Professor Dejing Dou is the leader of a multi-discipliny team that was recently awarded a 3-year $1.5M R01 grant from the NIH/NIGMS, entitled "Understanding the Mechanism of Social Network Influence in Health Outcomes through Multidimensional and Semantic Data Mining Approaches." Research in the design and implementation of the SMASH (Semantic Mining of Activity, Social, and Health data) system will address a critical need for formal ontologies, data mining, graph mining, and privacy preserving tools to help understand the influence of healthcare social networks on sustained weight loss, where the data are multi-dimensional, temporal, semantically heterogeneous, and very sensitive. The ...»

The CIS Department is offering a rich array of 4 and 8-week summer courses through the 2013 Summer Session. Here's What CIS Summer Session Can Do for You: Complete your UO Science Group Requirement Complete the UO B.Sci. Math/Computing Requirement Complete the Entire First Year of the CIT Minor (in just 8 weeks!) Learn to Program-- it's a Superpower! Learn How to Create Mobile Apps for iOS and for Android Learn to use High-Performance Software Tools for Scientific Research Enhance your Resume and your Skillset Summer Session registration begins May 6 and classes begin June 24. Please visit www.cs.uoregon.edu/Classes/13U/cis-ssn/ for more information. Regardless of your background, ...»

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 techniques, to experiences with applications of the theory. The primary target of these lectures is first or second-year graduate students, but the audience also includes advanced undergraduates, as well as postdocs and faculty. This year, the focus of the Summer School is "Types, Logic, and Verification," an investigation of the interplay between ...»

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kevin Butler who has won a National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace CAREER Award entitled "Securing Critical Infrastructure with Autonomously Secure Storage." The CAREER Award is NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. The $400,000 research grant will support Dr. Butler's work in the development of techniques and architectures for securely storing and monitoring embedded systems, such as smart grids and industrial control systems. Dr. Butler's research team will examine ...»

Professor Eugene Luks has been named to the inaugural group of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. The AMS Fellows program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Professor Luks is internationally recognized for his research in the algorithmic complexity of problems in computational algebra. For his innovations in graph isomorphism and related issues, Professor Luks was awarded the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics by the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society. After receiving a PhD in Mathematics from MIT, ...»

Associate Professor Anthony Hornof will serve as a Program Director in NSF's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems.  IIS core programs include Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence. Dr. Hornof will serve as program director for IIS's Human-Centered Computing program (HCC), which focuses on advancing our understanding of the complex and increasingly coupled relationships between people and computing. HCC research targets diverse computing platforms such as traditional computers, handheld and mobile devices, robots, and wearable computers, at scales ranging from an individual device with a single user to large, evolving, ...»

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 scientific visualization algorithms, techniques for simplifying very large data sets so they can be more readily understood, and the design of visualization algorithms that can scale to tens of thousands of CPUs and beyond. Dr. Childs received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2006 from the University of California at Davis. He comes from the ...»

A half-million dollar NSF grant will fund the design and construction of a new dedicated network for scientific computing at UO called BONSAI – "Bridging Open Networks for Scientific Applications and Innovation. BONSAI will provide interdisciplinary research teams with on-campus access to computational resources, storage space and visualization capabilities, as well as offering 10 Gbps connectivity to Internet2 in support of cross-campus collaborations. CIS faculty Allen Malony and Reza Rejaie, and Jose Dominguez from Network and Telecommunications Services, led the team which includes UO researchers in physics, biology, and computer science, Kimberly Espy, VP for Research and ...»

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 modern computers as well as biology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and philosophy, led Time magazine to list him among the 20th century's 100 greatest minds. May 2, Mike Koss will give a presentation entitled Hands-on Enigma, describing the use of the Enigma machine by the Germans and the vulnerabilities that led it to be broken by ...»

Professor Jun Li has been invited to serve as chair of three technical program committees in the area of computer networks. Co-chair with Olaf Maennel of Loughborough University, UK for the Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2013) at the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2013), Goettingen, Germany, October 2013; QoS, Reliability and Security Symposium at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2013), to be held in Xian, China, August 2014; Globecom Communication and Information System Security Symposium (GC-CISS 2014) to be held in Austin, Texas, December 2014. Prof. Li will also serve on the technical committee for the ...»

Professor Dejing Dou will as General Co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2013) to be held in September in Graz, Austria. His co-chairs for the conference are Pieter DeLeenheer, VU University (Amsterdam) and Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia. ODBASE provides a forum for presentation of research in the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. A special theme this year is Semantic Data Mining and Governance. For more information, see the ODBASE13 website. Professor Dou is spending the 2012-13 academic year on sabbatical at Stanford University, at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. ...»

A research team led by Professor Kevin Butler, CIS and Prof. William Enck of North Carolina State University has found a way to exploit cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks anonymously. This work has potential ramifications for the security of "cloud browser" services. Cloud-based browsers have been developed recently to assemble and render Web pages on behalf of low-powered devices such as smartphones and other mobile devices. Professors Butler and Enck and their graduate students were interested in the idea of utilizing these computational resources for tasks unrelated to web browsing. Using a Browser MapReduce (BMR) architecture to execute several large ...»