CIS Seniors Alex McCulllough and Nhu Tran were named to the Alpha of Oregon Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. McCullough was further selected to be a member of the prestigious Oregon Six group of Phi Beta Kappa. Each year, the Phi Beta Kappa society honors students whose undergraduate academic records reflect excellence in a rich liberal arts education. Six exceptional members are further designated the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six because they combine extraordinary breadth and excellence in upper-division liberal arts courses with very high grade point averages. Alex will receive his B.S. in CIS and French with a minor in Environmental Science. Alex held a summer ...»

Associate Professor Anthony Hornof will perform "EyeMusic v1.0" at NIME 2007, the leading international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. The conference will be held this year at New York University, and features paper presentations as well as evening concerts which are open to the public. EyeMusic v1.0 is a musical and multimedia composition that is performed entirely using eye movements, by means of a device that monitors where a person is looking on a computer screen. "The eye tracker that we are using is primarily intended as a scientific research instrument, or as a means for communication for people with severe disabilities. Eye tracking has only been used in a ...»

Professor Jan Cuny, was recently named the winner of this year's CRA A. Nico Habermann Award. This award, given by the Computing Research Association, honors a person who has made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and success of underrepresented members in the computing research community. The CRA board selected Prof. Cuny to receive the 2007 Award for "her dedication, effectiveness, national scope, breadth of impact, vision, and leadership in broadening the participation of all underrepresented groups in computing." Prof. Cuny is co-founder of the CRA Grad Cohort and the Associate Professor Cohort programs, and co-author of the influential report, "Best ...»

Assistant Professor Jun Li has been awarded a UO Translational Research grant to expand research and development of the mSSL™ protocol for secure download of multimedia and other content. mSSL uses a hybrid peer-to-peer paradigm and supports both data integrity and proof of service for data downloaded through the Internet. Li's grant is funded through the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon. The grant will support the development of mSSL middleware designed for secure content sharing, a prototype mSSL-based video service over the Internet, and monitoring software for testing and evaluation of the mSSL service. Prof. Li's mSSL ...»

Assistant Professor Jun Li was recently awarded a prestigious five-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to support his research project, A Behavior-Based Framework for Detecting Internet Worms. Prof. Li and his research group will investigate causality and payload-independent similarity of worm connections, their destination visiting patterns as compared to normal connections, and their continuity as a worm spreads, with the consideration that certain legitimate connections may appear worm-like and that smart worms can attempt to hide themselves. This work represents a critical step towards preventing the severe economic and social disruption that Internet worms can ...»

Assistant Professor Reza Rejaie has received a three year grant from the Networking program at NSF for $300K in support of his research on "Characterizing Large-Scale, Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks: New Sampling and Modeling Approaches". This research is in close collaboration with Dr. Nick Duffield, Dr. Subhabrata Sen, and Dr. Walter Willinger at AT&T Research Labs. The team will use the grant as part of a broad effort in the ION P2P project to improve understanding of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, which have become very popular in network applications such as the BitTorrent file distribution program and Skype Internet telephony service. The first year of the project will be ...»

Associate Professor Yannis Smaragdakis, the CIS department's newest faculty member, specializes in the systems and language side of Software Engineering. His research focuses on programming language tools, including program generators, automatic testing tools, object-oriented middleware and multiparadigm programming. Yannis has developed a number of tools for distributed computing, including the J-Orchestra automatic partitioning system that transforms Java bytecode for distributed execution while preserving the semantics of the original program. Yannis also developed NRMI, Java middleware that makes distributed computing more like local computing, and the GOTECH framework which adds ...»

Professors Allen Malony and Kent Stevens were recognized by the University of Oregon 2006 Research Innovation Award for the creation of new spin-off companies based on their respective areas of research in computational science. Professor Allen Malony recently co-founded Eugene-based Cerebral Data Systems with Professor Don Tucker of Psychology. CDS will market newly developed procedures for brain imaging analysis that can be used in the diagnosis of brain disorders. The new process uses high-performance computing to eliminate the distortion caused by the skull. An innovative computational algorithm to translate data generated by an EEG into a three-dimensional model has resulted ...»