Professors Dejing Dou and Daniel Lowd have been awarded a three-year, $495k grant by the National Science Foundation (IIS-Core programs) to study the problem of translating and integrating statistical knowledge for data mining and other intelligent systems. This research will help build next generation knowledge acquisition and data mining systems in a distributed and heterogeneous environment. While humans are able to communicate their learned experiences to each other, it is much harder to share knowledge among intelligent computer systems such as fault detection systems, recommender systems, and others. The main aim of Dou and Lowd's project is to make it easier to reuse knowledge ...»

With the expanding use of information technology in China, a wide range of ethical issues have arisen regarding surveillance, intellectual property, freedom of speech, e-goverment, and innovation practices. These ethical issues will be addressed by a distinguished panel of experts in internet censorship and intellectual property, information systems development in China, Chinese patent law, and Chinese business practices and technology innovation. For more, see Symposium - China's Revolution in Information Technology: Ethical Issues. ...»

Michal Young has been invited to attend the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit to be held in Redmond, WA, USA during July 18-20, 2011. See http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/events/fs2011/default.aspx for more information regarding the summit. The world of computing is ever changing and nowhere more so than in the combination of software and consumer devices. We have entered the age of natural user interfaces, and this fact requires innovation in areas of computer vision, translation, audio sensing, and machine learning. Security, privacy, and the effect of the data deluge in the systems we build has taken on global significance in our socially networked world. The twelfth Microsoft ...»

With his checkered background and poor secondary school performance, not even his family thought Junjie "Kevin" Xu would ever amount to much. Today he's on the Dean's List at the UO. Credit supportive grandparents, his own perseverance, and a series of lucky breaks—not the least of which was winning a generous scholarship to the UO funded by a fellow Singaporean passionate about giving other Southeast Asian students the kind of educational opportunity he had. For more, see Against All Odds at Oregon's Spring 2011 Giving web site. ...»

The Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon is sponsoring the tenth annual Oregon Summer School in Programming Languages entitled "Type, Semantics, and Verification" June 16-July 1, 2011. Speakers include: Amal Ahmed, Indiana University Andrew Appel, Princeton University Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Robert Constable, Cornell University Pierre-Louis Curien, pi.r2 team, PPS, CNRS-Paris Diderot University-INRIA Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University Hugo Herbelin, pi.r2 team, PPS, CNRS-Paris Diderot University-INRIA Xavier Leroy, INRIA Paul-André Mellies, PPS, CNRS-Paris Diderot University Greg Morrisett, Harvard University Frank Pfenning, ...»

Professors Reza Rejaie and Jun Li are spending back-to-back sabbaticals in Spain. They have been hosted by the Telematic Engineering Department (http://www.it.uc3m.es/vi) of the University Carlos III of Madrid (http://www.uc3m.es), a top research university in Spain, and the Institute IMDEA Networks (http://www.networks.imdea.org), a computer networking research institute in Madrid. ' alt='Jun Li'> Dr. Li, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon and director of the University's Network Security Research Laboratory (http://netsec.cs.uoregon.edu), is a 2010 Cátedra de Excelencia at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). He also joined ...»

The Libraries invite you to attend informational sessions, "Interdisciplinary Computing and Open Science", by Microsoft Research. Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Times: two sessions - 10:30-noon; 1:30-3 pm Place: Science Library Please register to help us plan for refreshments: Refreshment registration. Interdisciplinary computing is becoming a new paradigm in academic research and education. Via interdisciplinary computing, computer science innovations are stimulated by real-world data and computational challenges; natural and social sciences are advanced by applying the new computing technologies to the transformation of data to information and to knowledge. By collaborating with academic ...»

Faculty, staff and students of the CIS department, as well as the University of Oregon and other Lane County businesses, will be participating in the Business Commute Challenge next week. The Challenge is a fun and friendly week-long competition where local employers and work-place teams join forces to turn the daily commute into a transportation adventure! The week-long event is an opportunity to rethink our daily work commute and discover ways to drive less, save more and win some great prizes. The CIS department has been well-known for it's many bicyclists, so why not join the fun?! For more information about the Business Commute Challenge and to register (it's not too late!), see ...»

On Saturday morning April 9, Deschutes Room 100 was a hub of activity with the 15th Annual UO Eugene Luks Programming Competition. There were 6 graduate student teams and 9 undergrad teams for a total of 39 students participating. The teams are given five problems and have three hours to write programs which can solve the problems correctly. This is a fun event as well as challenging the students' programming skills, and everyone seemed to have a great time. The winning grad team solved four of the five problems. First and second place teams are: Undergraduate Division First Place: Drew Bruce, Austin Lally, Thomas Miyata Second Place: Michael Beardsworth, Dylan Carter, Sean ...»

Computer security has never played a larger role in shaping world events than it is now. Events such as the Stuxnet worm, the Wikileaks affair, and the role of the Internet and social networking sites in the Middle East, have played tremendous roles in foreign policy and the lives of millions around the world. As a result, understanding issues relating to the security of computers and networks has never been more important to more people than it is now. On Friday, April 1, we proudly hosted the first Computer Security Day at the University of Oregon. This was an opportunity for students and faculty, as well as business and industry, to get together and discuss issues related to security ...»

A four-credit elective course launched spring quarter provided 20 University of Oregon students with mobile smart phones and a mission: Build smart-phone apps. For more, see Got a great idea for an app? There's a class for that at the University of Oregon Media Relations web site. ...»

