URCS News

Lasecki wins prestigious MSR Graduate Fellowship

Microsoft Research has announced this year's recipients of the very competitive MSR PhD Fellowships.  Our own Walter Lasecki is one of twelve chosen for this prestigious award.  This fellowship will cover 100% of the tuition and fees for two academic years, as well as a stipend, conference and travel allowance and a salaried internship.

NACLO 2013 at University of Rochester

University of Rochester is hosting a site for the 2013 North American Olympiad in Computational Linguistics (NACLO). NACLO is a competition for middle-school and high-school students which involves solving problems about language and computational linguistics. It consists of two rounds: the Open Round (January 31, 2013), open to all interested students,  and the Invitational Round (March 19), for students who have advanced from the first round. The winners of the Invitational Competition will be invited to participate in the International Linguistics Olympiad.

Rochester Review Features ROC Big Data

Rochester Review's September-October edition features an article on Henry Kautz and ROC Big Data.

Register NOW for ROC DATA October 4-6, 2012

Registration is still open for RocData: The Rochester Big Data Initiative, which will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science from October 4-6, 2012.  Space is limited, so please register ASAP.  For more information regarding this conference, please go to the Conference website:

http://www.rochester.edu/rocdata/index.html

 

CSC Students Excel at Putnam Mathematical Competition

A student math team from the University of Rochester finished in the top three percent in the recent William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.

The team—made up of senior Xiaoqing Tang, sophomore Vincent Yu, and freshman Douglas Miller—finished 15th among 460 teams.

Xiaoqing (Sean) Tang '12 and Douglas Miller '15 are both double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.  Vincent Yu is a MTH major with a CSC minor.

Hemaspaandra wins Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

The University of Rochester has announced that CS Professor Lane A. Hemaspaandra has received the 2012 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.  Lane received strong nomination letters from his students from his decades of teaching undergraduates, especially in CSC 200, the Undergraduate Problem Seminar.

Sadilek, Kautz & Bigham win Best Paper Award at WSDM 2012

At the 2012 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining held in February in Seattle, our research team of Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeff Bigham received the Best Paper Award for the conference.  The paper, entitled "Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are"  was chosen from 75 papers presented at the conference.

Sadilek's work with Location finding using Social Networks featured in New Scientist Magazine

Graduate student Adam Sadilek's recent work has focused on predicting a social network user's location by looking where their friends are.  His work is featured in a recent publication by New Scientist magazine.

CS Undergrads win HSEAS Pumpkin Design Contest for 2nd year

On Friday, 10/28, the Hajim School of Engineering held their second annual Pumpkin Design Contest during the October E-Social held in Goergen Hall.  Representatives from each department carved pumpkins with a design that reflected their discipline.  CSC's students Jon Hinkel and Xu Wang were judged to be the winners based on the current events theme of their pumpkin, dubbed "The Ghost of Steve Jobs".  Last year our winning pumpkin entry was a Scribbler Robot that danced to the Monster Mash. Congratulations team!

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