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  • CIS SUMMER SESSION Features Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Cloud Computing and more!

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    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, ...»
  • Ph.D. Student Yunfeng Zhang Starts Summer Internship at PARC

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    Fifth-Year Ph.D. Student Yunfeng Zhang is spending the summer of 2013 at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the highly innovative company responsible for inventions such as the personal computer, the graphical user interface, and the laserprinter. This summer, Yunfeng will contribute to an exciting interdisciplinary multi-institution collaboration that investigates human cognitive sensemaking using symbolic- and neural-cognitive models. The project team includes PARC, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California Irvine, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Texas Houston, and numerous other top research labs. Yunfeng's Ph.D. advisor Associate Professor Anthony Hornof ...»
  • 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 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 ...»
  • Prof. Kevin Butler Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

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    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 ...»
  • Prof. Eugene Luks Named to Prestigious AMS Fellows Group

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    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, ...»
  • Anthony Hornof Accepts Program Director Position at NSF

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    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, ...»
  • 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 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 ...»
  • BONSAI - NSF grant to boost collaboration among UO researchers

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    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 ...»
  • 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 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 ...»
  • CIS to Host Research Forum on NIH-funded Project SMASH (Semantic Mining of Activity, Social, and Health Data)

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    The SMASH research team led by CIS Professor Dejing Dou will host a forum on their project "Understanding the Mechanism of Social Network Influence in Health Outcomes through Multidimensional and Semantic Data Mining Approaches" on June 5 in the Deschutes Hall Colloquium Room. The SMASH multi-disciplinary team, a unique collaboration between UO CIS, PeaceHealth, and other key academic partners (i.e., Kent State, UNC Charlotte, and George Washington), was recently awarded a 3-year $1.5M R01 grant from the NIH/NIGMS. Their research will address a critical need for formal ontologies, data mining, graph mining, and privacy preserving tools to help understand the influence of healthcare ...»
  • Professor Jun Li to Chair Technical Program Committees in Networking and Security

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    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 to Serve as Co-chair of ODBASE 2013

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    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. ...»
  • Researchers from UO and North Carolina State Exploit 'Cloud Browsers' for Large-Scale, Anonymous Computing

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    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 ...»
  • Colloquium to Feature Original WWII German Enigma Machine

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    Mike Koss, a professional software engineer and amateur collector of cryptographic machines, will give a colloquium talk at 3:30 pm May 2 on the history of the German Enigma Machine and the vulnerabilities that enabled its code to be broken by the British at Bletchley Park. He will demonstrate its use on an original Enigma machine as well as allow hands-on use. Mike has also created a Paper Enigma simulator (http://mckoss.com/Crypto/Enigma.htm) and a dynamic Enigma simulator for Android smart phones and tablets (Pocket Enigma in the Google Play store). For more information on this talk as well as additional special colloquia celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, ...»
  • Silicon Shire Connects CIS Students with Local Industry

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    Silicon Shire, a consortium of over 150 technology companies in the Eugene-Springfield area, hosted a business mixer last month at the UO Ford Alumni Center. The well-attended event provided UO students and faculty with the opportunity to mingle with representatives from local tech firms specializing in computer gaming, biotech, web and media, mobile and embedded applications, networking and security, business and educational software, and industrial optimization – all conveniently located right in the backyard of the university. Concentric Sky, an internationally respected local web and mobile app developer, served as the event's major sponsor, joined by a wide group of other local ...»
  • Oregon Computer Security Day

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    Friday April 5, 2013 The third annual Oregon Computer Security Day will be held at the Jaqua Auditorium on Friday April 5, 2013. This one-day event features distinguished speakers from academia, industry, and government, discussing current challenges and future opportunities in cybersecurity. Topics range from future trends in computer security to governmental cybersecurity, to cutting edge research in authentication and methods of securing systems and data. This year's slate of distinguished guests includes Dr. Stephen L. Squires, former vice president and chief science officer for Hewlett-Packard; Professor David Evans, University of Virginia; Professor Somesh Jha, University of ...»
  • Profile: CIS Students in the Oregon Marching Band

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    Strike up the band! CIS majors play an array of instruments in the Oregon Marching Band – drumline, sousaphone, trombone, trumpets and the large stationary instruments of the Front Ensemble. Casey Huggins, a CIS and Japanese double major in the Oregon Marching Band's Front Ensemble sees similarities between the band and computer science: "Going through the precise details of getting the band to march and play in a unified [manner] takes a great deal of concentration and patience, traits necessary to get through making difficult [computer] programs." The coordinated teamwork that allows intricately coordinated maneuvers while wearing distinctive, colorful uniforms is a hallmark not only ...»
  • UO Selected for Apple At-Home College Program

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    Apple will recruit students from UO to work part-time from home, doing technical support. Apple-At-Home students will work about 20 hours per week, on a flexible schedule, providing technical support for a wide variety of devices and software. They will work as paid Apple employees, enjoying both benefits and employee perks including employee discounts. Working with the UO's Career Center and individuals from the Economics Department and AAA, CIS instructor Kiki Prottsman played an important role in the wooing of Apple. "I am happy to report that UO has been selected as one of [Apple's] preferred schools. While they will accept applications from many departments, Apple recruiters are ...»
  • Department Research Posters on Display

