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The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Oregon offers students and faculty a close-knit community in which to learn, discover, and innovate, in a shared quest for computational solutions to a spectrum of challenging problems.

CIS faculty are international leaders in their fields, including informatics, networking, security, software engineering, assistive technologies, theory, scientific visualization, and high performance computing. Recent interdisciplinary research initiatives with biologists, physicists, neuroscientists, and networking engineers have resulted in prominent research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the National Institutes of Health. ...»

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  • Scientific Visualization Expert Dr. Hank Childs Joins CIS Department

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    The CIS Department welcomes its newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Hank Childs. Dr. Childs' research focuses on scientific visualization, high performance computing, and the intersection of the two. Recent research results have explored using hybrid parallelism techniques (i.e. combining shared- and distributed-memory techniques) on ...»

  • CIS Department Celebrates Life and Work of Alan Turing

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    In May, the CIS Department will honor renowned British mathematician Alan Turing for his pioneering contributions to the field of computer science, through a series of special colloquium talks. Alan Turing is best known for breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. His theoretical and practical contributions to the development of ...»

  • 2013 Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: Types, Logic, and Verification

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    Now in its 11th year, the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School hosts the world's leading researchers in the field of programming languages for a series of tutorial style lectures on current research in this important area. The lecture material ranges from foundations in semantics and type theory, to advanced program, verification ...»

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  • Poking Holes in the Cloud

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    The latest revolution in the Information Age is "cloud computing." The data-crunching power and storage capacity of multiple computers are pooled in an offsite virtual "cloud," creating a shared resource for users. Cloud computing also allows for complex functions to be processed with lightning speed. It's especially useful for mobile devices such as smartphones, which have limited power. Ryan Snyder and Hannah Pruse, both seniors in Computer and Information Science found the cloud to be vulnerable to attack. They've become adept at poking holes in the "cloud," so to speak. In ...»

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