Nikki DelRosso has been designing web pages since she was twelve years old. Now, as a current student at the UO, she works part-time in web design and development for the university while pursuing her degree in computer and information science. For more, see Best of Both Worlds at the College of Arts & Sciences web site. ...»

Computer and Information Science Colloqium, January 13, 2011, The University's 40-year-old PDP-7 Computer is Alive Again in Seattle. Dr. Harlan W. Lefevre, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oregon, sent an email in January, 2006, to Paul Allen's website, PDPplanet.com, describing the University's Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7 computer. He suggested that this computer, the last PDP-7 in operation in the world, should have a museum home. The PDPplanet people immediately came to see the machine and stated that they would keep it in operation if it came to their "Living Computer Museum". Dr. Lefevre will talk about the two year bureaucratic struggle it took to transfer the ...»

Dr. Eric Wills joined the instructional staff of the Computer and Information Science as an Instructor of Computer Science beginning winter term 2011. Eric will already be familiar to many in the department, as he has been a graduate student and, more recently, a part-time instructor here, teaching CIS 410/510 Introduction to Game Programming last spring and CIS 122 and CIS 212 this fall. His primary teaching interests are in the areas of computational science, computer graphics, computer architecture, scientific visualization, artificial intelligence, and applied programming languages. Eric received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon in 2008. His ...»

Prof. John Conery has published a new textbook. Titled "Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science", the book is intended for courses such as CIS 170, the CIS Department's lower-division science elective for non-majors and pre-majors. The book uses an "active learning" approach to introduce students to a wide variety of problems in computer science. Each chapter has a tutorial project that gives students hands-on experience, giving them a chance to interact with algorithms and run experiments with computations. The table of contents and a sample chapter are available at the book's web site, http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/eic. ...»

The UO Women in Computer Science organization is proud to support Picture Me in Computing Day. Our very own Kiki Prottsman is one half of the clever and passionate duo responsible for instigating this worldwide digital flash mob on November 10, 2010 (111010) aimed at raising awareness for the possibilities associated with women in computer science and IT. PMiC is planning a virtual flash mob to take over every well-known social networking site in an effort to show women how possible it is to realize a highly rewarding career in computing. Hundreds of people who support women working in technology-based professions will upload their on-the-job pictures in solidarity of all the women who ...»

UO CIS and UO Information Services hosted the ACM Pacific Region Programming Contest at the University of Oregon in Eugene on November 13, 2010. UO qA one of five sites where teams from the region compete to solve as many programming problems as they can during the five hour contest. UO teams compete in the Northwest Regionals against teams from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California and western Nevada. Top teams from each region are invited to the international finals which will be held in Egypt in February 2011. In 2002, the UO teams competed against almost 80 other teams at DeVry University near Seattle. One of the UO teams, Buffleheads, swept the ...»

CIS faculty routinely collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to provide unique modern educational opportunities to UO students, such as with this interdisciplinary course on the science and art of eye tracking. Story and photo by Marc Dadigan. http://cascade.uoregon.edu/fall2010/natural-sciences/eye-catching-art/ ...»

Distinguished Lecture Series October 28, 2010 Gender and Computing Dr. Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College, lectured on "Gender and Computing" at the University of Oregon on Thursday, October 28, 2010, as part of the Department of Computer and Information Science Distinguished Lecture Series. Dr. Klawe spoke of how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computing technology, and how this affects career choices and technology design. From playing computer games to pursuing computing careers, the participation of females tends to be low compared to that of males. Dr. Klawe explored why this is, and discussed research findings as well as ...»

Dr. Kevin Butler's research focuses on security issues as they relate to storage systems, large-scale systems architectures, and networks. Recently, he has been exploring how advances in storage technologies can be used to improve the state of systems security. He is also interested in security in interdomain routing, propagation of malicious code through the Internet, applied cryptosystems, and using secure hardware to enforce systems security. Kevin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2010. He is a past recipient of a Symantec Graduate Fellowship and a Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award. After receiving his B.Sc. from ...»

UO Computer and Information Science team wins NSF interdisciplinary grant to turn electronic tablets into reading comprehension support tools. A CIS research and development team will work with College of Education faculty to tackle adult reading and comprehension difficulties. With the help of a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Stephen Fickas, professor of computer science, and Stuart Faulk, research professor of computer science, will join with McKay Sohlberg, professor of communication disorders and sciences, and others from the College of Education, to launch the CampusReader project. The CampusReader software, which will be developed in stages over ...»

Congratulations to Dejing Dou for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the department of Computer and Information Science, in recognition of his outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service. Prof. Dou's research focuses on ontologies, information integration, data mining, biomedical informatics and the Semantic Web by combining knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches to address three critical theoretical and practical issues in processing and managing real world data and knowledge: heterogeneity, reusability and scalability. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator on several research grants from NSF and NIH. His work has been published in ...»

Students who have completed all of the mathematics classes available at their high schools may choose to enroll in computer science classes at the U of O through the Duck Link program. Descriptions of computer science classes appropriate for Duck Link students offered in Fall 2010 are given below. Department permission is required for Duck Link students to enroll in computer science classes. More information about the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon is available at www.cs.uoregon.edu; class schedule information may be found at classes.uoregon.edu. Interested Duck Link students who would like more information about enrolling in computer science ...»