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    The 2012-13 Graduate Research Poster Contest is now underway. All submissions have been received and are posted throughout the first floor of Deschutes Hall. A panel of faculty judges will select the winners with prizes to be presented at a colloquium in which graduate students present their work. Student ballots are also available in the Front Office for the People's Choice Awards. All CIS majors and grad students are encouraged to vote. Online copies of this year's poster submissions can be found at Research Poster Contest website. ...»
  • CIS Students Promote Computer Science to Springfield Middle School Students

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    Under a UO program called Furlough Friday Science Days, a group of CIS undergraduate and graduate students spent a no-school Friday with students from Hamlin Middle School, introducing them to the art and science of computer programming. CIS graduate student Emily Schwartz led the lively hands-on labs in which pairs of students developed simple computer games using Scratch. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Also participating were CIS majors Daniel Erickson, Elizabeth Fuller, Alisha Kawaguchi, Melody Li, Lily Moch, Felix Pan, Yaxuan Zhang; and CIS graduate students Megen Brittell and David Poliakoff. See Register Guard Picture of the ...»
  • Raytheon SI Capture the Flag Competition, a Computer Security Challenge: February 21 & 22

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    The CIS department community is invited to participate in the annual Raytheon SI Capture the Flag (CTF), a competition for the broad community interested in computer security, including security professionals, academic researchers, government employees, lawyers, and journalists. Teams attempt to attack a set of binaries and puzzles for points; no prior experience required. Christopher Stricklan of Raytheon SIGOVS will give a pre-CTF presentation on Thursday, February 21 at noon in 301 Gerlinger as part of Professor Kevin Butler's class on Computer Security. A DEFCON CTF finalist himself, Chris will speak about what it takes to play and win this challenging hacking competition. The CTF ...»
  • UO to Host International Conference on Supercomputing

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    The 27th International Conference on Supercomputing will be held at the University of Oregon June 10-14. ICS is the premier international forum for presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems. CIS Professor Allen Malony is the General Chair of the conference. The conference, sponsored by the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), will feature a mix of workshops, tutorials and technical programs on supercomputing. The conference accepts contributions on a broad range of supercomputing topics, and especially encourages submissions on the following topics: extreme-scale supercomputing systems heterogeneous supercomputing systems integrated high performance ...»
  • Prof. Juan Flores will spend year as Visiting Professor in CIS Department

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    Prof. Juan Flores from Universidad Michoacana, Mexico, will be spending academic year 2012-13 as a Visiting Professor in the CIS department. His area of research lies within the field of Artificial Intelligence, more precisely, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Neural Networks, and Qualitative Reasoning, as applied to problems in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Financial Analysis, and Information Security. Prof. Flores received his Ph.D. from the CIS department in 1997 under Prof. Art Farley.   This year, Prof. Flores will be working on Qualitative Reasoning about Bifurcations in Dynamic Systems.  One of his PhD students spent last year at UO working with Prof. Art Farley on ...»
  • Prof. Stephen Fickas Keynote: "Mobile and Agile: Why Can't They Get Along?"

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    Prof. Stephen Fickas delivered the keynote address at the 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, held earlier this fall in Chicago. His talk addresses the challenge of applying incremental, agile requirements engineering methods to mobile applications because of the difficulty of frequent field-testing for the latter. The talk describes Dr. Fickas’ current approach to this roadblock: the use of simulation technology to support frequent, incremental changes without field-testing, through the use of relatively cheap and simple game engines. For a deeper look at this research and the keynote address slides, please visit his website. ...»
  • Women in Computer Science Group Focuses on Fostering Connections

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    This year the CIS department's Women in Computer Science (WICS) group will focus on fostering connections, both outside and inside the department.   Project HATCH, our popular K-8 outreach program, will be returning for another year, beginning Winter Term. In the past Project HATCH taught Scratch programming to middle and elementary students in Springfield.  Kiki Prottsman is our faculty liaison to the Springfield School District. WICS will offer volunteer training workshops to help volunteers become comfortable with the technology and also to educate volunteers about working with students in a variety of age groups. WICS will also be teaching a session of Mad Duck Science, a middle ...»
  • Professor Zena Ariola to Spend Sabbatical Year in Paris at INRIA

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    Professor Zena Ariola will spend the 2012-13 academic year on sabbatical at INRIA, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique. Prof. Ariola will be working with Pierre Louis Curien and Alexis Saurin, both from the Laboratory of Proofs, Programs, and Systems at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Hugo Herbelin (INRIA); and Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia). The research addressed by this group focuses on establishing a foundation for languages with computational effects that includes high level abstract models as well as low level models which capture intensional features of execution. This work will enhance our understanding of how to ...»
  • Professor Dejing Dou to Spend Sabbatical Year at Stanford

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    Professor Dejing Dou will spend the 2012-13 academic year on sabbatical at Stanford University, conducting research at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. The Center is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is part of the network of National Centers for Biomedical Computing. Prof. Dou will collaborate with Stanford researchers Mark Musen (Professor and Division Head), Nigam Shah (Assistant Professor), Natasha Noy (Senior Research Scientist) , and  Paea LePendu (Research Scientist). Dr. LePendu received his Ph.D. at UO under Prof. Dou. The focus of Dr. Dou's work at Stanford is Ontology-based Data Mining and Ontology-based Information Extraction and Neural ...»