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2008
CBCB faculty member Mihai Pop receives funding from NIH for a new R01 basic research grant, Assembly and analysis software for exploring the human microbiome. read more
Bobby Bhattacharjee continues the 2008 Colloquium Series with his research "Systems without Cooperation". Date: October 13, 2008 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CSIC 1115 Early systems on the Internet were exercises in feasibility: institutions and users cooperated to build, deploy, and demonstrate applications and uses of packet switching. Modern Internet protocols must assume a user base that is not necessarily cooperative or altruistic. Fundamental Internet protocols were characterized by cooperative primitives such as voluntary backoff, exchange of accurate local state, and trusted authorities... read more
SK Gupta (Mechanical Engineering) and Amitabh Varshney have been awarded a NSF CDI Type I award on Nano Assembly Planning. read more
Ugur Kuter, Florent Teichteil-Konigsbuch, Guillaume Infantes developed a new planning algorithm called RFF which won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the 2008 International Planning Competition. http://ippc-2008.loria.fr/wiki/index.php/Main_Page read more
Amitabh Varshney has been elected as the Chair of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) for 2008 - 2011 term. VGTC provides technical leadership and organization for technical activities in the areas of visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and interaction. read more
Jeff Foster starts off the 2008 Colloquium Series with his research "Static Analysis to Improve Software Reliability and Security". Date: September 15, 2008 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CSIC 1115 The goal of my research is to discover fundamental new ways to improve software reliability and security. My focus is on developing language-based tools and techniques that find and prevent software defects. In this talk, I will give an overview of this research area and discuss three recent efforts by my research group in more detail: Read more... read more
Mustafa Bilgic, advisor Lise Getoor , received the best student paper award at the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) for the paper Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classification . read more
Amitabh Varshney delivered the keynote address on "Salient Visualization" at the 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission 2008 conference in Atlanta, GA read more
Rance Cleaveland was quoted in the Baltimore Sun on the use of static analysis methods for testing medical devices View the full article read more
Professor Hanan Samet , Jagan Sanakaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi received the best paper award at SIGMOD 2008 for their paper entitled "Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases". read more
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