entries, McCoy ruminates on time travel to the future vs. the past, the nature of families, the
effects of one’s world perspective on his or her approach to software engineering and the
annoyance of being given senior citizen discounts prematurely.
Intel
LogicBlox
Microsoft
OSI Software, Inc.
Qualcomm, Inc.
Texas Instruments
Travelport
Yahoo!
Bruckman Gives Keynote Workshop Talk at Music Conference
Amy Bruckman gave a keynote speech at the Sept. 24 music technology workshop, which
served as the introduction to the 2008 College Music Society Conference held at CoC. In her
talk, titled “Social Support for Creativity and Learning Online,” Bruckman reviewed the fairly
short history of peer production of content on the Internet (people performing and recording
music for posting on YouTube, for example) and presented research being done in the
Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) Lab that aims to help shape this phenomenon.
IC Team Has Paper at Case-Based Reasoning Conference
IC graduate students Saurav Sahay, Sundaresan Venkatasubramanian, Anushree
Venkatesh, Priyanka Prabhu, alumnus Bharat Ravisekar and Professor Ashwin Ram
had a paper at ECCBR-08 (European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, held in Trier,
Germany, Sept. 1-4) that was not included in last month’s issue of The Compiler. It is:
“IReMedI – Intelligent Retrieval from Medical Information.”
Liu Papers Accepted for Publication and Conference
A paper by Professor Ling Liu and alumnus Mudhakar Srivatsa (who joined IBM last
summer), titled “Mitigating Application-Level Denial of Service Attacks on Web Servers: A
Client-Transparent Approach,” appeared in the July 2008 issue of ACM Transactions on the
Web and is featured by MIT Technology Review and accessible online. Another paper by Liu
and her student Anand Murugappan, titled “An Energy-Efficient Approach to Processing
Spatial Alarms on Mobile Clients,” won the best paper award in the 17th International
Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2008), held June 30 to July
2 in Los Angeles.
New Visiting Professors in Computer Science
• Assistant Professor Yun Li from Shanghai JiaoTong University is visiting for one year funded
by her university and the Chinese Education Ministry. She is working on security problems in
pervasive computing systems. Li, who arrived in mid August, is working in KACB 3403.
• Associate Professor Xiaofeng Rong from Xi’An Tech University is visiting for one year, also
funded by his university and the Chinese Education Ministry. He is working on wireless
network and location security. Rong, who arrived in September, can be found in KACB 3201.
• Assistant Professor Eladio Martin from Universitas Miguel Hernandez in Spain is funded
under the Fulbright Program and the Spanish government. He is working on mobile and
wireless location management. Martin arrived recently and officially begins his visit on Oct. 1.
His office is in KACB 3403.
Vazirani Gives Talk at Google
Vijay Vazirani gave a talk at Google on Sept. 12 titled “Nash Bargaining via Flexible Budget
Markets,” which looks at bargaining through the combined lens of algorithms, game theory
and economics. In his talk, Vazirani takes the bargaining problem as defined by John Nash in
his seminal 1950 paper and transfers it to a market in the traditional sense of mathematical
economics. He then solves the problem—that is, he finds stable prices for goods in the
market—using methods developed in the field of algorithms over the last seven years. This
solution, in turn, yields the solution to the Nash bargaining problem. A video of the lecture can
be viewed on YouTube.
CoC Students Attend Women in Computing Conference
The CoC Office of Outreach, Enrollment and Community sponsored 20 students to attend the
Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference on Sept. 30. The conference focuses on
research, career interests and the role of women in technology fields. Program Coordinator
Beth Collums and Instructor Kristin Marsicano accompanied the graduate and
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undergraduate students to the conference in Keystone, Colo.
Record Number of Papers by Feamster at SIGCOMM ’08
Nick Feamster had an unprecedented three papers at this year’s ACM SIGCOMM conference,
held in Seattle, Aug. 17-22. The papers were:
• “Path Splicing,” by Murtaza Motiwala, Megan Elmore, Nick Feamster, Santosh
Vempala
• “Answering What-If Deployment and Configuration Questions with WISE,” by Mukarram
bin Tariq, Amgad Zeitoun, Vytautas Valancius, Nick Feamster, Mostafa Ammar
• “Accountable Internet Protocol (AIP),” by David Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, Nick
Feamster, Teemu Koponen, D. Moon, Scott Shenker
This is the first year any single CoC faculty member has had three papers at SIGCOMM, the
premier networking conference that draws about 600 attendees from academia, research and
industry. The paper on path splicing was completed in collaboration with ARC and in particular
with Santosh Vempala. Feamster’s group also had two papers at the online social networking
workshop at SIGCOMM and a poster in the poster session.
Stasko To Be Most Published Author at InfoVis—Three Papers This Year
John Stasko has three papers coming up at the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis)
Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 19-21. Stasko’s three papers make him not only the first
to have three papers in one year but also the most published author since the conference
began in 1995.
• “Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization,” by
Zhicheng Liu, Nancy Nersessian, John Stasko
• “Viz-A-Vis: Toward Visualizing Video through Computer Vision,” by Mario Romero, Jay
Summet, John Stasko, Gregory Abowd
• “Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization,” by George Robertson, Roland
Fernandez, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, John Stasko
Lebanon Has Paper at Upcoming InfoVis Conference
Guy Lebanon has a paper in the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Conference in
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 19-21.“Visualizing Incomplete and Partially Ranked Data,” by Paul
Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, William S. Cleveland.
Personnel Announcements
Pamela Gordon has joined CoC as an Accountant III in Computer Science effective Sept. 9.
Her email address is pgordon@cc, her phone number is 5-7716, and she is located in KACB
3415. Welcome Pamela!
Christopher Rouland has joined CoC as an adjunct lecturer in GTISC effective Aug. 28. His
email address is crouland3@cc. Welcome Christopher!
Ilya Lashuk has joined CoC as a post-doc in CSE working with George Biros effective Aug.
20. His email address is ilashuk3@cc, and he is located in KACB 1343. Welcome Ilya!
James Niehaus has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in IC working with Mark Riedl effective
Sept. 2. Welcome James!
General News
Interim Dean Outlines Goals and Strategies at Town Hall Meeting
Jim Foley reassured faculty and staff at a town hall meeting Sept. 23 that the College will
weather the current budget crunch and emphasized the need to keep moving forward and
upward, lest the program lose ground against its competitors. Foley discussed his four
priorities, which are: improving the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) process;
focusing on both internal and external communications; improving and in some cases
outsourcing services provided by TSO; and creating a work climate in which people are both
professional and respectful of others. The slide show that accompanied Foley’s remarks is
available on the CoC intranet.
ARC2: ARC Celebrates a Birthday
The Algorithms and Randomness Center is celebrating its second anniversary on Oct. 21 with a
program of speakers and a poster session. Distinguished Speaker Leslie Valiant, professor of
computer science and applied mathematics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
at Harvard University, will give a talk titled, “When Biology is Computation.” Dana Randall,
professor of computer science, Tom Dieker of ISyE and post-doc Navin Goyal of CS also will
be presenting papers. Afternoon events include lunch and a poster session. Registration for
the event is required but free.
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